December Virtual Crop with Mel

 Welcome to the last of our rescheduled December virtual crop classes.

I used the Stamperia Art of Traveling collection for this class. Some of these papers are works of art in themselves and one of the biggest challenges was how to use them in a way to showcase my photos without covering up too much of the lovely detail that was already there.

Here's one of my pages - the other two and full instructions can be found HERE in the google drive folder.

Thanks for looking and Happy New Year to you all from the ATDML family xx

November Virtual Crop Class 1 with Ann and 49&M Vintage Orchard

 

Welcome to another virtual crop class day with your ATDML Creative design team.

I adore the papers and elements I got to play with this month - 49&Market Vintage Orchard which are perfect for autumnal layouts with warm colours and fun elements.

There are so many chipboard words in the kit you can change to suit, and I hope you have fun with that and chosing which memories to scrapbook for the three illustrated layouts provided.

As always the instructions are in our google drive to download and play along - search for hthe files starting 1125 for this month.

September virtual crop class with Ann using Asuka Studios

 Afternoon scrappy ones - I hope your September has been fun.

I am last up for todays virtual crop trio with a couple of layouts using Asuka Studio's fun collection "Get a Clue". Whilst the papers have an obvious Sherlock Holmes theme I have used them to capture memories of a day in Pompeii on layout one and of a day playing librarian and focusing on the great book elements for layout two.

The Pompeii layout features a little interactive book to showcase some extra photo which you can skip and just have as an additional non-interactive photo if you prefer.

Instruction as always in our Google Drive (all files start 0925) and we love seeing your pages so do share if you are so inclined.

Until next time, happy scrapping!

August Virtual Crop with Mel

 Hi All, I am writing this in July about to head off on our trip to Japan, by the time this is posted I should be nearly on my way home!

I worked with the beautiful Summer Porch collection from 49 & Market and made three layouts for you this month.

As always find the instructions here on the 2025 Virtual Crops Google Drive Folder.

August Virtual Crop Class with Sheree using Echo Park Firefly

 

Hi everyone, I hope you’re enjoying a nice relaxing weekend with maybe a bit of scrapping on the side!

This month my virtual crop kit class is using the Firefly collection from Echo Park. Fireflies aren’t a thing in the UK but hopefully I’ll show you how you can still use this kit. It would be perfect for toddler photos as many of the sentiments could be used for that.

Anyway this month there are 4 layouts that I have created. I’ll have you creating a giant tag, and also showing you a couple of different ways of doing layouts with multiple photos and also a layered banner!

 

 

 

Thinking about it now, you could also use photos of gardening to go with some of the sentiments. “Reach for the stars” reminds me of my tomato plants (its my first year growing veg). I have enough bits leftover that I may still do a gardening related layout just for fun!

 

I’d love to see what you create, so feel free to share your layouts in the facebook group.

You'll find the instructions in the drive here.

 

August virtual crop with Tricia and 49& Market

 Good morning all 

Welcome to the August Virtual crop! This month I've been playing about with 49& Market.  This range has a proper vintagey feel with a mix of neutral and pastel tones. 

The set is accompanied by a lovely set of stickers which are perfect for everything from titles, journalling or embellishments. The range is great for everyday subjects too - a walk in the park, a visit to a local market or just celebrating every day task.

So grab your photos and head here to get started and don't forget to share your versions over on the Facebook group.

July Virtual Crop Class with Cara using Echo Park Born to Travel

 

My virtual crop kit class this month is a bright colourful travel theme collection from Echo Park which can easily be used for scrapping days out in the UK as well as travel abroad.

I have made 3 layouts, 2 using inky backgrounds and one just using a hint of ink, each co-ordinating with the colour palette of the papers used.  The sticker sheet included is very versatile and you can choose alternative stickers to those I have used to to compliment your photos.

I hope you have as much fun making these layouts as I did. There are stickers and papers left over for you to create more and I would love to see what you do so feel free to share your layouts in the Facebook group.

Full instructions can be located as usual in our drive folder.

July Virtual Crop with Ann and 49&M Wanderlust Explorer

 

Welcome to another virtual crop day with your ATDML design team. Once more we have three classes for you from myself, Cara and Tracy this month.

I'll start with three pages using 49 & Market Wanderlust Explorer, a travel themed collection with TONNES of laser cuts! I have made 3 layouts, one of which wasn't travel themed and makes the most of the ample floral elements.

I hope you enjoy the class, and you will have lots left to carry on creating after these pages.

Instructions as always can be found in our Drive folder - look for the files starting 0725.

May Virtual crop with Cara & Vicki B Bold & Bright

Welcoming Cara to the Design Team once again and this is her first virtual crop class for ATDML.

Working with Vicki Boutin Bold & Bright papers Cara combines this vibrant collection with some inking and describes how she achieved the effects in her instructions available in the google Drive folder HERE 

 A whopping 5 layouts created with this kit so enjoy and pop back at 2pm for the last class of the May VC Series from Tracy.                    

May virtual crop with Ann and Asuka Studios

Hello lovely crafty people - hope you are all feeling creative today.

I am sharing my VC class with you (instructions as always can be found in the Google Drive HERE with my file called 0525-Ann.pdf.)

I have created a couple of layouts to inspire and a minibook using the fabulous interactive elements which were cut from one of the papers and come with preprinted flaps!!

The papers are perfect for summer snaps or time in your garden with lots of vintage elements you can bring in.

Enjoy and hope you will share your creations with us on our ATDML Create Facebook page.

March Virtual Crop Class with Ann & 49&M Rust and Revs

Happy Sunday from me and I hope this class finds you well wherever you are today.  

More 49&Market goodness from me today in this months virtual crop class kit.  There is a more masculine feel to this Rust & Revs collection but I have still used for a couple of silly selfies!  You might want to grab yourself some plain old boring silver paperclips for this class too as I feature 9 of  them on one of my pages (little glimpse of that below!!)

As always instructions can be found on our Google Drive folder HERE and we encourage you to upload your classes to our Facebook page Created by ATDML as well. My class is saved as 0325-Ann.pdf in the folder.

Enjoy!

February Virtual Crop with Ann & Photoplay

Last but by no means least is your 3rd Virtual crop class today using Photoplay Wildflower Dreams. Patterned papers and a fun 12x12 sticker sheet form this kit which is super versatile to use for a many themes.

An option to bring a little stencilling in here with these lovely spring colours.

I hope you enjoy!

As always the instructions can be downloaded HERE.

February Virtual crop with Tricia

 

Good afternoon everyone 

It's been so lovely to play with this months range of papers.  I've been sucked into the world of Vicki Boutin and her 'Print shop', full of creative and nature themed elements and some gorgeous chipboard elements.

The 'cross my heart' paper has some cracking asymmetric stripes on one side and this inspired me to revisit a walk in the woods we had taken a while back.

I loved adding in the leaves, birds, butterflies and snails to continue the theme and the page included hidden journalling to tell the tale.

There are some crafty elements to the elements too giving the perfect opportunity to scrap those retreat, crop or solo scraping sessions.  I created some raised banners for a bit of pop 

The last layout could be used to display multiple photos of a range of subjects... particularly all that you love.  It could be a person, a day, an event, your favourite keepsakes or that day you conquered that mountain at last.

 

So click here and head to the album to get started.

February Virtual Crop Class with Tracy

Happy Virtual Crop Day ATDMLers!  I hope you are having a good weekend, even if it has been mostly rainy and cold.  I for one CANNOT wait for the longer days and warmer weather to arrive.

I'm up first today with a class coming to you live from Sunny Wales, where I am away for the weekend scrapbooking with some dear friends ❤️ I really hope you enjoy this class and can't wait to see your versions.

Working with the absolutely stunning Prima Marketing Spring Abstract Collection, I was inspired by the wreath paper, and the pink inkiness that appears throughout the range. 

I've made 3 pages, that all come together really quickly, once the fiddly bit is out of the way!

I especially liked the chance to make a page featuring photo's with Rik over the years and it has sparked an idea for another page, or bigger project, to celebrate Freddie's 18th in May.

Your instructions can be found HERE in the 2025 Virtual Crop Google Drive Folder

Don't forget to share your layouts over on the ATDML # Create Facebook Page!

January 2025 Virtual Crop with Mel

 Hello and welcome to the last class of the January 2025 Virtual Crop. This class gave me a nice chance to look back at some of our favourite memories from Christmas and get some of them scrapped. For some reason I am terrible about getting my festive photos scrapped... I think it is because by the time I get around to printing them I am not feeling at all Christmassy so this class gave me a bit of a push to get them done.

I've made three layouts with this kit although when I came to add the blog post I realised that one of them is a similar concept to one of Debs' from last month but who doesn't love a circle bauble layout?!

Your instructions can be found HERE in the 2025 Virtual Crop Google Drive Folder

Don't forget to share your layouts over on the ATDML # Create Facebook Page!

January Virtual Crop class with Ann

On such a blustery chilly day my pages may well make you feel even colder, so wrap up warm before you read on!

A lovely mix of wintery patterened papers and diecut elements in cool tones make up the kit for this class but the layouts are nice and simple and easy to pull together.

If you were lucky enought to get some snow earlier this month or indeed have been away somewhere snowy the snowflake elements will be perfect - or just capture the start of 2025 as it was chilly (at least where I am!).  No kit no bother, these layouts are great for scraplifting to to inspire the start of your page.

As always your instructions and the three layout images I made can be found in our Drive folder.

Don't forget the left overs from this class will make wonderful elements for your January Calendar pages if you are playing along with that again in 2025.

Enjoy my class, and Mel rounds up our virtual crop class today at 2pm. 

January 2025 Virtual Crop Class with Tracy

Happy New Year!  I'm allowed to say that this plate in January for two reasons, 1) I've not seen most of you yet this year, and 2) I'm up first for your January Virtual Crop!

I hope you have had a fine start to 2025, and have lots of fun times booked in throughout the year to play with pretty paper, and spend making memories with good friends!

I've designed this months class using Vicki Boutin papers.  Who doesn't love a bit of VbB to brighten their January up?

My first layout features an interesting cut, that I think looks really striking on paper, but it did turn out to be a wee bit complicated to explain in the instructions, so I've included some diagrams and measurements, which I hope make some sense!

 The second layout includes a bit of getting messy (but not that messy, I promise).  I used white gesso to tone down the background paper, so my photo and the elements could pop.  Yes that's a pic of me (and Rik) circa 2001 with braids down to my thighs! haha

The last layout uses up some more of the ephemera, but there is tons of paper and ephemera left for you to continue playing!

The instructions for all three layouts in the class are in the shiny new VC 2025 folder in the google drive, which is here 

Don't forget we love to see your layouts, so please snap a pic and share in the facebook group! 🩷