Trick or Retreat Class 10 with Ann and Simple Stories I Am

You will be very pleased I am not going live with this class as by the time this is posted I will be likely half asleep (well harder to resist my bed at home than when I am away at retreat where I am known to be one of the night owls!)

I will leave you with my Class 10 layouts - a pair made using the extremely versatile Simple Stories I AM papers. Again these should be pretty easy to scraplift with your own papers too so please do join in even if you were not able to secure a class kit. Instructions can be downloaded from HERE.

That's it for tonight and day 2 of our Trick or Retreat event, but fear not, we are back tomorrow at 9am with Challenge #7 - Pumpkin Pie. Until then mwahahahahaha!!

Trick or Retreat Class 9 with Katherine

 

Hello everyone, I hope you are enjoying the classes so far.  I am missing being at the retreat with you all and hope you are all keeping well.  For my class it's time to dig out some travel photos and have a play with the Vintage Traveller range from Simple Stories.  Going with that vintage vibe I've also used plenty of brown ink and distressed the edge of almost every piece of paper!  There are 2 pages in this class, all multi-photo so you can tell a story about your adventures.

You can find the class here

Do come and chat on Facebook and share your pages.  Don't forget to come back at 10pm for a late night class with Ann.

TRICK OR RETREAT CHALLENGE 6 - HAUNTED HOUSE

 

CHALLENGE 6 - HAUNTED HOUSE

For this challenge, nice and simple, you must feature a house or houses on your page.

This can be in the photograph, on the patterned paper, maybe stamped or an house embellishment. Please upload your challenge layout to Challenge 6 gallery on Facebook and then join us back here at 8pm for your next class with Katherine. 

See you then

TRICK OR RETREAT CLASS 8 WITH TRICIA

Good afternoon Campers 

I hope you are enjoying the Retreat so far and are getting the opportunity to take part in all the challenges too.  It's been lovely to see what has been created so far.

This class will be using Art Walk by Heidi Swapp to create pages with all the fun of painty effects with none of the mess.  

So grab your kit or chosen papers and click here to see the class instructions and don't forget to pop back for Katherine's Vintage Traveller class next!

Class 07 with Guest Designer Antonia Sturt-Hammond

What could be better for a 4pm class than Amy Tangerine’s Late Afternoon collection! When Mel asked if I’d like to design a class for the Trick or Retreat and showed me the beautiful papers, I was thrilled.

I love the bright, cheerful colours; such a tonic on a grey autumn day. The kit’s packed with vivid papers, pretty washi and a great, co-ordinated set of alphas. It would be perfect for fall photos, but I wanted to show the versatility of the papers and chose to avoid autumnal pictures.

I know we are all really fed up to be missing our second ATDML retreat of 2020 and are longing to get together to scrap again. Fingers crossed for 2021! In the meantime, I can’t wait to see your layouts……

Click Here for Instructions

Class 6 with Mel using Kaisercraft Grand Bazaar

 Welcome back to my second class of the weekend this time using the Kaisercraft Grand Bazaar collection. I was drawn to this collection as it offered the opportunity to create pages with lots to look at and a "collagey" appearance but with lots of the work done for you!

I made three pages for this class and you can find the instructions here.

Join us at 4pm for the next class which is the first of our two Guest Designer classes, this one is designed by Antonia Sturt-Hammond who has kindly designed our Friday bonus retreat class for the past couple of years which always goes down a treat!

TRICK OR RETREAT CHALLENGE 5 - GHOSTLY WHITE

 

CHALLENGE 5

GHOSTLY WHITE

This challenge we seek your white space layouts and a black and white photo.

At least 50% of your page must be empty of decoration, therefore 'white space' though this doesn't have to be white.

Your next class is with Mel at 2pm - see you then!

Class 5 with Ann using Vicki Boutin Storyteller

Welcome to my second class of the weekend - trust you are all having fun so far with our classes and challenges.

For this class I have used the latest release from Vicki Boutin - the absolutely gorgeous Storyteller collection and I hope you will love these papers as much as I do - I just couldn't stop making pages but I warn you, there is A LOT of fussy cutting, I spent almost 3 hours preparing the elements for these - some take less time than others but I hope you enjoy them.

Download instructions for my class HERE which features 5 layouts! or scraplift away with your own papers. We hope you will share your projects with us in the Facebook group so we can leave some love.

After this grab a quick bit to eat as challenge 5 - Ghostly White is up next at 1pm

Trick or Retreat Class 4 by Karen Leahy

Hello everyyone and I hope you are enjoying the idea of a virtual crop this weekend, which I know is nothing like being away all together and having retreat fun, but I hope is still something you will all enjoy. 

I have a class with three pages for you today and using gorgeous Laquarelle papers from a fab 6" x 6" pad. The papers are very diverse with one side giving you all the brights you could want and one side offering more subtle tones, and the beauty of such a stuffed pad is that you can use the class pages with any of the papers so you give the pages your own twist - or you can just use the same ones as I have used. 

I have tried to keep fussy cutting to a minimum this month (of course there is some!!!) and I hope you enjoy playing along. 

We would love you to share your creations on our facebook group page. 

You can find the class instructions HERE. 

 Next class is at Noon with Ann.

 

TRICK OR RETREAT CHALLENGE 4 - THE SPIDERS WEB

 

CHALLENGE 4 - THE SPIDERS WEB

Spooky season isn't spooky without a few webs here and there but unlike spiders we can't spin our own so this challenge will have you digging out your needle and thread.

We challenge you to sew, stitch or add thread to your layout which we'd then like to see you add to the Challenge 4 album in our Facebook group so we can leave you some lovely comments.

Katherine shares another fab page of her illustrating this challenge,

Your first class of today is up next with Karen at 10am.

TRICK OR RETREAT - CHALLENGE 3 - THE WITCHING HOUR!

MIDNIGHT ON HALLOWEEN! CHALLENGE 3 - THE WITCHING HOUR!

Pick from the following ingredients to throw in your couldron tonight

1. EYE OF NEWT.. kidding!!

Use the following Ingredients on your challenge layout

• 1 sheet of cardstock
• 2 stamps
• 3 embellishment clusters
• 4 patterned papers

You can add other items but the above are a minimum to feature on your page.

Don't forget to share in the Challenge 3 gallery on Facebook! That's it for tonight - see you tomorrow morning for challenge #4

Trick or retreat class 3 with Tricia

Good evening Campers 

Welcome to Class 3 of this special retreat.  I'll be using Paige Evans 'Take the scenic route' papers which has a great mix of elements and phrases to celebrate the everyday to special days out and about.  Bursting with colour geometric shapes and floral elements. 

These are also a lot of fun elements in the papers to give you plenty of scope for titles and ways to steer the layout topics in different directions.

I'll be creating 3 pages with you with 3 different themes to show the range of the papers so grab your kit and lets go. Instructions can be found here

CHALLENGE 2 - TRICK OR RETREAT

Time for your second challenge - Trick or Retreat

Alas we don't get to meet in person this weekend for our usual Autumn retreat so our first challenge this evening is to scrap a photo from a previous retreat. If you've not been to one of our retreats or cannot find a photo just scrap one of you crafting - you can take one right now!.

Don't forget to upload your entries into the Challenge 2 album on our Facebook group. And if you have just snapped a photo of you creating for the challenge - pop this in the album too so we can all see you!

Trick or ReTreat Class 2 with Mel

 Hello everyone and welcome to my first class of the weekend. I'm so disappointed not to be able to see you all in person and share lots of laughs, scrappy inspiration and general fun with you all but it can't be helped and we will just keep on making lemonade from lemons as we enjoy a weekend packed full of online fun.

My first class uses the gorgeous Cocoa Vanilla Studios Daydream products and I've created three layouts with it, It's early in the weekend and this is what I like to call the Pat Bailey class - For those that don't know her Pat is a long time retreat go-er who requests some fairly straight forward cut and stick classes for early on the Friday as a warm up before heading in to anything more technical, complicated or messy!

I hope you enjoy these three easy going layouts - the instructions can be found here.

Do join us over on the ATDML # Create page for chat and fun throughout the weekend

TRICK OR RETREAT CLASS 1 - WITH ANN

Oh my lovely scrapbookers how I wish we were at Stoke by Nayland right now all settled in for the weekend but alas it was not to be. Positive side of this is that those who would not otherwise be able to join us this weekend get to craft along with us, and whilst we can't see each other for real we are all scrapping along together from the safety of our own homes. 

So first off, if you missed the live on Facebook launching this class, here I am and a warm welcome to you all this weekend. I've been with ATDML quite a number of years now and love designing classes so am hoping you will like this one as much as I did

So my first class is using Kaisercraft Workshop which is a fab masculine collection but quite versatile for scrapping lots of different subjects as well. I have made a whopping four pages and there is plently left for more so a very good value kit this one.

Take a look at the instructions HERE on how I pulled my pages together and feel free to change them up to suit - or indeed to scraplift with your own papers if you like.

We do have a gallery for you to share your class layouts - feel free to tag us and if you post on social media this weekend use #atdmltrickorretreat

Next class is at 8pm with Mel using gorgeous CCV Daydream papers 

TRICK OR RETREAT CHALLENGE 1 - FRANKENSTEIN

Good morning and a very warm welcome to you all for our Trick or Retreat cybercrop.

CHALLENGE 1 - FRANKENSTEIN ALTER THIS

At each retreat we have an alter this challenge where delegates take the same item and alter it into something else, usually with spectacular results! I thought long and hard about how we could replicate this challenge we usually do with all participants being at home.  We hope by chosing an item to alter that we will all have - a toilet roll tube or a kitchen roll tube - lots of you will be able to join in!

To give you time to do your research and get those creative juices flying we are launching this challenge now, ahead of the first class at 6pm tonight.  

Get your entries in the Challenge 1 gallery on Facebook by midday on Sunday 8th Nov to be in with a chance to win a prize.

Until then  may you have a happy Friday and we look forward to you joining us tonight at 6pm for your first class with Ann.

Simple Stories Cozy Days with Ann

I love Autumn, and I think autumnal themed papers are up there with my favoutites and Simple Stories Cozy Days in just gorgeous.

This first page also features some Bramblefox perspectives and flair (badges) and is a great way of making a full busy looking layout but not actually using up that much patterned paper.

I have had great fun making these layouts where I also combined with some Vintage Garden district as well.

Now it is time to dig out my favourite autumn fluffy jumper and go make a cup of tea before I start my to do list for today. Happy Tiuesday

Your Trick or (Re)Treat timetable

 

Alas we are unable to go ahead with our Autumn retreat next weekend so instead will be hosting an online cybercrop called Trick or Retreat!

We have 13 classes, 9 challenges and plenty of fun, a couple of Facebook lives and lots of chat lined up for you.

Don't worry if you didn't manage to grab any class kits, you can scraplift away with your own choice of papers and products and all the challenges are for everyone to use their own scrapping supplies.

So here is our timetable, we kick off with an early bird challenge at 10am next Friday October 30th and dont worry, despite the name of the event only the challenges have loose seasonal prompts, the classes are just classes and spooky photos and papers are not required at all to join in the event.