June Sketch

A little late but here it is:-

June's sketch.

 For my example I used Websters Pages 

 

I retained the cut off strip on the Palm Beach Girl paper and cut a strip from the top to make the paper 12 x 12.

 

 

Palm Beach - Palm Beach Girl

Everyday Poetry - Glorious Day

 

Palm Beach - Great Travels

Palm Beach - Skinny Dipping

 Fabric Tickets - Palm Beach

I also used the packaging from the Fabric Tickets to make the banner and cut out the scalloped shape from the top and made another one for the bottom of my page. In addition to the above I also used a Tim Holtz Journaling Ticket.

 

I can't wait to see how you interpret the sketch.

Karen M

Cybercrop sneak peaks

Well we have all been busy behind the scenes to bring you hopefully another memorable weekend of crafting inspiration, indeed 2 weeks time and we will be in the thick of it, surrounded by pretty paper, glue and happiness! Just to get you all a little more geared up for it take a look at what is coming your way .



A little Simple Stories... from both Jane and myself.

A little Crate paper from Karen and a little Prima too...

and oh so much more! We have layouts classes, mini books, and plenty of challenges too. What you need for each class and photo requirements will start coming your way next week so keep your eyes peeled here on the blog for more information!

Travel Class On Website

I have been a naughty girl and have realised that I have a few classes here which have not made it onto the website *blush - sorry designers* I am working on getting them online ASAP and the first one is up now!

Click HERE to visit our site and download the instructions for this lovely layout by Dawn Evans featuring the October Afternoon Boarding Pass range.

More coming soon!

June Simple Recipe By Mel On UKS...

This month we at ATDML provided the "Simple Recipe" for the UKS monthly series. It involved putting together a kit of co-ordinating goodies within a specific colour scheme, then choosing some specific ingredients which should be included in the recipe and I then created an optional sketch for people to use too.

Here is a sneaky peek of part of my project (some hidden journaling.) To see the whole layout and download the free PDF instructions click HERE to visit the Simple Recipes post on the UKScrappers website.

Trends on Tuesday - That 6 sided shape

Hexagons have been around as a big thing in the scrapping arena for a little while now. I think they grew out of the patchwork trend and feature in paper collections as well as on pages.  I have quite a few hexagonal pages in my back list of pages, but here is the one that I did for today.

I found a free honeycomb pattern in the library on my die cut machine (silhouette), so put it to use.  I have to say on all my other pages I have hand cut my hexagons so this was a bit of a change for me.  The papers are from the October Afternoon Rocket collection and the page features the 1st time my son met his brand new cousin (he was literally hours old at this point, but my kids were queuing up for a cuddle).  

For those of you who would like a great site to make templates, this is one I came across (thanks to Ifa).  The site has lots of shapes on it, and the fantastic thing is that you can adjust the size of your shapes which makes matting them really easy too here is the link.

Just to wet your appetite a little more, here is another page I made involving the hand cut hexagons (I know it is summer and this is a very wintry occasion, but it could be adapted).

Please post a link if you create anything using hexagons as I would love to come and have a look.

this uses Crate Papers Farmhouse and Portrait range.

May DT Gallery

This month it was designers choice month so the gallery is filled with a wide range of projects and styles.

Our guest designer was Helen Howden aka Weehaggis. Take a look at the lovely layouts and minibook she has created along with the cards, layouts & mini books the regular team have made.

Take a look at the May Gallery HERE.

Trends on Tuesday - Using the Negatives

Welcome to my next instalment of Trends on Tuesday, I thought I would have a go at something that has been building in popularity across the scrapping world....using up your negatives, all those off cuts from your die cuts or punches and making them a big part of your page.  Here are a few links to get your creative juices flowing from the October Afternoon blog (you have to scroll down to find the pages as there are a few pages in each post,  but I have put the page titles alongside the link to make them easier to find)

using negatives words (forever young)

using negative stars (bandits)

using negative dinosaurs (dino)

Alongside using up the offcuts of punches and die cuts you can also hand cut too.  Here is a page I created where I pencilled outlined the words and then cut it with a craft knife, so there are loads of ways of creating this effect.

Onto the example that I have for you today;  my page uses some of Crate Papers Random and Farmhouse collections.  I love the denim which works well on a boy page.  For the stars I just ran my piece of yellow paper through my die cut machine several times, and I used the positive stars to make a little banner underneath the photo.  I started the page by scrapping gesso across the background and then layered up and stitched my papers.  I stuck the negative stars down using some silicone glue so that it raised the piece off the page a little which gives a nice shadow too.

I hope it inspires you to have a go at using up some of the pieces of paper that you might throw away normally and turn the negatives into positives on your page :)

Katherine