November 14, 2025
The November 2025 Virtual Crop is HERE!
It’s officially time for the November 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, November 18, at 11:59pm CT (AU: Wednesday, 19 November, 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!
🚨 BONUS: Cropping with us digitally? In honor of the final weeks of the 2025 Custom and Digital offerings, add the hashtag #Digital for the chance to win a credit for your very own Custom Album Cover!
Challenge #1 — #CMVirtualCrop1November2025
Challenge #2 — #CMVirtualCrop2November2025
Challenge #3 — #CMVirtualCrop3November2025
Challenge #4 — #CMVirtualCrop4November2025
Challenge #1
Collection Used: Noteworthy Days (Shop Canada | Shop Australia)
Noreen’s Tip: “Using one of the many 12‑inch Trimmer Decorative Blades can add a lot of punch to your design without taking any extra time. I used the new Twist Blade to cut the top and bottom edges of the 9″ × 11″ block on this layout, and the decorative edge really shows up against the contrasting base page. It’s such an easy way to add another decorative element!”
Challenge #2
Collection Used: Grateful Harvest (Shop Canada | Shop Australia)
Noreen’s Tip: “Using the same pattern of tonal papers in three different colors brings out all the colors in the beautiful laser‑cut border without overwhelming with too much pattern. You could also punch along the top edge of each 4″ × 8″ paper piece (as you’ll see in the Secret Box #4 Guidebook) to reveal more of the base‑page color underneath.”
Challenge #3
Collection Used: Magic of Christmas (Shop Canada | Shop Australia)
Noreen’s Tip: “When a sketch calls for multiple borders, don’t think they have to be all the same — on this layout I used FOUR different Magic of Christmas Laser‑Cut Borders! The key is to choose borders that repeat the colors and elements in other parts of the layout — like the Dark Green holly, ribbon and mistletoe borders and the Cranberry ribbon border.”
Challenge #4
Collection Used: Winter Bliss (Shop Canada | Shop Australia)
Noreen’s Tip: “White Shimmer base pages are a beautiful surface to blend some of our new inks on! I used both the Danube Blue and Summer Sky Ink Pads with the Winter Bliss Stencil to create soft blended bases for embellishment clusters and additional snowflakes and dots to enhance them!”
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). The digital prize pack being awarded to one participant within all four challenges combined.
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, November 18, at 11:59pm CT (AU: Wednesday, 19 November, 4:59pm AEDT) to submit your layout(s). Prize winners will be announced on Thursday, Nov. 20, at noon CT (AU: Friday, 21 Nov.).
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 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 48,000 fellow memory-keeping enthusiasts — you’ll feel right at home!
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein
From CM in the Virtual Crop Group yesterday: You can scan the QR code on the postcard in the box or paste this link in your browser: https://qrco.de/SecretBox4.