Group Photo Retreat 2011

This is the group photo of our June 2011 Scrapbooking Retreat.

Thank you ladies for making it such a fun weekend!

A wonderful buffet Lunch of salads, cold cuts, buns, home made soup, fruits and desert.

Our ladies enjoying lunch!

Shopping with sassyscraping.com, the owner Julie comes and set up a full store for us all day Saturday!

Thanks Julie!

We have five work area's set up!

2011 June Retreat! First Layouts!

Great work was done by all at our retreat this past weekend.  We had a couple of ladies that were new to scrapbooking and here they are with their very first layouts!

Nice work ladies, I know your hooked now, just like the rest of us! 

2010 Christmas Layout

Paper - Deck the Halls by Stampn' Up

Ribbon - Riding Hood Red/Very Vanilla by Stampn' up

Poinsettia's - Mistletoe Z1330 by Close To My Heart

Brass Embellishments - Close To My Heart

Bling - Local Dollar store

This is "our Christmas" with my Husband Parents a couple of weeks before Christmas.  They usually spend Christmas with us but this year they flew out west  and spent Christmas with my Husbands 2 brothers and their Families.  We were happy for them all, we can't be greedy and have them every Christmas and Holiday, even though we love it when they are with us!



Back As Promised! Lunch Time

The food at the conference center we use is simple, home cooked and delicious. We (all 30+ of us) enjoyed a sandwich buffet, salads, cream of broccoli soup and a fruit buffet for desert!! Yummm!

It's a fun busy weekend!! June 2011 Scrapbooking Retreat!

It's a full house here at our spring retreat! We are having a blast! We are totally sold out and had to say no to some people and put them on a cancellation list! I hate saying no to people!  Everyone is having a blast and I will have lots to share with you over the next few days or weeks depending on how much work I get done. I will be popping in over the weekend and posting pic's!

 Thanks to all the ladies for joining us and making our retreat so much fun!

We love you all!

P.S. We have retreats every June and November.....but we have been asked to asked to add a February one also....so we will be working on that!

Ms. Scrapbook Gift!

When you take one of this cute mugs, add in a few little goodies, wrap in cello, and add a pretty ribbon you have a extra special treasure to sell or give as a gift! Add a special card, matching is really nice as you can see here . 

Ms. Scrapbook Mugs!

Are these the cutest little mugs you ever saw? !!

I made these Scrapbooker Girl Mugs to sell at a retreat I am co-running this weekend.

I can't decide what to sell them for, any suggestions?

They are really fun to make!  I saw this technique on a blog years ago and went on a mission to get the product used to adhere your art work to the mug.  Its made in Germany I think and the only English speaking web site I could find was in Cyprus. So after months of searching and shipped all the way from Cyprus (weeks of waiting) I can make these adorable mugs that are dishwasher safe (but I would still hand wash). 

I stamp the image (Ms. Scrapbook from Close to My Heart B1352) on white tissue paper with stazon, colour with my water colorpencils (CTMH 3505), cut as close to the image as possible, adhere with porcelain potch to the mug and bake at 270 F for 90 minutes.

This link will take you to others I have done, they are great gifts!

http://kcustom-fi.blogspot.com/search/label/porzellan%20potch

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Thank you to all that entered, it has been really fun, I have enjoyed visiting all your blogs, and hope you have enjoyed mine! Happy Wednesday Everyone!



Last Day for Blog Candy!! Tell Your Friends!!

I decided it was time for a little Blog Candy!

Valued at over $50 !!

We all deserve a little gift once in awhile! and

This is my gift to one lucky Blogger!

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This Candy includes a Creative Memories Picfolio, Creative Memories products, Stickles, 3 packages Bling, Assorted Ribbon, Post it notes in support of Breast Cancer Research, Blank Tags and a Stampin Up mini ink pad.  The luck winner is in for a nice treat by main.  This Candy is available for People in Canada and the USA.

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Thanks Blogger's, Good Luck to Everyone!

A sketch challenge at H2H Challenge Blog!!

Its a sketch challenge over at Heart 2 Heart Challenges Blog this week!

I have only recently discovered this challenge blog and its all about my favorite product!

Close to My Heart

I am working on catching up my Christmas album this weekend at a retreat I am co-running! So I am all about Christmas right now. This layout suited the sketch perfectly and is made completely out of retired Close to My Heart Product (paper pack is X7075B Everlasting) ! The bling though is a local dollar store find! I used my Cricut to cut the shapes, titles and embellishments!

Anything but a Card for H2H Challenges and Decorate to Celebrate Challenge Blog

Party favors!

These are darling little purses made from my favorite Close to My Heart papers, bling, and some bead/wire from the local dollar store. I have added the pattern to the bottom of the post.  I used these at a Close To My Heart catalogue launch and put a little surprise inside each purse.

I am entering these little purses in the ABC = Anything But a Card challenge at H2H Challenges.

and Decorate to Celebrate Challenge blog

 

Blog Candy! Only a couple of days left!

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Blog Candy!! Tell Your Friends! Over $50 Value!

We all deserve a little gift once in awhile! and

This is my gift to one lucky Blogger!

See Blow for 3 different ways to get your name entered into a Random Generated Draw!

This Candy includes a Creative Memories Picfolio, Creative Memories products, Stickles, 3 packages Bling, Assorted Ribbon, Post it notes in support of Breast Cancer Research, Blank Tags and a Stampin Up mini ink pad. The luck winner is in for a nice treat by main. This Candy is available for People in Canada and the USA.

Here's what you need to do!!!!!

The draw will be via Random Generator.

Enter by May 31st, 2011 by midnight

Draw will be June 1st

For 1 Chance to Win.

Leave me a comment so I know you were here.

For a 2nd Chance to Win.

Post my Blog Candy on your blog so that others have a change to win also!

Note you've done it in your comment!

For a 3rd Chance to Win.

Simply become a follower of my Blog, I would be very honoured.

Note you've done it in your comment!

Thanks Blogger's, Good Luck to Everyone!

kids cards - Work in progress.

This is a work in progress, I am trying to decide what I want to do with the stamp set (Hope A1118) Close to My Heart used to raise funds for HOPE FOR JAPAN!  It is part of my simple stamped cards theme, I like the idea of the happy birthday boarder and the colour combo, but not the way it actually turned out....again a work in progress.

Summer Layout! for Fabulous Friday Challenge at Frosted Designs

This week is National Backyard Games Week and to honor that, Frosted Designs are challenging us to make a card, layout or project using a BBQ, Picnic or Outdoor Games theme!

I have it covered here with this summer layout. We were Camping, BBQ'ing, Picnicking and Playing all sorts of games and activities during these these 4 days (last weekend).

This is a double page layout with pictures of our first summer long weekend.

The materials are all Close to my heart, the beach chair is cut from card stock with my Cricut and distressed with sandpaper to bring out the detail. The letters were stamped with "Bohemian" alphabet and cut out randomly distressed with garden green ink, the same colour was used to distress the mounting paper be hind the 4x5 photo. The paper pack used is "Mulberry".

wedding Card

As a continuation of yesterdays post regarding wedding cards. We have  friends from the USA getting married next weekend (and her sister got married back in March) we will not be attending the wedding (nor were we able to attend the one in March) but will get to see them at the NASCAR race in Michigan this June and I will bring them this card. It is as always made with Close to My Heart products and the stamp sets are as follows: Wings B1376, Piece of Cake D1407.

I was awarded "Top Three" at Frosted Designs!

I am so excited to have made the Top Three at Frosted Designed with this is an acrylic scrapbook I have done as a gift for my father-in-law. It is of his retirement luncheon from the Canadian Armed Forces. The  challenge was to make a card, layout or project with an armed forces/patriotic theme!

Thank You so much for choosing my design, I am so excited and honored!

Click here to see the full project I entered!

wedding Card

Every June a group of us take the travel trailers down to NASCAR in Michigan. There is a large family (5 daughters in the family) that we met many years ago and it has become tradition for us to meet there and camp together for the 5 days around the June NASCAR race.  This year two of the daughters got married, one (pictured above) in March and one (I will post tomorrow) this coming weekend. When I see them a month from now in Michigan I am going to bring each of them a nice wedding card. I hope you like it. As usual they are made with all Close to my heart products. Stamp sets used are - Bliss B1371, Wings B 1376.

kids cards

This is another kids card for my Card Box!

It is a simple stamped card and I drew the line around the outside.

All Close to My Heart Product!

Stamps - Bohemian Alphabet E1019, Hope A1118, Happy Birthday C1247

Ink - Sun Flower, Indian Corn Blue

Marker - Black

Emily's Birthday Card!

I made this card for our friends daughter Emily's birthday, its a simple design of my own.  It is basic stamping with embellishments on a piece of white card stock that is then adhered to a white card base. This way you can adhere your ribbon to the back of the white card stock and it is hidden when attached to the card base.

 The materials used are as follows:

All Close to My Heart Product except for the pink dollar store perls and green stampin up ribbon.

Stamp sets - D1424 Something Splended (flowers), D1304 Life's Creation (words), Ink - Pear Z2197, Bubble Gum Z2109, White Daisy Card Stock, White Daisy Card Base.

Happy Victoria Day Everyone! Lots of Picutes, keep scrolling down!!

I hope your Victoria Day weekend was as much fun as ours was!

It is our annual trip to Lagoon City.

We have a group of 5+ families that travel together with the big travel trailers and 5th wheels. Every May 24 weekend we bring the trailers up to Kevin's (the husband of one of our group of 5 and one of our best friends) parents cottage (mansion) in Lagoon city to camp for the weekend. The property is huge, beautiful and close to home.  We have the chance to get the trailers out for the first time of the year and make a dry run of it, every family always forgets something they have packed away for the winter, but it's our weekend to figure our what we need to add to the trailers for the rest of the season.  Lagoon city is far enough south to ensure no bugs (black flies), there is lots of fishing for the kids, a beautiful sand beach, hot tub, safe community for bike riding and if the weather is bad plenty enough room for all of us and you would never know you had 30 people handing out in the same house. Two of the families bring their golf carts so we go golf cart yard saling Saturday morning which is so much fun in that little canal/lakefront community and we also use them for going to the beach.....

We are so thankful for our standing yearly invite to such a wonderful place, with a great group of friend's!

My Makayla soaking up the rays at the beach!

 My Cameron building a sand castle!

(all the kids helped) 

Makayla loves fishing so she helped the little ones all weekend long. 

Not sure how this started but the boys were riding the bike off the dock into the lagoon.

This is Cameron.

After their little trips in to the lagoon via bicycle, they needed a little dip in the hot tub.

Happy Birthday Emily!

Thanks Uncle Kevin for the great fireworks!

Everybody likes sparklers.

A afternoon game of ladder ball.