Cluedo Cybercrop Class 6 - Professor Plum in the Studio with the Craft Knife

 

Hello, I hope you are all enjoying our cyber crop.  You should have just completed Mrs Peacock's class and now we move into the Studio and dig out the craft knives!  

In this class we make 2 pages with the beautiful Hazy Days papers from 7 dots along with some lovely rub-ons and ephemera.  Below is our 2nd page which involves more mess, the first is nice and clean, letting the papers do all the work.

You can find the instructions HERE

Be careful with those craft knives!

Remember to join in the chatter in our Facebook group and share your creations as we love to see them.

Be back at 4pm for Mrs White in the Dreamy Loft with the Die Cutter!

October Virtual Crop Class - Vintage Artistry In the Leaves with Katherine

 This class uses the gorgeous In the Leaves papers from 49 and Market and it is perfect for Autumnal photos or landscape pictures.  There are loads of gorgeous elements in the kit to play with, from the rub-ons to the laser cut ephemera.  In the class we make 3 layouts, the first starts with creating inky backgrounds and co-ordinating the rub-ons, the next layering and the last using the papers as a base and accenting them with the die-cut laser pieces.

I hope you enjoy creating your pages as much as I did.  Please find a link to the class here.

 

Class 7 - This is my Space with Katherine

Hello and welcome to Class 7 this class it is all about space - inspired by the dance session near the end of the film!  We have some beautiful papers from the Sweet Rush collection by Vicky Boutin as well as lots of colourful stickers which I make use of.

We make 3 layouts in this class, though there is enough paper for more and it is all about white space and leaving areas of a page emptier.  I look at different ways that you can leave a bit of space and draw the eye into the picture as well as how you can use stickers and paint flicks (if you like) to add just a tiny bit more!

I hope you enjoy it. The Instructions are here

Be back at 6pm for the next challenge - The Water Lift!

November Virtual Crop with Katherine

 

Hello everyone, I hope you are all keeping well.  For my class you will create 3 layouts with an absolutely gorgeous set of papers from P13 called Free Spirit.  All of the layouts are quite different, some distressing, some inkiness - it is a mixture!

I hope you enjoy the class.  Here is the link.

August 2021 Cyber Crop - Class 1 with Katherine

 

Hello and welcome to our virtual crop!  If you don't have the kit you can put together your own and join in the classes.  As always we would love to hear from you in the chatter and see your finished pages so make sure you join in on our Facebook page ATDML#Create. In my class you will make 2 pages, but there are plenty of bits and pieces to make more - it uses the lovely Family Fun collection from Simple Stories.  For the first page the focus is on the lovely foam stickers that you get in this kit with a little bit of faux stitching.

The next page is packed with all the rainbow colours in the kit and gets you to dig out your punches to make a feature.

You can find the class here. 

I hope you enjoy the class and look forward to seeing your creations and be back here at 12 noon to see Karen's fabulous class.

Stash Busting with Katherine - Ephemera

 

My stash busting challenge uses up only small, left over bits of paper that I could not part with and little bits of ephemera that I have gathered and not managed to use over the years.  To help work out what to do I decided on the main colours, focussing on blues and then pulled out ephemera and papers that worked with that, then sifted them into a beachy theme too.  I created my background, using colours in the ephemera - I started by using a brayer and adding a rectangle of white gesso and then went in with some turquoise and silver paint.  Once that had dried I added a stamped layer using blue ink on a chevron and bit of black on my grid stamp.  Once that was dry I looked in my box of scraps and pulled out blues that I liked and these are mostly from Vicki Boutin.  I also found a Heidi Swapp book which had some lovely punched cards that I could incorporate too.

From there I worked through my embellishments and most of these are from an older Kaisercraft range, the shells and beach hut was perfect.

I also added in a little remember tag and some stickers...everything from my stash box.

I quite liked working just focussing on colour as this was a really easy way to pull bits together, I think choosing one colour at first is probably the easiest so next time I might branch out to a few more and see what I can create.

I hope this inspires you to hunt through your ephemera and use it up on a page, I look forward to seeing what you create.

Katherine

May Virtual Crop with Katherine

 

Hello, our class today is using lots of pretty watercolours and ephemera.  The colours range from blues to purples to pinks.  There are some beautiful puffy stickers and plenty of ephemera to pack your page with.  

You can add your own watercolour touches to the white cardstock or just let the prima papers do all the watercolour work for you!  There are 3 pages, above is the first and then 2 more, including one about you.

I hope you enjoy them, do share them in our facebook group and join in the chatter.

You can find the class here.

February Virtual Crop Paige Taylor Evans - Go the Scenic Route with Katherine

 

Hello and welcome to this months Virtual Crop, remember to share your pages and join in the chatter on our Facebook page ATDML#Create.

In this class we use the beautiful Go the Scenic Route papers by Paige Taylor Evans.  There are 2 pages in this class and even though the papers are travel themed, you don't have to use travel photos.  They are both quite simple, though this first one takes a bit of lining up which is not my strength!  I hope you enjoy making them.

You can find the class here.

Don't forget to share what you have made over on the ATDML # Create Facebook Page and join us at 12 for our next class.

Storyteller - Happy

I've seen quite a few grid layouts recently so decided to have a go at one.  The thing that I like about these small squares is that you can pack them with all sorts of bits and build them up, the bit I am less keen on is trying to get them lined up correctly!  For this one I ended up making myself a 1" L shaped piece of card and then added in a 3/4" strip too once I got to the middle squares!

For this page I started off with the Vicki Boutin stencil that you can see in the photo.  I used a white piece of card and chose some distress ink colours and randomly inked them all over the page (there is a think strip of it in the picture too).  I then added some spritz of water and a little bit of gold spray too and then cut all my squares out.  With my background paper done I then selected little bits of paper from the Storyteller collection to add, adding torn edges, brown ink around the edges and punched stars.  I created a little shaker with some printed acetate and sequins and and embellishment frame.  I then just hunted through my box of goodies for buttons and wood veneers, anything that I thought would work and build up each square.  I used one of the library cards from Storyteller for my journalling.  Lots of fun to make.

TRICK OR RETREAT - CHALLENGE 8 - MONSTER MASH

 

CHALLENGE 8 - MONSTER MASH

A photography challenge for you this time just to change it up a bit.

Share with us your favourite monster photo, be these your little furry monsters, your kids, your friends, family or neighbours!!

LET'S SEE YOUR MONSTERS! Share them with us in the Challenge 8 gallery - you can then add them to a layout if you like and share that toooooooooohhhhoooo!

Katherine made a great Monster page for some inspiration if you do end up scrapping your monsters

TRICK OR RETREAT CHALLENGE 4 - THE SPIDERS WEB

 

CHALLENGE 4 - THE SPIDERS WEB

Spooky season isn't spooky without a few webs here and there but unlike spiders we can't spin our own so this challenge will have you digging out your needle and thread.

We challenge you to sew, stitch or add thread to your layout which we'd then like to see you add to the Challenge 4 album in our Facebook group so we can leave you some lovely comments.

Katherine shares another fab page of her illustrating this challenge,

Your first class of today is up next with Karen at 10am.

Class 12 - Bedroom with Vicki Boutin Lets Wonder & Katherine Sutton

Welcome to class 12 using Vicki Boutin's Lets Wonder collection.  Our focus is on messy and the papers help with their inky designs....but there is a little bit of mess too.

Here is a peak of the first page which has some smooshing in it using distress oxides.

Our 2nd layout just has some flicks of paint to add the inkiness in the papers.

The third layout you can see here just uses the inkiness in the papers!  I hope you enjoy them.

Here is a link to the class.

Karen is up next at 2pm with her last class of the weekend. Enjoy!

HOUSE & HOME CYBERCROP - CHALLENGE 4 - ON THE WALL

Here is your next challenge of the weekend where you can use whatever supplies you like to interpret our prompt below.

Challenge #4 - On the Wall

As scrapbookers we love our photographs and preserving memories in our albums but do you also have photos on the wall at home or in frames around the house? This challenge is to feature frames on your layout or use a wall/brick design or paper.

The lovely Katherine has done an example for us of this challenge using a brick mask

And Karen used a brick background paper for her example

As you know we have created some galleries over on our Facebook group so you can share your layouts when you are ready - and yeah, we will probably be giving away a few prizes!

Tricia will be bringing you your next class at 8pm to inspire creativity this Saturday night.

Class 6 - Laundry Room with Carta Bella Home Again & Katherine Stoon

Hello, I hope you have been enjoying all the classes and challenges so far.   Welcome to class 6 which is the Laundry room.  In this class we are using the beautiful Home Again papers from Carta Bella.  The first page features a laundry line type layout using lots of the gorgeous ephemera in this range.

The second page features laundry bubbles....and is a bit messy!  Here is a peak.

I hope you enjoy the class, remember to share your layouts in our Facebook groups and join in the chatter.

You can find the class instructions HERE which can be downloaded for free and we will see you back here at 4pm for class 7 with Mel.

HOUSE & HOME CYBERCROP - CHALLENGE 3 - IN THE ATTIC

Here is your third challenge of the weekend where you can use whatever supplies you like to interpret our prompt below.

Challenge #3 - In the Attic

What do your store in your attic? How often do you go in there and is it mostly at Christmas to remove the tree and decorations? For this challenge we want to see you scrap your festive photos or use a box design on your page.

Our Katherine has taken a very literal interpretation of this challenge with an in the attic photo!

As you know we have created some galleries over on our Facebook group so you can share your layouts when you are ready - and yeah, we will probably be giving away a few prizes!

Katherine will be bringing you your next class at 2pm. Don't forget to grab some lunch too!

May Virtual Crop Class 2 with Katherine

Hello everyone, here is my class - there are 2 layouts in this one and here are a couple of sneaks of the pages. 

You can find the pictures and instructions HERE.

 There are some beautiful puffy stickers and lovely pastel rainbow colours in the papers.  I have edited out some of the pink in the papers so you can make the pages work for all members of the family, whether they are into pink or not (and if they love pink then leave more in)!  I hope you enjoy the class as much as I enjoyed creating the pages.

As always, do post your pages and join in the chatter on our Facebook page.

Join us tomorrow morning at 10am for our next class with Karen

Class 3 with Katherine

Hello and welcome to our Shape of you Cybercrop, I hope you are keeping well and enjoying all the challenges and classes.  You will be creating 2 pages, the photo requirements are a 4" square and 3 by 4" landscape for the first layout, the second layout is two 3 by 4" landscape photos.

We are using the gorgeous Family Night paper collection from Carta Bella - perfect for all those indoor shots for family games, movie nights, craft nights....there are lots of different sticker embellishments you can use to personalise your page.  

It would be good to have a star, circle and heart punch to make the flowers - 1" size, though you can adapt to the punches that you have.

Here are a few peeks, and I'll let you hop over to the site to have a look and download the class.  I hope you enjoy it.

The next class will be with Mel at 6pm and the next challenge is at 2pm.  Remember to share your work in our Facebook group.

Storyline Chapters memories....

Here are a couple of pages to share with you using the beautiful Storyline collection by Heidi Swapp. It is so beautiful that I have sparingly used the papers!  For this page I used the Sunnyside paper which is a nice twist in colours to lots of the rainbows we've seen.  I matched and dripped the colours down my page - I wetted the page first and then added some watercolour paint and let it all run down.  I used a mixture of mats from the papers - there are lots of lovely little embellishments and journal cards that you can cut out, teaming it with some lace and hessian and different embellishments from my stash - it all goes very nicely with wood veneers and chipboard.

I even managed to find some cotton in a similar colour and added a little swirl behind my embellishments!

For my next page I started with a massive tear to reveal some papers underneath and layered up the yellos and greys, the other main colour came from my photo which is the beautiful blue of the Med.   I used a Tim Holtz leaf die cut and made the leaves spill out from the tear and scattered them down the page.  I added a hidden journal card behind the photo and then used some blue prima flowers.

The last step was to add a bit more colour with some scattered gems, just to add some bling.  The alphabet is from Pink Fresh and it is fab, so many letters in one pack - it will keep me going for a while!

Hope you are all keeping well and safe.