September meeting - Swing Card

Hello everyone, Hope you've all had a good summer and enjoyable holidays. We had a week camping in Scarborough, which was hard work. I am not a camping person, the simple life is not for me! Looking forward to getting back to normal, you will all hear the big sigh of relief from me next week when all the kids are back at school! Believe it or not I am actually in Christmas mode, so that's what the plan is for next week (although not necessary if you don't want to). I've found this nice little Swing card that's a bit different together with instructions, so I can't take the blame if your cards are wrong. I have followed them and it's pretty easy.

You will need:- A piece of card measuring 6" x 9" (which will make a 6 x 6 card, Two images or an image and a sentiment for the centre, Pattered papers to decorate, Embellishments / sentiments, Ruler, pencil and scoring tool. See you all next week. Sarah x

July meeting - 9th White embossing and Kraft card

Hi everyone, First of all apologies for cancelling last month, as there would have only been four of us I felt it wasn't worth while. I realise people are going to have holidays and things coming up, so really need to decide what to do in the future if there are not many of us. On the plus side I have found my mojo, just need to get more organised and try and find some nice projects in advance and get my email out sooner. This month we will be playing with white embossing powder and Kraft card for a change. The images can be left as they are or coloured with your pens or pencils. Big stamps especially flowers (as you will see from my cards) work well, or detailed ones if leaving them plain. If you have white embossing powder and Kraft card that would be great, if not I will bring some, so you do not need to go out and buy it just for the evening. A heat gun would be handy too, although I have two and the club one. If you want to make you embossed images into a card on the night don't forget your other bits and pieces otherwise you can just play with the stamps. There are no birthdays this month. Look forward to seeing as many of you as possible. Sarah x

April meeting - Script Stamps

Hi everyone, Hope you all had a lovely Easter. I'm last minute as usual, it's becoming a habit now. Too many things to do and not enough time! Doesn't help the way the weeks fly by. Anyway, this month we will be playing with script stamps. Don't worry if you haven't got any, we can share. I haven't got any samples made (hopefully will make some over the next few days) but I have pinched some ideas off the internet. You could use background stamps as an alternative to patterned papers, or use them with other stamps and the masking technique. I have some lovely Penny Black collage stamps with script on which look nice inked in different colours or with the brush markers. You will need your basic cardmaking stuff, coloured inkpads (distress inks) might be handy if you have any. Cardblanks and papers etc if you wish to make a card rather than just stamp images. One birthday this month and it's Margaret Jackson. See you on Tuesday. Sarah

February meeting - 12th

Hi everyone, Hope you're all looking forward to next week's meeting - they soon come round. Well I said I was going to stick to square cards in future after my mishaps with measurements so here it is - a 6x6 card

with a difference, it has a pop up insert

Here's Wendy's sample

You can either use two 6 x 6" card blanks or one with a patterned piece of 6 x 12" for the insert (it's needs to be quite thick), patterned papers for decorating, images and/or sentiments any embellishments, pencil, ruler, tape, craft knife, scoring board and tool - if you have a 12 x 12 board these save so much messing about. I will bring my Big Shot if anyone wants to use it. We have four birthdays this month! Wendy, Sue, Lin and Ron so you better get busy gluing and sticking. Before I go, just want to share a picture of my gorgeous baby girl and the others, can't believe she's nearly 8 months old already. These were taken just before Christmas.

See you all next week Sarah

January meeting - 8th

Happy New Year to you all. Thank you to those that came to the Christmas meal it was a lovely night and the food was fabulous as always. I hope you had a lovely Christmas and managed to avoid all the nasty bugs going round. I'm so glad to get back to normal, craft club appears to be upon us rather quick thanks to the 1st falling on a Tuesday. A friend sent me this little project I thought we could do as I haven't had chance to trawl the internet for ideas and am only just findin my craft mojo. If anybody has any suggestions or there is anything specific you fancy doing let me know. What with all the coughs and sneezes about these tissue holders should be handy and would make a nice little Get Well, along with some chocolates of course.

(These aren't mine - pic taken from a blog) You will need an A4 sheet of card, papers to decorate, an image (the one I've used is approx 9x9cm), embellishments and for the aperture you can either cut it freehand or use a nestie. Needs to be no wider than 4.5cm. I will bring some tissues. It's Val's birthday this month, so don't forget your card. Look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday. Sarah x