December Virtual Crop Class with Ann

How utterly stunning are the P13 papers in this month's December kit class of mine? I love the traditional colours and old world feel to them and they work with black and white and softer coloured photos. I made two layouts and still have supplies left for more and have plans for a circular layout using those fab circle stickers.

You can fund the instructions on our Facebook group this month under files and  I hope you enjoy them and have time to play over the holidays.

Wishing you all a happy scrappy day and a happy Christmas with your loved ones. Take lots of photos!!

December Virtual Crop Class with Katherine

Hello, I hope you are all enjoying the Virtual Crop so far - I'm going to drift you away from Christmas with 3 layouts using Vicky Boutin's Colour Study paper.  There is a beautiful Friends die-cut in the pack and plenty of colour in the papers.

The second page uses texture and lots of layering and the page is just packed with colour and the showcases all the different patterns in this collection.

I hope you enjoy the pages.  The instructions will be posted on Facebook and do remember to come and join in the chatter and share your creations with us in ATDML#Create.

Remember to check back at 2pm for Ann's Class.

Wishing you all a lovely Christmas and super New Year.
 

December Virtual Class With Karen

 Hello everyone and Merry Christmas. I hope your plans are progressing well and you are almost ready for whatever you and and yours do for the big day. Our Christmases tend to be very quiet, although this year the joy will be added with the two cats - I can no longer justify calling them kittens - who will be enjoying their first proper Christmas. (last year they arrived two days before Christmas and so were still too timid to enjoy the festivities) 

My class this month uses the gorgeous Graphis 45 Joy to the World collection. Graphic 45 papers are so thick and luxurious they are a joy to play with and - I am afraid to say - they do lend themselves so well to fussy cutting. 

I have three class pages for you to do and there is loads and loads left over too. 

This is one of the pages 

I hope you enjoy the class and please do share your makes in our facebook group. 

You can find the instructions in the facebook group.

I wish you all the blessings of the Christmas season

Dolly x 

Festive Christmas with VB Warm Wishes

 

We had such fun at our Christmas crop last week that I wanted to scrap the photos straight away.  With an abundance of VB Warm Wishes goodies from the shop I knew it was going to be just as much fun making this layout which mostly uses the bauble paper and then a mix of alpha stickers for the title letters.

I also dug out my needle and thread and stitcked around the baubles once added to the page and love this simple detail. You easily replicate this with circles punched from your own choice of papers and a bauble top detail added.

A little bit of Christmas with Vicki Boutin Warm Wishes

Hello everyone, I hope you are all keeping well as the excitement of Christmas builds!  I was lucky to be able to dive into ATDML's shop during the retreat and pick up lots of gorgeous Christmas bits from Vicki Boutin's Warm Wishes range.  It is lovely, packed with traditional colours and papers you can cut a part as well as this super wreath already done for you.  I used the wreath as my backdrop and then cut out some poinsettia and baubles from 'Tis the Season and Deck the Halls.  I went all out with glitter and carefully added a silver edge using some stickler, just to make it shine and then glitter the poinsettia too.  That bit was a little messy!

I used the title and tag from the ephemera pack that co-ordinates with this range

as well as a few red pearls to add some more berries.

As someone that does not normally like fussy cutting these papers are perfect and very forgiving, nice and easy to cut out.

I continued with the bauble theme and this time mixed in some really old Crate Paper chipboard baubles too.  I carefully hung them all with silver thread and then added a few little embellishments such as ribbon and punched stars and snowflakes.

Here you can see the vellum snowflakes which are glued behind the pearl in the middle.

Wishing you all a super Christmas.

Katherine

November Virtual Crop with Tracy

Tracy here, with your last class of today.

I was so happy to be designing with these lovely Friendship themed papers from Photoplay, featuring so many perfect sentiments for the wonderful, and just ever so slightly crazy, friends I am so lucky to have.  

My photo's aren't the most flattering, for me or my friends, but I am so pleased I have documented these memories.  It's the little things that we forget, which is why we all do this hobby I guess.

Click Here for the Instructions

I hope you enjoy the classes and I can't wait to see your versions.   

November Virtual Crop with Katherine

 

Hello everyone, I hope you are all keeping well.  For my class you will create 3 layouts with an absolutely gorgeous set of papers from P13 called Free Spirit.  All of the layouts are quite different, some distressing, some inkiness - it is a mixture!

I hope you enjoy the class.  Here is the link.

November Virtual Crop - Class 1 with Mel

 Good morning all, welcome to the first class of today's Virtual Crop. This month I worked with the "And Many More" collection from Pink Paislee, one of my layouts is a birthday one to match the theme of the papers but my second is not themed as I like to show the versatility of even a heavily themed collection.

I love clean and simple layouts but I am often guilty of being unable to stop and leave lots of white space so I tried in this layout to be a bit more minimalist. If that's not your thing you can easily adapt and add a bit more with either extra layering, some doodling, mixed media elements or more photos.

Click Here for the instructions 

Don't forget to come back at 12 for Katherines class and to post your layouts on our Facebook group ATDML # Create

October Virtual Crop class with Ann- Prima Pumpkins

Happy Sunday scrappers - this mihgt be my favourite ever Autumn/Pumpkin range - just so pretty and lovely pumpkins designs.

I have made 3 layouts the instructions for which can be found HERE

I hope you enjoy making them as much as I did and I look forward to seeing those of you attending the retreat next weekend!!

October Virtual crop with Kaisercraft and Tricia

 Good morning Campers

I hope you are enjoying today's classes, in this class I'll be using Kaisercraft's Flowering natives class. This range is full of fresh greens, dusky pinks and floral patterns begging to be fussy cut.

The patterns in Flowering natives could be straight out of a botanical handbook and I loved the handwritten script papers and butterflies - they are perfect for photos of days out in nature.  I also  used a variation of techniques to create layers throughout the layout

October virtual class with Karen

 Hi everyone... Dolly here wishing you a happy October. 

 

No matter what October means to you, be that Autumn colour, pumpkins, Halloween or just being warm and cozy, I have a class for you today using the gorgeous Graphic 45 Misnight Tales collection of papers and stickers. 

I know that Halloween is becoming increasingly popular as a celebration here in the UK, but even if, like me, you don't celebrate Halloween, there are so many things you can do with these papers. The colours are lush and they can be really versatile. 

I have two pages for you - one Halloween based and one not. This is the non Halloween one featuring my own cute little monster, Indy. 

You can find the fuull instructions for both pages HERE and i hope you will enjoy the class and share what you make in our facebook group. 

Have fun and keep enjoying this beautiful Autumn x 

September Virtual Crop Class 3 with Mel

 Hi  everyone, welcome back for class three of today's Virtual Crop. For this class I worked with the Echo Park Summer Dreams Collection which was perfect for reliving summer memories with bright cheery summer colours.

I have made two layouts for this class, the first one is below.

Click Here fore the instructions to both layouts, don't forget to share your creations over on the ATDML # Create Facebook page.

September Virtual Crop class with Ann

I hope you love the Jen Hadfield Peaceful Heart papers in this class kit as much as I did. What is not to love about florals, leaves and butterflies to fussy cut?

You can find the instructions for the pair of pages I made with these lovely papers HERE and I look forward to seeing your variations appear in the ATDML gallery on Facebook.

September Virtual Crop Class with Karen

 Hi Everyone

Dolly here with a soft pastel class for you today. 

The Kaisercraft papers in this kit  are just so delicious and so good for such a range pf themes and photos. I loved working with them and hope you enjoy them too. 

I have three class pages (and as always there are things left over too)

This is one of the pages 

I can't wait to see what you think and what you all come up with. You can find the instructions HERE and, as always, please do share what you create in the facebook group. 

Have fun 

Dolly x 

August Cyber Crop Class with Debs

Hello and welcome to the last class of this  weekend's cyber crop. 

By now you are probably ready to sit down with your feet up and a cuppa.  

Well, these layouts are perfect for doing just that as they are super simple to put together  and the only skills required are to be handy with the scissors! 

The bold colours and fantastically patterned papers do all the work in creating pages to showcase your photographs. 

Full instructions can be found here.

August Cyber crop - Tricia with Pink Fresh celebrate

 Good morning Campers!!

Welcome to day 2! 

Today I'll be using the gorgeous Celebrate range from Pink Fresh.  Full of beautiful blush tones and oversized florals it is perfect for all the outdoor get togethers we have been having lately.

The papers are full of gorgeous sweeping groups of florals that beg to be fussy cut and that's exactly what I did! I also loved the falling trellis on the 'Everyday' paper and set about making the most of it on the 2nd layout. 

The key to creating the centrepieces is all in the cutting so grab your scissors and click here for the instructions. 

PS. Don't forget to pop back at 12 for Debs class :)

August 2021 - Class with Tracy

 Good evening friends.  I hope you have all had a lovely day.  I'm typing to you from Sunny Wales again, sat in the garden with mum, beer in hand, so you could say I'm in my happy place!

I loved the bright colours in this kit, and so I chose a photograph with a rainbow of colours in the dresses and clothes we wore when Ann, Wendy and I finally met up with the Welsh after almost 2 years!!!  

The travel theme worked well even for just a day out, and the sticker book will last for ages, it'll be especially great if you're planning a little travel journal!

I used the tags as a feature, because why not? I tried to keep the tag page quite simple, I hope you enjoy it.

The second page is a little more fun but both pages are pretty simple so I hope perfect for an early evening play... I hope you have a rip roaring time! 

Instructions can be found here.

I really hope you like the class and I am so excited about teaching you all in person at Retreat.  I can't wait to see your versions of the pages, so don't forget to pop them in the albumn.

August 21 Cybercrop class with Ann & Maggie Holmes Garden Party

Happy Saturday afternoon to you all and I hope everyone is well.

Welcome to my class this weekend which uses papers from the diverse Maggie Holmes Garden Party collection including the fabulouse ephemera pack.

Pop over to the website on THIS LINK to download the instructions for the three pages I have made and enjoy creating this sunny saturday.

Ann x

August 2021 Cybercrop class with Karen

Hello everyone, Dolly here  and I hope you have all had a fabulous summer. I know it has been a different year and many of us will have enjoyed holiays or days out in this country rather than travelling further afield, but I am sure you have all enjoyed something over the summer that will work wonderfully witht hese gorgeous papers. 

The Carte Bella Summer range is just so lush and with the cut aparts and sticker sheet there is so much to enjoy in this packed kit. 

I have two pages for you but there is literally loads left over which will, I am sure, feature on other summer pages. 

This is one of the pages I have for you  and I can't wait to see what you do. 

Please do remember to post your class pages in our facebook group so that we can all see and enjoy them. 

You can find the full instructions here. 

Have fun.

August 2021 Cyber Crop - Class 1 with Katherine

 

Hello and welcome to our virtual crop!  If you don't have the kit you can put together your own and join in the classes.  As always we would love to hear from you in the chatter and see your finished pages so make sure you join in on our Facebook page ATDML#Create. In my class you will make 2 pages, but there are plenty of bits and pieces to make more - it uses the lovely Family Fun collection from Simple Stories.  For the first page the focus is on the lovely foam stickers that you get in this kit with a little bit of faux stitching.

The next page is packed with all the rainbow colours in the kit and gets you to dig out your punches to make a feature.

You can find the class here. 

I hope you enjoy the class and look forward to seeing your creations and be back here at 12 noon to see Karen's fabulous class.

Stash Busting with Tricia - Titles and phrases

 

I love fonts, titles and phrases.  I own a shedload of thickers and love cutting my own diecut titles.  The downside is sometimes I can be left with some leftover phrases and titles.

Now and again I love making these the focus of my page, it's a great way of using up similar phrases and can act as your title(s) and journaling all as one.  

A great way is to focus of attributes or similar meaning and work out area you want to focus on - block, crossword or frame.  A rainbow mix can look great against a neutral backdrop or go monochrome.  Whatever you choose, don't forget to share the final results over on the facebook page.

Challenge 4 - 1,2,3,4,5

 

Stash Busting with Jane - chipboard

 For some reason I went through a phase where I bought loads of chipboard shapes then maybe used one or two pieces from a collection and the rest went in a drawer. So time to get that drawer out and use up some of that chipboard! Here it is (ok - well, some of it!!) 

I decided that for strength I would construct my LO on a 12 x 12 canvas rather than card - but you could easily just use card - or maybe a larger sheet of chipboard if you have one. I started by sifting through and finding a frame for my photo then picking out some of the bits of chipboard I really liked and arranging and re-arranging until I had a composition I was happy with...

As you can see I ended up with some pieces which were coloured - but my intention was always to paint the chipboard and canvas so I knew this wouldn't matter. I started by giving the whole thing a couple of coats of white gesso...

Once this had dried I chose a colour from my photo - the turquoise colour of my cat's eye's and decided to focus on this colour for painting the canvas. I concentrated on the areas with chipboard - dry brushing the edges. I used a couple of different shades to try and give a bit of interest...

To give more dimension and some sparkle I sprayed the canvas with turquoise cosmic shimmer spray, then after drying I added gems and then used silver/white glitter glue on top of the chipboard pieces. I finished by adding some white roses and my photo...

Those who know me will know that this is not my my usual scrapping style but I'm quite pleased with how it turned out - If you have a go at your own mixed media page using your left over bits of chipboard, I'd love to see the result.

Now, what to do with the rest of that drawer of chipboard...

Sketch Prompt with Ann

Time for a sketch prompt from me and many of you know I love a tag, or a lable or indeed most stationery items and I tend to incorporate them on my pages quite often. This sketch is based on tags which are a great way to bust your stash, you can use left overs from kits, mix and match colours or keep it simple and stick with monotones.

I have used Vicki Boutin Color Study papers which include a fab tag paper!! Makes it a little easier I guess but you can make your own tag template and then use it to cut your own choice of papers. 

Start with the basic 7 tags and arrange those first and then add your photo and embellish around to build up the detail.