Class 1 Friends Cybercrop with Mel

Welcome everyone to the first class of this years Cybercrop! When Ann and Debie came up with the theme idea I knew there would be plenty of scope and hopefully you will all enjoy the class our lovely DT have spent their time preparing for you.

So class 1 with called "The One in Barbados" I'm going to hold my hands up and say that I chose this theme for the fabulous tropical papers I was using rather than the episode which sees the gang expecting a glorious sunny holiday and ending up with a rainy season visit to a palaeontology conference!

We will make three layouts in this class, there is some mixed media involved in two of them but it is optional, you can substitute for a clean and simple white background if you prefer but I have outlined the techniques used, as always adapt to suit what you have to hand and what suits your taste.

Please do share your creations over the weekend if possible on the ATDML # Create Facebook group. Our fabulous and dedicated DT spend a lot of time creating classes and inspiration and always love to see what people have made - even if you have gone in a totally different direction with the kit we still love to see and you might inspire someone else with your ideas! 

Here is the first layout and you can access the class folder with the instructions HERE

Come back at 8pm for Ann's first class of the cybercrop!

May Virtual Crop Class 1 with Ann & Simple Stories I AM

Welcome, welcome to my May Virtual Crop class where I bring your three layouts created with Simple Stores I AM papers.

Plenty of cutting out of floral paper in this class and we use an entire sheet of 12x12 flowers across the first two pages, and keep it floral free on the third. All of these pages use standard 4"x6" or 6"x4" photos so even if you didn't manage to grab a kit and/or don't have these papers to hand you should be able to play along and be inspired by the placement of the elements featured.

Pop over the main website using THIS LINK to download your free instructions on how to create all three of my May pages. I'd love to see you share your layouts with us too, just upload your finished projects to our gallery and see what fellow "class mates" created.

Thanks for joining me, have fun and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Go BIG on journaling

Summer holidays which for us means family days out and adventures to make the most of the time I have off work. This layout featuring Simple Stories Bloom & Grow range. It uses one of the papers with a 6" x 12" journaling piece on it featuring a floral design at the base and a faux tape piece at the top which I cut from the paper and then punched down the side with a notebook punch. 

I also used the "you", "make" & "happy" words from the same paper along with some alphabet stickers for my title "you make me happy" which I added to the journaling piece and then wrote around the rest of the paper, the grid lines making this very easy to do.

A couple more pieces of paper (including the blue floral also from the paper above) and some stickers complete this page which uses the gorgeous dotty paper as the background.

The full collection of Bloom & Grow can be found here in the shop and our gallery for July features plenty more inspiration using Simple Stories paper. Go take a look HERE >>>>