Awesome

My name is Jamie Arthur and I'm so excited to be a guest designer at Lasting Memories this month. I love scrapbooking and really love working with sketches. I have been scrapbooking for over 20 years at this point. I have two children, a Golden-doodle, and I'm married to the best man a girl could ask for. And when I say the best I mean it! This man puts up with my scrapbooking obsession as well as my coffee addiction and my love of books (which are everywhere)!  I enjoy spending time in my craft room creating layouts for our family scrapbook albums. It is so fun to be able to open our family albums and not just look at pictures but relive the memories through the layouts themselves. I put my albums in the order in which things happened and I go year by year. The only problem with this method is that I end up with a lot of albums! I tend to scrap everything, however I find that it is so worth it when I look at my children enjoying them.

Most of my layouts can be found on my blog and on Instagram. On my blog I try to share what materials I used to create my layouts. Usually I am using my Cricut Explore and Design Space, although occasionally I like to challenge myself to not use it. I also love using lots of pattern papers and embellishments.

My Layout:

The Challenge:

The challenges for April are all going to be word challenges where you use scrappy items or techniques for every letter of the word for that week. Our first challenge will be SPRING - so you will need to include an item/technique on your layout that starts with S - sun, stamps, star, silver, etc. P - pink, paint, polka dots, etc.

This Week's Word:

Spring

Simple Stories: Title

Pattern paper: Paper Studio - Murphy's Square

Ripped Paper

Ink

Navy pattern paper

Gray pattern paper or Basic Grey: chipboard stickers

Other products used:

Project Life: photo overlay

metal embellishments from my stash

twine

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Blessings,