Vicky Mumme Demos Altered Art

Hey gals,

June 8th, 2010 is our monthly meeting time. Vicky Mumme is going to demo altered art paper roses and other techniques at our upcoming meeting. She has recently returned from the big scrapbooking convention in Dallas and I can hardly wait to pick her brain! Of course her guy, Tim Holtz was there so we know which booth she spent the most time at. Duh!

Come and enjoy an hour and half of your favorite thing; talking about scrapbooking and cards.

When: June 8th (that's a Tuesday) 2010 7:00PM
Where: Barnes & Noble, Midland TX
What else: Great door prizes
Bring: Yourself and a friend
Questions: email Cerise at cerwelt@gmail.com

See you there.

Cerise Welter
Ambassador
Permian Basin Jewels Paper Crafters

Workshop

Once a month I get together with a few of my girlfriends from Odessa and we make cards for our loved ones. This month my daughter and granddaughter were with us. We made a father's day card in the shape of a matchbook and a generic birthday card.




One of the gals played hostess (she gets free stamps) and brought the most yummy dessert.





I enjoyed playing and sharing my friends with my daughter and her little girl. Hope everyone enjoyed it as much as I did!


My granddaughter was such a big help. I look forward to when she is old enough to come spend time alone with grandma.


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A Good Time

Here we are at Barnes and Noble, and as you can see by the intent look on everyone's expressions we are enjoying ourselves. Annette Martin is sharing from her "experience pool".



Here is another shot, but this time Ammie Riggs is demonstrating a cool resist technique using alcohol inks.



Here Annette is sharing her blog and also some of her many resources on her website. We had two new gals attend. We had our first scrapbooker from France! Welcome Clairance! Or should I say "Bon jour"?



We had a load of door prizes, and Clairance won the door prizes from "Scrapping the Moments" in Snyder, Tx. We are really looking forward to our first CROPs and retreats with Annette. Thanks to both Ammie and Annette for sharing their skills.

Cerise

May PB & J Meeting

Hey Gals,

Next Tuesday (May 11th) is our next Permian Basin Jewels Paper Crafters meeting. Our main guest speaker will be Ammie Riggs. She will be demonstrating alcohol ink resist techniques. This will be a hands on meeting. Everyone who comes will be DOING after Ammie demonstrates how to use these inks. Come prepared to learn!

Our second speaker will be Annette Martin. She owns "Scrapping the Moments" store in Snyder, TX. Annette would love to do some actual CROPS and scrapbook retreats here in the Permian Basin. She is a gifted young lady with lots of experience and is very excited about teaching us as much as we are willing to learn. She will be bringing examples of her work so that we can all see her adorable products and style of scrapping!

We are so blessed to have such wonderful gifted gals in our midst. Please invite all your gal pals who scrap. The more of us who are participating the less work any one of us has to do AND the better chance we'll get new guest speakers and draw vendors to help us with bigger and better door prizes. As always we will have door prizes, BUT we are no longer allowed to bring food into the store. We can, however, buy drinks and goodies at the cafe. Let's all support Barnes & Nobles by buying their magazines (I will have them all set out for you to see), books and cafe goodies. They are offering us space to hold our meetings, it is the LEAST we can do to shop there.

If you join their member card program you get at least 10% off everything in the store. You also get coupons in your email box that can give you more savings on highlighted products.

For questions, directions or just to blab you can reach me at cerwelt@gmail.com

I look forward to hearing from each one of you.

Cerise Welter
Ambassador
Permian Basin Jewels Paper Crafters

Scrap Til You're Happy

May has been dubbed, "National Scrapbook Month" and with it comes the urge to scrap. Yesterday I had intended to rest all day, but instead I went to my office and worked on cards. I knew I didn't want to get in the middle of a huge project and then have a mess to clean up. I had originally went over to get my phone charger which was plugged into the surge protector next to one of my storage cabinets. I just couldn't resist all those lovely supplies so neatly organized.

Early yesterday I had purchased the April "Complete Cardmaking" (a magazine from the UK). It came with some cute card papers and "decoupages". I had seen that term used before in connection with scrapbooking and card making, but had no idea what it meant. My idea of decoupage is to glue a picture onto wood and then to cover it with some sort of protective medium. As I looked at the freebies that came with the magazine I could quickly see that it meant a picture duplicated several times and then cut out. One then layers pieces of the picture to make it look dimensional. I had fun making four cards and then I decided to use some of the brand new Stampin' UP Specialty papers I just bought in preparation for an upcoming workshop.

I inked the papers and the embossing that comes already put on the paper causes a resist look. I inked with some Rich Razzleberry, Pink Passion and Melon Mambo. These are some of my favorite colors. The hidden pattern on the paper is a lattice background. Once I inked the paper with the three colors it became a neat background for some felt flowers and some glittered leaves. Loverly. I added some buttons, a border with 1/8" ribbon woven through tiny holes that came punched in them. It was a great afternoon. Just a couple hours and my creative juices were filled to the brim. So much fun.

Today I have a workshop. We're making Father's Day cards, Cinco de Mayo cards and then playing with the new specialty papers. I know it will be "muy divertido" (very fun).

I look forward to scrapping all through this month. I have a brand new 6 x 6 Stampin Up album and a new Bigz flower die I love using. I can hardly wait to play.

What are you doing during this month to celebrate "Natl Scrapbooking Month"?

2nd to last reminder..."Genealogy 101"

Gals,

I'm going to bug you, plain and simple. Tomorrow evening (April 13th 7:00PM) is our April Permian Basin Jewels (PB&J) Paper Crafters meeting. Our subject: Genealogy 101. What does genealogy have to do with paper crafting? Well if you do any scrapbooks of family members that have already passed on you are doing archival scrapbooking. Archival scrapbooking can be dramatically enhanced with a touch of knowledge about genealogy.

It can be downright boring to have an album, even a scrapbook without a clue to who is who and who did what. Add some journaling and even some bits a pieces you've found while looking for your ancestor's life history and you've got a best seller.

Beverly Wait from the Midland Genealogical Society will be our guest speaker. She will be presenting "Genealogy 101" and will even have handouts so you can take your new found knowledge and actually apply it to your scrapbooking.

I'm asking all you gals who attend to bring a dozen cookies. Barnes and Noble has a wonderful coffee cafe and you can get either a cup of tea, coffee or a cold beverage to quench your thirst. This is our way of supporting them as they offer free meeting space to us.

I have a bunch of goodies for our door prizes and want to invite all of you to come, bring friends and make this an unforgettable meeting.

• What: PB & J Paper Crafters April Meetin
• Where: Barnes & Noble, Midland, TX
  
• When: April 13th, 2010 7:00PM
• Why: Genealogy 101 and Scrapbook fun
• Who: Anyone who loves to Scrapbook
  
• Bring: 1 Dozen cookies or goodies
• Wanted: Gals with digital cameras to document meeting

Please be a public "follower" of this blog so I know that folks are actually reading these blogs.

Thanks,

Cerise Welter
PB & J Paper Crafters
Ambassador

Permian Basin Jewels Paper Crafters April Meeting

Time is passing and I'm playing catch up. Next Tuesday (April 13th) is our monthly meeting and it promises to be a great one. Beverly Wait will be presenting "Genealogy 101". Many of you are creating archival scrapbooks in memory of some family member that has passed on. Finding information about family members can be a real challenge if you don't have someone who can fill in all the details. Beverly will give us the basics of connecting with records and information regarding ancestors who have gone on before us.

We will be meeting at Barnes & Noble in Midland, TX at 7:00PM back in the cookbook section of the store.

I am asking all the gals to bring a dozen cookies (or something similar). I will be providing some fun door prizes. I am also bringing our monthly printable CD so reserve yours now. I've included a huge selection of scrapbook papers, embellishments as well as some beautiful family trees that can be filled in and added to scrapbooks. The CDs are $5.00 to cover the cost of the cd, envelope and labels. I will print off samples and share them at the meeting. I have burned 10, but if you want one I suggest you email me and reserve them as they always sell out.

If you want more information you can reach me at cerwelt@gmail.com.

Please feel free to invite all your friends who love scrapbooking or genealogy. Men are welcome too! This is an open meeting so come one, come all!

Cerise Welter
Ambassador
PB & J Paper Crafters