December 13, 2024
December 2024 Virtual Crop
The most wonderful time of the year… for scrapbooking! The December Virtual Crop has arrived! Settle in, gather your supplies and let your creativity shine this holiday season!
If this is your first time participating in a Virtual Crop and you would like a quick step-by-step guide of what to expect before you jump in, you can get ALL the details about Virtual Crops in this blog post, including how to participate (in our Virtual Crop Facebook Group), supplies you’ll need, examples of challenges, types of prizes and more.
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In this post, you will find ALL four sketches for this crop (these four sketches are for the entire weekend; no additional sketches will be posted), a downloadable PDF with the four sketches for your convenience, hashtags to use when posting your challenge layouts in the Virtual Crop Facebook Group, prize information and layout inspiration. This is about to be an amazing weekend and we can’t wait to see what you create!
To ensure we see all your submissions for a chance to win, you’ll want to post each layout you complete as its own new post with the hashtag for that challenge. You have until Tuesday, Dec. 17, at 11:59pm CT (AU: Wednesday, 18 Dec., at 4:59pm AEDT) to submit your layouts for the chance to win a prize (more details on what you can win further down this post!). Again, we’re so excited that you’re here. Happy scrapping!
Challenge #1 — #CMVirtualCrop1December2024
Challenge #2 — #CMVirtualCrop2December2024
Challenge #3 — #CMVirtualCrop3December2024
Challenge #4 — #CMVirtualCrop4December2024
View the rules and how prizes are awarded here ?
NOTE: The Prize Pack will be awarded to one (1) participant in each challenge. Valid only for products currently in stock (excludes products that are out of stock and expected to return).
We will award the prizes randomly, but to win, it must be evident you used the sketch we provided as inspiration to create a project using predominantly Creative Memories products. You have until Tuesday, Dec. 17, at 11:59pm CT (AU: Wednesday, 18 Dec., at 4:59pm AEDT) to submit your layout(s). Prize winners will be announced on Thursday, Dec. 19, at noon CT (AU: Friday, 20 Dec.).
Challenge #1
Collection Used: Nordic Winter (Shop Canada | Shop Australia)
Noreen’s Tip: “I love when I can use the 1.75” Circle Punch to use up some scraps from favorite past collections! But even when you’re using scraps, make sure to repeat the same patterns, colors and icons throughout the layout to make sure it’s cohesive. The addition of the tiniest pieces in other places can make a big difference!”
Challenge #2
Collection Used: This Life (Shop Canada | Shop Australia)
Noreen’s Tip: “Don’t forget about the This Life Krafted Rainbow Paper Pack when using the This Life collection… The neutral Kraft patterns provide welcome relief from the saturated bright colors and tend to ‘ground’ the whole collection.”
Challenge #3
Collection Used: Flurry of Fun (Shop Canada | Shop Australia)
Noreen’s Tip: “To get the snowy trees pattern going across both the top and bottom triangles on this layout, I cut the 12” x 4” pieces from the same place from TWO sheets of the trees paper and then trimmed them from corner to corner in opposite directions. I pulled out the Snowflake Chain BMC to punch the four borders, then cut each border so they would stretch across the entire diagonal edge of the trees paper. I hid the gap in each border behind the horizontal photos. I finished each border by inserting snowflakes punched from other papers into the negative spaces for multi-colored snowflake borders!”
Challenge #4
Collection Used: Sun Soaked (Shop Canada | Shop Australia)
Noreen’s Tip: “I cut the border punched with the Whitecapped Waves Border Punch in half horizontally to create double the borders. I used the larger wave pieces as indicated on the sketch and tucked the smaller wave pieces under the 12” x 3” strips to look like scalloped edges. And if you don’t have ten 2” x 2” photos to use on this layout, replace some of them with paper squares — they make the perfect ‘home’ for small accent embellishments!”
Virtual Crop Tracker
Don’t think we have forgotten about the Virtual Crop Tracker! Submissions will be due Dec. 31, 11:59pm CT (AU: 1 Jan., 4:59pm AEDT). Winners to be announced Jan. 8, 12pm CT (AU: 9 Jan., 5am AEDT).
Color in one shutter for each sketch challenge you complete during each monthly Virtual Crop in 2024. Once you’ve completed all 12 months’ sketch challenges (that’s 56 completed pages you’ll be adding to your albums), share a photo of your colored-in page with the hashtag #2024VCChamp in the Virtual Crop Facebook Group for the chance to be one of three Grand Prize winners!
Want to try out the Virtual Crop digitally? Check out our demo of how to use Custom Refill Pages. When you complete the sketch, instead of snapping a photo of your layout, take a screenshot and submit it to the Virtual Crop Facebook Group.
- For how to take a screenshot on a Mac, get details here.
- For how to take a screenshot on a PC, get details here.
P.S. Are YOU a member of the Virtual Crop Facebook Group? It’s your go-to place for MONTHLY Virtual Crops, MONTHLY Completed Album Challenges, QUARTERLY Secret Box Openings with project tutorials and so much more! We hope you’ll join our community of more than 42,000 fellow memory-keeping enthusiasts — you’ll feel right at home!
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein
