From This To That - August 2015

Hello, Hello lovely ladies (and gents if any follow our blog). 

This month only Katherine and I had DT kits as the other DT were busy working on the very successful Cyber Crop.

I had this kit which mainly comprises papers and stickers from Teresa Collins' Collector's Edition (look at all that gorgeous gold and teal) and Katherine had the Glam Factor range.

So I added a couple of sheets of gold A4 card and a few bits from my stash and made 4 cards

and 4 layouts

Why don't you pop on over to the August Gallery to see what magic Katherine has worked on her kit x

A bit of Glam Factor....

Teresa Collins Glam Factor papers are beautiful....and so I dug out one of my favourite photos from our holiday in black and white to go with it.  My background started off with stamping little words in grey ink, then some more stamping (circles in gold) and a little diamond trellis stamp from prima again in gold - you see the stamping more when you get up close.  I then added some gold spritz's and drips, then I use my gold gelato and a little circular dabber you get in the kit too, and I added some silver ones of those as well.....so lots of gold without the papers appearing yet!  I trimmed and layered my photos, using some prima bling and a bark hart as well as lots of the co-ordinating TC stickers.  The last touch was a few sequins.

If you want to find these beautiful papers ....here is the link.

My Girls

Hello, hello

Karen here with a page I made using the absolutely delectable Collector's Edition range by Teresa Collins. Sorry about the photo but it is impossible to do the gorgeous gold shiny paper justice!

For this page I used:-
A piece of teal coloured cardstock,

A piece of Collector's Edition Geometric paper
 

A piece of Collector's Edition Cards

 

Collector's Edition Stickers

 

I also used a piece of this paper but a piece of plain white card would also work just as well.

In addition to the above I also used some washie tape, two tags, two blooms and a wooden word and camera from my own stash.

To make the layout trim 1/4 inch from top and one side and randomly cut out some of the gold diamonds from the Geometric paper. Adhere this to the teal card with foam pads Mount a 5 x 7 photo onto a piece of white card (I used foam pads).  Stick a 2 x 12 inch piece of ....../white card across the center of your page.  I put a piece of washie tape the whole width of this at the top and bottom leaving a slight border.  Cut two cricles with diamonds in from your sticker sheet and put the long piece along the middle of the white card/paper on the left and the two remaining ones on the right.  Adhere your photo to the middle right of your page and chose a card from the 'Cards' sheet to put under this at an angle.  I used the capture life sticker overlapping my photo and the scallop border sticker at the bottom of my photo.  Next I used some of the diamonds I had cut from the 'Geometric' paper and used foam pads to randomly adhere these on top of some of the remaining diamonds.

I mounted the 'Favourite Memory' sticker onto the black and white striped pennant and mounted this onto a scrap of paper but you could use a piece from one of the 'Cards'  I then put a strip of washie tape across the middle of each of my tags, stuck a blossom onto the center of these and then my wooden elements.  These were arranged at the bottom right of my layout and I finished it off with a title using black letter stickers.

Virtual Crop Class two - with Ann Freeman

Welcome to my July virtual crop class where I bring you three layouts today with a little misting and spritzing if you wish. Hopefully those of you with the kit can switch up some of the phrases to suit your photos, don't feel you have to use mine.
If you don't have the kit just replace these with different patterned papers or letter stickers and have fun!

Class instructions can be downloaded HERE; enjoy!

Next class is with Mel at 2pm and don't forget the travel challenge posted this morning

March Virtual Crop - Class 2

Hello Scrapping Ladies and if there are any out the Scrapping Gents too.  Welcome to my class which as you can see uses the absolutely gorgeous Hello My Name is by Teresa Collins.  I have chosen beach themed photos for my double layout but it is a paper range that will suit any photos.

As always, there is no pressure to get your layouts finished today but once you have done so please share them here.

Instructions for my class are here

Happy Scrapping

Karen x

PS Don't forget to come back at 2pm for Debbie's class :)

On the 11th day of Christmas

Hello, Happy Christmas - only 4 sleeps - the excitement is building in my house!  Here are a couple of Christmas pages, the same basic plan but with different papers, so you can see the slightly different look.  The first page is made with Teresa Collins' Tinsel and Company which has some beautiful foiled gold in it - I cut it into strips and added some snowflakes too.  The photo mount is Simple Stories Handmade Holiday- just to add bit more colour and then little Hobby House snowflakes.  The beautiful golden lace is by Websters.

So a lot brighter and lots of triangles - the papers are Simple Stories DIY Christmas and some Handmade Holiday, I added lots of embellishments around the photo from my Christmas box so they are a mix of manufacturers - and then the poinsettia by prima.

I want to wish you all a fantastic Christmas and New Year.

Katherine

Star

This is a page with a mix of Daily Stories (the mint green days of the week paper) and Teresa Collins new range Something Wonderful which is where most of the embellishments and the triangle paper come from.

I would have split my pages in 1/3s but I didn't have enough of the triangle paper left, so I just went with what I had as it looked ok.  I used one of the Teresa Collins File Folders for the photo mat, so you can lift it up and journal underneath.  I then set about embellishing the photo with some cotton, brads and stickers from the same range and then I noticed that the Joy wood veneer from Prima's optimist collection went really well with the greys in the photo and papers.  

How Low Can You Go?

Least month, the ATDML DT were sent some Teresa Collins to design with - 'oh poor you' I hear you cry!

It is no secret that I love all her paper ranges as they are so versatile.  In amongst my pile of goodies was this sheet of die cuts  from the Memorabilia range and

 

this sheet of paper from her Something Wonderful range

I loved how these went together so well even thought they were from completely different ranges.

I raided my stash and added a doily, a black tag, 5 pearls and some washie tape and was able to make this layout.  So taking into account that the paper (which is weighty enough not to need cardstock behind it) is £0.85 and the die cuts are £1.85 the cost of this layout come in at well under £3.00 -  Teresa Collins is not only beautiful but you can use her to do a little budget scrapping too.

 Plus I still had some die cuts from the sheet to use on a card

and on another layout!

This time last year..

I was having a tidy out of my computer drive, deleting old files, creating new folders and generally having a "spring" clean (in Autumn!) when I stumbled across photos I have forgotten I had taken, yet to be scrapbooked, and happy memories came flooding back.  I set aside a number of these photos to scrapbook at my next crop. I also came across my Gromit treasure hunt photos that I had started to scrapbook but which probably need a minibook as I have so many!

I then found this layout created this time last year for the ATDML design team gallery. Having also had a bit of a tidy up in my craft room I discovered hidden treasures I had totally forgotten I had purchased along with lots of left overs from these papers. The new Teresa Collins collections this year do match quite nicely as well with similar colour tones so I may find myself creating a layout or three with more Gromit photos! And I need to have these all sorted before the Shaun sheep treasure hunt in 2015 as I am sure to have a tonne more photos from those adventures too!

So how about you readers sharing your "this time last year" layouts? I'd love to see them!

Class 1 - TRAFALGAR SQUARE with Ann

Yay! It is time to kick start our London Underground Cybercrop with our first class inspired by TRAFALGAR SQUARE and I have two layouts to share in this class.

Layout 1 - A layout which features an array of different sizes squares and rectangles inspired by the Square of Trafalgar (which I am led to believe isn't exactly square!)

Layout 2 - A column based page inspired by Nelson's Column from Trafalgar Square with strips(columns!) of scrolled-edged pattern papers behind a mounted 4x6 photo.

Click on the link below to go to our main website to download your free PDF instructions for this class

TRAFALGAR SQUARE INSTRUCTIONS

I hope you enjoy the class.  Don't forget to leave a link to your pages in the comments below - or share your images in our Facebook gallery for Cybercrop classes which can be found HERE.

Our next class HEATHROW is at 7.30pm with Mel.

Family Stories by Teresa Collins

Ann here today sharing a couple of layouts created for the January gallery. Like Karen I too get just a little excited when Mel and Jill indulge their design team with free choice on what we want to create with.  This was the case in December where we could select which products we wanted to create with for the gallery, blog and Facebook page (ATDML #Create) in January.

I had my eye on this paper collection from Teresa Collins for a little while and knew I could make many layouts by just finding complimentary cardstock from within my (vast) existing stock!  Also there are so many great colours in the collection I knew I'd have no trouble find embellishments to coordinate too.  Add to this the desire to scrap a little more Project Life style in 2014 I had many ideas and a whole collection to play with.

I knew I wanted to make several layouts to incorporate some of the many photographs taken on our last family walk of 2013. I had plenty of photos to chose from as I was testing out my new camera that hubby bought me for Christmas. 

I started with a simple 12x12 page with just one 6x4 landscape photo on it almost as a title page for those that followed. I then created another fairly straight forward page featuring two more 4x6 photos and some of the same papers that I had used on the first page. 

I then decided to use a project life style divided page protector to incorporate many more photos and tied this in again incorporating those same papers.  Knowing I would be making several pages I started by cutting the black/white chevron paper into three 4" wide x 12" tall pieces. This first of these strips features on the right hand side of my first page, the second strip on the left hand side of my second page and the final piece  I cut a 3"x4" piece for one of the divided pockets. I did something similar on the striking red heart paper where three 4x6 pieces were cut and once features on each of the three pages. Looking at the layouts you would not know each of those pieces started out the same size as you cannot tell with the layering.

I am thrilled that over the three pages I have 9 photos and a nice style in my family album with the combination of 12x12 layouts with the divided page protectors. The reverse side of my divided page protector picks up my week 1 project life layout for 2014 - a new challenge for me. Why not join in the conversation on project life scrapbooking over on our Facebook page. Not a member yet? Simply request to join and one of the team will add you soon!

The Accidental Scrapper

Along with the many, many advantages of being a designer for ATDML is that a couple of times a year we are given the opportunity to choose the dt kit for ourselves.  This month was one of them and I chose this gorgeous paper pack from Theresa Collins.

It’s no secret that I love her papers, the cardstock weight of them, the texture and of course the design.  As I only have a daughter, what better range could I have chosen than the ‘She Said’ one?

To co-ordinate with the papers I also bought some bling (not used on this page)

  

Labels (not used on this layout)

And some Sn@p Pockets

This layout is in fact the third one I have made from the kit so far but it is my favourite.  

It came about quite by accident as I had, as I sometimes do, designed the page and laid out the elements of my page how I wanted them, without a particular photograph in mind. I then just grabbed the first photo in my pile to see how a 6 x 4 would fit in.  It just happened to be this photo - one I had had for a couple of years but never gotten around to scrapping.  If I‘m honest, the reason being is I do look much larger than I would like to think I am in the photo (must have been a trick of the light I think).  I couldn’t believe how well it went with the papers so with a little ‘shuffling’ about I was able to put the part of me that I was unhappy with inside the Sn@p pocket and it all worked out to my liking.  If only you could hide your larger bits in Sn@p pockets in real life!

 

I used the gorgeous orange damask paper, to cut the roses out on my Silhouette and some leaves cut from one of the papers, added a couple of heart shaped paperclips (from Wilkinsons) a little bit of journaling and my page was finished.  

A photograph scrapped by accident but you won’t tell anyone will you?

On the 12th day of Christmas

The 12th day of Christmas and all the decorations will be coming down tonight, so I thought I would show a little bit more of my Christmas book and try and give you a few more ideas for doing a December Daily and using pocket pages in albums.  The 7th December was when our tree went up, and I've seen lots of beautiful  pages with triangles on them, so I had a go at a triangle border as it goes with the whole tree thing.

Mel mentioned about what you do when you stop taking photos after the first few days….yes I had this problem too!  However the album is telling a story about my Christmas run up, so just journal it and add a few embellishments to pretty it up - surprisingly the most handy thing for completing my album was not the photos, but a diary that told me what I was doing on each day!

My next page the photo just did not fit in the pocket, and unless it became tiny and missed out the important bits like the list of names and thoughtful pose,  it just was not going to ever become landscape.  So I made my page across 2 pockets, I did carefully choose where to cut the photo so that it wasn't in the middle of something important.  This works really well in project life too.

Papers: Teresa Collins Santa's List

I hope you have all enjoyed the 12 days and found lots of inspiration. Thank you Ann for organising us, and just incase you need reminding the sale is on in the shop too so you can pick up some lovely bargains.  There are loads of exciting things planned for this year, so keep an eye out here and on our Facebook page.

Happy New Year.