February 2019 Virtual Crop Class with Katherine using Shimelle's Box of Crayons

Hello, welcome to my colourful class using Shimelle's box of crayons.  There is stamping, inky mess, layering and distressing with a little bit of doodling too!  There are 3 pages altogether, the one above being the messiest - dig out your distress oxides (or other water-based inks) to create a rainbow effect.

For this page it's all about layering the curves and then we use some stamping to add a different sort of layer behind the photo.

A really nice and quick page with a little bit of fussy cutting, some doodling and hand cut paper strips.

I hope you enjoy the class.  As always do come over and join in the chatter on the ATDML # Create Facebook page and share your creations.

You can find the class here.

May Virtual Crop - Class 3 with Mel using Shimelle Go Now Go

Welcome to the last class of the day.

My class uses the fantastic Go Now Go papers from Shimelle and American Crafts. It is a great travel line but as always it is fun to see what you can do with it beyond the original theme.

My class has FOUR layouts (I have been busy!) and two are very definitely travel themed but the other two are not so hopefully there is something in there for everyone!

Here are two of the four layouts - one travel themed one not, Click Here to go and download the instructions and see the rest of the layouts!

Have a lovely weekend everyone and don't forget to ask any questions, comment or share your work over on the ATDML # Create Facebook page.

Back from our Retreat with BoBunny, Crate Paper and Shimelle

A Trip Down Memory Lane hosted the Autumn Retreat at the Stoke by Nayland hotel last weekend.  It was a lovely weekend packed with lots of paper and crafting and lots of laughter.  I taught 3 classes (kept me out of trouble) over the weekend, so wanted to share a page from each of the class.  

My first page is using the beautiful Bella Rosa collection by BoBunny - it has gorgeous teal/aqua colours in it and was perfect for some beach shots.  We also had a play with some Pentart products like the class beads and chameleon wax.  The glass beads just add a subtle sparkle and texture, and the chameleon wax gives a shiny colour layer to the cogs on this page (we used the blue one, but it comes in lost of colours).

For this page we used Crate Paper's Bloom collection, and a few BoBunny products in there too.  We started with some of the BoBunny crackle paste and also glittered the feathers using their glitter paste.  Misting, distressing, bit of punching and some beautiful Crate Paper stickers to finish it off.

My least messy class using the beautiful Go Now Go papers from Shimelle's new range.  The background paper is one of my favourites in this pack, so I took the challenge of using a busy background to create a page, and layered up lots of the chipboard pieces from this range to scrap some holiday photos.