Jan 2026 challenge summary

The start of the new year has seen me being busy with challenges just like every year since I started digi scrapping back in 2019.... and it's been fun. Here's my summary of what I did this month 

The Lilypad - check out all my MOC13 layouts posted each week as a summary

Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4 and Week 5

Gingerscraps

1. Buffet - ASD Artic Wonder

2. Font - MFish Big&Little 16

3. Colour - MFish Snuggle Weather

4. Designer Spotlight - MFish Building Blocks January Pockets

5. Use It All - MFish Mixed Shapes

6. Scraplift - BZS Way Back When

7. Document Your Life - BZS Cold Hands Warm Heart

8.  My Memories - MissFish Feeling Good

9. Surprise - MissFish Monthly Matters

10.  Minikit - MissFish Monthly Matters Right Page

Digital Scrapbook

1. Chain Lift - BZS Cold Hands Warm Heart

2. Dec Kits - DS Fieldnotes 25 & Layout Temp 129

3.  Template - DS Travel Edition USA

4. Alphas - MissFish Mixed Shapes

5. Pocket Style - see MOC13-07

6. Duplicity - See MOC13-09

7. Word of the year - see MOC13-18

8. Scraplift - see MOC13-28

Pickleberry Pop - January26 ScrapBingo 

1. Snuggle - MFish Snuggle Weather

2. Connection - MFish Building Blocks January Pockets

3. Start - MFish Feeling Good

I ran out of time and so decided that this is it... no bingo reached but that's okay.

The Sweet Shoppe - see Shoutout & Spin summary

Well it's been a super busy month with getting my sale up and running as well as scrapping and working... just a jampacked month and I had to choose what will or will not get done. I am happy with what I did complete. Will see next month how much I will get done.

Sweet Shoppe - Shoutout & Spin

The Sweet Shoppe's last Countdown to 20th Birthday monthly challenge is called Shoutout & Spin. For this we have to scraplift any layouts done in the last year from the gallery, give a shoutout to the creator of the layout and put our own spin on it. As I didn't finish all the sketches in December, nor all the challenges in November, I decided to concentrate my efforts on those challenges. So here's the layouts I created for this month, along with the original challenge it was for:

1 Sketch Dec 6

2 Sketch Dec 8 - see MOC13-23 layout - my layout got highlighted on their Instagram account too.

3 Sketch Dec 20 see MOC13-14 layout

4 2025-11 Challenge#12b new adventure - see MOC13-17 layout

5 2025-11 Challenge#1b blessed - see MOC13-18

6 Sketch Dec 18 - see MOC13-31

and then I ran out of steam / oomph and month.... have had to choose my challenges wisely for the time on hand and so am calling this month done.

The Lilypad - MOC13 The Next Chapter - Week 5

It's the final week of MOC13 and here are my layouts

Jan 26 - Going Places

Jan 27 - Two Templates

Jan 28 - Light Colours

Jan 29 - Filled Template - using ninigoesdigi Ume kit and Twig Alphas

Jan 30 - Page in a Page

Jan 31 - The Next Chapter

and to wrap everything up, here is a summary too:

I'm having a sale

Having swopped to digital scrapping in 2019, i haven't touched my paper scrapping supplies since then. I've finally decided it is not time to have a clear out.... so it's on  sale

Head to my CathQuillScrap facebook page to find all the details.

The Lilypad - MOC13 The Next Chapter - Week 4

Here are my layouts for the fourth week of MOC13

Jan 19 - Paper 2 Digi

Jan 20 - Bingo - ngd-lgrieveson Wabi-Sabi with Clean Capture Vol 3 template

Jan 21 - Year In Review

Jan 22 - Scraplift a Bookcover

Jan 23 - Quote

Jan 24 - How I've changed since 2013

Jan 25 - Photo I Almost Didn't Take/Keep - using ninigoesdigi Tsubaki

MissFish - Monthly Matters

Juli has a fun template bundle this week. It's called Monthly Matters. There is a template for each month of the year as well as some delightful extras.

ninigoesdigi - Clean Capture Vol 3

 Nini has another set of templates today, Clean Capture Vol 3. These are really so easy to use.

Template 2

Template 4

See the Wabi-Sabi post for my layout using Template 3

ninigoesdigi - Wabi-Sabi collab with Lynn Grieveson

Nini has teamed up with Lynn Grieveson to make a delightfully full new collab called Wabi-Sabi. It's jampacked filled with lots of delightful things including project cards and templates.

With Clean Capture Vol 3 template

You can get now as part of the Quarterly Sale at The Lilypad.

The Lilypad - MOC13 The Next Chapter - Week 3

Here are my layouts for the third week of MOC13

Jan 12 - New Skill / Hobby / Job

Jan 13 - Lucky 13 - used ngd-lgrieveson Wabi-Sabi collab

Jan 14 - Drop Caps

Jan 15 - Simple Template - used ngd_DailyDeals2025

Jan 16 - Large Photo

Jan 17 - Currently

Jan 18 - In A Word

Digital Scrapbook - Travel Edition USA

Marisa has a new part of the Travel Edition available today.. it's about the USA. As I haven't been there, no planning to, I did a travel layout with a different slant.