January meeting

Due to the snowy weather, there were fewer members than usual  at our January meeting. Julie led the session showing members lots of techniques to use on tags.  The Seasons was the theme and the plan is to use these tags in layouts next month.  Members enjoyed doing embossing and using gilding flakes. 

 

 

Here is a selection of Julie's tags showing the embossing technique - this is very effective with a little distress ink applied over the embossing.

 

 

 

This tag was decorated with gilding flakes first and then overlaid with a piece of acetate stamped using StazOn ink.

 



 

Next month's meeting will take place on Saturday 27 February and will be a whole day meeting with the AGM in the morning followed by lunch and then an opportunity to work on layouts in the afternoon.

June Layouts

Some of the June Layouts incorporating Julie's  paper distressing and faux metal embossing.

Linda

Julie

Jennie

Margaret

June Meeting and lots of embossing

Shetland Scrapbookers met yesterday and we had a lovely morning making a layout with embossed letters and embellishments.

Julie led us through this lovely vintage layout which included making a frame and distressing the edges.  The gate and flourishes were cut on the Cricut using the Heritage Cartridge.  The letter U is covered with tiny little photographs - a great feature.

Then Julie demonstrated how to cover our chipboard letters and embellishments with embossing powder and stamping into them when still hot to create some lovely textures.

Members set to to distress their edges and left them drying in the sunshine which appeared through the morning!  The rest of the morning was spent to the sound of the Cricut and the heat guns working overtime!