Charming...

At our March workshop we spent our time making charms and beaded items. We were also "charmed" by our youngest ever participant - 3 week old Martha - Katharine's new addition. Massive congratulations to Katharine and family!! Martha was very well behaved throughout and several of you enjoyed your cuddles!!

Whilst not holding the baby, here are some of the things you got up to!!

Jewellery mesh and beaded bracelet

Friendly plastic

Shrink plastic 

Stampbord

Beaded book mark and bag charms

Beaded bookmarks

Earrings

Lots of variety and not a bad evening's work really considering we were a bit distracted!

There were three entries in our "Fold It" challenge which you also found time to vote for on the night. The winner will be announced next month. Sue W (on holiday in the Isle of Wight this month!) was the winner of the Cut It challenge. Well done Sue!

Your new challenge, due in at the April workshop, is "Wear It", in keeping with our jewellery theme.

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Marching on...

Can't believe it's the end of March already! Anyway tomorrow's workshop will be a jewellery/beading workshop.

We will be revisiting friendly plastic and shrink plastic techniques - creating brooches, charms or embellishments for your cards and jewellery.

We will also revisit beading techniques with a chance to create beaded bookmarks, bag charms, key rings, pendants and even earrings if you wish!

Looking forward to another productive evening.

Introducing...

...our first ever Step by Step guide!! Thanks to Kay for taking the photos during my demo last night and then compiling the Step by Step guide to Stampbord. So now if you need a recap or if you were sitting on the other demo table, or if you missed the workshop you can click on the link above to see how we did the Stampbord!

This is our first one and was a bit of an experiment, so apologies that we do not have similar for Michelle's demo, but we are aiming to feature one demo per month as a Step by Step guide initially. Please let us know what you think.

Kay also took lots of piccies of the finished Stampbord tiles. You are a creative lot aren't you!

And here is what was going on over on Michelle's table. Very impressive too!

An extra day for crafting!

Make the most of the Leap Day tomorrow and come and spend it crafting with us! All back to normal on the demo front after last month's speedcrafting. (but that doesn't mean to say we won't spring another one on you at some point - you know you all enjoyed it really!) Tomorrow night we will be revisiting the distress ink and fairy silhouette stamping technique that proved to be very popular last year.

And continuing the stamping theme, but with a new focus, we will also be looking at the uses of Stampbord tiles for cardmaking, keyrings etc. (see Stampbord website)

Thank you to everyone who attended the AGM. We discussed lots of things and will be incorporating some changes and new ideas as a result. Click here to see a summary of what we discussed. We will update you on anything else tomorrow night.