Voxter Weekend

Members of Shetland Scrapbookers gathered for a weekend of scrapbooking, chat and techniques at Voxter on the 11th/12th May. 

The weather on the Saturday was overcast and dull and rain was threatening but we didn’t care as we were going to spend two days scrapbooking with no one disturbing us. Bliss.  

After unpacking all our bits and pieces everyone set to in either finishing off previous classes, some of us had done a little pre planning  whilst Joan and Sonia had more ambitious projects to keep them occupied over the next two days.  

Sonia was on a big catch up session of the family photos so over the weekend produced a large set of layouts.  I think she nearly filled an album. Very impressive.  Joan’s project for the weekend  was scrapbooking members of the family  tree. 

I think by the end of day one she had completed 8. What was really amazing was that  Joan could go that far back in her family history and even over the weekend there was 3 generations of the family happily crafting.  

During the day we also managed to have a demo, from Julie,  on using the melting pot and gilding flakes. Margaret came to the rescue here as Julie’s glue had solidified. Next time must remember to bring spares when away from home.  

We were unlucky with visitors however, Catherine came and spent the day with us and there was lots of ooh’s and aahs from her all day as Sonia took her through making a mini book which  the club made in Aprils meet.  Let’s hope she has enough pocket money to buy  all of the things on her list. She has been warned.

Sunday bought more members along and we had to use two of the  rooms on the ground floor so everyone was popping back and forth to see what was going on and to check on how many cakes were left.  

The club's Cricut and Cuttlebug die cutting machines were kept busy all day as we had the chance to really see what they could do and with members sharing  their own embossing folders and dies we all made a few extra to take home for other projects.  

It was a shame no visitors came along but we did have to compete with 2 car boot sales and teas but Dianne, her niece and  mum spent the afternoon with us so we did get some. 

Margaret and Joan set to too show them some techniques and create some small mini books to take home with them.  So the heat gun came out, punches, embossing powders and the peerie lass became adept at the cricut machine.

It was a really good weekend with  lots of tea and lovely cakes made by the members and although  it was a shame we did not see more visitors we had a good laugh. 

We still left things at home we could have used but all of us managed to use quite of bit of the items we did bring although it didn’t look like it when we packed to go home. Someone must remind us to do this again.

One of Margaret's completed layouts - see the next post for other layouts!

Thank you to Julie for the words and Jo, Julie and Margaret for the photographs.