LM #532 - Events

Hello and Happy Sunday to you! We are so happy that you have stopped by today. Can you believe that today we are posting our last January challenge?! This first month of the new year is flying by.

Before we get to that and since this is our last challenge of the month, I would like to say a big thank you to our guest designer, Cheryl! I always enjoy seeing Cheryl's beautiful work.

Our theme for January has been - "Inspired by Wheel of Fortune Categories" - and this week's challenge is: 

 LM #532 - "Events" - Create a layout of an event you attended or hosted.  Perhaps it's a wedding, a birthday party, or a holiday party.  

Let's see the beautiful layouts from the design team, starting with our guest designer:

January GDT - Cheryl

And the beautiful layouts from the design team:

Lauren

Toni

My son's Graduation Formal was a bit different this year. But luckily I was able to be a part of a small group of Mum's helping out, so we got to attend...

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Lori K

Tracey

Now it's your turn! Link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, January 30th at 6 PM EST for a chance to be our guest designer for an upcoming month and for a chance at this month's prize - a $15 gift certificate to an online store of choice:

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Have a great day!

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LM #531 - Best Seller

 Hello, everyone! Welcome back to Lasting Memories! We are so happy that you have stopped by today. It is time for a new challenge and it's a fun one for you!

Our theme for January has been "Inspired By Wheel of Fortune Categories" and this week our challenge is:

LM #531 - "Best Seller" - Create a layout with a connection to a book.  Examples: use a book title as the title of your layout, use a photo of you dressed as your favorite literary character, use a photo of someone reading, create a layout about your favorite author or a favorite book, etc.

Here's a look at the design team's creations, starting with our guest designer, Cheryl:

January GDT - Cheryl

I was inspired by Elizabeth Peter’s novels about Amelia Peabody and her husband Emerson, turn of the century Egyptologists and solvers of mysteries. I used the title of her book, The Mummy Case, as the title of my layout, plus I was inspired by the design of the cover.

And the beautiful layouts from the design team:

Deanna

Tracey B

Lauren

Maureen 

I was inspired by my granddaughter's favorite book - Alice in Wonderland.

Now it's your turn! Link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, January 30th at 6 PM EST for a chance to be our guest designer for an upcoming month and for a chance at this month's prize - a $15 gift certificate to an online store of choice:

Thanks so much for stopping by today! We can't wait to see what you create!

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December's Top 3, GDT Picks, and Winner

 Hello, everyone! Happy Friday! Today we are sharing our Top 3, GDT Picks, and Winner for December. Thank you to everyone that played along with us last month. We had an amazing 71 entries! It is always so much fun to see everyone's creations for our challenges.

First up are the Top 3 - in no particular order:
#71 - Jessica S

#34 - Jen E

#40 - Nancy L

Congratulations Jessica, Jen, and Nancy! 
Our picks for our Guest Designer for an upcoming month are:
#12 - Melissa H

#70 - Sdmarch

#31 - Bethany R

#48 - Vivi

Congratulations, Melissa, Sdmarch, Bethany, and Vivi! Please email Lori at loristroup@yahoo.com to accept your guest design team spot and for more information.

Our winner - by random draw - for this month's prize of a $15 gift certificate to an online store of choice is:

#38 - Sherri 

Congratulations, Sherri! Email Lori at loristroup@yahoo.com to claim your prize!
Thanks again to everyone that played along with us!

LM #530 - Going Places

Hello, everyone! Good Sunday morning to you! I hope that you are having a good weekend. 

It's time for our second challenge of the new year. Our theme for January is "Inspired by Wheel of Fortune categories" and this week's challenge is:

 LM #530 - "Places" - Create a layout of a favorite place you've visited.  Perhaps it's a landmark, a city, the beach, a favorite restaurant, etc.

Here is a look at the design team's creations, starting with our guest designer:

January GDT - Cheryl

And the rest of the design team:

Lauren

I love the beach and Ocean City, NJ is one of my favorite places.

Tracey B

Toni

My favourite place is actually my own home. I’m a bit of an introvert, but really thrived with Zoom cropping at my own craft desk during 2020. 

Lori K

This is from a trip we took to Niagara Falls in Canada.

Deanna

My favorite place is at the beach and this is at Riviera Maya, Mexico.

Beautiful inspiration from the design team! Now it's your turn. Link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, January 30th at 6 PM EST for a chance to be our guest designer for an upcoming month and for a chance at this month's prize - a $15 gift certificate to an online store of choice:

I will be posting December's Top 3, GDT Picks, and Winner tomorrow so stay tuned!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! We can't wait to see what you create!

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LM #529 - Before & After

Hello, hello! Welcome back to Lasting Memories! We are so happy that you are joining us today! We do hope that each of you had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and that you are ready to start the year off with some scrappy fun!

We have a fun new theme to start off the new year, courtesy of DT member Lauren. All of our challenges this month will be inspired by Wheel of Fortune categories and our first challenge is:

 LM #529 - "Before & After" - Create a layout using a before & after photo. Some ideas: a home renovation, a haircut, a weight loss journey, an age progression (such as infant and first-year photo or you in high school and now).    

Here's a look at the beautiful creations from the design team, starting with our guest designer, Cheryl:

January GDT - Cheryl

Lauren

Maureen

Deanna

Such beautiful inspiration from the design team! Now it is your turn - link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, January 30th at 6 PM EST for a chance to be our guest designer for an upcoming month and for a chance at this month's prize - a $15 gift certificate to an online store of choice:

Thanks so much for stopping by today! We can't wait to see what you create!

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Introducing January's Guest Designer

Hello, everyone! We hope that you all had a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We are so excited to be kicking off the new year with all of you and we have a lot of great challenges lined up for you to get scrappy with!

Today we are introducing our January Guest Designer. This talented scrapper has joined us before and I always love to see her beautiful work! Please help us welcome Cheryl Even:

January GDT - Cheryl

Hi everyone! My name is Cheryl Even and I’m very excited to be a guest designer for Lasting Memories this month.  A Southern California native, I have been married to my college sweetheart Greg for 29 years and am a SAHM to four wonderful kids, Adrian, Elliot, Brianna, and Oliver Angel. I’ve been scrapbooking ever since I went to my first scrapbooking party and decided to try it for a month to see if I liked it. 22 years later, I think you could say I stuck with it and loved it! I also design scrapbook sketches and post them on my blog, https://evenmorescrapping.blogspot.com/.  Although my life has changed quite a bit during this pandemic, I still keep busy raising four children and leading a women’s Bible study while finding time every week to sneak away to my craft room to scrapbook!

We will be back tomorrow for a new theme and a new set of challenges to get your scrappy year started off right, so be sure to stop back by tomorrow and check it out!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great day!

LM #528 - Mixed Bag - Anything Goes

Hello, everyone! Welcome back to Lasting Memories, we are so happy that you are here today. Before I get to this week's challenge, I just wanted to say thank you to all of you that have played along with us in 2020. We are so thankful that you choose to spend some time with us each week. In order to give our design team a little time off for the holidays, this will be our last challenge of the month. The linky for our December challenges will remain open until Saturday, January 2nd and we will be right back here on January 3rd with new challenges to kick-off 2021.

Since this is our last challenge for December, I would like to thank Rona and Barbara for being our guest designers. Their beautiful work is always a great source of inspiration.

Now for this week's challenge. Our theme for December is "Mixed Bag" and our challenges are a little bit of everything. To finish off 2020 our last challenge will be an easy one:

LM #528 - Anything Goes! Create a layout about anything you want!

Here's a look at the beautiful creations from the design team, starting with our guest designers.

December GDT - Rona

December GDT - Barbara

And the beautiful creations from the design team:

Deanna

Lauren

Lori K.

Maureen

Tracey

Now it's your turn! Link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, January 2nd at 6 PM for a chance to be our guest designer for an upcoming month and for a chance to win this months prize - a $15 gift certificate to an online store of choice:

Thanks so much for stopping by today. We will see you again in 2021!

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November's Top 3, GDT Picks, and Winner!!

Hello, everyone! Welcome back to Lasting Memories! Today we are sharing our Top 3, GDT Picks, and Winner for November. Before we get to that, we want to say a big thank you to everyone that played along with us last month! It is always so much fun to see everyone's beautiful creations for our challenges. 
First up are the Top 3 - in no particular order:

#12 - Ashley

#14 - Pinky

Congratulations Giorgia, Ashley, and Pinky! Be sure to grab your "Top 3" button from the left sidebar.

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Our pick for Guest Designer for an upcoming month is:
#18 Karen C

#30 - Cheryl

Congratulations, Karen, and Cheryl! Please email Lori at loristroup@yahoo.com to accept your guest design team spot and for more information.

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Our winner - by random draw - for this month's prize of a $15 gift certificate to an online store of choice is:

#6 - Karen C

Congratulations, Karen! Email Lori at loristroup@yahoo.com to claim your prize!
Thanks again to everyone that played along with us in November!
Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you find time to create with us this week!

LM #527 - Mixed Bag - Word Play - "Lights"

Hello, everyone! Good Sunday morning to you! We are so happy that you have stopped by today!

It's time for our second challenge for December. Our theme for this month is "mixed bag" and our challenges will be a little bit of everything! This week we have a word play challenge for you.

LM #527 - Word Play Challenge - use a scrappy item, theme, or technique for every letter in the word - "LIGHTS". Your layout does not have to be Christmas related - it can be a layout about anything. 

If you need some ideas for the letters, here is a link to a post that DT member Lauren created with the scrapbook alphabet - https://lem-photography.blogspot.com/p/scrapbook-alphabet.html

Here's a look at the fun creations from the design team, starting with our guest designers:

December GDT - Barbara

December GDT - Rona

 L - letter stickers

 I - ink (i used distress oxides to color the wood veneer trees)

G - green

 H- hearts

 T - torn paper and tags

 S - sewing

And the rest of the design team:

Lauren

L - leaves (holly)

I - illustrated Santa

G - green

H - ho ho ho

T - tartan

S - snowman

Tracey B

L - Layers, Light bulb & "Light" in my title

I - Ink

G - Gold

H - Hearts

T - Teal, Turquoise & a Tiny Text stamp

S -Sequins, stamp & a Shaker (the light bulb)

Lori K

L ~ Leaf paper

I ~ Ink 

G ~ Green paper 

H ~ Hexagons

T ~ Torn paper

S ~ Sticker letters

Such beautiful examples from our design team! Now it's your turn - link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, January 2nd at 6 PM EST for a chance to be our guest designer for an upcoming month and for a chance at this month's prize - a $15 gift certificate to an online store of choice:

I will be posting November's Top 3, GDT picks, and the winner later this evening so stay tuned!

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today! We can't wait to see your creations!

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