Lance Anderson (Rusty Pickle) will be with us on Dec2 with an 8x8 album designed by Karen Burniston.

Don't forget to bring some cash along with you, as no doubt Lance will be bringing along a couple of suitcases filled with good value kits to sell.

Autumn news

Hi everyone

Just a further update on our Autumn/Winter classes.

1. We have decided to reduce the room hire fee to £2 per class for September, October and November. There will be no room hire fee for December's class.

2. If you need any more inspiration for photos for next week's album class, you could bring along pictures of family and friends, or special people in your life, a picture of your car, or photos of any special events that have happened this year. These, of course, are only suggestions, and you can bring any photos of any subject along with you. If you have missed either of the 2 previous classes, don't worry, you can just carry on and catch up later. We will have our albums with us for you to remind yourselves of the layouts.

3. Our very exciting news is that Lance Anderson from Rusty Pickle is coming back to Chepstow and will be teaching on Wednesday 2nd December. We will be making an album on a Christmas theme, using Rusty Pickle products, with a bit of Karen Burniston 'pop'. We don't know exactly how much the class will be at the moment, but are expecting it to be in the region of £40.

As I said earlier in the email, there will be no room hire charge for this night. Deposits of at least £10 can be paid from September's class and then payments made each month till November. Unfortunately, we will not be able to put names down on the class list without any payment, as we are expecting this to be a very popular class.

Vanessa's Class- October

In On On On October 7 we will be making a mini album, Vanessa has said it will be a fun, slightly messy and creative session and the cost is £15, which of course, includes the kit. We would be grateful if we could have payment by the very latest the middle of September and you can, of course, pay at next week's class.

You will need to bring a picture of yourselves (or whoever) that can be cropped down to just the figures to go in the car! It's about a few centimetres big per person (could be more than one!) The book is: My Journey and doesn't have to be for travel but could be My 'Creative' Journey, My 'Life' Journey etc...

September Class

Oour next meeting is on Wednesday 9 September at 7.30 pm at Chepstow Rugby Club.

We are going to be carrying on with our album track class. This will be the third class and as usual are hoping to complete 5/6 layouts in the evening. Maz will be teaching the class and the theme of this class will be family and friends. You could bring along pictures of family and friends, or special people in your life, a picture of your car, or photos of any special events that have happened this year. These, of course, are only suggestions, and you can bring any photos of any subject along with you. If you have missed either of the 2 previous classes, don't worry, you can just carry on and catch up later. We will have our albums with us for you to remind yourselves of the layouts.You can of course use photographs on any theme, this is only a suggestion. The class is free of charge and there will be a nominal charge for room hire etc.

Our October class, which will be held on Wednesday 7th October is going to be taught by Vanessa Feuillade from Crafty Ness. Vanessa will be teaching a lovely little travel album and the cost the class is £15, which will of course include the kit. I hopefully, will have a picture of the mini book for you to have a look at, at our September class.

July Class

Dawn and Jo - who are teaching the July class on Wednesday 1 July have sent a picture of the layout they will be teaching, plus a list of materials and tools that you will need to buy.



Although this is a girl layout, because you are bringing in your own papers and materials you can obviously adapt it to a boy layout or a holiday layout or whatever you would want it to be.

This is the list:-

3 patterned papers-I have used a spot,a stripe,and a flower - all 12 x 12

1 plain paper - 12x12

Contrasting thread

Lots of buttons

Small alphabet stickers

Chipboard letters

Tools needed: basic cropping kit plus

Ink pad

Paper piercer

Needle

Foam pads

Sandpaper/distressing tool

Large scallop scissors (I’ll bring mine, and some templates for different shaped backgrounds)


The cost of the class is £2 and we will taking names and payments at the June class.

June Class

Our next meeting is on Wednesday 3 June when we will be continuing with our Album Track class.

Louise will be teaching this class and we will be doing 6 layouts - don't panic - you will be able to do 6 in the night.

The theme of this next class is Favourites (although this is only a prompt/idea, you can use any photos you want). If you do want to follow the theme, here are some ideas of what sort of favourite things you could take photographs of:-

perfume
make up
toiletries
films
music
places
food
drinks
shops
things in your home
books
tv shows
recipes
restaurants
or anything else that is a favourite of yours.

If you have any stamps, inks, letter stickers, punches, decorative edge scissors, please bring them along with you, although the Club does have a good selection of stamps and punches that you can use to embellish your layouts.

Also, make sure you bring your offcuts of paper and cardstock from the last class, so you can use them on the next few layouts.

If you didn't come to the last Album track class in March, don't worry, you can still start in June and Louise, Ailsa and myself will have our albums with us, so that you can either draw or photograph the layouts you missed in March and do them in your own time.

The class is free of charge, but don't forget to bring along your cardstock, paper and photographs (although you can add photos at a later date).

Ellie from ModScraps will be bringing along her shop, so if you need anything you can always buy it on the night.

Jane Dean Saturday 2 May

Jane Dean will be teaching the class on Saturday and has sent us a sneak preview of this fabulous project;

This class was created by Karen Burniston in the USA and Jane has the licence to teach it here in the UK. The class 
can be adapted to either winter, family or travel themes. 
9 sheets good quality cardstock (can be all the same colour or matching colours) 
(Alternatively 8 pieces of 6x12 chipboard and 1 sheet cardstock plus paint 
to cover chipboard) 
6 sheets matching patterned paper 
Book rings or bind it all tool & wire 
 
All photographs can be added later 
 
Tools: 
Adhesive. I use glue sticks to cover the whole area, PVA glue and a 
brush 
will work well but obviously it's not acid free. Each page is made by 
covering the surface of 12x12 cardstock and folding it in half. Once 
dried 
it adds strength to the pages. 
Double sided strong sticky tape 
Scoring tool 
Sharp cutting knife and spare blades 
Pencil 
Metal ruler 
Cutting mat 
Rubber 
Scissors 
Ink pad to ink edges of paper if required 
Hole punch or bind it all 

For more information contact Louise or Pam.