Winners 2015

At our last busy workshop for 2015 we announced the winner and runner up for our "Card for All Seasons" competition. We consulted a panel of judges, representing different age groups, for their opinions and comments on the cards and boxes. All our entrants were given positive feedback for their entries as the standard was very high. Several of the judges commented that they were "blown away" by the quality of the boxed cards and the amount of work that had gone into creating the whole package.

Kay was our overall winner with her Bee themed box. She received comments such as "Great attention to detail and a good finish to all cards", "Excellent presentation, great theme. I particularly like the black and white card with the glitter" and "I like playing Hunt the Bee!"

And Katharine was our Runner Up this year. Her box was a "By the Sea" theme. Judges commented that her collection was "A good mixture of funny and serious cards", and that she "Shows a good eye for colour" and has a "Very high quality finish on all the cards"

Well done to you both and indeed to all of the entrants for the hard work you put in.

We also present our annual awards at our final workshop. This year we chose a 007 theme to coincide with the new James Bond film - Spectre. 

As this is the latest release and relative newcomer to the James Bond family,  our first "Spectre" award was presented to our Best Newcomer for 2015 - Julie.

Rachael, Jackie and Brenda were presented with the "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" award for Loyalty and Attendance at most, if not all of our workshops this year.

Karen and Penny received "The World is Not Enough" Active Support award for their help and support at Village Day and for refreshments and helping to pack up after workshops.

Rachael and Katharine were awarded this year's Patience and Perseverance "Never Say Never Again" award, not for their efforts at crafting this time, but for their selling technique at Village Day

Sue was presented with the "Diamonds Are Forever" Crafting Personality award as she enjoys her crafting and has been very supportive throughout the year in various ways.

Sally was presented with the "Goldeneye" trophy for High Quality work this year, showing a good eye for detail.

And Katharine was presented with the "Goldfinger" award for being this year's "Most Creative" member. 

Well done to all. Look forward to seeing those of you who are coming to the Christmas meal on the 9th. Just to confirm it is 8pm at the Brewery.

Merry Christmas!

Last workshop for 2015

Well the two weeks since the last workshop have flown by!! And here we are again for our second November workshop and our final one for the year. As is the tradition for this last workshop we will be presenting prizes to the winners of our challenges - this year the Card for All Seasons challenge and also the Christmas Card individual card challenge.

We also have our Annual Awards and our charity raffle. Don't forget to bring your donations of prizes and ideas for which charity or charities you would like us to donate to this year.

There will be some time for Mince Pies and light crafting too! Quick Christmas cards or money wallets and gift boxes is the plan! (Money not included!)

We will be finalising numbers for the Christmas meal tomorrow night too (Wed 9th Dec 8pm at the Brewery) so if you have not yet made your menu choice or given us your deposit then please give us a shout tomorrow.

The Pinterest Board for ideas for next year has been set up and you should have received an invite to pin if you are on Pinterest. Let me know if you haven't received it. I have transferred across some of the ideas that were pinned towards the end of this year and pinned some other ideas that have been mentioned at Card Club.

Competition time...

So this month I can't give much away as we have decided to make Wednesday a "Technical Challenge Competition" workshop, with all cards made being entered for our Summer competition. This is in place of our usual Summer competition, normally judged at Village Day.

This year our judge will be on hand to demonstrate techniques and ideas then you will interpret the ideas according to the brief and create your own card. The winner will win back their membership and there will be crafty prizes for the runner up. All I will say is that the technique involves working with Promarkers. If you do have your own Promarkers or equivalent you are welcome to bring them, but please make sure each pen is marked with your initials or some other form of identifying who it belongs to.

See you on Wednesday - happy colouring!

Mary Christmas to all!

Lots of awards at the last workshop. Lucky that Mary Berry was on hand to present our "Great British Make Off Awards!" - (this year's theme for our Annual club awards to say thank you to various people who have helped us this year.)

Winner(s) of the "Technical Challenge Award" for demos and Pinterest ideas - Sue (and Kay P)

Winner of the "Recycle Bingate Award" for patience and perseverance with a project - Vanessa

Winner of the "Signature Make Award" for sharing her techniques and style - Kay B

Winners of the "Even Make" award for loyalty and attendance - Brenda and Penny

Winner of the "On your marks, Get set, Make! Award" for Best Newcomer - Elaine

Winners of the "Soggy Bottom Award" for helping out all day at a very rainy Village Day - Mandy (and Karen W)

Winner of the "Showstopper Award" for all round high quality work - Billy

And our "Star Maker Award" goes to Linda W for doing demos, entering all competitions and generally producing work of a very high standard.

A very big thank you to you all and to Mary Berry for remaining so cheerful throughout the evening!

Then there was the bi-monthly challenge. You again voted for your favourites (see Christmas Creativity post) and entries this time were actually ranked in the order shown on the blog with Kay B's entry (A) being the winner this month. 

Kay was also the winner of our overall Dec this Journal Competition. 

Kay's Winning Journal Entries

Thank you to Sandy and friends at the Craft Barn for judging and for donating a gift voucher as part of Kay's Prize.

Linda's Completed "Dec This Journal"

Linda W. was runner up in the Competition.

Billy's Journal was also Highly Commended by Sandy and her team.

Billy's Highly Commended "Dec This Journal"

Well done to all our other entrants too. It was great to have lots of entries for our bi-monthly challenges and fantastic that so many of you stuck with the challenge throughout the year to complete your journals.

We also fitted in some card making - a few last minute Christmas cards and the odd thank you card.

Mary was worn out, but still smiling as she was driven away in her chauffered limo!

Happy Christmas to you all and all the best for 2015. Keep pinning those ideas and see you on 28th January (or 17th December for those of you coming to the Christmas meal.)