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 

Around the World in 80 Days - Class 5 - Boat to India with Jane

 

All aboard! We're leaving Madagascar and heading for one of my favourite destinations in the world - India. But as we are constantly reminded - it's about the journey, not the destination so this class is about the sea and boats rather than India!

If you got a kit you will be able to replicate my book with its galleon front cover. If not, you can take the idea of making a book front cover with an aperture and fill it with die cuts (or hand cut designs) to make a scene. Or let it inspire you to create flowers and ribbons from scraps of fabric. The book also features pages with pockets and tags and some which are full size photos.

Whatever inspiration you take from this I hope you enjoy the class, instructions for which can be found on the Created By ATDML Facebook Page.

We are almost halfway in our round the world trip - next we will be leaving India and heading for Australia - join us at 2pm for another challenge!

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

Class 5 with Jane

Good morning everyone and welcome to another day of scrapping fun.

I have been playing with some very tropical Graphic 45 papers...

There was so much in this lovely kit that I was able to make three layouts and still have paper left over. I love fussy cutting and it features in my first layout, however if you are not a fan, fear not as there is no fussy cutting in either of the other two pages.  Three quite different Layouts but all with a tropical theme – great for scrapping those beach photos – or maybe back garden lockdown photos! I tried to keep to the shapes theme too -so my first page is a circle, then we have hexagons in the next Layout and rectangles in the last. If you didn't get a kit, layouts 2 and 3 easily lend themselves to any other papers you may have in your stash!

Instructions can be found HERE.

I hope you enjoy playing along and we will see you at 11am for the next challenge.

Jane

x

February Virtual Class by Karen Leahy

Welcome to another virtual crop and I have three pages for you in my class today.

The kit contains some gorgeous papers from the Graphic 45 Princess collection and. as always with Graphic 45, the papers are double sided and super thick and lush.

They are very heavily patterned and themed but I wanted to show in the class how such papers can be really versatile too and so the three pages are very different in style. Sometimes papers which are very themed and patterned can be daunting - hopefully this class will show you they can be flexible.

This is just one of the pages from the class and once you download the instructions you will see pictures and instructions for all three pages.

If you haven't bought the kit you can, of course, play along with your own papers too.

You can download the full instructions HERE and please do upload what you create to our facebook Gallery HERE

December Virtual Crop class by Karen Leahy

Happy December everyone and I hope all of your preparations are well in hand and that you are taking time to just enjoy December as well as planning madly.

I am so pleased to bring you a class this month with the gorgeous Graphic 45 Christmas Magic Collection. The papers are such fabulous quality and totally lush so get those scissors at the ready (you know me - there will almost always be some fussy cutting) and I hope you enjoy the class. There are three layouts in the class and this is just one of them.

Click Here for your full instructions and the other two layouts

Come back at 12pm and 2pm for our other two festive classes and don't forget to pop over to the ATDML # Create Facebook page to share what you have been up to.

Class 7 - Buster the Dog

I hope you are enjoying the CyberCrop so far and enjoying playing along with the toys!

Buster is Andy and Molly’s beloved pet dog who appears at the end of the first movie. Buster the dog loves playing with the toys in the films and these layouts are pages that you will want to play with as they each have an interactive element – (not to mention the fact that I have used pictures of my dog ‘Betty’ in these pages!)

Below are the two pages I have created but if you want to see the interactive element of each you will need to go to the instructions which are available here.

Be sure to share your creations to our gallery on Facebook and tag us with #atdml elsewhere on social media.

Join us again at 3pm for another challenge inspired by Gabby Gabby then join Debbie at 4pm for Class 8 'Woody'

May Virtual Crop Class 2 with Mel

Hello and welcome to class two from todays Virtual Crop. This month I challenged myself to work with the Graphic 45 Flutter collection. Graphic 45 and me are not natural bedfellows, I admire the things other people make with it, I often love a couple of the patterns but I struggle to make it fit with my style. However, I really liked some of the florals in this collection and the bold colours were right up my street so I threw caution to the wind and signed myself up for this kit!

I made three layouts and am really pleased with the outcome. For this class I made a basic sketch and then altered it three ways to get my three layouts.

Click Here for the sketch and full instructions

Here are two of the layouts...

Don't forget to share your creations over on the ATDML # Create Facebook page and join us at 2pm for our final class of the day with Debbie.

January 2019 Virtual crop class 2 with Tricia

Good morning campers 

I hope you all are well and enjoyed the new year celebrations.

I've been using Graphic 45 'St Nicholas Collection' today.  This range is steeped in traditional Christmas styles with nods towards Victorian Christmas cards.  However, throughout the class, I have brought some modern touches.  

The first layout has elements of Christmas light displays to add sparkle and shine to the layers of traditional colours in the greens and gold.

Layout 2 - 25th of December takes you back to homemade paper garlands and rows of Christmas cards hanging on cardholders.

Finally, we have a bonus layout.  With 80's style, geometric designs and a shower of delicious peppermints for that candy cane feel. 

Click here for the full instructions

 Challenge yourself to use elements from your papers in new and unusual ways and let us see what you have created over on the Facebook page.

Thanks for playing along today and come back to join us at 2pm for our last class of the day with Debbie.

Have fun!

Scraplift Santa - Christmas Lights

Dolly here with another scraplift santa that I hope might get you scrapping over the festive period.

I used to find it hard to get good night shots of lights - crucial when it is Christmas - but with the phones these days they do take beautiful night pictures with little fuss. Hopefully over the festive season you will get some great pictures of the wonderful Christmas lights in your home and your area.

I love pages which use two 4" x 6"  photos that compliment each other because, whether they are portrait of landscape, they are so easy to scrap when they are a pair.

This page uses up some scraps. When you are putting papers behind photos and they are not seen you can often cheat and use up bits which, when put together, look like a much bigger piece of pretty paper, and I do so like to use up my scraps.

I used two different patterned papers from the Simple Stories Merry and Bright collection - the Christmas trees an the lovely floral paper.

The green dotted papers used for accents across the page is the reverse of the Christmas Tree paper (don't you love double sided papers)

I added some strips from the Graphic 45 Christmas Magic collection, and that is where the stamp came from too..

I kept the page simple - my pages always are I'm afraid - and just added punched circles with trees cut from the paper and decorated with tiny red enamel dots.

The title was stamped using two different sets of stamps.

Have fun with taking pictures of Christmas lights this year and I can't wait to see what you scrap. 

October 2018 Sketch Challenge

Hi Everyone. Dolly here and this is my first blog post so treat me gently! 

I don’t know about you, but I love a sketch to get my mojo started. Sometimes my finished page looks a lot like the sketch, and at others, it is hard to see where the sketch has gone. But actually, that doesn’t matter. The sketch has done its job if it sparks that creative process, no matter how you use it.

I am thrilled to be back as a part of the team at ATDML and one of the things I would like to do is bring you a new sketch each month in the hope that it will spark your creative process. Sometimes it might be a very traditional sketch, as this one is. Other times, well I might just be a little more ‘off the wall’.

Anyway, here is a very simple sketch for my first month. I hope you enjoy creating something based on it, no matter how loosely.

I used it as the inspiration for this page using the gorgeous Come Away With Me papers by Graphic 45. It is also a sketch that is great for using up scraps of papers. For example, the strip down the left-hand side was a small strip I had but worked perfectly as a side border. The two strips of vertical map paper tucked under the right-hand side and the strip under the dotted paper at the bottom are really little strips (no I don’t throw anything away) just inked and tucked under.

Finally, the journaling block I had, from the same set of papers, was too big for the page so I cut the middle section out, stuck it back together to make a smaller journaling block and covered the join with a word strip. Yes, I cheat – all of the time!

This is my page 

Have fun with the sketch and I look forward to seeing what you create. Do come over to the ATDML # Create Facebook page and share your pages!

September Virtual Crop - Class 1 with Karen Leahy

Karen recently rejoined the ATDML Design Team and kicks off with a lovely class using the beautiful Graphic 45 Come Away With Me collection.

She has made two gorgeous layouts and has included a link to a you tube tutorial for making the paper roses which she has used to embellish her second page.

Click Here for the free downloadable instructions and don't forget to share your creations over on the ATDML # Create Facebook Page.

Come back at 12 o'clock for a Simple Stories class with Mel.

Oxides and Graphic 45 - Enjoy the little things

I know...Fairie Dust papers and boys...not necessarily a natural pairing, but the colours and outdoors feel to these papers were really easy to use.  I started the page with some distress oxides and added loads of inky prints in blues, purples, greens and yellows - the oxides work really well on craft and you don't loose the colour into the paper.  After that I then used my kaisercraft hessian stamp and some of the word stamps from Crate Paper.  Next I chose several strips of paper, decorating each one slightly differently.  I arranged them blue, green, purple, green blue which seems to draw your eye into the centre of the page and to the photo.  I do love the colour combination in this line of papers.

I decorated the strips with some of the stickers and fussy cut a few mushrooms to add around the photo.  

The title is from Fab Scraps and you can pick it up in the shop - I used my oxides to create an ombre effect and then added silver nuvo drops around the edge.

I used foam pads and added some of the button stickers on one of the strips.

I hope you've enjoyed the page, and look forward to seeing you all at the Cybercrop at the end of the month - as I type there is still one kit left, but even if you didn't manage to get the kits you can download the instructions and play along with your own papers.

April Virtual Crop with Karen

Hello, hello - Karen here with the first class of the Day.

For this class I have used Portrait of a Lady by Graphic 45.

This is a two page class with the first using two 6 x 4 portrait orientated photos.  My lovely friend Eileen cut the centres of the frames out for me as she is such a whiz with a scalpel.

The second uses just one 7 x 5 landscape photo. 

If you didn't manage to get a kit you are still most welcome to join in using your own stash.

Instructions from my class can be found here.


Please share your pages on our Facebook page and pop back at 12 for the next class.

Class 13 with Jane - The Queen

So we've reached class 13 - (good job 13 is my lucky number -well it's the date of my birthday)!  I was certainly lucky to be invited to a Royal garden party at Buckingham Palace this year so my next class is in honour of Her Majesty. This is a really simple book and I love the colour combination - a peachy pink the same colour as The Queen's dress, navy blues the same colour as my outfit and light blue the same colour as Kate's dress. I hope you are just as lucky with your photos!

Here's the front cover...

And some sneak peeks inside the book...

Instructions for the book can be found here...

I hope you will come back at 10am to join Debbie for class 14! Have fun!

Class 6 with Jane - Rear Window

The title for this should have been ‘Windows on the World’ except that I don’t think that is a film!! But the Hitchcock classic Rear Window is one of my favourites, and since this class features little windows that open...

I wanted to use the Piggy Tales Windows as a way of giving glimpses of what is inside a folded page. The instructions show how the book structure is made but then how you decorate it is up to you - below I have shown each page in my book to give you ideas. Each page is a double spread which opens up - so the first picture shows it closed then the next picture shows the spread opened up.

First here's the front cover...

Then the pages - one by one (there are lots!)

 Instructions for this class can be found here...

Come back at 12:00 for Tricia's first class - enjoy!