Cybercrop Challenge 2 - DUMBO

We are closing day one of our cybercrop with our second challenge.

*DUMBO*

For this challenge use our sketch challenge below to inspire your layout or card and make sure it includes a bow for Dum"bow"!! 

Karen has illustrated this with a layout that even features an elephant photo and title! Above and beyond the challenge requirements!!

We look forward to seeing your (ele)phant-astic creations! and don't forget to share them with us in our Facebook Challenge gallery HERE (Simply click on the hyperlink then select "Add Photos") to share and be in with a chance of winning one of our challenge prizes.

Have fun and we will see you back here tomorrow morning at 8am with challenge number 3 and then your next class will be inspired by Frozen with Mel at 9am.

Class 2 - Sleeping Beauty with Karen

Happy Friday evening to you all and I hope you've had fun with Ann's lovely class.  My class example uses Bo Bunny's Ambrosia which had a block on the cut apart paper which said Beautiful Dreamer and so made the perfect title for a Sleeping Beauty themed layout.

Of course, if you didn't manage to snag a kit you can make the layout with your own supplies.  You will need to print the template from the instructions if you wish to include the large butterfly on your page.

The instructions for this class are here and you can upload your finished page  here .
Don't forget to check in at 10pm for our next challenge.

Class 1 Lion King with Ann

Yay! Excited to be starting off the first of no less than 13 classes this weekend with your ATDML design team! As you know all of the classes and challenges have been inspired by Disney Movies and your first class is based on the Lion King. 

The Circle of Life (link here to Elton John version if you fancy a sing a long whilst you craft!) is the leading song from this 1994 film that is now 21 years old!! I chose circles as the strong design element for my layouts for this class which uses Simple Stories papers if you were able to secure a kit for this class.  You can however easily replace with your own choice of patterned papers and alphabet to create your own version of this class. Layout one below but there are three in total, all featuring circles.

To download free instructions to this class click HERE and then be sure to share your finished pages with us in our Facebook Cybercrop classes gallery adding the class and your name so we can leave you lovely comments:)

Up next is Karen with her first class inspired by Sleeping Beauty at 9pm then we will have another challenge at 10pm.

Welcome & Challenge 1 - SNOW WHITE

WELCOME!!
It's here! The beginning of a full weekend of cybercrop fun inspired by the films of Disney and lead by your ATDML design team...welcome, welcome, welcome! The timetable setting out when classes will be released can be found HERE and at the times specified there will be a blog post with a link to the instructions for classes or to the challenge name and an illustrated example from one or more of the team.

Classes won't be disappearing so don't worry if you can't play along this weekend, you can always download them FREE at a later date. We have layout classes, mini-books and of course our challenges so lets start with our first one of those for the weekend.

*SNOW WHITE*

Snow White and the Seven dwarfs is the oldest of the animated Disney films and dates back to 1937! Your challenge for Snow White is to create a page using lots of white stuff! White cardstock, white lettering, feathers, gems whatever - or create a page with plenty of white space. Debs has illustrated this challenge for you below with her white space layout.

Once you have created your layout share it with us on our Facebook Challenge gallery HERE (Click on the hyperlink and then select "Add Photos") to be in with a chance of winning one of our randomly selected challenge prizes.

Have fun and we will see you back here at 7pm with your first class Lion King with Ann.

Cyber Crop Photo Requirements

Here is a list of the photos we have used in our classes so that if you wish you can prepare some photos ahead of time. Please remember this a fun creative event and the layouts are destined for your albums so feel free to amend designs, photos used etc... to suit what you want to create!

Class 1 - The Lion King by Ann Freeman
LO1 4x6 portrait
LO2 6x4 landscape
LO3 6x4 landscape (I used B&W)

Class 2 - Sleeping Beauty by Karen Moss
One 4" square photo

Class 3 - Frozen by Mel Hand
There are two layouts for this class. Layout 1 uses two photos, a 6x4 Portrait photo and a 4" square photo. Layout 2 uses one 6x4" landscape photo.

Class 4 - The Jungle Book - By Ann Freeman
Photos for minibook will be a selection of 2" square photos

Class 5 - Tinkerbell by Debs Jewell
Layout 1:
9x 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 in photos
You will also need three 6 1/2 x 2 inch pieces of white card stock
Layout 2
1x 2 3/4 x 2 3/4in photos
3x 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 in photos
You will also need a 3 1/4 x 4 inch piece of white card stock and a 6 1/2 x 2 inch piece of white card stock

Class 6 - Peter Pan by Katherine Sutton

Layout 1

1 4 by 4 of you doing something a little bit silly :) (the last bit is not

essential!)

Layout 2

1 6 by 4 landscape - mine is sepia and a vintage style photo, the browny colour works nicely with the papers, but it isn't essential

Brown ink and some white paint/gesso

If you have them scattered straw distress stain (or any yellowy

paint/watercolour) and tattered rose distress ink, or again any pinky watercolour.

Class 7 - The Little Mermaid by Karen Moss
One 6ins tall and 4 ins wide. Two 3 ¾ inches tall and 2 inches wide and three 5 inches tall and 3 ¾ wide.

Class 8 - Pirates of the Caribbean by Debs Jewell
Layout 1:
1x 6 x 4in photo
Layout 2:
2x 6in x 4in including a white border (i printed on a Canon Slephy so actual image without border works out to about 5in x 3 1/2in)
1x 2 3/4in x 2 3/4in
You will also need a 3 1/4 x 4 inch piece of white card stock

Class 9 - 101 Dalmatians by Ann Freeman
LO1 pair of 6x4 landscape photos, LO2 4x6 portait photo and LO3 a 4x6 portrait photo.

Class 10 - Lilo and Stitch by Mel Hand
There are two layouts for this class. Layout 1 uses two 2"x3" portrait photos. Layout 2 features a 12" wide spread of photos which could be made up of 2 6x4" landscape photos a single 12" panoramic photo or several smaller photos. There is some scope for variation in the height of the strip of photos so long as they span the width of the page and can be trimmed to a uniform height of somewhere between 3" and 5"

Class 11 - Alice in Wonderland by Karen Moss
Layout 1 This layout uses the same photo in three different sizes, 4 ½ inches tall and 3 inches wide, 3 ¾ inches tall and 2 ½ inches wide and 3 inches tall and 2 inches wide. Mine all have a narrow white border. Layout 2 one 6 in x 4 in, either portrait or landscape.

Class 12 - Finding Nemo by Katherine Sutton

Layout 1 One 6 by 4 portrait photo- a photo with a story that needs a longer bit of journalling would work well for this

Layout 2

One landscape 3 by 4

Silver and gold embossing powder as well as some white gesso/paint

Class 13 - Tangled by Mel Hand
There are two layouts for this class. Layout 1 uses two 3" square photos although this could be amended to either one or three 3" square photos. Layout 2 uses one 6x4" landscape photo although it would also work with a portrait photo.

Cybercrop Timetable

Are you all excited about our FREE day, sorry I mean THREE day (and FREE!) Cybercrop weekend of August 14th-16th with your ATDML design team?? We will be taking our inspiration from Disney Films as you know and our timetable for the weekend will run as follows with no less than 13 FREE classes and 6 spectacular fun challenges (with a prize or two up for grabs!!)


Friday 14th August 
6pm Welcome and Challenge 1
7pm Class 1 - Lion King (Ann) 
9pm Class 2 - Sleeping Beauty (Karen) 
10pm Challenge 2

Saturday 15th August 
8am Challenge 3 
9am Class 3 - Frozen (Mel) 
11am Class 4 - Jungle Book (Ann) 
1pm Class 5 - Tinkerbell (Debbie) 
3pm Class 6 -Peter Pan (Katherine) 
5pm Challenge 4 
6pm Class 7 - Little Mermaid (Karen) 
8pm Class 8 - Pirates of the Caribbean (Debbie) 
10pm Class 9 - 101 Dalmations (Ann) 

Sunday 16th August 
8am Challenge 5 
9am Class 10 - Lilo & Stitch (Mel) 
11am Class 11 - Alice in Wonderland (Karen) 
Noon Challenge 6
2pm Class 12 - Finding Nemo (Katherine) 
4pm Class 13 - Tangled (Mel)

Details on how to compile kits from your own papers (if you were not able to secure one of our class kits) will be provided ahead of the weekend along with photograph requirements for each of the classes so you can be as prepared as possible, ready for a fun, productive and hopefully inspiring weekend of scrapbooking.  Any questions - do ask!!

August Photography Prompts & summer tips!

Time to set another month of photography prompts for our lovely blog follows. Hopefully the weather is going to be kind to us this month as many of us enjoy time away from work, school and the usual routine. Whist looking for prompts for this month I stumbled across a few websites offering tips for taking good photos during summer months.  One of my favourite was to give your camera (or smartphone or cheaper camera) to your kids and set them a project to capture the day. They often have such different perspectives you'll be amazed what they get. Those without young children lets explore some different angles when snapping away this month.  Another good tip was about the use of your flash outdoors on a sunny day.   When you photograph someone with the sun behind them you would normally end up with a silhouette, but by using "fill flash" you can light up their face. Flash can also neutralise the glare from water or a sandy beach so if you're lucky enough to be out exploring such areas and the sun is out try and see what affect this has on your images.

As always we start the month with a selfie on the 1st (as we hid behind the camera too often!) and then we have the following

• Sights of Summer
• Somewhere new
• What I am reading
• A different perspective (see above!)

Have fun and do share your fabulous photos with us!