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.

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 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! 🩷

May 2023 Virtual Crop Class with Ann

Happy Sunday everyone and a warm welcome to our May Virtual Crop classes. 

First up is yours truly, Ann, with three layouts using Vicki Boutin Print Shop papers and a Doodlebug alphas set that really packs a punch!

Here is a glimpse of what is in store when you download the instructions

As always you can share your creations with us - we love to see what you make and with the flexibility on titles in this class I would absolutely love to see all the variations.

Enjoy and Tracy is up next a noon with her May VC class. 

February Virtual Crop Class, with Tracy

I hope you are all having a restful Sunday!  Tracy here, getting ready to dive head first into March, and the sea of daffodils that it brings. I will do my best to enjoy it, but cannot lie, I'm already very much looking forward to April, which brings a lovely long Easter weekend, a well earned massage and of course retreat!

I was lucky enough to get my hands of some of Vicki B's Fernwood for my Virtual Crop class this month. I absolutely loved working with it... the florals and the butterflies are a fussy cutters dream!

I hope you like the layouts I've created for you, which range from distressed florals to a good old simplistic grid design.  

The instructions have been uploaded to the Google Files HERE

I love seeing other peoples versions of my page, so please do upload yours to the facebook group, even if it isn't this weekend.

November Virtual Crop class with Ann

Happy Sunday to you all and I hope you have carved out some creative time for yourself today to join in our virtual crop. My layouts this month combine the lovely Fernwood papers from Vicki Boutin with a couple of vintage treats from Simple Stories and Basic Grey.

We make our own title with jumbo 2"x3" letters in this class which allows you to bring in lots of difference patterns and textures without it being too overwhelming. Add a touch of fussy cutting with the lovely florals and you're all set!

Instructions can be found here and I hope you enjoy!

Class 7 - This is my Space with Katherine

Hello and welcome to Class 7 this class it is all about space - inspired by the dance session near the end of the film!  We have some beautiful papers from the Sweet Rush collection by Vicky Boutin as well as lots of colourful stickers which I make use of.

We make 3 layouts in this class, though there is enough paper for more and it is all about white space and leaving areas of a page emptier.  I look at different ways that you can leave a bit of space and draw the eye into the picture as well as how you can use stickers and paint flicks (if you like) to add just a tiny bit more!

I hope you enjoy it. The Instructions are here

Be back at 6pm for the next challenge - The Water Lift!

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.

Around The World Class 12 with Debs Jewell CANADA

Hello weary travellers, you've arrived at your final class of the weekend, hope your flight was smooth and  your visit to New York a good one! Only a few more challenge stops to go, on your epic around the World scrapping journey, before you can sit back and page through all the memories you’ve recorded this weekend.

Welcome to Ontario, Canada,  home to the wonderful Vicki Boutin, designer of the fabulous Storyteller papers which we will be using in this class.

 

Full instructions can be found on the A Trip Down Memory Lane website HERE.  As always we love to see (or hear about) what you've done so please visit and share your creations in our ATDML Create Facebook page.

After you've enjoyed your Poutine, Bannock and butter tarts it'll be time to head to Greenland via Hudson Bay for Challenge 10.

Safe travels all.

xxx

February Virtual crop class 3 with Tracy using Vicki Boutin Color Kaleidoscope

 Hi Everyone!! Tracy here with the last class of the day.

Today I'll be using Vicki Boutins 'Kaleidoscope' range to create 3 layouts with punchy colours against neutral backgrounds.  

When I saw the lemon colours in the leaf papers I instantly knew the photos I would be using would be from our last trip to Italy.  I created lemons using a small punch however the colours would be perfect for G&T's in the back garden on a sunny day

The teal coloured papers just peaking through are a perfect compliment for a sunny day too.

The kit comes with some gorgeous embellishments and wording that begs for you to go wild so are great for those really fun photos.

So let's get started - click here for instructions and don't forget to share over on our facebook page.

Storyteller - Happy

I've seen quite a few grid layouts recently so decided to have a go at one.  The thing that I like about these small squares is that you can pack them with all sorts of bits and build them up, the bit I am less keen on is trying to get them lined up correctly!  For this one I ended up making myself a 1" L shaped piece of card and then added in a 3/4" strip too once I got to the middle squares!

For this page I started off with the Vicki Boutin stencil that you can see in the photo.  I used a white piece of card and chose some distress ink colours and randomly inked them all over the page (there is a think strip of it in the picture too).  I then added some spritz of water and a little bit of gold spray too and then cut all my squares out.  With my background paper done I then selected little bits of paper from the Storyteller collection to add, adding torn edges, brown ink around the edges and punched stars.  I created a little shaker with some printed acetate and sequins and and embellishment frame.  I then just hunted through my box of goodies for buttons and wood veneers, anything that I thought would work and build up each square.  I used one of the library cards from Storyteller for my journalling.  Lots of fun to make.

Class 5 with Ann using Vicki Boutin Storyteller

Welcome to my second class of the weekend - trust you are all having fun so far with our classes and challenges.

For this class I have used the latest release from Vicki Boutin - the absolutely gorgeous Storyteller collection and I hope you will love these papers as much as I do - I just couldn't stop making pages but I warn you, there is A LOT of fussy cutting, I spent almost 3 hours preparing the elements for these - some take less time than others but I hope you enjoy them.

Download instructions for my class HERE which features 5 layouts! or scraplift away with your own papers. We hope you will share your projects with us in the Facebook group so we can leave some love.

After this grab a quick bit to eat as challenge 5 - Ghostly White is up next at 1pm

Class 12 - Bedroom with Vicki Boutin Lets Wonder & Katherine Sutton

Welcome to class 12 using Vicki Boutin's Lets Wonder collection.  Our focus is on messy and the papers help with their inky designs....but there is a little bit of mess too.

Here is a peak of the first page which has some smooshing in it using distress oxides.

Our 2nd layout just has some flicks of paint to add the inkiness in the papers.

The third layout you can see here just uses the inkiness in the papers!  I hope you enjoy them.

Here is a link to the class.

Karen is up next at 2pm with her last class of the weekend. Enjoy!

May Bumper Virtual Crop Class 1 with Mel

Hello everyone! After the success of last months mini cyber crop we wanted to offer you a little bit more than our usual 3 class virtual crop format as we know that many of you are enduring challenging times during lockdown and for some scrapping provides some much needed escapism.

I hope you enjoy the classes and challenges we have for you today and tomorrow and we kick off with my class using the gorgeous Vicki Boutin "Let's Wander" collection. This was due to be a retreat class and I thoroughly enjoyed making the FOUR pages you can get from the kit. As the name suggests it is a travel page but I'm hoping memories of trips from the past will make you smile a little as we plan for future trips when circumstances allow. You could adapt the projects to suit non travel pages by amending your ephemera choice and the pages could certainly work for days out and exploring themed pages.

Here are two of the layouts, the full instructions and pictures of all four layouts can be found HERE.

Do join us over on the ATDML # Create Facebook page for challenges and chat and to share your class pages.

Come back at 7pm for Katherine's class.

Class 4 with Mel

Hello and welcome to my class for this impromptu cybercrop! I must say again how grateful we all are to the lovely Design Team who have pulled this together in order to ensure that you  all have some scrappy fun to cheer you up during lockdown and, for those of you who were due to join us at the retreat, chase away the postponed retreat blues.

My class uses the lovely Vicki Boutin Wildflower and Honey collection although I am looking forward to seeing your interpretations if you are working with  another collection. I hope the ideas and designs will be transferrable across and can't wait to see what you come up with.

This is the first layout from the class and some details and sneak peeks of the other pages. To download the full instructions click HERE

I hope you enjoy the class, please do take the time to share your layouts into the appropriate album on our facebook group. For those of you who recently joined us you will find that it is a friendly welcoming place and we love to see what you all make.

Class 14 Sunnyside Daycare with Mel

Wow, what a weekend of scrappy fun it's been and it isn't over yet!

For my last class I have created three layouts using the fabulous Vicki Boutin Color Kaleidoscope collection. The bright rainbow colours reminded me of the rainbow in the logo for Sunnyside Daycare which features in the third movie.

The second layout uses a calmer more muted palette

and as for the third layout, well take a trip over to the website to download the instructions and see which style layout number three goes with!

Come back at 4pm for our penultimate class; Malibu Ken with Tricia.

Class 12 - Rex

Hello all and I am back with my second class for our 2019 Toy Story themed cybercrop.

Rex is the lovable insecure green dinosaur from the Toy Story films starring in all 4 movies. 
He has tiny arms and, inspired by those, this class creates pages featuring lots of tiny elements to add dimension and interest...oh and a bit of Rex green also! 

Hope you have funny layering up creating with this kit where there is plenty of scope for free styling! Find your class instructions Here and be sure to share to our gallery on Facebook and tag us with #atdml elsewhere on social media.

Your next class is at Noon with Debbie! Enjoy

Using Leftovers & Scraplifting a Scraplift

The retreat seems a distant memory but I came back having scrapped a few pages and used lots of my Vicki Boutin Field Notes papers and embellishments - I wanted to make one more layout with some of the leftovers and so I started to think of what layout I could do that used a small amount of several different patterns.

My favourite thing to do when I am stuck in a rut or in need of an idea is to look back through my old albums. I often find there are layouts that remind me about a technique or style I used to use and sometimes there are layouts that I just want to scraplift and update with new products or pictures.

I came across this layout of Isabelles 9th birthday using the Echo Park Take Note collection. This layout was a scraplift I did from one of Ann's 2014 Cybercrop classes (Picadilly - see below and CLICK HERE for instructions)

So I set about making a new updated version using up my Vicki Boutin Field Notes stash! I added a border to this one and drew sketched circles first using the silhouette. Then I punched out the circles from leftover papers. Then to embellish I used a variety of ephemera, stickers and chipboard accents.

It's always satisfying to use up some leftovers and make a layout with them. Do come on over to the ATDML # Create Facebook page and share any layouts you have made with the leftovers from class kits or collection packs.