EK Crop & Craft Update

I just realised that as my poor wee blog has been neglected for so long until I posted the cj pics yesterday I hadnt updated on how the new crop went.

Audrey and I were delighted as 18 people turned up to both the June and the July ones and in fact not the same 18 for both due to holidays etc. We could not believe the response. Its fab. They are such a great bunch of crafting girlies and we have been told that there is such a friendly atmosphere which is exactly what we wanted to achieve. After paing the rent the profits from the June one were passed on to Karen (one of our members) who is running a series of charity crops this year to raise funds for Arthritis care as her daughter suffers from this badly. Audrey and I felt that was a fitting way to start what we hope will be a real community group. The profit from the July crop has gone to buy some second hand trestle tables so that we can accomodate more crafters in months to come. We hope the club continues to go from strength to strength and are delighted to have the support of Angel of Angel Crafts who comes along to crop but also brings along her yummy shop to tempt us all with crafting lovlieness.

I am hoping to blog more regularly once my blog has a makeover courtesy of a lovely teamie on a cj I am doing on UKS at the moment. I just need to get my ideas to her. I know exactly the look I want in my head but translating that into something written down is proving more difficult.

I will leave you with a couple of recent layouts as its ages since I posted any here

This one is of my Mum aged four with my grandparents. I have used Lily Bee Papers from the This and That range from a recent Gottacraft kit - you cant really see from the photo but the flower has been made from a circle of cream tulle gathered up with a flower made from black lace on top. I think this is my favourite layout I have done for a while

This next one was done for a recently weekly challenge set by Jo (Wonky) and is a picture of Tynemouth Priory which I took the first weekend I stayed with my friend Heather.

and the final one for now is one of my daughter and her friend when they were carrying on posing for funny photos at the caravan a few years ago. I used glimmer mists on the background paper but the camera hasnt picked these up very well.

Take One Sketch CJ

I have just embarked on another cj on UKS. This one is a sketch one and I am hoping that mine comes back and fills me full of inspiration.

I wanted this to be a wee bit different to my other cjs so I have made the pages with C5 manilla envelopes so that the right hand side of ,a double  page will form a pocket to hold the sketch and sign in instad of a tag. .

I have attached a few piccies of it.

For some reason the picture of the front cover has gone all yellow which it isnt really in real life.

Good News

Hello everyone. It has taken me.longer than anticipated to be able to post this as I wanted everythimg in place first My friend Audrey and I have managed to secure a great hall at a good.rent to start a crop/craft club. We are so excited. We will be on the third Saturday of the month beginning in June. We will be completelu non profit making with accounts and an AGM every year. We want the crop to have the feel of a community club. We will be called EK Crop & Craft. Let's just hope people will join us. I am so excited about this. If anyone wants to come along then please get in touch. All kinds of crafters welcome. Likewise if anyone has any good ideas for simple but effective make and takes they don't mind sharing then please let me know.

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Charity crop

Hi everyone. Busy weekend this weekend.  Audrey and I went to a.charity crop on Kilmarnock run by Karen to raise money for arthritis care Her lovely daughter Katie is.blighted my this and Karen has been fundraising for this.  We didnt get there till lunchtime due to an important appointment on the morning but once that is confirmed I will spill the beans on that one. We has a great day and o worked on my entry for Leanies cj. We had to put something we had been working on out at the end and Melanie from Arthritis care.judged them and I won. I was.chuffed as I never win anything. The prize was a lovely frame for.displaying a layout in.

I also made a card for my son Fraser to give his lovely girlfriend for her 21st. I am pleased with the way it turned out.

Back tomorrow with some exciting news I hope.

Easter break

I am just back to work today after having an 11 day break and all in all I only had to use 4 days annual leave.

I started off by driving down to Holystone to visit my lovely UKS friend Heather and stayed there until Sunday. We had a 12 hour crop on the Saturday and it was lovely to meet up with all the girls again - now that the caravan season is in full swing I will hopefully be down more often.

I only managed four layouts as I think I must having been chatting too much lol.

Some of them did take me a bit of time as this one had a lot of handmade flowers on. It is a photo I scanned which my Mum had taken on her 21st Birthday and is a photo I have always liked. I did want to take my time with this layout and get it just right. I used the Emmas Shoppe Crate papers from the last Gottacraft kit.

test post from my mobile

Right then. I am posting this from my new mobile just to see if it works.