Hello Today with ATDML

 

We look forward to you joining us for a year long project with ATDML featuring Simple Stories Hello Today collection. Each month we will scrap our 2021 memories  and lets focus on the little things until we can do the big things again!. 

Some of the design team will be joining in too and sharing their pages made with the kit.

Until then lets enjoy these last few days of 2020 and close what has been quite the peculiar year that non of us could have imagined.

Jingle all the Way

Hi Everyone - Dolly here and I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas. Sadly not the Christmas many wanted but a season of celebration anyway. 

 I am loving playing with Simple Stories Jingle all the Way. It is such a rich coloured traditional collection, which I love. At heart I am a very traditional sort of girl. 

I recently lost my two 17 year old Bengal cats, Kira ad Fiki and we are utterly devastated. So I was thrilled to receive a very surprise gift int he post fromt he lovely Ann Freeman - two wooden cats with their names engraved on. 

At last, after all these years, they can LEGITIMATELY be in the tree. 

I had great fun fussy gitting the poinsettias and trees

Do checkout the collection in store because it is wonderful. You can find it here 

December Virtual crop with Tricia - Bo Bunny Winter wishes

Good morning Campers and welcome to the last class of the day.  

I'll be using Bo bunny 'Winter wishes' collection to scrap some Christmas events both old and new!

The papers are full of icy greys and blues and frosty pinks, perfect for this time of year.  We are teaming them up with some chipboard snowflakes and white alphas which are perfect for customising to match your layout.

For the first layout I have created 15 decorated baubles to showcase my photos from our Christmas tree farm visit.  I doodled on each bauble to make them unique but if baubles don't work for you pick another shape like stars or hearts. 

On the second layout I have created pine cone trees with snowflakes.  It's a great opportunity to make them your own.  

If you want to see all three layouts click here to download the instructions.

Happy Christmas and have a great Hogmany! 

Tricia 

December 2020 Virtual Crop Class 2 with Mel

 Hello everyone and welcome to my final Virtual Crop class of the year. I can't say that 2020 has been a great year overall but one of the good things has been the way our scrapping community has come together to make the isolated days a little brighter.

I knew I had this wintery kit to use this month so I was really pleased at the start of the month when we had a flurry of snow and I could get some photos of Olivia in the snow. She was pleased as it was her first day of isolation as a contact of someone with covid so there was no school for her and she could get out into the garden for a quick play before online lessons started!

My Timehop App that very same day came up with the photos I had taken exactly a decade previously of the girls in the snow so I decided to do a "Then and Now" style page.

To see the other page and for full instructions click HERE.

Come back at 2pm to see what Tricia has made with her kt.

December Virtual Crop class with Ann & G45

Welcome to you all on this out last virtual crop of 2020.  We hope you will join in when you can be that today or at somepoint over the Christmas period.

My class todays uses Winter Wonderland papers from G45 in traditional festive colours of red and green. Whilst these papers can be intimidating if you are a "less is more" scrapbooker or have a more graphic style like myself but hopefully you can be inspired either by the papers themselves or my two pages.

You will have lots left for more pages too and we hope you will share them with us.

Instructions for my two layouts can be found >> here <<.

Merry Christmas to you all, whatever that may look like this year.

Stay safe x

Jingle All the Way with Simple Stories

Hello everyone, I wanted to share a few festive layouts made with Simple Stories Jingle All the Way.  It is a beautiful mix of traditional colours and modern prints, plus it has the gorgeous Tags paper in it - these are becoming a firm favourite with me - cards, presents, layouts...endless uses!  I also had the chance to play with some of the chipboard frames which are gorgeous and a selphy 3 by 4 print fits perfectly behind the double frames.

For this page I went with strips of the different patterns and then added some silver mist.  I punched out some snowflakes from vellum and added crystals in the centre to cover up the glue.  I raided my embellishments for some of the little studio calico veneer stars and I hid my journalling on a tag behind the photo.

For my next layout I started with some gold mist, then dug out the dinner plates for the circles.  I used my 1" circle punch to add a scalloped edge to the large circles.  Another chipboard frame, then stickers and crystals with a few stars to finish it off.  Here are some close ups of the elements.  Wishing you all a lovely Christmas, do come and share your festive layouts over in our Facebook group ATDML#Create.