August Virtual Crop with Mel

 Hi All, I am writing this in July about to head off on our trip to Japan, by the time this is posted I should be nearly on my way home!

I worked with the beautiful Summer Porch collection from 49 & Market and made three layouts for you this month.

As always find the instructions here on the 2025 Virtual Crops Google Drive Folder.

June 2024 Virtual Crop with Ann and SS Just Beachy

 

Join me for a journey through countryside, cities and beaches as I make the most of all the fabulous summer elements in the Simple Stories Just beachy collection.  Three layouts for you in the class (one above and two more) and you can download the instructions from  HERE searching for 0624-Ann.pdf  

I hope you enjoy the class - Tracy closes today's virtual crop with her class at 2pm. See you then!

May 24 Virtual crop class with Tricia

Good Morning everyone and welcome to May's Virtual crop.

Today I'm making the most of the great weather we have had/are having/hope to have*

* delete as appropriate ;0) 

For my first layout I'll be visiting the seaside for a walk and combining sandy tones and blues with a pop of sunshine orange.  I've used these fab acetate elements to create my own personalised negative strips to accompany my main photo.  I've also used the gorgeous newspaper style paper for a nod to seaside fish and chips too.

For the second layout I'll be creating a shuttered look, I wanted to give the look of garden fences and peeking out through the window shutters out to the garden.  We'll be breaking down and reforming an image to make the most of the incredible design.

So if you are ready click here and head over the folder for todays classes.

Class 12 Nobody puts baby in the corner with Ann

 

Happy Sunday afternoon to you all! Lets crack on with the penultimate class of the cybercrop inspired by one of the most famous lines from the film spoken by Johnnie (our beloved Patrick Swayze) who decalres towards the end of the film "nobody puts baby in the corner".

For this class my designs features corner elements with sun rays bursting from the bottom left corner of layout 1 and a multi-photo layout 2 with the focus of the design in opposite corners.  The collection used is Obed Marshall Especiale where I split the colourways of the kit to have a citrus inspired layout 1 and a blue/green inspired layout 2. Lots of elements remaining too for another page (and perfect if you have holidays in Spain!)

You can find the instructions for the class here and I look forward to seeing your pages. Tracy closes the show next at 6pm where we hope you will join her for The Time of your Life!

August Virtual Crop class with Ann

Well today crept up on me rather so I apologise in advance for the brief instructions - but the pages are basic enough that I think you could make them just by looking at the pages!! (At least I am hoping so)

For those of you who didn't get the class kit feel free to scraplift using your own stash and do share with us on our Facebook group ATDML#CREATE.

I have made two pages today, the fabulous (!) instructions for which can be found here!

Enjoy and Tricia is up next at 2pm with your third class today. Happy Sunday!

June Virtual Crop Class 2 with Mel Hand

Hi Everyone and welcome to my class for the June Virtual Crop. This kit was great for some older summery photos that I hadn't got around to scrapping and I had a great time working with it.

The first layout is below and to see the second layout and to download the instructions you can click here.

Don't forget to share your creations over on the ATDML # Create Facebook page, we love seeing your interpretations of the class.

The first "It should be Virtual Crop Day but it isn't" Challenge

Hello all, as we are unable to host a virtual crop this month instead I am scheduling a challenge to get your scrapping inspiration going.

Below are a selection of summer quotes I found online, use either the quote or the image as a prompt for a layout. Don't forget to share them over on the ATDML # Create Facebook Page...

March virtual crop Class 2 with Tricia

Morning Campers 

This month I've been getting ready for summer with the hot, bright colours of Echo Park's 'Fun in the Sun'.  The range is full of punchy primry colours and geometri shapes and I loved carrying that theme across my pages.

Choose a day from summer last year and use a mixture of the phrases and stickers to tell us what you loved about it or use the alphabet stickers to create your own.

The papers contain a lovely mix of hot colours that team perfectly with the cardstock stickers in red, yellow, green and pale blues.  Grab your favourite summer photos, find the instructions here and lets get going!

I hope you enjoy the class - I look forward to seeing your creations over on the Facebook page.

July Virtual Crop Class 3 with Debbie

Debbie brings us her sunshine for class 3 today and two beautiful layouts which you can easily replicate with your own papers if you didn't manage to grab a kit.

As always your free to download instructions to make these pages can be found HERE.

That's it for this month but next month we have a whole weekend of fun planned with our ANNUAL CYBERCROP. Stay tuned for more info coming soon!

March Virtual Crop Class 3 with Ann

Banish those winter blues and don't look out of the window this afternoon! The weather here is sunny and warm along with the Hello Summer papers we are using for my class today. There is no snow!

Couple of summary pages for you today from me, nice and easy ones to pull together. I hope you enjoy them.

Instructions can be downloaded here and you sure don't have to have a kit to join in, just grab some coordinating papers and scraplift away from the images shown.

Have a great crafty day.

Mixing & Matching

Hello, I am back again with a layout I have been working on using up all sorts of bits of stash I have lying around!

Sometimes it is great to get out a collection pack and know that everything within it goes with everything else, there is a little less thinking that neds to be done and it can make putting together a page a little quicker. Sometimes however it is lovely to put together bits from different collections and make something that in all likelihood no one else has made already!

For this page I can't honestly remember what lines each items came from. I know there is some Websters Pages Hall Pass in there, some Simple Stories (24/7 and sn@p), some Studio Calico embellishments  and I have a sneaking suspicion that the  zig zag border sticker came from a My Minds Eye Collection.

Next time you pull together a motley assortment of stash into a layout you love don't forget to come over and share it with us on the ATDML # Create Facebook Page.

Bo Bunny Boardwalk and Provence

Sharing a layout created for the October gallery today using Bo Bunny papers which the design team were sent to work with this month.The background paper is from their Provence collection which can be found HERE in the store and I used the Porcelain paper.

I started by using my white distress stain to soften the background a little and swept it across the page and around the edges. I then assembled the strips of paper and card along the bottom from the Boardwalk collection HERE and again used stain and large bubblewrap to "paint" subtle marks onto the papers.

There are some lovely seaside and nautical elements that can be cut from the seaside paper in the Boardwalk collection and the white starfish were cut from the Bliss paper, along with the lighthouse and the journaling strips cut from the top card on that paper.

Adding in a few sequins, some twine, some white webbing and a few stickers from Kaisercraft's  Sandy toes paper and I have finally scrapped one of my favourite photographs of my daughter and I taken in 1998. I believe Mel is designing with this collection at the retreat next weekend and I am looking foward to seeing her work her magic with this papers too.

The August Gallery

Some of you may have already seen that the ATDML DT gallery for August is now available for viewing and ooohing and maybe some ahhhing too!

The design team were joined by Laura Johnson this month, and all were working with the lovely and very versatile Echo Park papers and created some fun layouts and some great cards too. The colours are bright and fun and certainly more cheerful than our so called summer with are having! Where have the sunny days disappeared too?

Hopefully the gallery will brighten your day and have you motivated to scrap any sunny summer pictures you may have. This layout created by Dawn certainly makes me want to do just that!

If you are still seeking inspiration after you've been through the gallery don't forget the ChickenSoup challenge at 7pm this evening. Have a crafty weekend everyone!

Double Trouble!

When was the last time you created a double layout? A few years back they use to be quite fashionable in the scrapbooking world, but you don't see so many of them these days. I have been creating a double layout a month as part of the Project 12 challenge ran by a Candian Scrapbooking magazine. There is a double layout sketch provided each month and participants are encouraged to create a 2-pager of their favourite photos of the month. The hardest part isn't pulling a 2-page layout together, not given the sketch does the work for you, but shortlisting which photographs you will use can take a while (especially if you snap away quite frequently!)


The double sketch for June asked for just 4 photographs - a real challenge given our family did plenty, but I'm pleased with my selection with gives a good feel for what occured in June chez the Freeman family. I used papers from my Echo Park collection pack "Walk in the Park" which even came with the bunting style stickers which worked perfectly with the sketch. The collections by Echo Park are so jammed full of product they are perfect for summer pages and make pulling together fun layouts very quick and easy!

Share with us your double pages or your Echo Park creations - we love to see what you all create.