July Tag Time

For this month's tag we go to the beach - literally, since I added sand and shells I found on the beach when I was on holiday!
To make this tag you will need the July collective and July Montage papers, a 4" x 8" tag, shells and sand, some co-ordinating ribbon, foam pads and pva glue.

Start by covering your tag with paper from the July Montage as shown...

From elsewhere on the July Montage paper cut out the children so that you can add them to the tag with foam pads to create a decoupage 3D effect...

Add a piece of driftwood to the bottom of the tag and start to attach shells using strong glue (like hot glue or glossy accents)...

Mix your sand with some pva glue until it is a thick paste then spread the glue-sand mixture over the bottom of the tag... I also cut out a couple of pictures of other children from the July collective papers and added them at this stage...

Finally cut out some of the poppies to add to the top of the tag and staple on some co-ordinating ribbon...

And you have a tag which is a lovely reminder of a day at the beach.

Happy crafting!

Jane x

**Cybercrop challenge winners**

Thank you all so very much for joining in with our cybercrop. We love pulling this together for you each year and hope that you enjoyed the classes and challenges we set for the weekend.  The classes are all still available on the website for you to download for free whenever you are ready and need some inspiration.  You can still even do the challenges if you didn't get the chance even though the closing date for a prize has gone.

Our challenge winners, selected using Random.org, have been picked not only from the challenge galleries but I have been all through our Facebook page and checked all pages uploaded since the crop weekend.

Challenge 1 - RUBY - Flick Rogers
Challenge 2 - BLACK/GOLD - Helen Howden
Challenge 3 - LONG TITLE - Michelle Tuddenham
Challenge 4 - RHINESTONE - Karen Parkhurst
Challenge 5 - TICKET TO RIDE - Valerie Daubney
Challenge 6 - LABELLED WITH LOVE - Antonia Sturt-Hammond

Congratulations to all who took part, but especially our challenge winners. Please contact jill@atripdownmemorylane.co.uk to claim your prize.

Cyber Crop challenges - Closing date this Sunday

We hope you had a great time over the weekend with our cybercrop and enjoyed our selection of 12 classes and 6 challenges. We know not everyone had a chance to join in over the weekend so you'll be pleased to learn all of the classes will remain on the website indefinitely for you to download and enjoy at your leisure. 

A summary of the challenges we had are below, and the closing date for entering these is this coming Sunday July 24th at 6pm.

• Challenge 1 - Kaiser Chiefs: Ruby
• Challenge 2 - Sam Sparro: Black & Gold
• Challenge 3 - Coldplay: Yellow
• Challenge 4 - Glen Campbell: Rhinestone Cowboy
• Challenge 5 - The Beatles: Ticket to Ride
• Challenge 6 - Squeeze: Labelled with Love

Have a go and share your layouts in our challenge Facebook gallery which can be found here. Who knows, there may be a prize or two?

Class 12 - Hip to be square \ Hey Y'all by Mel Hand

Hello and welcome to the final class of this weekends cybercrop!

I hope you have all enjoyed it, over on the Facebook page it looks like people are having fun either scrapping at home or in groups with their friends. *waving at Fabiana and co in her scrapping summerhouse!*

My class manages to squeeze in two songs, the first layout features a lot of square elements so I went with Huey Lewis and the News' "Hip to be square" and the second features polaroid frames which reminded me of the line "Shake it like a polaroid picture" from the song "Hey Y'all" by Outkast.

Instructions can be downloaded HERE

Please do upload your creations to the ATDML # Create facebook page and don't forget that there are lots of challenges as well as the classes!

Thanks for joining us for the 2016 cybercrop, remember throughout the year we hold a monthly Virtual Crop with three classes (kits available but you can join in with your own stash) on the third Saturday of every month.

Cyber Crop Challenge 6 - Squeeze: Labelled with Love

Alas your final challenge of the weekend is here but it's a good one, so don't be too sad. Your song inspired challenge number 6 is:

Squeeze - Labelled with Love

Here we challenge you to create a love themed page (maybe even featuring a label), be this a layout of a loved one, of something you love or maybe even a song you love.  Debbie has illustrated this challenge in her layout below.

It's your last challenge of this cybercrop but don't worry, we will be back next month on the third Saturday with your next Virtual crop day and another music inspired challenge. In the meantime share what you create inspired by this challenge in our Facebook gallery.

The weekend is not over yet though, your final class with Mel will be here at 15:30.

Class 11 - Little Things by Debs

I chose this song title for two reasons, firstly because I scrapped photos of my children and I love them and all the little things that add up to make them them. Secondly, this class is all about cutting accents from patterned paper to add little details to your layouts to create the 'big picture'.  This Cedar Lane paper range from Pink Paislee is packed full of little details waiting to be cut out and put on your pages. Hope you enjoy the inspiration.  I am so looking forward to seeing what all the little things on your layouts add up to.

you are LOVED

 

Click Here to download the instructions for this class.

Class 10 - Blank Space with Ann

Hello all, my second class of the weekend and no less than four pages inspired by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift song Blank Space. "Blank Space" is taken from her fifth studio album entitled 1989 which was released in two years ago now.

Of course my link from this song to scrapbooking is to create pages which feature "blank space" which might take a few of you out of your comfort zone! 

Download the instructions to create four "blank space" layouts HERE (not just the two layouts shown here).

I used the Websters Pages kit for my pages but there is hopefully plenty of inspiration within the layouts made to inspire you to recreate some or all of them with your own papers. If you really aren't a fan of blank space layouts increase your size or number of photos on each page and layer up those embellishments! So long as you create pages for your albums you are happy with we will have done our job here, and of course do share them in our classes gallery over on Facebook.

Next up is the lovely Debbie at 11:30 with Class 11.