JUNE'S GET TOGETHER - CANCELLED

Ladies,  I am so sorry to say that we cant get together on the first Friday of June as the hall has been double booked.  In fact the parisheners (not spelt quite right) have a cream tea tomorrow and the ladies that organise this will get the hall ready from Friday, leaving just one or two tables.

I have sent everyone an email to let them know.

But we can look forward to our JULY GET TOGETHER.

We shall meet up on Friday 5th July at St. Martins Church Hall at 6.30p.m.  For the card makers and scrap bookers we shall have a play with Decoupage, no matter how you say it.  So bring along the pre printed sheets, your silicone glue and 3 D pads.  Or just bring some ink and stamps and make your own.  Not sure how to, I will show you on the night.

Sue is going to show us how to make a little box for a little chocolate.  If you would like a go at this, here is what you need to bring.

2 pieces card stock   one n three quarter inch x seven n three quarter n another  five inch x two n three quarter

a piece of coordinating double sided paper three eights x twelve inches

small piece of acetate to make a window

A trimmer or scoreboard

one n a quarter circle punch -  dont worry if you dont have one of these

curly label square punch - dont worry if you dont have one of these

Bo ho blossoms punch - dont worry if you dont have one of these

small hole punch - dont worry if you dont have one of these

red tape -  this is the very strong tape that holds things together.

glue dots

gems

coordinating ribbon enough to tie a nice bow

Ferro Rocha chocolate

If you are a knitter, or crocheter or maker of anything else, as usual you are most welcome to come along and join us.

If you just want to come along to see what its all about please do, lots of helpful ladies will be there to answer any questions you have.

Dont forget, you will need to bring a mug/cup and saucer with you and a name badge if possible.  We shall start to set the tables up at half 6 so if you could be there at this time, your help would be appreciated.

CALL FOR CAKERERS!! - Any one up for baking, if not you will have to put up with my vianesse thingys again.

I shall send out a reminder a bit closer to the time but it would be lovely to see you in July.

If anyone has made anything recently, do you want to show it off on the blog?  If you dont already have admin access let me know at tracey.rossos2@hotmail.com and I will sort it out for you.

Free Classes at DaVinci

Hello Ladies

As promised, here are the details for the free classes that are being held at DaVinci community college.

I hope you are all able to read it, my scanner isn't very good

Best wishes
Buffy

April Get Together

I hope that everyone has had a wonderful Easter weekend, a bit of a break and a bit of a rest.

Its our April get together on Friday 5th April,  we are starting at 6.30 at St. Martins Church Hall and if anyone can get there for this time to give a hand with laying out the tables, that would be fantastic. Many hands make light work.

The themes for the evening are seaside and ATCs. I havent made ATCs before so this will be an interesting evening. Of course seaside can be the theme for the ATCs, cards and scrapbooks. As usual, you dont have to follow the theme if you dont want to, just come along for a chat, a catch up, bring your own crafting items, jewelery making, knitting, crocheting etc. etc.

The cost of the evening is £3 per adult and £2 for the teenages. Tea, coffee and juice will be available so please, do bring a mug/cup with you.

If you have anything that you wish to sell, swap or even give away, please do feel free to bring it along.

A name badge would be good too, this just helps everyone remember each others names.

CAN ANYONE BRING SOME CAKE or BISCUITS with them? It would be great if a couple of people could bring something along.

The evening should end around 9.30p.m.

Dont forget, if you have made any cards, scrapbook pages, blankets or anything else, bring it along for us all to have a look at.

Have a good week and please, do let me know if you will be there.

love this wonky card!!!

It seem ages since the last Dabblers meeting - can't wait for the next one.  At the February meeting when Tracey was talking about getting funding she asked if we could make more post on the blog - so I thought I'd  do a post

Just love this wonky card!!

see you at the next Dabblers

Lesley x

Friday 1st March get together

It's Derby Dabblers on Friday.  Being the first Friday of the month we shall have our get together again.   It is still at the same place, St. Martin's Church Hall, Flint Street, Allenton, Derby, DE24 9BG.  Its still at the same time 6.30 - 9.30p.m. and the price has remained the same at £3.00 for now.

As usual, there will be a theme for the evening but, you dont have to follow the theme if you dont want to.  The theme for this get together is Easter, or you can do eggs, bunnies, chocolate, anything at all to do with Easter.  You can start/finish a scrapbook page which includes an Easter theme or have a stab at a card.  Swap stamps for ten minutes and take impressions of other peoples stamps, wander round see what everyone is doing and, if you have time before dabblers, make something "Easter related" and show us how you did it?

We are also going to have a play with Iris Folding.  Do you remember this? have you got anything to do with Iris Folding lurking away in the back of a cupboard somewhere?  Give it a dusting down and bring it along. Have you done this in the past and know how its done?  Perhaps you can tell us what we should be doing.  Hopefully, a few people will know and be able to help those that dont.

Now you really dont have to do any of these, if you dont want to.  Come along for a natter, catch up with old friends, make some new ones.  Whether you are new to crafting or an old hand (that is not being agist),  bring some knitting, or sewing or something along that you like to do.

FREEBIES
Do you have some crafting bits that you no longer want and you would like them to go to a new home.  Pop them on the table and everyone can have a rummage through and take home what they want.  Anything left over will be given to a fantastic cause.

SELLING STUFF
If you have some crafting items that you would like to sell, please do bring them with you, someone else may wish to purchase from you.

THINKING CAPS
Could everyone please bring their thinking caps.  Is there something you would like to learn? something you could demonstrate? I am hoping that we can have a list of things that we are going to do in the future, for the next 6 months at least.
GRANT FOR DERBY DABBLERS
We are well on our way with the application for a grant to pay for the room.  We have a meeting in a couple of weeks to go through the next step in the process and I shall keep you all informed of what the outcome is. The aim is to get the room paid for, up front, for a year so that everyone that comes along doesnt have to pay.  Keep your fingers crossed.

It would be great if you could bring your own mug/cup with you as well as a badge. If you do forget, there will be plenty of cups in the kitchen cupboard.

Let me know if you are coming and, if you can be there for half 6 to help set up the tables, that would be fantastic.

I know that there will be one or two new people coming along and as usual, I know that you will make them feel very welcome.

Friday 1st February

I made the majority of this is the card at our first Derby Dabblers meeting our first of 2013.  It was well attended and there was lost of crafty chatter and food too as this was our belated Christmas fuddle night as the get together had to be cancelled :( 

We welcomed 2 new ladies to the group - Gina & Pauline who joined us from the Long Eaton area

Lesley x

February Fuddle

Earlier this evening saw the first 2013 get together of the Derby Dabblers and it was a lovely evening.  Unfortunately not everyone made it and you were missed.

We all laughed a lot, caught up with everyone that we haven't seen for months and some of us even made cards.

We had a couple of new members and we hope to see them again next month.

The theme for the evening was time and flower soft.  Now we dont all stick to the theme and we dont all do anything at all but some ladies made some lovely cards.   Debbie, one of our avid scrapbookers did some wonderful pages.

Here are a few photos to show you how we spend our first Friday of each month

I think I managed to catch everyone.

If you would like to join us next month, please do, the more the merrier.