Around the World in 80 Hours - Challenge 1 - PASSPORTS

 

YOUR PASSPORT

Well we can't travel in person but lets make a passport so we can travel with ATDML this weekend.  Your first challenge is to make a minibook to record the classes and challenges of this weekend.

Jane has made a beautiful example for you which features our event icon as well and there is a downloadable PDF so you can print this off yourself or get creative and make your own version

I hope you rise to this challenge and make yourself a little keepsake of the weekend with us.

December Virtual Crop Class with Ann and Claus & Co

Come join me today and get your festive cheer on with this wonderfully seasonal class where I have made two layouts, a home decor frame and a minibook from one of my favourite kits ever! 

Both layouts I made in under an hour so you have plenty of time to fit this in over the holidays if you don't have the time today.

As always instructions are available to download HERE. I hope you enjoy getting in the spirt of the season with this one! Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy Scrappy last virtual crop day/class for 2019.

April Virtual Crop Class with Ann

My class today features a wedding themed layout (though the kit allows you to go for a more generic general love theme if preferred) where I added a little flicked paint to the white cardstock background to break up what would otherwise be quite a basic, graphic page but this is entirely optional.

I also made a mini book to house all the lovely retreat photos I would have from our weekend away and to make the most of the beautiful Ephemera pack pieces in the kit.

As always we would love to see what you make with your class kit so please share with us.

Your instructions for these projects can be found HERE and I hope you enjoy making them.

Happy Easter to you all, and enjoy virtual crop day x

November Journaling Prompts

Eeeek sorry for the belated prompts this month (a certain irony in the prompts not being prompt) but here we are a whole week late!

This month's prompt is:

Top Ten Style - this could be a list of favourite things, a Christmas list (as shown below) a holiday destinations list or anything else you can list.


 My first example isn't a layout but a mini book I made ages ago documenting the top ten places I wanted to go to. It was a class at our Spring 2008 retreat and I was really pleased to see that since I made the book I have ticked four of the top ten off my list...

This one kind of feels like cheating a little bit because I used it to illustrate a previous promot but it includes the very sweet top ten list of Christmas things Isabelle wanted for Christmas when she was about three. Sadly now at 13 and a half the list is slightly longer and less sweet (top of the list this year is a ticket to see Hamilton!) 

Class 7 - ZOO-OPOLY with Ann

This is my second class and is inspired by the Zoo themed monopoly game. Whilst the papers in this class are nice generic everyday theme I used them to make a mini-book with the Fancy Pants Board book kit of a recent trip to a safari park in Fuertaventura on my holiday earlier this month.

Class instructions for this mini-book can be downloaded HERE and to play along at home without the kit just dig out some chipboard pieces if you have them or use old pizza boxes for a chunky cover to some cardstock pages. You can hopefully take some inspiration from some of the interactive elements included.

Here is a quick flick through video of the completed book as it's often easier to understand things visually rather than just reading written instructions.

I hope you will share some photos of your projects in our Cybercrop class Album HERE.

Next on the agenda after this class is your fourth challenge SCRABBLE at 8pm.

May Virtual Crop Class 3 with Debs

Debs is having some blogger issues so I am posting this on her behalf...

Afternoon All, doesn't Meghan look classically beautiful? Nothing like a wedding to put one in the mood for a little romance and nothing like Spring for fresh, pretty photographs. 

These pretty papers from Bo Bunny lend themselves to showcasing Spring photographs of gardens or baby animals or, as in my case, pictures of my girlies. 

This VC I have chosen to use these papers to create a 'Brag Book' to send to the girls' granny who lives abroad. There is so much in this kit you can make as many or as few pages as you like.

Instructions can be found here and please do share what you have been up to over on the ATDML # Create Facebook Page.

Kaisercraft Documented mini book

Hey scrappy friends, its Ann here today.
Loved, loved, loved the new Kaisercraft Documented collection which is a school themed set that includes stationery themed pages, maps, ledgers, locker doors, alphabets and more. The neutral colours also mean that no matter the colour of your child's school uniform they are going to work, so I made a cute mini book to house school photos of my youngest who is soon to leave Primary school (where did the years go!!).

I made this little mini book (sometimes called a maze book) from one sheet of white 12x12 card (you can use any colour) which is scored at 3",6" and 9", then rotated round 90 degrees and scored again at 3", 6" and 9". This gives you a set of 16 squares, each 3" x 3". You then score the dotty lines and cut the solid lines as illustrated below.

I'm sure several of you will have made these before, they aren't new but worthy of resurrecting every now and then for a cute minibook format. Once you have your piece prepared as above you folder along the score lines in alternative ways, so fold under the first score line and over the second and keep repeating until the end. This makes a stack of 3" square pages which when you manipulate round in your hand you find a way that works to open like a book and figure out which pieces to stick down back to back to make pages, and some which can be left open at the top to make pockets.

I then made a cover to wrap around the outside from black card. and decorated my pages with the lovely papers. This book was perfect for an introduction page and then 7 pairs of pages to showcase primary school photos from reception through to year 6. 

Adding stamping and washi tapes gives more interest but as flat embellishments these don't add bulk to your little book which would otherwise be tough to close! Worth mentioning that these papers don't just have to be used for school themed projects - they are versatile enough for other subjects and I have used the map paper for a travel pages and pieces from all of them for a graduation photo layout.

More images of pages can be found in the February ATDML gallery along with more inspiration using Kaisercraft latest releases from the team.

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.

Class 13 with Jane - The Queen

So we've reached class 13 - (good job 13 is my lucky number -well it's the date of my birthday)!  I was certainly lucky to be invited to a Royal garden party at Buckingham Palace this year so my next class is in honour of Her Majesty. This is a really simple book and I love the colour combination - a peachy pink the same colour as The Queen's dress, navy blues the same colour as my outfit and light blue the same colour as Kate's dress. I hope you are just as lucky with your photos!

Here's the front cover...

And some sneak peeks inside the book...

Instructions for the book can be found here...

I hope you will come back at 10am to join Debbie for class 14! Have fun!

Class 6 with Jane - Rear Window

The title for this should have been ‘Windows on the World’ except that I don’t think that is a film!! But the Hitchcock classic Rear Window is one of my favourites, and since this class features little windows that open...

I wanted to use the Piggy Tales Windows as a way of giving glimpses of what is inside a folded page. The instructions show how the book structure is made but then how you decorate it is up to you - below I have shown each page in my book to give you ideas. Each page is a double spread which opens up - so the first picture shows it closed then the next picture shows the spread opened up.

First here's the front cover...

Then the pages - one by one (there are lots!)

 Instructions for this class can be found here...

Come back at 12:00 for Tricia's first class - enjoy!

July Virtual Crop Class 3 with Ann using Carta Bella Old World Travel

Your last class of the day is a mini book using Carta Bella Old World Travel paper and a scalloped mini book with book rings.

The class shows you how to add variety and interest to a blank mini book such as this, creating your own pockets, flaps and interactive elements. My instructions to complete the class can be downloaded from our website HERE

I hope you enjoy. Don't forget to join in with our challenges too this month, just scroll back through the blog to find them :) Happy Saturday.

Heavily Influenced by Jane

Hello Lovelies - this week I have been heavily influenced by Jane.  I love her Saturday Videos that she posts on the second Saturday of each month, in particular the ones featuring her amazing mini album.

Our daughter graduates in July and it has been a long six years from start to finish of her University education.  She has had three very good friends who she has gone through the past five years with and they are all graduating on the same day.

I had planned on making her a little mini album to put her graduation photos in and asked her if the other girls would like one too and she said 'They would love it, mum!' so the decision was made.  I would make four mini albums, all the same. I used a mixture of Simple Stories ranges - The Story of Us and the Grad Collection.

I used Jane's locking pocket pages from this video 

and her envelope pages from this video.

I used simple library pockets in between so as not to over complicate the albums.

I am thrilled with the result - pages cut on my Silhouette so the album bases are very quick to put together and once I had made one it was fairly quick to copy it for the other three.

I can't wait to give each of the girls their little album but more than that can't wait to see them all graduate.