Recipe for texture past

Hi ladies, found a wonderful blog with lots of hints and tips, espectially this one for those that use texture paste on their projects:

Homemade Smooth Texture Paste
1/4 cup Talcum Powder (I used Johnson's Baby Powder, Make it smell good too!!)
1 tablespoon White All purpose School Glue
1 tablespoon White Craft Paint
Some Water

Instructions: Combine talcum powder, glue, white paint with disposable chopsticks (or plastic spoon) in an airtight container, adding water to get it to the consistency you are looking for. You want a nice thick texture much like toothpaste. The mixture will keep perfectly for many months.


Another handy hint for Modge Podge = equal parts of craft glue to water.

Now I haven't tried these, but will have a go maybe on the weekend.

The blog that I found lots of hints and tutorials is http://gabriellepollacco.blogspot.ca/, she has lots of lovely "busy" pages and some with instructions.

Hope you find this useful. Looking forward to seeing you on Sunday.

Bye,
Linda

Announcing the safe arrival

Hi ladies, just to let you know, Shandell and Craig have had a beautiful baby boy, Clayton Tyler, on the 2nd April, weighing 7lb 2ozs.

Congratulations from all of us to the happy family.

February

Hi ladies, welcome to the new year of Simplycrafty. It was good to see everyone after the Christmas break, thank you all for coming.
We had a lovely day crafting, it's strange to see how we all seem to have diversified to different crafts over the years, from simply scrapbooking we have a whole range of crafts happening now, card making, sewing, project life to name a few oh, mustn't forget Bev and her school preparation😉.
Anyhow, there won't be any Simplycrafty in March, but there is the beautifully relaxing retreat, a great weekend of fun, laughter, eating and scrapping/crafting, and did I say eating and drinking? If you need further info about the retreat, let us know and we can get Kerri to give you the details.
Have a great month. If we don't see you at the retreat, we'll see you in April, hopefully.
Linda & Dilys

Happy New Year

Happy New Year ladies, hope you all had a merry Christmas and we wish you all the best for the New Year.
Please note, the dated for 2015 have been added to blog. If there is any blaringly obvious mistakes, please let us know.
We look forward to seeing you on the 8th February to start the year off with a good "crafty" day.
Please let us know if you will be there so that we can organise the full/half room in advance with the neighbourhood centre.
Thank you ladies for your continued support,
Dilys & Linda

21 September

Hi all, we had a nice relaxing day again, with a few of us working on cards and Kylie W scrapping up a storm with pages of her boys. No news yet on the retreat, we will endeavour to find out if the retreat is still on and if not, I will try to organise a Simplycrafty for October. Will get back to you all on that. Have a great month and hopefully see you in October at the retreat or at our usual venue.

Christmas in July

Hi ladies, we had a lovely day at Simplycrafty, our usual yummy lunch and deserts and of course, our secret santa, never seen so many grow ladies so excited............Bev was so excited she was drinking her wash tape!!!
Might not look like it, but I did get a gift, I got a Kaiser Christmas off the page wreath which I will bring to the next retreat to decorate.
I have just rang Woolworths to let them know there is going to be lots of crazy ladies looking for Banana pies............
Thank you for a lovely day ladies.
We look some photos below to show what amazing gifts you can get for $5.
Our next Simplycrafty is 10th August, only 2 weeks away!! Hope to you see you all there,
Linda and Dilys

Christmas in July

We had a lovely get together yesterday, quite a few joined in the card swap and I will have photos of the cards asap.

I had made some enamel "dots" and they turned out quite well, Shandell has a picture on the Simplycrafty facebook page. It was good to see a few of the ladies putting them to good use. I will endeavour to make more as I got a BIG bag of beads and am quite happy to share them.

Just to confirm, the next Simply Crafty is on 27th July - not the 2nd as shown on the blog.

We will do our usual "Christmas in July" . Something lovely for lunch, please let me know if you are bringing sweet or savoury, and a Secret Santa gift to the value of $5.00.

The card swap for July will be a Christmas Card, please let me know at least a week beforehand, if you are joining in the card swap.

Also can you let me know at least a week beforehand, if you will be coming.

Thanks ladies, take care and have a wonderful month, looking forward to seeing you in July.

Linda & Dilys