Around the World in 80 Days - Class 5 - Boat to India with Jane

 

All aboard! We're leaving Madagascar and heading for one of my favourite destinations in the world - India. But as we are constantly reminded - it's about the journey, not the destination so this class is about the sea and boats rather than India!

If you got a kit you will be able to replicate my book with its galleon front cover. If not, you can take the idea of making a book front cover with an aperture and fill it with die cuts (or hand cut designs) to make a scene. Or let it inspire you to create flowers and ribbons from scraps of fabric. The book also features pages with pockets and tags and some which are full size photos.

Whatever inspiration you take from this I hope you enjoy the class, instructions for which can be found on the Created By ATDML Facebook Page.

We are almost halfway in our round the world trip - next we will be leaving India and heading for Australia - join us at 2pm for another challenge!

Around the World in 80 Days - Class 4 - Madagascar with Karen

 

Well hello my fellow travellers. Dolly here. 

I hope you are enjoying your travels around the world and having fun visiting all of the different destinations. 

We find ourselves now in Madagascar. It is the world's 4th largest island and is surrounded by lots of smaller islands too. And just like the film it is a haven for so much wildlife. 

Our focus for our stay in Madagascar is going to be wildlife of all sorts - animals, birds, butterflies - you name it - and also we are going to look at something moving on the page, inspired by the song from the film, and so there will be an interactive element to one of the class pages. 

I am sure you will enjoy your stay on this wonderful island and have fun creating with the gorgeous Simple Stories Vintage Cottage Fields collection. 

There are three pages int he class and this is just one of them. 

You can find the full instructions here and I hope you will share your comments and your pages in our facebook group. 

Have fun on the wonderful island of Madagascar. Next we take a boat to India with Jane at Noon.

Around the World in 80 Days - Class 3 - Egypt with Ann

 

Well good morning scrappers and welcome to Egypt. I trust your journey from Istanbul overnight has been a pleasant one? You are joining me now for my first class of the weekend and inspired by the Pyramids of Egypt its going to be all about the triangles.

It doesn't matter if you managed to get a kit (I will be using Pink Fresh Studio Let's Stay Home) you can still join in with your own papers and create a triangle inspired page or scraplift one of my designs.

The class instructions can be found here and I hope you have all the fun with our Egytian prompts before we "move it, move it" onto Madagascar with Karen at 10:30.

Around the World in 80 Hours - Challenge 6 - INSTANBUL, TURKEY

 

ISTANBUL, TURKEY

Istanbul is our next stop and inspiration for the 6th Challenge. Formely the capital of Turkey Instabul means "city" and is a vastly popular tourist destinaion. To the west of Istanbul, between the Black Sea and the Marmara Sea, lie diverse landscapes of forest, farms, marshes and ancient settlements often full of beautiful mosaics. The Great Palace Mosaic Museum, is located close to Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul, and  houses mosaics from the Byzantine period, unearthed at the site of the Great Palace of Constantinople

Your challenge number 6 therefore is to either use Black cardstock as your background for a layout - or feature a mosaic design on your page.

The design team have illustrated this prompt below which you can scraplift or make your own page inspired by the prompts.

That's it for tonight and we will see you again  in the morning when we arrive in Egypt, North Africa for Class 3 with Ann. Sleep tight virtual travellers.

Around the world in 80 hours - Class 2 Athens, Greece, with Tracy

Hi everyone, it's time for your second class in your trip around the world!  I hope you are all getting that mojo flowing with the challenges and Katherines class so far.   

I had the pleasure of working with Pink Fresh, Some Days which not only has some lovely pastel pinks with some bold blues and yellows, but the ephemera pack has so many different sentiments and icons in that you can make these pages work for almost any occassion.  

I loved all the coffee references in the papers and the ephemera, obviously, so my first page had to be my 40th Birthday celebration with Ann and Sarah. Not quite what we had planned at the beginning of the year but the Starbucks drive through and some strategic parking meant we were able to have a socially distant coffee together (Ann and I have been in a bubble for the duration).

With distressing being my prompt, and having embraced fussy cutting during the first lock down, I decided my second page had to include a significant amount of ripping up paper with abandon and delicately cutting flowers out!  Apologies for the picture subject... it was go yellow day and we had to take a crazy selfie! 

You can download all the instructions for the class here.

I hope you enjoy the pages, I'll be lurking around in the facebook group if anyone has any questions. 

Around the World in 80 Hours - Challenge 5 - ITALY

 

ITALY

Moving on from France to Italy we arrive at the home of some of the best food in the world

Whilst I was in Venice 2 years ago I had the most amazing seafood linguine that I wish I was able to create tasting half as good! Anyway, I digress, the challenge 5 is however based on a very popular Italian meal - The Pizza where we challenge you to make a layout with a pizza wedges design, or maybe one featuring a pizza photo!

By Karen

By Ann

Share your layouts in our ATDML gallery over on Facebook in our challenge 5 album to be in with a chance of winning a special little something from us and we will see you back here for Class 2 with Tracy when we arrive in Greece.

Around the World in 80 Days - Class 1 - Arriving in Paris, France with Katherine

 

Hello everyone, welcome to the first class of our Around the World in 80 hours cybercrop.  Hopefully you have discovered challenges 1 to 4, if not check out the earlier posts.  Make sure you join us in our Facebook group ATDML#Create and share your pages in the albums.

For this class we are using the Simple Stories Quarantined papers and as Paris is the home of many wonderful artists your challenge in this class is to step outside your comfort zone and get a little messy.  There are 3 pages, one of which is covered in inkiness but the other 2 are cleaner, so there is something for everyone to enjoy.  The papers will work perfectly with all your 'stay at home' pictures, so dig them out before we get further afield.

Delight in the mess of distress inks and watercolour.

Move onto some careful cutting and layering.

Focus on the journey and journal all the details in my easiest page ever!

You can find the instructions for the pages here.

I hope you enjoy them, be back at 6pm ready for an Italian challenge.