Open Craft!!

Our March Crafternoon, hosted by Erin was open craft.  Erin had some scrap booking she wanted to work on, but just had everyone bring a project of their choosing to work on.  We feasted on a baked potato bar.  YUM!  And we had a couple of visitors.  But the BEST SURPRISE.....you'll have to read on to find out!  ;)

Erin, being the hostest with the mostest, wanted to show everyone an easy and fun craft.  she showed how we could just use adhesive and glue scrapbook paper to a journal.  Then you can have matching sprials, journals, folders, or whatever!  Can you tell...Erin is finishing up her degree to become a teacher.

Erin worked on her scrap booking...

Wendy worked on more blocks.  She is about to start her own forest to keep up with all the wood she is going through.  WENDY'S BLOCKS ROCK!!

With Wendy supervising, Tricia made her first set of blocks to complete her daughter's big girl room.  ADORABLE!  She had missed our first Crafternoon where we made our inaugural Valentine blocks.

Momma Krafter (aka Karen) assisted her Aunt Sue with organizing her digital pictures.  Momma Krafter is often too busy assisting others to ever get her projects complete.  She brought stuff to work on a scarf for a gift, but not sure she got it out.

Momma Krafter is always sure to show us something new each meeting!  Jewelery just wrapped with ribbon!  How easy is that?  She even had handouts!  :)

Here she is SKYPE-ing with her sister Kim in Arizona!  Not sure what they were discussing, but it looks pretty darn funny!

Christy brought some scrap book stuff to organize.  But wasn't feeling up to it.  So no pics of her...  :(

And Jenny had planned to work on her Disney vacation scrapbook.  All she got done was trimming her pics for her album.  All 300 of them!

I mentioned surprises......well, we had an "e-visitor".  Momma Krafter's sister joined us via SKYPE from Arizona!!!  If that doesn't make you "craft your pants"!!!  Not only are we crafty, but we are techno, too!  Here is Aunt Kim SKYPE-ing in (is that a verb???).  She worked on her own craft in her most awesome craft room.  Speaking of her craft room, she took us on a virtual tour of it.  And YES, I am still suffering from CRE (Craft Room Envy....and yes, I'm being medicated for that........ha ha).

Momma Krafter had a grand idea (and you'll find out WHY Jenny thinks it is so grand in a bit!) for our April Crafternoon and each one thereafter.  She suggested everyone bring a 'fiber card' or some sort of treat (like some craft supplies, or a craft).  To explain it all better, she brought a fiber card for our March Crafternoon and we had a drawing for it.  WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED IN A BIT...  She put some really cool fibers and ribbon around a manila card.  She passed out a blank/empty card to everyone to bring to our April crafternoon.  (Not sure I explained that too well.)  So, at our April Crafternoon, we'll some how exchange our cards and all end  up with something cool from someone else.  And........we had a drawing (did I mention that???) for Momma Krafter's sample card.  Plain, and simple...and not cheating, sweet Bella Rose drew out AUNT JENNY's name.  Oh, how I love that girl.  And here is my card I won....have I mentioned how I love Bella??

So we all went home either with a completed project or a bit further along into one that we were working on.

April Crafternoon will be hosted by Wendy and we will be mosaic-ing (is that a word???) stepping stones.

And here we are all together!  :)

From left....Aunt Kim on SKYPE, Aunt Sue, Karen, Wendy, Christy, Jen, Erin, Tricia, and Grace peeking out of the corner!

Just Bag It!

We all went home 'bag ladies'!  Momma Crafter led us in constructing cute little gift bags using 12x12 scrapbook paper.  We all used her most awesome scoring tray to make bags almost as cute as hers.  We then started venturing out to make different sizes and different shapes.  We left with bags which we were all saying how hard it was going to be to give away.  Somewhere along the way, I think Wendy "craft" her pants...which became our official saying of the day. 


Here are the BAG LADIES:   ( I am officially resigning as club photographer! My camera obviously stinks!!)

(Erin, Momma Crafter ~ Karen, Jenny, Tricia, Wendy, and Christy in front)
*disclaimer....the bags Jenny is holding MAY or MAY NOT be her own creations.  ;)  *


Guest appearance by Bella

Momma Crafter instructing Christy (not in pic) and "Star-Student", Wendy watching!

Tricia and Erin hard at crafting!

Tricia and Jenny's 1st bags

Wendy working the bone folder

Christy showing her bag off





























Bella assisting her momma

Momma Crafter instructing us some more.  She has so much to teach us!

Erin's bags.....somebody sure was busy!

Tricia's bags.......or bag....I know she made more, we must not have taken pics of them.  Cute and spring-y they were.  Just perfect for a little Easter treat for a special sister *wink*wink*!!!

Wendy's bags

And Jenny's bags ( you can't tel, but the green one I actually changed it up a bit; made it square instead of rectangular!)































Next month is Erin's turn to host and she has already declared 'Open Crafting' at her house!  So we will all be working on our own projects that we never seem to find the time to complete.

Just a few 'Blockheads'

We had our 1st CRAFTERNOON!!!

(Erin, Wendy, Christy, Momma Crafter ~ Karen, and Jenny)

Jenny wanted to host as she had an idea she wanted to make for Valentine's Day decor.  After getting the idea from lyndseyscraftspot,   It was a very easy project and we all made our blocks unique.  Jenny supplied tons of blocks (that Erin's husband so graciously cut for us) and everyone brought their other supplies and creativity.


Here are Erin's blocks:

Here are Momma Crafter's blocks:

Wendy's blocks....which she was making for a dear friend's gift:

Christy's blocks.....she used her nickname and made blocks for her home desk:

(Tricia had to miss out on this Crafternoon.)


And Jenny's blocks:

And here are some other pictures from our Crafternoon...


Erin giving spray paint lessons:

Christy's blocks in the works

Wendy working her blocks:

Next Crafternoon....21-Feb @ Momma Crafter's.  We will be making gift bags from 12x12 scrapbook paper.

Here We Go!!!

Ok, my friends! Here we go!


One evening Momma Crafter (Karen) presented the idea to me to form a Craft Club. She explained we could get together once a month and craft together. A reason to HAVE to craft, I was IN! So we recruited 2 of her daughter-in-laws (Christy and Erin...which are also more friends than cousins). I recruited my sister, Tricia (and hair dresser of most of our club members). Then Momma Crafter has an awesome sister-in-law (making her yet another cousin-in-law of mine) we knew we'd enjoy spending an afternoon a month with. We all are excited to join this club and get to hang out. Thus, the Crafternooners were born.


Since starting this club, just two weeks ago we have all done several crafts outside our Crafternoon project. We want to use this blog to share our Crafternoon projects with other crafters. We also enjoy showing other things we have done on our own.


Over time I hope to feature each of our Crafternooners and let you learn a little more about them.


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~Jenny (no nickname for me yet!)