Meet other local Scrapbookers for conversation, inspiration and fun! Come to a Scrapbooking/Cardmaking Meetup to swap techniques for preserving your treasured moments, share keepsakes, trade tips on page layouts and embossing! Even discover new ways to scrap! My name is Mary Lou and I have been an avid scrapper since 2001. I also teach classes at scrapbook retreats and am a verstaile artist. Monthly crops: 1st Thursday of each month (At Archivers in Orland Park, IL). 3rd Thursday of each mont …

I love spending time being creative and sharing that creativity with people like you! Through regular gatherings, classes, and workshops, we learn, share and create in a fun, light hearted environment using only Stampin' Up! products. **Card Making **Scrapbooking **Gifts

This group is for stampers, scrapbookers, card makers, and paper crafters who enjoy sharing ideas and swapping projects. Each of our swaps will be "shoe box" style and in person. Get ready for some swappin' fun!

Many people have leadership experience. Some of these experience can be very valuable. But most people don't know how to tell their leadership stories. Come to this laid back and supportive meeting where members are genuinely interested in exploring leadership topics and crafting their own stories. Members are often planning to apply to graduate/ professional schools, new job/ careers, and need to develop their essays and resume. Meeting hostess, Esther Choy, is an experienced leadership coach a …

This group is for ladies who are 20-something to 30ish and would like to get together and have some fun! Perhaps you are sick of the monotony of your daily life and would like to get out of the house and hang out with a group of ladies in a more stimulating and creative setting.  Some things we have done in the past:  Boxing class, Game night, brunch, Pumpkin carving for Halloween, tea party, wine tasting, cookie exchange, Morton Arboretum, dinner & drinks, Progressive Dinner, Pinterest Party, C …

If you are a trading educator and/or an experienced trader and would like to host a meetup, please email the organizer. The Chicago Stocks and Forex Traders Network was created with the purpose of gathering all people interested in starting or improving their stock or forex trading business. Yes, as a Market Trader, you are in business for yourself so one must treat it very much like a business and not a hobby. Which means being well educated in your craft and having a business plan (trading pla …

Love to sew or want to learn how to create all those beautiful ideas that you have and wish to create, well this group is for you.  I love sewing, crafts and related arts and have been doing and teaching them for more that 20 years.  This group is looking for creatively skilled, motivated individuals who are serious members who want to learn these skills as an creative outlet to execute in fashion, home decor, accessories, Textile and Needle Arts etc. Our goal is  to share knowledge and skills o …

Discover and meet other web professionals and users in the Chicago area designing, developing and crafting solutions within the SilverStripe content management system. Each month we will get together and talk all things SilverStripe. Active participatiion is encouraged. So, designers, developers, agencies, freelancers, moonlighters come along and share your work and experiences. We will discuss and review features, modules, themes, extending SilverStripe, site reviews and analysis...anything re …

International Game Developer's Association (IGDA) Chicago is a local chapter of a much larger, international, non-profit membership organization serving individuals who create video games. We bring together developers at conferences, in local chapters and in special interest groups to improve their lives and craft. Developers, aspiring developers, students, or people who just love games are welcome to attend our meetups, game jams, classes, panels, and everything else!

Are you an indie girl wandering the cold streets of Chicago? If so, you've come to the right place. We want together a group of music loving, bike riding, artistically inclined, pseudo weird girls to have fun! For me this group was born out of the desire to escape mainstream culture, how many times have I stood around in a group of women and felt like wow I just don't relate to you: no, I don't care if the Cubs won last night, not really interested in what sorority you were in, and NO I didn't …

The crafty beavers are a group of women who are crafting for a cause. Once a month learn how to make fun, eco friendly arts and crafts and take home your crafty keepsake. Network and get to know your newly made friends. Join us as we discuss causes and organizations that tear at our hearts strings and donate not just money and tangibles, but time. Interested? For $20 per person each month we can get items together for the crafts (trying to keep it under $5 per person for a craft) and have plenty …

This group is for women in their 20s and early 30s in Oak Park and its surrounding areas who want to get out of the house and have fun! I hope to create an awesome community of women for you to connect with, become friends with, and pretty much just have a good time. We plan many of our meetups in Oak Park and Forest Park such as dining out, movies, festivals, book discussions, wine tasting, hiking, arts and crafts, and many more. We also plan meetups in Chicago and other areas. All relationship …

What could be better than getting together for a glass of wine and some creativity? We will make some one of a kind cards, treat bags, and more while enjoying a Girl's Night Out of creative ideas. We will meet once a month in downtown Downers Grove.

A monthly gathering dedicated to the exploration of software as a craft. We engage in hands-on practice and technical discussions facilitated by software luminaries -- all in the spirit of continuous learning. If you're interested in product craftsmanship, please check out Chicago Product Craftsmanship.

Elevating the craft of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) through a real, face-to-face community in Chicago.  Let's get together and talk about everything from HATEOAS and REST to OAuth, and HTTP Response Codes and have a great time while we're at it!

This group is for people who love to do crafts including: sewing, quilting, card making, scrap booking, jewelry making, knitting, crocheting and more. Most of us lead very busy lives and do not have enough time to do our craft. This group is providing a place and expanded time period to pursue our favorite crafts.

Do you love paper 'art' like I do? Then join this fun group to make lovely things out of paper: greeting cards, scrapbook pages, beautiful 'paper' cakes, beautiful baskets filled with daily inspirations, holiday ornaments. Can you think of something else you'd like to try? Let me know. I can't wait to meet you!

Let's get together for photo walks around the Naperville town and surrounding areas. We can offer each other support and also critique our work. The group is open and flexible to new ideas. Post your work on this site for sharing and feedback. We have meet ups during the weekdays, nights and weekends to practice our craft at various lighting conditions.

Let's get together to create, learn &/or teach each other how to make jewelry (put together great design from store bought beads or create your own clay beads), cards (simple folding, stamping and taping or using the Cricut and other machines to create designs), handmade crafts (crochet, simple knit, sewing to name a few), etc... Socialize with others who love to create in my home studio. Share the love of making gifts for others or for selling on Etsy.

Calling all crafter/home & home based businesses. Collie Rescue of Greater Illinois, Inc., hold fundraisers throughout the year and we need participants. People who are passionate about their craft or business and who want to give back and help CRGI continue it's work of rescuing purebred and nearly purebred collies from neglect, abandonment and abuse. So, if you have a craft and/or business that participates in fundraising craft/vendor fairs and you love dogs, then we want to meet up with you.

The Chicago Java User’s Group is here to help the Java Professional. We want to make Chicago the ‘best’ place to be a Java developer, by offering a support network that allows each individual Java developer to grow! Its only purpose it to serve its community by focusing in three areas: - Learning about the Java Craft - Making a Difference in the Java Community - Growing as a Java Professional AND please, this is for those who program Java, NOT for recruiters, NOR staffers, NOR head hunters, car …

This group is dedicated to putting on arts and crafts fairs for fantasy, dark, science-fiction, tribal, and other sub-culture art.

For those who love hockey, craft beer, good food and meeting people with the same interests.

Do you like playing sports like Whiffle Ball, Kickball, Ultimate Frisbee, Flag Football, and other great outdoor sports? Then this is for you!!!! We invite all Men and Women to come on out to play and meet new people and have a great time. Usual start time will be Noon sharp every Saturday. The fields will vary throughout the Chicagoland suburbs from North Riverside, Countryside, Berwyn, Lyons, Brookfield, and more. All attendees that are 21+ will be invited to join for drinks at Brixies Pub in …

Every woman is awesome! We're awesome in that 1950's housewife or girlfriend type of way. *Single women are also welcome to join! Who We Are: We’re smart, sexy, modern day 1950’s housewives & girlfriends! We respect our partners as the head-of-the house & support their decisions. Whether we are career women, housewives, or stay-at-home moms, we're all happy to wear an apron and live the idealistic, 1950's lifestyle of "Yes, Dear" and good housekeeping. What We Do: Our goal is to build close f …

Calling all Crafters! This is a club for you to do whatever craft your working on. It could be cards, scrapbooking, jewelry or whatever you would like to work on that time. Try to meet once a month and if time allow we can try to meet more. Looking forward to meeting fellow crafters.

Let's enjoy cultural events together. we will go to concerts of classical music, world music, Jazz; modern dance; regional theaters; summer art fairs; gallery openings and out door concerts. I may also organize craft parties for pottery and fabric dyeing.

HI, my name is Lynne and I am a junkie, an ART JUNKIE. I started this group to meet and create with other women artists who are "junkies" like myself. Ever want to try an art medium or make a craft project, but didn't have all the supplies, or didn't have the confidence to do it alone? West Suburban Art Junkies is a meetup group where women can be inspired, can create and share their art. Each meetup will feature a project workshop that we will do together from start to finish, talk, laugh, lear …