**Cybercrop Class 1** by Mel Hand

Welcome to the first ATDML cybercrop and your first class. We are pleased to welcome you to the start of this weekend full of crafting inspiration and hope you will enjoy playing along.

Your first class is an interactive layout by Mel Hand.


You can download the class instructions HERE and when you are finished pop back here to our blog and share your class project with us. Simply click on the link below and add your image straight from your pc, no need to upload or blog first (though you can if you wish!).

Your next cybercrop class is at 9pm, see you back here then! Happy crafting!

Cyber Crop Chat

**Welcome**

This is a post for you to use the comments for general chat if you wish over the weekend. Comment moderation is now turned off (hopefully there won't be much if any spam) so we should be able to have some 'Real Time' chat going :)

Prizes...

I hope you are all ready to scrap the weekend away with clear diaries and even clearer crafting desks (for now!)

Our main aim for the weekend was to get everyone inspired, kick start your mojos and get you scrapping and we think that the 12 classes and 6 challenges should just about manage that! However we thought we would also offer a few small prizes to reward your efforts and encourage you to share your work.

There will be one prize for each of the 6 challenges, there will also be additional "participation prizes" for those who complete and upload class projects. For each class project you upload your name will go into "the hat" and we will draw names to receive a prize. The more you upload the more chance your name has of coming out of the hat however multiple participation prizes will not be issued to the same person.

To enter the challenge set on Friday you need to upload your entry by Sunday 7pm.
To enter the challenges set on Saturday you need to upload your entry by Tuesday 7pm.
The challenges set on Sunday have a deadline of next Thursday (23rd) at 7pm.
The class participation prizes will be drawn on Saturday but the deadline for uploading them is 7pm FRIDAY

Comment Posting During The Cyber Crop

Our blog is set so that comments have to be moderated before they show. Several people have asked about chat threads for this weekends cyber crop.

At 6:30pm, half an hour before the first class I am going to switch the comment moderation off so that those who want to can chat in the comments threads - I will post a general chat thread for those who want to have a place for general cyber crop related chatter. If you have a question or comment specifically about a certain class please post your question \ comment on that post. Our teachers have prepared the classes well in advance and will not all be around all weekend but for those who are popping by it will make it easier if specific questions or comments about a class are easy to find.

I will try to delete any spam comments as and when they appear - unfortunately spam is downside of no comment moderation!

Hope you are all looking forward to a weekend full of inspiration, look out later for a post detailling a few prizes we have on offer...

ONLY ONE MORE DAY!!

We hope you are looking forward to joining us tomorrow night for the first ATDML cybercrop. We will have twelve classes and six challenges for you ALL FREE starting at 7pm. There will be a blog post each time a new class is up on the main website, together with an image of the class and a link to the instructions. All challenges will be posted on the blog. We can't wait and hope you are as excited as we are!

Don't worry if you aren't around this weekend, the instructions will be available on the main site for you to download at your leisure.

See you here tomorrow at 7pm when the fun begins!

The Magic of Oz

We now have the gorgeous new Graphic 45 papers, The Magic of Oz. Their products have been a real hit with our customers and I know this latest collection is going to be popular too. The papers are a good weight and great to work with, appealing mainly to scrapbookers, although a few of our customers buy selected papers from the range for card making. If you haven't used their papers and are not familiar with them, they all have a vintage feel to them across an increasingly broad spectrum of themes.

Most of the ranges have die cut paper weight tags with some frames and borders, but this time the die cuts are chipboard and there are a full 12 papers in the range.

I hope many of you will join us for our very first cyber crop this weekend, it has largely been co-ordinated by Ann Freeman, with help from the rest of our Design Team, who have submitted the classes and challenges. It promises to be lots of fun and a great opportunity to use up some of that stash you have been saving for a rainy day.

Jill

Emmas Shoppe Patchwork Card

Last Thursday it was a friends 22nd birthday (it has been her 22nd birthday for the past 9 years - you do the maths!) and having made the layout for Eclectic Keepsakes with the Emmas Shoppe papers I had a fair bit left over.

Now I have to say that some of my scrapping friends laugh when my classes often include the instruction to gut the space behind photos etc... but since deciding to make a few cards here and there I have REALLY begun to appreciate that even small scraps can be useful. You only need a tiny scrap to punch a baby butterfly, and not a very big one to use the new love of my life Martha Stewart button punch (Cyber croppers doing my 7 Gypsies class might even find a few punched buttons in their kit I love it so much!)

The card doesn't require any great skill or amazing technique to make but my beloved patchwork technique is a great way to use up those little bits of patterned paper which are too small to do much with on a 12x12 layout (unless it is a patchwork one!) and you end up with a pretty card which can be customised to any occasion with the addition of a greeting.

My intention when I get some time (LOL said with a heavy dose of sarcasm at the very idea of free time!) is to make up a batch of patchwork backgrounds on cards in a whole range of colour ways and then when I need an emergency card I just need to add the appropriate greeting and any extra embellishments.... don't hold your breath for that day to come but when it does I will post a pic here!!!