Shetland Scrapbookers

Monday, 29 February 2016

February meeting

The February meeting was a whole day meeting with the AGM in the morning and then time for members to work on their own layouts before a lovely lunch from the local Chinese takeaway. We were able to continue working on our layouts in the afternoon.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Shetland Scrapbookers all members were presented with an apron with an embroidered logo on it - no-one wanted to get these lovely aprons dirty! We would like to thank local artist Forbes Hogg for designing the logo and John Kemp Ltd in Orkney for doing the embroidery.

As Julie and Margaret will both be leaving Shetland in the near future, members thought it would be nice to have a photo of the two of them wearing their aprons of course!

Sunday, 28 February 2016

Members' layouts

Julie and Ann worked hard at the February meeting and finished their layouts.

This is Julie's layout - note the poppy which was coloured with alcohol ink.

Ann used a Tim Holtz Thinlits die set "Scribbles and Splat" in her layout - we loved the scribbly heart!

Here are 2 tags which Jo made last month on the theme of The Seasons.

Sunday, 31 January 2016

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.

Members' layouts

Although members really enjoyed making the wall hangings in November most of these were given away as Christmas presents! However here are a few that Ann L made.