Busy crafting away

What a busy week I had with craft!  I had three meets this time on Tuesday, Wednesday and today.  I had a busy couple of days at home to get my preparations done for these meets.

Tuesday was just a casual meet at the craft store and I started on a new project.  This time I wanted to complete an album for one of my Aunties because she asked my parents for some photos of my kids.  After I finish this one I hope to do another one for another Auntie who lives up north. Either of them don't barely have alot of photos of us, so it will be a great opportunity for them to have a keepsake of what their neice created.

Wednesday was a four hour workshop at the consultant's home.  We just had to complete a simple layout with one or two photos and using some scrap papers.  But I was alittle different I decided to use five photos of different sizes.  It looks good!

Today's meet was more a fund raise event for sick kids which went for seven hours.  CM has been involved with this fund raise event for three years now and it is now becoming an annual event at around this time of the year.  I heard so far they have raised around $97K from three events.  It might be abit of time before I hear how we will go this year. 

Anyway I didn't win any prizes but I did have a good productive day on using some new tools they introduced. This month, CM has introduced a border punch system and four new punches.  One of the tools looks very similar to a three hole punch and the other is smaller where you add the punch inside and press the handle down. This tool would suit people who suffer a medical condition to their hands. Both of these tools work together to make a neat border of your paper. Don't worry, I make an order of the system and three punches which I should received within a week or so.  I thought I would do it now because I am not sure how long this product will be available to purchase.

Our event did included lunch at the tavern, which was situated upstairs.  Most of us have been there before so we knew what to expect. When we all first arrived to the function room, we had to pick one dish from a choice of five dishes, served with their salad bar.....steak, chicken, pasta, fish and pork so it can be made and ready by 12:30pm. Take a guess what I picked??  There were about 35 of us ladies and we all had some kind of meat from that menu.  No one complain!  We all said it was great and believe me, you definiately get your money's value from this place.  But unfortunately their drinks is a different story through.

Good news!  I found out our camp scheduled for November is back on.  But my consultant is only taking 15 ladies with her to sleep over at the venue for only two nights.  At first I thought I couldn't go because of a bowling tournament that weekend but I have made prior arrangements for my daughters to make sure they get to that venue that weekend.

More craft tips

Unfortunately I only had one scrap meet this week as the workshop to supposely take place this weekend has been cancelled. Also I found out our camp planned for November has been cancelled. Not happy Jan!

Yesterday I managed to finish off one of my daughters albums at long last and now I am back to working on another couple of projects I am going to try and finish off this year. 

Time to add some more tips for this month. This one is abit of a variety for stampers and scrappers.

1. You should store your inkpads upside down to avoid having your inkpads drying out at the top.

2. If you aren't sure what coloured cardstock or papers to use to layer your image on, choose a colour from your photos.
3. If the rubber on your rubber stamps is turning white, apply a light coat of glycerin over the rubber to avoid ghosting.  You can find glycerin from your local pharmacy.
4. It's recommend to stamp your rubber stamp with Veramark ink first before using permanent inks, otherwise it's more difficult to clean after use.
5. Lightly sand your shrink plastic first before stamping on it.
6. You should always clean your rubber stamps after use.  If your stamps are hard to clean, try using antibacterial hand wash.

New workshop ideas

I had an enjoyable week by attending two scrap meets.  On Tuesday it was just a casual meet with another person but it was more exciting this time as the other ladies who come into the store weekly had share some jokes with us.  Believe me you got to be an open minded person to hear the jokes they said.

Tonight I had attended to a four hour workshop until midnight.  It was abit of a mixed bag with ideas this time to use two new punches, create a paper fan and use some decorative cardstock (which is known as diecuts).  I didn't get time to try out the new punches but I managed to do two pages with using the diecuts and made one paper fan.

Our consultant decided to have a competition going to see who was the first person to try to create a paper fan.  Turns out afew of us tried the challenge at the same time and had to have our names in the draw to win either a cardstock pack or sheet of stickers.  And guess who was the winner up front??  Little old me!!  I won the cardstock pack while two other ladies won a sheet of large stickers each.

When I placed an order of two albums for the price of one deal, I found out I was entitled to a free mini paper album as well which I was quite surprised. The two albums I ordered are the ones where you just add your completed pages inside (like an envelope).  The paper album I chose was a Christmas theme based.

Guess this weekend I will be busy doing some more scrap preparations as I have another two workshops, an all day meet and a couple of casual meets at the store this month.