Scrapboxx October Retreat!!!
As promised- here is my run down of the absolutely awesome Scrapboxx October Retreat!
Friday-
I dropped my gorgeous girls off at school and drove straight to Kathleen's house to pick her up. I was a little nervous as I hadn't met Kat before however as soon as I met her we were chatting away like old friends!
We made it to the All Season's by 12- only stopping for the essentials- coffee, wine and a toilet break!!!
We unloaded, dropped our luggage into our rooms and then found our spots in the scrap room! The first part of the afternoon was spent chatting, catching up and checking out all the new goodies that Maria had in her shop- yum!!
It was so great to see old friends-Maria, Nic, Mardi, Leeann, Sheree, Kel, Nikki, Kareena, Denise, Fran, Ashleigh, Annette, Karen and meet some new ones- Lisa, Tina, Charlotte, Jackie, Lissie, Penny and of course Kathleen!!!
Leeann then cracked the whip!!! We were all given a little goodie bag with our own chipboard initial and a selection of other bits & pieces. We had to make our own name tag!
Here is mine!!
Once we had finished, Maria sorted us for our retreat tag swap...and as always, it was noisy but fun, fun, fun!!!
The talented Miss Sheree McGee then took over and she got us all to turn our collected retreat tags into a funky tag book. We used the 'Bind-It-All' and I'm in love- I think I'll be getting myself one of these great machines!!!
The bigger pages at the back are for retreat photos! I haven't added my photos yet- it is on my to-do-list!
We then went straight into a class with the beautiful and very talented Mardi Winen.
Mardi had us very busy indeed! We covered chipboard buttons, we painted our backgrounds, we used the Cuttlebug to cut fabric letters, we stamped, we cut, we tore .....and we ended up with two fabulous LOs. I love the colour combinations that Mardi selected- and the papers- yummy October Afternoon papers!!
Here are my LOs-
We had to be out of the scrap room by 12 so after a very busy night we all went happily off to bed.
Saturday-
After breakfast (and a visit from the local ducks) we got straight into Nic's class.
We had to make some really funky flowers out of threads and leave then to dry. These were for Nic's Sunday class but they time needed to dry overnight.
Nic looked gorgeous with her beautiful baby bump. The poor thing had a cold and being pregnant couldn't take anything for it- hope you are feeling better now Nic!!!
That didn't stop her from keeping us busy!!!
We made this wonderful mini album out of grunge board and the Bind-It-All. We inked, we painted, we stitched, we cut, we chatted and laughed along the way as ended up with a mini album plus a bonus LO!!
Here is my mini album-
and my bonus LO-
Yummy papers aren't they?? New Sassafras papers- very nice!!!
Later in the afternoon, Mardi took back over and we got busy again.
Mardi had instructions for us to make 3 LOs, a mini album and some cards (3 I think).
I managed to finished three LOs and the mini album- YAY!!!!
Mardi was fabulous, her instructions were so well written and easy to follow and she wandered around helping everyone- Mardi -you are so gorgeous!!! I so loved doing your class and I'm thrilled with all my LOs and mini album!!!
Here they are-
I couldn't photograph the mini album this morning as Sarah took it to school for news! It has all photos from her birthday last week! She loves it!
We were again kicked out of the scrap room at midnight but instead of going to bed a handful of us ended up in Nikki and Leeann's room. We laughed, chatted and drank into the wee hours of the morning!!!
Sunday-
After another delicious breakfast we were straight into it again!
This time Nic had us working hard again!!
We used those funky flowers on a LO and also completed two others!!
Yummy papers huh?? Basic Grey- yummo!
During the weekend we were also given 'challenge packs'
I managed to finish 3 out of the 5 challenges- not bad considering I'm a slow scrapper. I even won a prize (a Scrapworks mini album) for finishing a challenge so quickly!!!
In each challenge you had to use everything (or part of) that was in your pack- sometimes a real challenge!!!
Here are mine-
For this one we were all given a different 'quote postcard' - we had to use the card on the LO somewhere plus we had to use some given chipboard in the Cuttlebug and use that on the LO too.
I also finished a card challenge which I've forgotten to photograph- ops!
Wow- are you still reading!!!
Here are just a few photos to finish off with.
The scrap room-
and me with the Boxx girls-
L-R Nic, me, Maria, Sheree, Leeann & Mardi! Boy- look how tall I look!!
Phew- Kat and I left about 4 and arrived home very tired but very happy indeed.
I honestly had the BEST time and I'm now really, really looking forward to the March retreat- Roll on March!!!
Love Janine xxx
8 comments:
OMG! ALL of those LOs are FANTASTIC!!!! You were so busy!!!! more than extremely jealous now.....
dude! what awesome layouts... i haven't made one in ages!
love the mini too.
making mini albums
mini album blog
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You made so many gorgeous Lo's Janine !!!! Glad you had an awesome time and yeah!! Roll on March!
hey Janine... it was awesome catching up with you.... I love all your projects... you have such gorgeous pics of your girls.... I totally enjoyed having some drinks with you too...was fun laughing screaming.... catch you at the next retreat!!!!mwah!
Arrgghhh!! Reliving it all over again - Lol.
And how can you call yourself a slow scrapper, you were speedy speedy - even the ones without instructions, the way you managed to get things together and looking so fine so quickly left me gobsmacked!
xx
Ohh Janine.....reading your retreat post this morning made me feel all misty. It was such a wonderful time....I loved every minute...and I cant tell you hoW much I love seeing all the versions of my layouts too.
I loved catching up with you again... it was such a comfy group....I so hope I can do it all again another year.
Mardi x
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