Journaling Prompts - February

Welcome to our February Journaling prompts. I hope you all found last month's prompt to be useful! This month our prompt is:

Create a frame around your page with journaling.

Below are some of my examples, remember to upload your layouts to the Journaling Prompt gallery over on the ATDML # Create Facebook page.

This layout was based on a class Ann taught at one of the ATDML retreats and I love how the journaling is interupted by the splats and embellishment clusters but still forms a great frame to contain the photo and other page elements.

Winter Wishes with BoBunny

More snowy pictures using Winter Wishes from BoBunny.  I started my page with some blue china and iced spruce distress oxides- using the technique we used at the retreat, adding it to a plastic bag and then printing it onto the page.  Once it was dry I then added some little bits of rough stamping around where my photo was going to go.  I then layered up lots of paper and added some little peaks of the silver foiled vellum in this collection to add a bit of sparkle - I tucked in as many layers as I could to add interest and inked all the edges of my papers in blue china too.  I mounted my page on the paper Winter Wishes (I did gut the centre so I could use bits of the reverse side in my photo layers).  

Here you can see the inky layers and a little bit of the snowflake vellum.  I also added a string of wire pearls in a circle around the photo, using staples to attach them to the page.

January's Sketch Challenge

Hello, hello - Karen here with an new year long challenge for 2018 - well it's not something you have to do all year but just once every month :0)

Every month, on the fourth Friday, I will post a sketch with my take on it and then I will look forward to seeing what you make of it. 

This is the sketch I have chosen this month - if you click on it, you will be taken to the original in Ana Castro's blog where you will be able to see what other people have done with it. 

It is no secret that I love a good sketch to work from and hope you do too.  Post photos of your layouts on our Facebook page.

For my version I used Simple Stories Wonderland collection.

Wintry double pages with Simple Stories

After all the snow I had lots of pictures and decided to use Winter Wonderland to make a double page layout.  All my photos are 3 by 4s.  I anchored either side of the layout with 2 long strips, then linked the 2 pages across the middle - I did have to spend a little time working out where the repeat came on the striped paper - bit like wallpapering! Then put my photos across the middle, then just layered up lots of the co-ordinating embellishments that you get with the Simple Stories papers and some of the paper stickers which have lots of useful phrases that you can add to the photos.

I really like the embellishments with this line, the little tickets and cones.

There are also some snowflakes and I love the little snowman!

January Virtual Crop Class 3 with Debbie Jewell

Welcome to the last class of the day. Debbie is having some issues connecting with Blogger so she has emailed me the following to post on her behalf...



Welcome to the final class of today's virtual crop where we will be using Echo Parks' 'Hello Winter' papers to scrap those chilly photos you have all been snapping this season.  

The fabulous shades of blue and graphic designs are perfect winter backdrops for your photographs.

Full instructionscan be found here.

As always we'd love to see you pages on our Facebook page here.
Happy scrapping!
Debsx

January Virtual Crop Class 2 with Ann

Well what a gorgeous start to your January virtual crop with those lovely pages from Karen. Moving away from those pretty floral papers to a seasonal collection by Simple Stories for my class today.

I created a simple, quick to pull together layout and a mini-book to feature photos from our December just gone which we packed full of adventures.

Instructions can be downloaded here and I hope you join in. 

If you have the kit I removed all title strips and refer to the papers by describing the patterns. If you don't have the kit but want to play along and make the mini book you will need 2 sheets of 12"x12" card (I used one black and one cream and these are mostly for photo mounts but also elements of the book) and about 6 sheets of 12"x12" patterned paper from the same collection or which can be combined together to make the book.

Your next class will be up at 2pm with the very lovely and talented Debbie J.

January Virtual Crop Class 1 with Karen

Hello Lovlies.  Welcome to the first Virtual Crop class of 2018.  This is a two page class using 5 x 7 in photos - my absolute faviourite size.

The first page features a photo of Gracia and Josh, on one of their frequent holidays abroad, I think this was in Croatia.  I have used the word paper for the title and this page involves a little fussy cutting.

For my second page I have made some little circular embellishments to add to my page and have used one of my favourite photos of Gracia and me.  One I have scrapped many times - do you scrap the same photo more than once!

The instructions for my class are here.

Ann is up at 12 - I wonder what magic she has worked with her kit.

Wishing you a happy scrappy weekend and please share the pages you make on our Facebook page - you don't have to have purchased the kit to join in and can interpret the class any way you wish with your own supplies.