August 8, 2025
The August 2025 Virtual Crop is HERE!
It’s officially time for the August Virtual Crop! You’re in for a weekend packed with fresh inspiration, connection and scrap-happy fun. Get excited for four brand-new sketch challenges designed to make scrapbooking your memories a breeze.
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 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 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 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 make sure 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, August 12, at 11:59pm CT (AU: Wednesday, 13 August, at 2:59pm AET) 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 — #CMVirtualCrop1August2025
Challenge #2 — #CMVirtualCrop2August2025
Challenge #3 — #CMVirtualCrop3August2025
Challenge #4 — #CMVirtualCrop4August2025
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 or expected to return).
We will award the prizes randomly, but to win, it must be obvious you used the sketch we provided as inspiration to create a project. You’re highly encouraged to use Creative Memories products, but it’s not a requirement to win. You have until Tuesday, August 12, at 11:59pm CT (AU: Wednesday, 13 August, at 2:59pm AET) to submit your layout(s). Prize winners will be announced on Thursday, August 14, at noon CT (AU: Friday, 15 August).
Challenge #1
Collection Used: Noteworthy Days (Shop Canada | Shop Australia)
Noreen’s Tip: “Although there are lots of lovely paper patterns I could have used for the 12” x 4” strip along the top edge of this layout, I wanted to use up some of the scraps I had accumulated from the Noteworthy Days collection. So instead, I cut a 12” x 4” piece of scrap cardstock and adhered various 1/2” strips to it before adhering it to the layout. It looks like a custom diagonal striped paper pattern! And the best thing is that this technique could be used with other basic shapes to create an infinite number of custom “paper” pieces!”
Challenge #2
Collection Used: Hit The Road (Shop Canada | Shop Australia)
Noreen’s Tip: “When a sketch calls for borders, the sky is the limit! Here I cut two different sticker borders from the Hit the Road Stickers pack into 4” lengths and alternated them beside the photo block, but it would look great with borders punched with the Road Trip Border Punch too!”
Challenge #3
Collection Used: Berry Harvest (Shop Canada | Shop Australia)
Noreen’s Tip: “One of my best tips for creating a cohesive layout is to look for opportunities to repeat the various colors throughout the layout. Here in this fun and fruity layout, I wanted to use the strawberry and blueberry border stickers, but there was no blue in the papers I had used. To counteract this, I ensured that the blue color was used in other ways – in the labels on the punched mason jars, for the extra banner border strips and even in the enamel dots in the embellishment clusters. Those little pops of blue create continuity and end up looking intentional rather than random!”
Challenge #4
Collection Used: Poolside Paradise (Shop Canada | Shop Australia)
Noreen’s Tip: “How do you get NINE photos on a layout without it looking overcrowded? Replay on a grid! I kept the center section of this layout very plain so I could arrange six vertical photos in a grid like pattern and then relegated the busy patterns and embellishment clusters off to the sides of the layout. I was able to add a few more photos to those areas by matting them so they stood out from the patterned paper background.”
Virtual Crop Tracker
Keep on scrapping through 2025 with our 2025 Virtual Crop Tracker!
Color in one shutter for each sketch challenge you complete during each monthly Virtual Crop in 2025. Once you’ve completed all 12 months’ sketch challenges (that’s 48 completed pages you’ll be adding to your albums), you can submit your tracker for a chance to be one of three grand prize winners! More information on how to submit will be shared in the Virtual Crop Group as we near the final sketch challenge.
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 47,000 fellow memory-keeping enthusiasts — you’ll feel right at home!
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein
