Colour Challenge February 2019

Hello everyone, Dolly here. It is the fourth Wednesday of the month and so that means time to play with a colour swatch

I don't know what it is like in your part of the world, but here on the south coast it is chilly, even though we haven't really had the much longed for snow.

As it is February, and of course we should expect cold in the winter, I have selected a wintery cool swatch this month, but I have made a page that isn't by any means a traditional snowy wintery page using the swatch.

Here is your swatch for February

and this is my page using that swatch as a basis.

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 As always you can play with the colours, using different tonal values on your page and using more of some colours and less of others. You will find that the beige colour helps to give a little bit of warmth to your page.
 

I hope you enjoy the challenge and I can't wait to see what you come up with. Remember to upload your page to the colour challenge gallery here

Adding a bit more colour...

Hello everyone, Katherine here - this month I wanted to take a look at adding a bit more colour to pages, especially when you have quite neutral papers.  So the benefit of neutral papers like Hello New Year from Simple Stories and also Winter Wishes from BoBunny is that any photo will go with them,  but then I like a little more colour.  I often use inks and am loving the distress oxides at the moment.  For my first page I chose colours from my scarf and added them in a band, then adde some bits of stamping in co-ordinating colours and other embellishments that matched - the perfect sort of page to put together if you sort everything by colour.  The black and white of Hello New Year worked perfectly to give a break from all the colour around my photo.

I loved that technique so much that I also used it in this months virtual crop - there are some instructions about how to add distress inks and oxides using just a little bit of plastic if you haven't tried this technique yet.

Winter Wishes does have a mix of blues in with browns and creams, it's a beautiful wintry collection, for this one I wanted to pull out the orange of my husbands coat...and didn't have orange paint!  I started with gesso and then mixed in some of my brusho inks in reds and yellows until I got a shade that I was happy with.  Still wanting to continue the mess I added some sparkle with BoBunny's confetti paste in silver, a few punched snowflakes and nuevo drops and I was done.  

Dig out your neutral papers and add a bit of colour!

ATDML Alphabetical challenge D

Letter D makes is Alphabetical Challenge appearance today and tempts us with the following prompts to inspire a page. Remember you can choose one or more or all of the prompts, the choice is yours.

As always you have two weeks to rise to this alphabetical challenge after which time we will move on to the letter E. I hope you are enjoying these challenges. Please do share your pages in our gallery HERE. 

February 2019 Virtual Crop day with Ann and Kaisercraft

Hello lovely crafters where I hope your Sunday is planned to be a relaxing one. By the time this post goes live I will have been out on a chilly rugby pitch side watching my boys so it's a good job my class kit today is sunnier colours.

I have created two pages, on embracing the recent trend to feature triangles on your layouts (which I am really having a phase on at the moment!)

And my second page I went a tad fringe scissors crazy! You don't have to use fringing (or herb scissors as they are also known) you can use normal scissors and it'll take a little longer, or just add unfringed strips of paper and stickers instead for a similar but less textured look.

Your instructions can be found HERE and I hope you are inspired to have a go..and there may even be a bonus project at the end as well.

Don't forget to share your creations over on the ATDML # Create Facebook Page.

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.

February 2019 Virtual Crop class with Karen Leahy

Hello everyone and I am so thrilled to bring you a class which celebrates something we all love but don't often scrap about - our wonderful crafting and creating.

I think we all craft in different ways. Obviously scrapping is our main love! But many of you sew and paint and draw and create things in all sorts of wonderous ways.

The class uses the amazing Echo Park I'd Rather be Crafting papers and I look forward to seeing your pages over on the ATDML # Create Facebook Page.

I made three pages - and still have things left over!

There are instructions for three layouts and you can find them here

Join us as midday when Katherine will be here with your next class.

Virtual Crop Weekend Challenge - Album Covers Edition 2

Hello and welcome back to the Album Covers Challenge. It was great to see several people joining in and posting their layouts based on The Beach Boys' That's Why God Made The Radio from our January challenge. (It's not too late to go back and have a go at that one!)

This month our album cover is No Doubt's "Tragic Kingdom" Album. It was their third studio album and was released in October 1995 - for me that meant it coincided with my first term in sixth form and I can remember "Don't Speak" one of the tracks on this album playing on our sixth form common room speakers quite a lot!

I am a fan of a big circle so I loved this album cover and, as before I found it helpful to make a sketch to plan my layout. In this instance I substituted a 4x6 photo in place of the foreground figure.

I sorted through and wanted to use some of the Paige Evans Whimsical collection but took nods from the blue and yellow in the album artwork. When it started to come together I had to flip my design so that the photo was on the right and the embellishment cluster on the left as the photo I wanted to use had Olivia looking towards the left and I usually prefer my subject to look towards the middle of the page rather than off to the side.

For the title I dug out some Thickers in a blocky font to match those on the album artwork and, although they didn't make it onto the sketch I noticed the flies on the edge of the circle on the album cover and added some clouds to echo their placement.

I hope this gives you a little inspiration before the Virtual Crop tomorrow. Don't forget to join us tomorrow morning at 10am for our first class. Over on the ATDML # Create Facebook Page we would love to see what you are scrapping and if you have a go at this challenge please do upload it to the Album Covers Challenge Gallery.