Saturday, 23 June 2012

**Cybercrop Class 4** By Karen Cole

If you are just joining us this weekend, welcome, you have arrived mid cybercrop! We have a weekend full of classes and challenges for you free of charge to join in with and get creating! See what you have missed by scrolling down our blog posts. All the fun started yesterday at 7pm but you can play along with whatever classes or challenges take your fancy.

Class number 4 for you now by Karen Cole who bring  you a stamped set of cards for her class with techniques that you can easily transfer to your scrapbook pages too.


Click HERE to download your instructions for this class, then be sure to share your layouts afterwards with us here on the blog. We will be back at 2pm with Karen Moss's first class of the weekend with complimentary templates too!. See you then!

**Cybercrop Class 3** By Ann Freeman

Hope you are having a very happy Saturday morning, welcome to your first class on this day two of our cybercrop. This is a cute minibook made with envelopes with plenty of space for extra photographs or additional journalling. I made mine of the recent Jubilee weekend celebrations.


You can download the class instructions HERE and when you are finished pop back here to our blog and share your class project with us. Simply click on the link below and add your image straight from your pc. The next class is midday with Karen Cole. Until then, happy crafting!

**Cybercrop Challenge 2** JUBILEE BUNTING

Welcome to the start of your Saturday cybercrop as with kick off with a BUNTING challenge.

Recently the Jubilee saw an array of Union flags (or Union Jacks) on display in many homes, in shops and streets, so we challenge you to add some bunting to a project. Again our design team have some projects to share illustrating how they rose to the challenge which we hope you will play along with.

By Jane
With the recent Diamond jubilee it seemed only fitting that my bunting challenge should be themed in this way. The photos were taken just before the jubilee on a visit to London to meet some dear friends from Texas. I was delighted to see all the flags and bunting everywhere in London. This is a really simple page made with a sheet of white card with a union flag design applied with distress stains mounted on a sheet of blue Bazzill. The bunting is made with left over photo printing paper and the whole page is then finished by adding journaling and doodling, some Prima 'Say it in crystals' and white 'Jewellery box' Thickers.



By Katherine - Home Sweet Home
I love adding bunting to my projects, for this challenge I decided to go off the page, and make a frame for our house. I die cut some Home Sweet Home tags and then use Crate Papers Farmhouse collection to make the backing papers (which I also stitched). I hung my bunting and added a few stickers to complete it.




By Karen Cole - Jubilee Weekend.
Another Jubilee example, this time featuring papers by 7Gypsies Postale collection


By Mel Hand - Jubilee Street Party.
And yet another Jubilee layout! This time Mel uses a clean graphic style to document a trip to a local street party. Mel used off cuts of neutral paper and cardstock to create the bunting triangles and accented them with red white and blue decorative elements.


This challenge is open until 6pm on Sunday the 1st July 2012 so plenty of time to play along and share your bunting projects using our inlinkz tool to be in with a chance to win something in our random prize draw. First class of the day will be up at 10am with Ann and a Simple Stories project to tempt you. See you back here then.

Friday, 22 June 2012

**Cybercrop Challenge 1** STAMP YOUR FEET

Our first challenge for the weekend entitled STAMP YOUR FEET!
Time to dig out your much loved stamps and put them to use on a new project for this weekend. You can stamp on a layout, maybe with alphabet stamps for a the title or a stamped image, or if you prefer stamp on a card or a tag and share it with us here. For each of the challenges this weekend we will bring you some design team projects illustrating how they interpreted the challenge. Feel free to use these to inspire you as well.

Example by Ann
I don't automatically reach for the ink when stamping but lately find myself using paint more often. It leaves a thicker less than perfect stamp which can be left as it is or jazzed up with stickles or glossy accents to provide a variety of different looks. Here I stamped THOSE in white paint.


Example by Jane
For this challenge I decided to make a card and not only stamp but emboss my stamped design and do a resist technique. I stamped the background with a large Chinese script stamp onto gold card then aged it by applying black ink. For the front stamped image I applied wild honey distress stain to some white card then when it was dry stamped the Chinese characters with versamark and embossed with clear embossing powder. I then used black ink to cover the whole piece, rubbing back to reveal the stamped image. A wide grosgrain ribbon and a mini origami kimono finished my oriental themed card.



Example by Katherine - The Puffle Story
Many of you might ask what a Puffle is - it is the orange fluffy thing in my sons hands in the picture, and the page documents how we lost and found the treasured Puffle. For this challenge the focus was stamping, so I die cut some circles and stamped in the middle of some of them using Autumn Leaves - Flourishes version 3 and lots of different coloured inks, the papers are Crate Papers Farmhouse range.


The challenge is open until 6pm on Sunday the 1st July 2012 so plenty of time to play along and STAMP YOUR FEET! Why not share your creations below using our inlinkz tool to be in with a chance to win something in our random prize draw? That is our Friday night complete for classes and challenges. See you back here tomorrow morning for more fun and crafting inspiration.

**Cybercrop Class 2** by Jane Hewitt

Welcome back to class 2 with Jane Hewitt. Jane brings you a Mini-Travelling-Hanging-Scrapbook-Library. Dig out your favourite patterned papers and follow Jane's instructions to create this neat project.



You can download the class instructions HERE as well as the templates and when you are finished pop back here to our blog and share your class project with us. Simply click on the link below and add your image straight from your pc, no need to upload or blog first (though you can if you wish!).

We will be back in an hours time with your first challenge for the weekend, see you back here then! Happy crafting!

**Cybercrop Class 1** by Mel Hand

Welcome to the 2012 ATDML cybercrop and your first class!!

We are pleased to welcome you to the start of this weekend full of crafting inspiration and hope you will enjoy playing along. Your first class is a layout by Mel Hand, there was a kit available for this class however you are of course able to join in using alternatives from your own stash! Any questions please post on the comments on this post.


 You can download the class instructions HERE  and when you are finished pop back here to our blog and share your class project with us. Simply click on the link below and add your image straight from your pc, no need to upload or blog first (though you can if you wish!). Your next cybercrop class is at 9pm with the lovely Jane, see you back here then! Happy crafting!

Thursday, 21 June 2012

ONE MORE DAY!!



ONLY ONE MORE DAY!!

We hope you are looking forward to joining us tomorrow night for our second ATDML cybercrop.
We will have twelve classes and six challenges for you ALL FREE starting at 7pm. There will be a blog post each time a new class is up on the main website, together with an image of the class and a link to the instructions. All challenges will be posted on the blog.
We can't wait and hope you are as excited as we are! Don't worry if you aren't around this weekend, the instructions will be available on the main site for you to download at your leisure. See you here tomorrow at 7pm when the fun begins!