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!

November Virtual Crop Class with Prima and Ann

 Welcome to a very wild and windy Virtual Crop Sunday!

I have created two pages today using Prima Magnolia Blooms which has some lovely foiled elements. Instructions for those of you with kits can be found on the google drive folder https://drive.google.com/.../1Sx5nMYJpeJO5zb3aI9f.../view...

Please feel free to play along with your own stash and scraplift or take inspiration from elements as I think many of us may chose to stay inside and craft today!!

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!

Cluedo Cybercrop Class 1 - Reverend Green in the Garden with the Foiled Scroll

A very warm welcome to your first class in our Cluedo inspired cybercrop with DT Ann aka Reverend Green. Each of our classes will be hosted by a SUSPECT, in a PLACE, with a WEAPON. We hope you enjoy our themed approach and join in the fun.

My class uses lush foiled papers from Prima where I have created 2 layouts from the Class Kit which was available to purchase on the ATDML website. If you are lucky there may be one or two kits left if you didn't grab one or you can recreate the pages using your own stash.

Class instructions for this Foiled Scroll class can be downloaded HERE and include tips on how to make the perfect paper scrolls to use on your layouts.

We love to see the layouts you make inspired by our classes so please do share them on our ATDML # Create Facebook page. 

If you are posting on social media please do use the #atdmlcluedocybercrop and please credit our design team for their inspiration.

Next up at 8pm we have Mel disguised as Dr Black in the Library with a Stack of Books.

May 2023 Virtual Crop Class with Karen

 Hello everyone - Karen here with another class. 

This time I am using Prima My Sweet papers and ephemera to create three pages for you to use as classes. 

I love making papers like this work for different type of pages. When you iitially look at them they are almost heritage like but they work for so many different themes and topics. I have tried to give you a varied range in this class and - unusual for me - not a lot of fussy cutting either as the ephemera pack is superb. 

This is one of the pages you will find. 

As always please do share what you make in the facebook group - I'd love to see them. It's very strange writing these instructions without knowing what people do with them. 

I hope you have fun 

Karen x 

October Virtual Crop class with Ann- Prima Pumpkins

Happy Sunday scrappers - this mihgt be my favourite ever Autumn/Pumpkin range - just so pretty and lovely pumpkins designs.

I have made 3 layouts the instructions for which can be found HERE

I hope you enjoy making them as much as I did and I look forward to seeing those of you attending the retreat next weekend!!

May Virtual Crop with Katherine

 

Hello, our class today is using lots of pretty watercolours and ephemera.  The colours range from blues to purples to pinks.  There are some beautiful puffy stickers and plenty of ephemera to pack your page with.  

You can add your own watercolour touches to the white cardstock or just let the prima papers do all the watercolour work for you!  There are 3 pages, above is the first and then 2 more, including one about you.

I hope you enjoy them, do share them in our facebook group and join in the chatter.

You can find the class here.

Class 1 - The Attic with Prima Pretty Pale & Ann Freeman

A huge welcome to you all as we kick off a weekend of cybcrcrop classes with your ATDML design team. I am up first with a couple of layouts using Prima Pretty Pale - a wonderfully vintage collection that reminded me older things you'd perhaps store in the attic and the colour tones of paper when it has been around for a while.  

You do not have to have purchased the kits to take part but can just take inspiration from the pages  made  - and please do share your pages with us.

Instructions to complete my layouts can be found HERE for free.

Next up is Mel at 8pm with her first class of the weekend and hopefully you'll have seen we have already posted our first challenge. Enjoy and have fun, absolutely no stressing allowed!!

Wander...

Hello Campers 

I'm well and truly over the coldness and dreaming of spring already.  However, the weather has made for some lovely winter walks and photo opportunities it brings. I've been using Prima 'Spring Farmhouse' this month which are a gorgeous mix of rich shades and neutral tones with lots and lots of floral elements. These can take some time to cut out but the time and effort is often worth it to bring together these elements as one collection.

The midnight Garden paper has a gorgeous gradiated hue radiating from the centre which provides a good focal point for the pices.  I used floral elements from 'Rose reciepts', 'simple things', 'beautiful life' & 'Full heart' 

Using Kraft cardstock and 'More roses please I layered 2 sections to act as a staggered photo mount. I wanted to draw the eye through so i created a 3/4" thick frame 8" wide to sit around the  photomount.  

The title 'wander' was cut from the 'simple things' paper and tucked behind the photo.

Once these were in place I layered the flora and fauna around the base of the photo using a mixture of tape, foam pads and creating texture by shaping the leaves.

The neutral side of the collection works in a lovely colour pallet of washed out woods, gingham and patterns with a homespun feel.  For Simple Things I teamed these with some gold elements for a subtle effect.  

I handcut the wreaths staying as close to the shape as possible and alongside the long pennant shapes, I used a collection of wooden strips to create a photo mount.  All the paper's tile strips have a patterened back and I used these to bring colour to the layout.  

It's not long now to the retreat and I'm looking forward to seeing you all there - there are some cracking new ranges we can't wait to share with you.

December Journaling Prompts

Welcome to the last journaling prompt of 2018 - wow where did this year go?!

So for this month the prompt is simple and short:

Hide your journaling!

This very definitely does not mean skip the journaling but instead put it where it can't be seen unless you are looking for it!

There are a number of reasons you may want to try this:

• Aesthetics - sometimes you want the photo and embellishments to hog the limelight and the written words feel like they are cluttering the page. Or you dislike your handwriting but recognise that in the future a loved one will enjoy having a little piece of your writing.
• The journaling may be for your eyes only, to reflect on thoughts and feelings that you want to record but don't want out on general display.
• Space - there maybe too much to write to fit in a small space but for example having a hinged photo that lifts up can give you a large chunk of space to tell your story.

 Now I am going to admit that I struggled to find examples for this as over time I have realised that I am quite fussy and once my layout goes into an album I don't like it coming out for people to access interactive elements so I rarely make pages that include hidden journaling. However I found a couple from classes I have taught over the years...

On this layout inside the pocket on the bottom right hand corner of the layout are some tags, two with additional photos and one with journaling about how I don't even like tea but that for the sake of a photo opportunity I poured and tried a cup of one of the fancy flavoured teas (I didn't like it!)

 In this variation of a grid of 9 layout I had lots of photos I wanted to include and filled the other squares with titles and embellishments however I had another photo and some journaling I also wanted to include so the centre square opens out to give me more space.

Georgia Blues with Ann

As Katherine has already shared we got to chose our own papers for design team gallery in Nov and we were both drawn to Prima Georgia Blues.

I wish you could see how pretty these foiled papers are and the combination of gold foiled floral with wood and text print is just lovely. 

The options to vary up the look of your page with these papers is endless!  I've gone darker on the page above with the woodgrain background and lots of pattern paper layering but in my next layout mixed media on a white background with a few strips of the same collection and it loos completely different. 

My third layout is a combination of these two designs with 50/50 cardstock paper background and come fussy cutting of the lovely floral patterns in this collection. 

Pretty Prima

Hello, lovely scrapbooking friends, Karen here with a quick post about the gorgeous papers I picked for this month's dt kit.

We are very lucky as we get to pick our own kits twice a year, at the retreat, and it is always very difficult with such a range of papers and embellishments to choose from.

This time I chose two Prima ranges - Rossibelle and Tales of You and Me plus a sheet of vellum from Shimelle which had lovely shimmery bronze spots on.  I also had some lovely little Prima bark butterflies and a selection of bling - well it would't be me without a little sparkle would it?

The first layout I made was SHINE BRIGHT, using Tales of You and Me - I used a much loved photo of Gracia and Kiera (oh how those two love each other), one I had used last month too - do you ever scrap the same photo multiple times and even twice in the same month or is it just me?

Next I used some Rossibelle to make -LOVE YOU- a layout featuring Gracia and me and our two best friends who just happen to be mother and daughter too.  We take the girls out for Afternoon Tea as a birthday treat each year (their birthdays are only five days apart) and this was a photo from this year's extravaganza.

I then returned to the Tales of You and Me for ROAD TRIP as it was perfect for a photograph of Gracia and I when we went on a Road Trip to see The Proclaimers, last year.

For my final - JOY - I used Rossibelle, the title was a Simple Stories sticker I had in my stash and I also used some of the photo acetates that we had in our retreat goodie bags.  A much loved photo of David and Gracia when we were in the Lake District in August this year.

So there we have it - four layouts using the oh so pretty Rossibelle and Tales of You and Me ranges.

Today I choose Happiness with Pink Paislee

Here is the other line that I picked up at the retreat after a lovely class with Ann - Pink Paislee's C'est La Vie.  Again I gesso'd my cardstock before adding the paper, then cut some banner strips of a mix of width and length - they are mostly around the 2.5 to 3" wide.  I distressed the edges of all of them.  I use a title card and also journal spot from Kaisercrafts #Me collection, and then some of the Websters Pages stickers left over from Mel's class (they are from the passport range).  I'm not a massively floral girl, but prima have these beautiful blue flowers, so since I was in the picture I figured I could floral it up!  The final step was a few gems, and I trimmed the stalks of the smaller flowers so I curled the green wire and added it to my flower bouquet.

Jan 2016 Virtual Crop Class 3 with Mel

Welcome to the final class of this weekends Virtual Crop.

Prima released their optimist collection when "chalkboard" was THE big thing but they changed it up and offered chalboard with colour which made it a gorgeous range to work with.

I also enjoyed incorporating a classic paper in there in the shape of the Artsylicious flocked paper. It has stood the test of time and is still lovely even a good few years after it was initially released. What I love is the textural element it adds to the page.

Click HERE to download the instructions for this class.

I hope you have enjoyed the classes so far today and of course the challenge. Don't forget to share your creations on the ATDML # Create facebook group.

Virtual Crop - Class 3 with Jane

Hello everyone and I hope you are having a happy scrappy time virtual cropping with us. My class uses the Prima range 'Engraver'.

These papers are perfect for vintage layouts and so I chose photos of a wedding from 1932 for my fist project.

The first project is a double layout with some fussy cutting of flowers and some layering.

My second layout is a single page which features lots of distressing and layering...

 

 

 

 

 

Click HERE to download the instructions!