July meeting - Masking

Hello again,

Can't believe another month's gone by, soon be Christmas, lol.

Hope you all enjoyed last month's colouring lesson. Hopefully we can have a Part 2 and show you how to use the Prisma pencils and Watercolours we didn't get round to.

On the subject of colouring, Hobbycraft have got a big summer sale on and the packs of 5 Promarkers are only 4.74 Cheaper than anywhere online at the moment. Preston had loads in the other day.

Inspirations (formerly Cardcraft plus) have got lots of lovely things including a good choice of the Magnolia "Tilda" stamps, as well as Copic Sketch markers at 4.99 each and the Ciao's which are 2.29 each.

Right, on to this months topic, we will be doing "masking" showing you how to combine background stamps with character stamps.





If you have any stamps that you think would work together please bring them along, as usual I have plenty to borrow.

At long last we have a birthday this month, so if you could all bring a birthday card for Sheila.

Finally, fingers crossed if she is feeling up to it Tina will be joining us, will be lovely to see her back.

June meeting - Colouring

Hello everyone,

Well it looks like summer has returned today, thank goodness. Hope you are all well and looking forward to next week's meeting.

This time we won't be making a card but looking at different colouring mediums, Promarkers, Copics, Prisma pencils and Watercolours. Wendy and I will show you how we use them and hopefully you can pick up some tips or vice versa if you do something different we can learn from you.



If you could bring some stamped images or stamps that you'd like to practise on that would be great and whatever you use to colour with.

When using Promarkers/Copics you need to use Memento ink and coated card so I have invested in some for the club box along with a couple of sets of Promarkers then everyone can have a go.

One of my blogging buddies Creative Coops has just put a great Promarker Tutorial on her blog and you can find it here her cards are amazing and have been an inspiration to me, go and have a look.

Here's another tutorial this time for Skin colour using Copics. You will find lots great tips and techniques for all sorts of things on this blog

and here's one for using Prisma's.

If you look on You Tube there are lots of tutorials.

Right that's it for now, got to go to Stamper's Gallery, can you belive I've run out of double sided sticky tape!

See you on Tuesday

Another successful evening

As promised a photo of tonight's creations, hope you all had a lovely evening, I am so pleased everyone is enjoying it. I'd just like to say thank you to Marie for helping the newer people out and Wendy and Tina we missed you.



Left to right, top to bottom
Sarah, Chris, Sheila
Linda, Marie, Margaret B
Sue, Ron, Chelsea



Did anybody else "tweak" their's when they got home? I added some flowers to mine.

See you all next time for some colouring lessons.

May meeting - Easel Card

Hello everyone, it's that time again. Hope you are all well.

First of all I have a bit of bad news. Tina won't be joining us for a little while, unfortunately two days after our last meeting she suffered a stroke. The good news is she in on her way to recovery and came home after just two weeks in hospital, but has a long hard journey in front of her. I'm sure you'll all join me in wishing her well as quickly as possible. If anyone would like to send her a card I will gladly pass them on.

This month we will be making an Easel Card and using border punches, really simple to make but looks great.





You will need to bring:-

Two same size card blanks (any size will do)
Papers/Coloured card
Stamps or Image to fit your chosen card size
Sentiment
Embellishments - Brads, flowers, ribbon etc

plus your basic tools

If you have any border punches please bring them, if not there will be some to use.

I happened to notice The Glitter Pot have got some lovely new Penny Black stamps in, these were what we used last month. Why not have a look and see if any jump in your basket!

We do not have any birthdays this month but Marie came up with the idea to display all our finnished cards on a table, so we can get ideas from each other. I will bring my camera and take a picture to put on here afterwards.

See you on Tuesday 11th.

Basic Tools required for Cardmaking

It was lovely to see so many new faces at Craft Club on Tuesday, I found this article in a magazine and thought it would be useful for the new people. If you click on the picture it will enlarge it so you can read it, but it gives a list and description of the basic tools needed.








I hope you all enjoyed the class and look forward to seeing you next month.

Check out this blog - Crafty Cardmakers

One of the Docraft members set up this blog a while ago, it is aimed at less confident crafters and begginer bloggers. There is a new challenge every other Monday which you can take part in, even if you don't have a blog you can enter by email.

Best of all there are some brilliant tutorials by Vicky from basics of stamping, to colouring, to setting up your own blog.

Just click on the link to take you there and add to your favourites for next time.

April Meeting

Well, so much for British Summer Time, hasn't the weather been awful. Hope you've all have a good Easter and got plenty of crafting done over the Bank Holidays.

I'd just like to say thank you for all my birthday cards. With all my friends from Docrafts I got over 30 handmade cards! I enjoyed spending all my birthday money at the Leigh show and think I led Tina astray, we had a lovely day and bumped into Mary and Joyce.

Margaret I hope you had a lovely birthday too and look forward to seeing you in June.

You will notice it's Elsie's birthday this month. She has not been for the last couple of months as she has been in and out of hospital and is undecided as to whether she is coming back. I will bring a card for everyone to sign rather than all make individual ones. Hope this is okay.

Right on to this month's project we are having a Penny Black theme and will be making a Zig Zag card. If you have any Penny Black stamps please bring them along with you, if not, there will be plenty to borrow.





You will need:

Two card blanks - I have used square ones but will work with A5
Backing papers
Embellishments
Penny black stamp(s) - appropriate size for card blank of your choice
Score board/Tool

Usual basics

See you Tuesday 13th.