April Meeting : Journal Mini Book

Our theme for April was a Journal Mini Book and Jennie designed these small journal's from a single sheet of 12 x 12 cardstock for us to make.

Inside the books had pockets and places for tags and journalling.

Jennie also used the Stampin Up Envelope Board not to make envelopes but to create the fancy edging around some of the pockets.

It was a huge turn out of members (including new ones) on what was a glorious April Saturday!

We even had an overflow to our usual main table!

Next month Karen will be giving us a layout sketch to work from. 

Look forward to seeing you all on the 28 May.

A Layout Without Photographs

For our May meeting Jennie designed a layout without photographs. This had been requested by a member of the group last year as a possible theme and was based on the idea that this would make a good page to start an album or as an opposing page for one which had a lot of photographs in it.

There are plenty of places on the layout for journalling cards - inside the embossed vellum envelope, in the pocket above  the envelope and under large vertical band.

Jennie showed how to make envelopes very easily with the Stampin Up Envelope Board and some members got quite hooked on making little ones for layouts!

We were few in number as quite a number of members were away, but there was plenty of room to spread out!

And Jessie made these wonderful home bakes!

The next meeting is on Saturday 27 June when Julie will be leading a Masculine Layout with Sepia Photographs.

January Layouts by Members

Kay

Ann

Wilma

Jennie

Elizabeth

January 2014 : Pink Framed Layout

The theme for our January meeting was a framed layout and Julie designed this wonderful layout with a large number of different techniques! - stamping with Gesso, working with beads,, buttons and wire and making a paper clay cameo.

This was our last meeting of the current year.  We kick off next year with our AGM on Saturday 22 February 2014 at 10am.  Please bring layouts to work on - a good opportunity to complete some of those unfinished ones. 

The new programme will commence with our March meeting - a challenge layout.

Small Photograph Layout

Jennie led our October meeting designing a layout for a small photograph - but also a good layout for utilising those wonderful pages you don't want to cut into!

As well as taking us through the layout she also showed us how to make these flowers using the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals Die.

Despite being the school Autumn holiday and a number of members being away we had a good turnout and enjoyed some of Kay's fabulous home bakes!

Cricut Crazy!

Our June meeting concentrated on using the Cricut and Julie and Jennie both came up with a different layout using various different cartridges belonging to the Group.

The Cricut was in much demand!

Julie 

Jennie

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!