September photo prompts

My favourite month of the year September, it is always my new beginning, new school uniform for the kids, new stationery, new term, new school year, and more often than not a far nicer time to start new resolutions than January!

So why not make this the month of "new" for you and join in on our photography prompts below

1. Selfie on the first, maybe with a new scarf, new lipstick or new hairdo?
2. New to me - photograph something new to you, be this a view, new clothes/footwear, new scrapbooking stash!
3. Close up - take a close up photo and maybe play with the macro function on your camera where you have a crisp foreground and a blurred background
4. Signs of the Season - snap the dewy grass in the morning, a clear blue sky, sunset skies, conkers, blackberries etc
5. In my hands, might need the timer for this one if you're using both hands!

Look forward to seeing you photos shared on the Facebook page or on your scrapbook layouts!

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.

Challenge Winners

OK so with the help of Random dot org we have the following challenge winners. To clarify we specified that challenge winners would be randomly selected from those who participated and had uploaded their challenges before the deadline. Entries uploaded to either the challenge gallery or to the main page of the ATDML # Create page were included. In addition participants were only eligible to win once and were not included in further draws after they had been selected once.

Challenge 1: Snow White
Winner - Helen Howden

Challenge 2: Dumbo
Winner - Michelle Tuddenham

Challenge 3: Up
Winner - Ruth Parmenter

Challenge 4: Wall E
Winner - Jackie Pocock

Challenge 5: Cinderella
Winner - Sheryl Dachs

Challenge 6: Lyrics
Winner - Flick Rogers

Thanks to all who took part. If the winners could please contact Jill@atripdownmemorylane.co.uk to confirm their uptodate mailing address your prize will be winging it's way to you very soon!

If you enjoyed our Cybercrop (what's not to love?!) then don't forget to join us for our monthly Virtual Crops. These take place on the third Saturday of the month (except or Decembers which is on the 2nd Saturday) and they include a challenge and three classes. As always kits are available but for those wishing to make a dent in their existing stash supplies you are always welcome to join in with your own supplies.

Once again a huge thanks to our lovely DT who put together some super classes and challenge examples :)

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.

Cybercrop Challenges roundup & Deadline

We hope you all had a fun weekend enjoying out Disney Film inspired cybercrop. It has been lovely seeing so many project shared for those who were able to take part over the weekend.  Thank you to all of you who have shared.

If you were not able to join in over the weekend do not worry as the classes will stay on the main website (2 pages which can be found HERE)  or follow the links to a specific class set of instructions in the posts below.

For the challenges we had six - click on the link for each name to take yourself to the blog post about the challenge as these are still running with the deadline for entries (to be in with a chance to win a prize from our random draw) is this coming Sunday 23rd August at midday

SNOW WHITE

DUMBO

WALL-E

UP

CINDERELLA

DISNEY LYRICS

Looking foward to seeing the gallery fill up!! Have a crafty week!

Class 13 - Tangled with Mel Hand

Hello and welcome to the final class o the weekend. I hope you have all enjoyed the Cybercrop and I am sure you will join me in thanking the ladies on our awesome Design Team for all their hard work designing classes and making challenge examples. Extra special thanks to Ann who takes a big role in co-ordinating a lot of the pre crop organisation such as timetables and challenge setting. Behind the scenes Jill and Helen have been busy packing and posting kits out too!

My last class is inspired by the comparatively recent film Tangled. For those who have not seen it the film is Disney's take on the fairytale of Rapunzel, as with most Disney films it has a catchy soundtrack, fun characters and is visually interesting. One of my favourite scenes involves the two main characters watching hundreds of lanterns being released into the night sky and it was this that inspired my layout. 

Click here for the instructions and don't forget to head over to the facebook page for the end of cybercrop chat and to share your layouts in our class and challenge galleries.

Happy scrapping and thanks for joining us for another memorable ATDML Cybercrop!