December Virtual Crop Class with Ann and Claus & Co

Come join me today and get your festive cheer on with this wonderfully seasonal class where I have made two layouts, a home decor frame and a minibook from one of my favourite kits ever! 

Both layouts I made in under an hour so you have plenty of time to fit this in over the holidays if you don't have the time today.

As always instructions are available to download HERE. I hope you enjoy getting in the spirt of the season with this one! Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy Scrappy last virtual crop day/class for 2019.

Advent with ATDML - Dec 3rd - Home decor Twine Tree

Day 3 of your advent inspiration from your atdml design team and I'm sharing an inexpensive home decor item for the holidays that I have had pinned on Pinterest for quite a while it seems!!

You'll need the following supplies for this project: polystyrene cone (Hobbycraft or The Range), wet glue (I used modge podge), string or twine, scissors, an electric tealight and clingfilm or a sandwich bag.

Cover the cone in cling film or a sandwich bag (I used the latter) and then run twine through glue and wrap around the cone. I found it easiest to pour some glue out into a bowl and use my fingers to ensure that the twine was coated as I went along. Work your way up and down the cone in a random fashion being sure to go as high up as possible to get a nice point. Press firmly to help the twine stick to itself as you go.

Set aside to dry (the glue will dry clear) and then carefully remove from the cone using a twisting motion. The bag should then come away with some gentle persuasion but being clear it doesn't matter is small amounts are left behind on the inside of the cone.

Decorate if (I used a few seasonal coloured gems and then place an electric tealight under for a homemade rustic tree decoration for your home.

Pop back tomorrow to open your next creative advent calendar window with Karen and if you didn't see Jane's planner yesterday be sure to check it out, just scroll down or click here.

Advent with your ATDML Design team

Yay! It is the start of December which means your design team can reveal that we will be posting EVERY DAY up to Christmas eve sharing an advent of creativity with you. Pop here to the blog every day in December and open a virtual window into your advent calendar of papercraft!

All through to Christmas come and get some festive crafting inspiration from the team. We will be sharing layouts, cards, minibook pages, December Daily entries, elf antics and home decor items, plenty to inspire your festive makes.

Here is just a sneak at what we have in store for you.

Get ready to get your festive craft on with your favourite team! First up will be our photography prompts as always for the 1st of the month so pop back later for your last set for 2016.
Ho! Ho! Ho!

**Cybercrop Class 8** By Ann Freeman

Time for something a little different now, not a layout nor a minibook but a home decor item which can be adapted into a fancy card as well. Ann shows us how in her instructions which can be downloaded in the usual place HERE , choose Class 8.


When you are finished pop back here to our blog and share your class project with us. Simply click on the link below and add your image straight from your pc.

See you again at 10pm with your next class by Suzanne Torr.

Imaginary Friends Door Hanger

Do you ever look at scrapbooking paper sometimes and think that is just too nice to use? That is what I thought when I saw the Imaginary Friends papers by My Little Shoebox. With the funky aliens these papers are such fun and perfect for little boys, far too nice not to have out on display hence my door hanger for son #1.

Robert asked if I would make him something for his room some time ago, and these papers were the answer. Combined with the MLS alphabet stickers and some chipboard banners from Maya Road this project came together really quickly and even used some of the skinny ribbon the ATDML girls put in our pizza boxes!



A list of items from the ATDML store used to create this doorhanger is shown here:
Imaginary Friends Paper
MLS Stickers
Maya Road chipboard

Do share with us your Imaginary Friends creations, we love to see what our customers create!

Customer Project Feature - Afshan Sameen

We thought we would take some time to showcase some more work by our blog readers and shop customers.

With the arrival of our 7 Gypsies order we also got restocks of the popular Printers Trays. This project was sent in by Afshan Sameen who thoroughly enjoyed working with the tray to create a beautiful project for her home.

Thanks to Afshan for allowing us to share her work here on the blog. If you have a project or projects you would like to share with other blog readers do drop me an email ( Mel@atripdownmemorylane.co.uk ) with the words Reader Showcase in the subject line.

We love to see what you do with the products and are interested in seeing layouts, mini books, cards and other projects.

Valentines Home Decor

On this day of love and romance we thought we would share this fabulous little home decor project by Ann Freeman. It is a sweet piece perfect for Valentines but it will last the whole year through (unlike Chocolates or Roses which for different reasons don't last long!)

Here is Ann's project and the supply list and instructions are below:

Patterned Paper/Card:
SassFrass Hog Heaven - Lots O Luck
Pink Paislee Cupid - Eternal Love
Pink Paislee Cupid – Postcards
Bazzill Bling – In the pink

Stickles:
Ranger Cotton Candy
Ranger Baby Blue

Flowers:
Prima eLine - White
Prima eLine - Aqua

Other
Polystyrene Heart, sequins, short pins, wooden dowel, small plastic plant pot (Hardware shop)
Brown fabric scrap, pink organza ribbon, blue ball fringe trim, paper bird, brads, gems.

Method
Cut variety of heart flowers from the Sassfrass paper, punch/die cut a selection from the pink cardstock, and stickles a selection of the Aqua flowers too.

Cover the polystyrene heart in the selection of flowers using brads, sequins, pins etc to secure and decorate with gems and other brads to fill gaps/add depth to the flowers.

Decorate the plastic plant pot with Pink Paislee Eternal love paper (Tip: make a template first using scrap paper to determine the shape of paper to cut and prevent wastage!) Whilst doing this also cut a cardstock lid for the plant pot and punch a hole in the centre.

Add a fabric strip border to the top of the pot and wrap over to cover the plastic edge. Add the blue ball trim and a flower.

Run a length of double sided tape along the fabric strip and wrap around the wooden dowel.

Adhere a large piece of bluetack inside the plant pot (use strong glue) and push the dowel into the bluetack and slide the cardstock lid over the top. Add a further heart flower to the centre if desired. Seal with clear drying strong glue and add a layer of stickles to hide any imperfections! (Tip: Be generous with the blue tack as it acts as the weight in your home décor piece as well!)

Using a pencil make a small hole in the base of your decorated heart, fill with strong glue and gentle place on top of the fabric covered dowel.

Add a tag (cut from Pink Paislee postcards paper), a bow of organza ribbon and a small paper bird to complete your home décor project.