Back to the Future

Gals, we're back at Barnes & Noble for our January 12th meeting. We'll be back in the craft section of the store having a great time.

Barnes & Nobles
2617 West Loop 250 N
Midland, TX 79705

Our subjects for this meeting will be:

• Using calendars in your scrap booking and paper crafting
• Heat embossing

We'll have a couple door prizes and refreshments IF the volunteers from last month's meeting remember. Hey gals I'm depending on you.

Again we meet January 12th, 7:00PM at Barnes & Nobles.

I will also be bringing CDs of great free printable projects I've found online. I'm asking the gals bring $5.00 to cover the cost of the CDs, labels and envelopes. It would be great if you would email me and let me know if you'd like one. They are full of cute New Year and Valentine's day projects as well as a lot of fun kid's projects as well. All can be printed from your computers and then cut out to make some really fun projects.

For more information, to vote for your best meeting date or to let me know you want a CD you can email me at: cerwelt@gmail.com. Please join the "followers" on the right of this blog so that you'll know when I update this blog. I keep all sorts of information posted about what's going on in our area. I will also link your site to this blog if you ask, so ask!

Looking forward to seeing you this month.

Cerise Welter
Ambassador
PB & J Paper Crafters

Free Printable Calendars and ABCs

Hey Gals,

If you're like me you're pretty much always looking for things you can incorporate into your scrapbooking and paper crafting. I took a little time this morning to post a couple sites with free calendars and alphabets you can print and cut out to use in your paper crafts.

Enjoy:

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/alphabets.htm Free printable alphabets

http://www.craftjr.com/printable-bubble-letters/ More letters

http://www.vertex42.com/calendars/printable-calendars.html Free printable calendars (2009+)

Using calendars (both new and used) in scrapbooking can be great fun. Your old marked up calendar reminds you of the things you did on a daily basis. If you journal just after the month is up you can reminisce about the little details that made that month wild or very special. For instance, my sister flew in for my birthday last month (Nov. 2009) and completely floored me. I really don't even remember the day she arrived as I was in such shock she had come from so far just to be with me. She spent a week and we had a great time shopping and sharing our love of scrapbooking. We also shared the care of my farm animals and quiet time. I have an old calendar with all the appointments marked on it, it's a good idea for me to take some quiet time to journal now while the memories are fresher. If I wait too long I will lose the details.

If you take a blank calendar (even of a past year) and journal in the blank spaces what made that day special you can add this to your scrapbook. How about just printing a blank calendar and journaling in it each day of the month WHILE you're living out that month. What a neat way to look at a month in your life. How special will that calendar be for your grandchildren to read? Do this from time to time to leave a blueprint of your life for your posterity.

I love alphabets. I used to just think the alphabet should be in Times New Roman, but I joined a scrapbook/memory club through the mail and each month get a stack of scrapbooking ideas. One of the chapters in the binder I'm collecting is entitled, "The Write Stuff" and has included a couple really cute alphabets. One is pumpkins and another favorite is logs. They make the cutest borders, banners, headlines and titles for scrapbook pages. If you follow the instructions you can freehand some really cute letters! So I went looking for like alphabets online. Let's see what we can do with these ideas!

Cerise

PB & J Minutes (December 2009)

Hey gals,

We had the third meeting of PB & J at "Scrapbooks and Such" in Odessa, TX. Vivian couldn't join us as she is also a very busy pediatric nurse and was on duty that night. Her mother, Jackie, graciously opened the store and then after we were through allowed us to shop "after hours".

We had a contest to see who could wrap a package so well that no one would want to open it. Vicky won. (See illustration) I picked the gift (random drawing ) after we all voted her gift, "Present we least wanted to tear into." When you look at it you'll swear she used duct tape for the sleigh, but it isn't gals, it's silver textured card stock. I should have known it wasn't duct tape as it was much too wide for any roll of tape I've ever seen.

Vicky also made the most delicious oatmeal chocolate chip blondies I've had in ages. Then she whisked it away after the meeting. :(

The meeting was all about recycling everyday stuff in your paper crafting. I demonstrated how you can use cereal boxes, tablet backs, Puff's Vicks boxes (they are made of chipboard lined in silver) and a whole lot of other good stuff. The thing the girls were most impressed with was making a small gift bag/grocery bag from half of an envelope. Perhaps I'll figure out how to photograph the process and post it here. My little sister showed me this goodie!

Our next meeting will be at Barnes & Noble in Midland, TX. We've moved it to the second Tuesday of the month after a vote was taken. We'll try Tuesday for a while. Thanks to Joyce at Barnes & Noble we can pretty much have our meeting whenever we want it.

Next month I'll be demonstrating heat embossing techniques and also using calendars in scrapbooking and paper crafting. If you're coming and have used either in what you do, please come with your favorite ideas and a sample of your wares.

Hope you can make it.

Signing off for now.

Cerise Welter
Ambassador
Permian Basin Jewels Papercrafters

December PB & J Meeting

Hey Gals,
Just a reminder that our December meeting has changed locations. We will be meeting at "Scrapbooks and Such" in Odessa. Please mark your calendars for December 14th at 7:00PM and be sure and come to our "Green Gadgets" meeting. I will be demonstrating embossing, die cutting, reusing throwaways, Crop-o-diles and we'll have goodies too.

Each of you is asked to bring a wrapped gift containing $5.00 worth of embellishments such as brads, eyelets, stickers, buttons, ribbons and whatever else you can think of. Wrap your gift in such a way that we'll all say, "That's too pretty to open" and you might be voted to win our big door prize. Please bring a dozen yummy holiday cookies of your choice. We'll provide cocoa, hot cider and hot tea.

You can find "Scrapbooks and Such" at 3635 N. Dixie in Odessa, Texas. Bring a friend if that enjoys scrapbooking or paper crafts of any sort and get an additional chance it win door prizes.

Don't forget to thank Vivian Popenhagen for lending us her store for the evening by buying something from the store.

For more info you can email me (Cerise Welter) at 550-7642.

Midlanders you can find Scrapbooks and Such by traveling towards Odessa on 191 (which turns into 42nd Street once you go over the overpass) until you reach N. Dixie. Turn left at N. Dixie and come two blocks to the tiny strip mall.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Cerise