April Virtual Crop Class 1 by Karen

Well hello ladies and welcome to the April virtual crop.

I am up first today with three layouts made using Bo Bunny Prairie Chic.  For my first layout I wanted to challenge myself to make a boy page from what is predominantly a girl based paper range.

For the second page I used the gorgeous trinkets as centers for some flowers.

 

For the third layout I used as much of the remaining kit as possible to make a very layered page.

So there is my class and the instructions can be found here.

We always love to see what you make over the weekend so please post it here

Next up at 12:00 is the lovely Denise and I can't wait to see what she has to offer.

April Virtual Crop Challenge

Welcome back lovely crafty ones to another ATDML Virtual Crop. As always we start off with a challenge followed by three classes at 10 am, midday and 2pm.

There will be a chat thread over on Facebook in the usual #atdml create page so pop by and say hello, let us know if you are playing along.

As you know the challenges for Virtual crops are based "on this day in history" and today we have a fun fact for you from 1981. On April 18th 1981 – The longest professional baseball game begun in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The game, started at 8pm that day and had to be suspended at 4:00am the next morning and finally completed on June 23.  You can read more about it here if you are so inclined! 

No need to be a fan of baseball today as  your challenge  is only to create a layout or card with a diamond pattern - based on the baseball field often being referred to as the baseball diamond.

Do share your projects with us, we love to see them :)

From That To This!

Last month, in the Facebook Group,  I posted a photograph of the DT kit that Jill and Mel had sent me to work with in April.

It was from two Websters Pages ranges - Strawberry Fields and Ocean Melody. 

So, with the Ocean Melody, I went from that

to this

 

****April Virtual Crop Photo Requirements****

It's nearly here and apologies for not getting out the photo requirements earlier.  Here they are

Karen

Layout 1: Two photos 4" wide and 6" tall

Layout 2: One photo 5" wide and 7" tall

Layout 3: One photo 7" wide and 5" tall

Denise

Layout 1 :  3.5" square

Layout 2 : Two 6 by 4" portrait (which will be cropped to 5.5" by 4" - both are colour)

Mel

3 Layouts each two need landscape 6 by 4" and one needs a portrait 6 by 4"

Color Caos

Well, yesterday's class was a success and I was up first again today.  Another three page class but this time using Bella BLVD's Color Chaos.  These papers are the polar opposites to the ones I used yesterday, they are very bright and bold.  

I loved these as soon as I saw them too - what a fickle scrapper I am - and the first layout came together very quickly.  This has the option of using the flower paper with cut out flowers as embellishments or using the star paper with cut out stars for a more masculine layout.

The second features different ways to use embossing folders - embossing silver foil, embossing plastic, embossing and sanding Core D'Ination cardstock, using the folders to print on water colour paper.

 By using the reverse of the papers a very different look can be achieved.

My final layout shows how this paper can look just as good against a black background and involves lots of layering. As soon as I saw the cut-a-part with the words 'You Will Forever Be My Always' I knew I had to use it on a page or on a card.

Retreat News - Class 1

Today is the day!  The first day of the long awaited ATDML Retreat and I was first up to teach at 1:30 with my class using the absolutely gorgeous Enchanted range from Simple Stories.  Unashamedly girlie - perfect to scrap photos of my unashamedly girlie girl!  

This was a three page class 

Page 1 - Hello Princess

The second page - Happily Ever After - not quite so feminine but still making the most of the gorgeous pastel tones of the papers. 

 Apologies for the camera flash across Josh's head!

 And the third one - Make A Wish - back to the girlie/princess vibe of the range.

April 2015 Photography Prompts

No April fools joke here today on April 1st as we share another set of photography prompts with you. We do this on the first of every month in the hope of generating more photographs to add to our scrapbook albums. Take a look at the world through a different set of eyes and get inspiration from the other photographs taken from these prompts. 

So what do we have in store this month?

April

Selfie on the 1^st

Friends/friendship

Signs of spring

What I’m watching

Travel/Exploring

Plenty of scope for variation on these prompts, think outside the box or taken them as written the choice is yours. If you wish to share your photographs we would love to see them on our Facebook page #atdml create or use the hashtag #atdml if you upload to social media sites. Enjoy the month ahead x