Sun City West club beats the heat with all-day crop

Members of Scrapbooking, Papercrafts & More found a way to deal with the recent mercury popping temperatures: they attended the club’s quarterly all-day “crop” at the Beardsley center.

During the all-day workshop and potluck, members may take paper and card crafting classes or work on their own projects. At least half a dozen proactive members were diligently working on their annual Christmas cards while the digital scrapbooking group designed personalized photo pages to be featured in each of their professionally printed photo books.

During the morning session, a paper-bag book class was offered by club president Lynne Marion. Using patterned designer paper, solid cardboard pages, ribbon, and metal rings, participants folded paper bags to created pages with spaces in which beribboned and decorated tags and ephemera could be tucked into hidden pockets. The book makes for a beautiful gift or tabletop book in which photos and memorabilia may be stored.

Following a potluck at noon, member Christina Hecht gave a class on how to make the novel three-sided, pyramid-shaped tee pee card. The card, which is folded flat and mailed in a standard A2 envelope, may be unfolded and reshaped into a pyramid shape.

Ribbons attached to the card’s side panels make it possible to secure the card so that it may be decoratively displayed upright in the home or office; participants were also shown how adding ribbon to the peak of the card makes it possible to use the card as a hanging ornament.

Learn how to make greeting cards, papercrafts and scrapbooks (traditional or digital) by joining SPAM meets in Beardsley’s Agave Room on Thursdays (10 a.m.-3 p.m.), Fridays (10 a.m.-3 p.m.) and Saturdays (10 a.m.-5 p.m.).

Call club president Lynne Marion at 440-666-6386 for more information.