Sunday 14 December 2008

2009 Dates

The dates for the 2009 crops are as follows:

SUN 8TH FEB
SUN 8TH MARCH
SUN 5TH APRIL
SUN 3RD MAY
SUN 7TH JUNE
SUN 12TH JULY
SUN 9TH AUG

Christmas Crop!!

It was lovely to see everyone at the crop today, we all had a good play with the Dreamkuts and the Bind It All machine and everyone was really pleased with their little acrylic books- I think there were a few last minute xmas presents in the making there!!

We have now 'broken up' for the christmas break and will not be meeting again until February 8th! The hall is being decorated in January so that is why we are not meeting up till Feb! So in the meantime keep checking the blog for some scrapping inspiration and and maybe a challenge or two!

Merry Christmas to all of you, enjoy and savour this wonderful time of year,

Jules xxx

Thursday 11 December 2008

Class Schedule for Sunday 14th December

DOORS OPEN 9-45 AM (KETTLE WILL BE ON!)

XMAS MUSIC WILL BE ON AND MINCE PIES WILL BE OUT!

10-30 - 11-30 DECEMBERS LAYOUT- YOU'RE SO SQUARE

1PM MINI BOOK CLASS

DOORS CLOSE 4-45PM

Acrylic covered spiral bound mini book


The afternoon class this Sunday will be teaching you how to make this cute little 4x4 mini book. I will guide you step by step through this class teaching you how to cut, fold and assemble a very professional looking spiral bound book. We will use the Dreamkuts paper cutter, origami paper folding techniques and the wonderful Bind It All machine to bind the book with wires. The book can be prepared and the photos added at a later date! [ this is a brilliant idea for a last minute xmas pressie]
The class is free! However, if you wish to make the book along with me you will need to purchase the acrylic
covers,cardstock, paper and wires from the crop shop before the class starts.






Sunday 14th Dec Crop Details

Just a little sneaky preview of the 'You're so square' class for this Sunday. This class will show you how to make a 12x12 LO incorporating squares (& rectangles) and showing you how to make a patchwork page! This is a free class for which you will need to bring your own photos, I will be demonstrating 2 LO's [1] with 1 larger photo [2] with 3 smaller photos- preferabally square- all the same size. You will have time before the class starts to choose papers from the crop shop if you don't already have what you need.


Christmas has landed!


Christmas has landed in the Mitchell House!! December the 1st and the xmas tree is up! So here's to a month of: baking; making; shopping; carol singing; nativity watching and trying very hard to enjoy this wonderful time of the year ---------without getting stressed!!
Happy Christmas everybody x

Thursday 13 November 2008

Saturdays Crop

If you are taking part in the exploding box class then you will need lots of smaller photos, 4x4 inches and down to 2x2 inches. This class will start at 12-30!

Wednesday 5 November 2008

Christmas Cards!!











I've been a busy little bee over the past few days, putting together my workshop for sunday. I am doing Christmas cards and festive crafts for a company called SPICE, here are a few of the cards that we will be making! If you would like more details of the workshop or what other things SPICE get up to have a look at http://www.spicebham.co.uk/

The November Layout!! Circles & Sewing







I will be showing you how to use hand stitching on your layouts at the November crop, I've really enjoyed putting these circular layouts together and found the hand stitching really relaxing and addictive! I will be showing you how to incorporate circles of all shapes and sizes into your pages and stitching with thread and ribbon!








Pictures of the 'Exploding box' class as promised











So this is one of the demonstrations I will be doing at the crop on Sat 15th, it is an exploding box with lots and lots of room for photos and journaling. I used mine to showcase our holiday to Kos this year, they are great for displaying photos of special occasions ( wedding, birthday party etc) or to give as a present to someone special with photos and journaling, along with a small gift inside the box!

Monday 27 October 2008

Novembers Crop

This month's crop is Saturday 15th November, there will be 2 workshops (1) Using circles and sewing on your layouts

(2) An exploding box.

Pictures will follow ( when my husband gets back from Portsmouth with the camera!)

I have some new papers and stock in the shop, watch this space!!!

If you wish to take part in the classes please let me know so I can book your place!

Another busy day at the Cutting Crew Crop







Just wanted to say thank you for having me at the Cutting Crew Crop again this saturday, it was lovely to see everybody again. I did a class on making and binding a mini book ( the one I did at my crop!) which everyone enjoyed. It was great to see Alison again whom I met at the Indigo Mill retreat, lot's of people were very interested in booking for retreats with Indigo Mill in 2009, so they will all be contacted bt Steph at Indigo Mill very shortly. I'm back in Brierley Hill in January where I will be teaching a class on an acetate covered book with pocketed pages and bound with wires using the bind it all machine!

Tuesday 21 October 2008

All day craft day with Indigo Mill Sat 1st November

Just to let you know I will be teaching a few different crafts at an all day 'craft' day in Derby on Sat 1st November, have a look at the Indigo Mill Blog for more details, and if you can't wait for my shop until NOv 15th I will be at the Cutting Crew Crop in Brierly Hill this saturday 25th.

Next Crop Date

Just a reminder that the next Let's Talk Crop is on Saturday 15th November. There will be 2 classes.
(1) A layout incorporating circles & sewing ( inspired by my good friend Steph at Indigo Mill)
(2) An exploding Box workshop, and this is very explosive, trust me.

I will post the pictures on here in the next few days so you can see what I will be demonstrating in detail.

If you want to sign up for the classes email me please!

And the winner is.........................




Pat!!

Well done for winning the raffle on Sunday, it was great to see both Pat & Julie again after meeting them at the Indigo Mill retreat.

The double page Layout

This is a picture of Judy's first double page LO made at the crop on Sunday, I did a demo on making a double page and she then went off and made this wonderful page, in fact I think she made 3 LO's altogether on Sunday - GO GIRL!!

Mini Books at the Crop






















So here are a few of the mini books that we made at the crop on Sunday, aren't they great! Diane used hers to display photos of a day at the zoo, Emma covered hers in black and pink fairies and is going to put pictures of her baby daughter in it and Sue used some gorgeous 'Jolie Chocolat' papers in browns and pinks which made the book look really classy. My book was a showcase of the Mitchell family's year of 2007, I didn't realise we had done so much last year! All so different but all using the same basic materials. Just peachy!!

Let's Talk Crop- Sunday 19th October




























Wow!! What a wonderful day we had on sunday, A hive of activity at the Fellowship Hall! It was lovely to see some of my friends from other parts of the midlands, ie; Sadie, Diane, Sue, Chris Pat & Julie, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
We had a very productive day, making mini books from scratch and teaching die cutting and stamping techniques to the newcomers to the group.
Some of us were very naughty and had Macdonalds for lunch and we all generally had a real chill out day creating wonderful keepsakes.

Penkridge Crop Saturday 18th October

It was lovely to see all my friends at the Penkridge Crop on Saturday, I took the Art Of Life shop along with me which everyone really loved, Donna did a demo on a mini book in an altered tin which was really sweet, have a look at Donnas blog she is doing a gorgeous book on babies in the family. I won't be able to make the November Penkridge crop but will be there with the shop on Saturday 6th December.

Guides Workshop in Lichfield


What a great evening I had with the girl guides in Lichfield, I taught them all how to make a mini scrapbook out of nothing less than paper, ribbon and chipboard embellishments! They all did really well and made some beautiful books, the books all had pockets in the pages which were made by folding the paper in a special way, really good fun!!

Here is the book I showed them as the example. It's a scrummy little book all about a wonderful weekend in Paris with my beautiful daughter Frankie.

The Indigo Mill Retreat - Granary Mill, Derbyshire








































































































































































Well what a wonderfull chilled out 'girlie' wekend this was! Thankyou to everyone who made this weekend so great, well done to Steph for organising everything, and the stash heaven of a shop, thankyou to Marie for cooking all our wonderful food, I don't think I've eaten so well in ages! It was a real shame I was feeling so ill all weekend, but maybe it was a good thing I wasn't my usual self because there might be pictures of my bottom on other peoples blogs!!!! Have a look at Rosie's blog! I apologise to everyone for not being very well and doing a really quick class on the altered photo storage, but I felt like my head was going to explode at the time. I have posted piccies of the photo storage box along with some snapshots of our wonderful weekend. Roll on the next one....................

It was fantastic to spend time with my scrappin' friends; Steph, Sue, Tessa, Rosie,Hayley, Carla, Emma,Hannah & Marie, and it was so lovely to make new friends in Julie, Pat, Alison, Claire(check out her blog at silvercustard.blogspot.com), Christina, and lots lots more.
I continued to be ill for the rest of the week with what must have been a virus, that just knocked me for six!! Aaaaghhh.....................