January virtual crop challenge

Welcome to your Friday night January virtual crop challenge ahead of our virtual crop day tomorrow featuring 3 classes for you to download from your design team.

For 2018 virtual crop challenges we are going to use mood boards to inspire a layout or craft project each month. I chose the following mood board for January as I felt it was neutral enough to inspire scrapping photos from this time of year.

I used the colours of the boards greys, soft blue and pale pink to inspire this page where I featured a photo of my daughter (in a woolly hat - inspired by the wool jumper) and I, the snowflakes (weather related like the cloud on the mood board) and lots of gems (inspired from those featured on the shoes).

Our challenge today is for you to take a look at the mood board and see where it takes yours creativity, then share your page on our 2018 mood board gallery with the month of the board and your name.  We will share our favourites ahead of next months virtual crop.

See you tomorrow for your first class at 10am with Karen.

January 2018 Virtual Crop Photo Requirements

Hi, Here are the photo requirements for this months Virtual Crop.  Remember that it all starts on Friday night, here, with the challenge and then the classes start at 10am on Saturday.  Come and join in the chatter in our Facebook group ATDML #Create and share your pages.  If you didn't manage to get the kits then play along with your own papers.

Class 1 with Karen

Layout 1 - 5 by 7" portrait.
Layout 2 - 5 by 7" landscape.

Also it would be good to have a 2" circle punch - either plain or scalloped, 1 3/4" circle punch and a border punch.

Class 2 with Ann

This is a mini-book which can hold an array of 3 by 4" photos which can be added later.

Layout - Two 4 by 6" portrait photos that go with the title "Merry and Bright"


Class 3 with Debbie

Layout 1 - 6 by 4" portrait
Layout 2 - Two 5 by 3" portrait photos slightly trimmed down.

All the chatter and challenges will start here on Friday night, and all the classes are posted here and will be up on the shop website for you to use too.

Winter wonder

Hello crafty people!
Sharing a page today made recently with the winter products in my January Design Team kit which featured stunning Kaisercraft papers and some Simple Stories. Seems apt to share on this chilly January day!

This background page is Kaisercraft and so pretty that I didn't want to cover up much of it!. The brown snowflakes, photo mat, skates and I HEART Winter piece are from Simple Stories.

I also added some gems to the snowflake centres and the white wooden snowflake I found in my embellishments. The larger sparkly snowflakes were from the front on a pack of discounted Christmas Cards in the January Sale, £1 for 6!! Bargain for scrapbook embellishments and perfect for winter pages.

Scraplift Challenge - January 2018

Hello, hello, Karen here with the first Scraplift Challange of the year.

You will have noticed that it is now on the second weekend of each month and I also have a little something for you on the fourth weekend of the month but you will have to wait and see what that is.

This month I have scraplifted a page from the December Gallery, by Ann, which can be found on the ATDML shop website on the right under Information.

I took inspiration from the photo being inside the letter O, overlapping title and the horizontal strips.

I made my title using my Silhouette (well would you have expected anything else) and the papers and stickers I used were from Simple Stories.

As always, I am really excited to see what you come up with this month.

Happy Scraplifting x

The Little (un-needed) Christmas Album

Hello, hello lovlies , be warned this is a photo heavy post.

This Christmas was supposed to be the first Christmas Gracia and Josh spent in their new house but, as we all know these things don't always go to plan and what with solicitors being ill, estate agents being unavailable and countless other problems it wasn't to be.

I had made a little album for Gracie to record their first Christmas in their own house but it has laid in my workroom not needed and unloved.  I came across it whilst tidying today and thought - it will keep until next year and by then they will have the puppy they both crave and be able to fill it with fun photos and anyway that will still be their first Christmas even if it is 2018 and they will have lived in their house for almost a year.

Here are some of the pages just aching to be filled with happy memories.

Did you make a little Christmas mini this year?  If so we would love to see it xxx

Journaling Prompts - January

On the first Sunday of every month there will be a journaling prompt to give you a little inspiration for your layouts, titles and journaling.

Where possible we will try to add some examples as well.

Please do pop over to the ATDML # Create Facebook page where you can add your photos to the journaling prompt gallery.

This months Journaling Prompt is...

Add interest to longer pieces of journaling by mixingin stickers and typed words into your handwritten journaling.

This layout using the Basic Grey Adrift collection makes use of the three co-ordinating alphabet fonts available on the sticker sheet that was in the collection.

For this layout I combined small alphabet stickers and alphabet stamps to add interest and highlight specific words. In addition I added hand drawn borders to the stickers.

Finally a mixture of letter stickers and pieces of co-ordinating cardstock cut to a size where I could fit a single word on it allowed me to add pops of colour.

Happy New Year ATDMLers!

Lovely to welcome you all to another year of inspiration and blog posts from your ATDML team. What crafty goals do you have for the year? Have you started with a clear out of craft items you never use ready to make space for all the new products you will fall in love with? Have you joined any crafty challenges?

As for 2017 and the years before we have a plan to bring you a month at a time of inspiration form the team including a challenge or two, our regular virtual crop days on the 3rd Saturday of each month and sharing pages made by your DT featuring the latest and greatest products on the market.

One of my aims this month is to complete my December Daily journal which I do each year. I used a 6x8 album and a mixture of page protectors, 6x8 pages, envelopes, cards etc and mix them up with photos and journaling. Last night I completed a few more pages but I think the end of Jan to finish is a good aim.

I also want to do a double layout a month (maybe more for key events) to scrap my 2018 highlights making the most of some silhouette files (where I plan to set a little more time aside to master this more!)

What are your plans? What would you like to see from your team? Do let us know and join us on our Facebook page if you haven't already for more sharing. See you soon!