In July at the family reunion, Pat and I talked about how much FUN it would be to attend the 3 day crop in her town on October 15-17 (Fri.-Sun). together! I didn't really think it would be possible, but Jason and his Grandparents schemed behind my back to get me there! You guys are AWESOME!! I had the best time ever! We made cards for a total of 38 hours over 3 days! The event was AMAZING! It was put on by the wonderful and talented girls at
Forget Me Not (local scrapbook store). The event included 3 DELICIOUS meals a day, plus snacks and drinks and use of ALL the store's supplies! We even took trips to the store for 25% off purchases! I met a lot of great girls with AMAZING talents and ideas! I learned a lot and now have a HUGE wish list of things I need/want (hint hint................gift ideas anyone? hee hee) I was able to "step out of my comfort zone" and try different things like painting with water colors and embossing. Pat and I had a BLAST and a lot of laughs! She's a slave driver! LOL I already miss getting our punkin spice lattes every morning with her :) It was so nice to be in WA again too. The place is beautiful and the weather was awesome! I really needed a good dose of Fall! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Poor Grandad had the house all to himself for 3 days as we barely even saw him. In fact, on Sat. I didn't see him at all! We left before he got up and came home way after he went to bed. Thanks for sharing Pat with me, Grandad! Thanks for an amazing trip too, I had so much fun and I'm sad that's it's over already! I look forward to sending out my cards though! Love you guys!!!!!
Packing the car of our goods! This is ONLY the trunk (back seat not pictured) hee hee
The AG center (at the fairgrounds) before the crazy crop girls arrived!
Pat setting up the stamps
Photo-op of me and Pat
Bye bye Scrap-a-ganza 2010! ;(
All of our cards (sideways cause I can't rotate it!!!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr)
Pat's spooooooooky Halloween cards (she's got a dark crafty side)
My attempt at water colors and getting out of my comfort zone! :)
Embossing with the Cuddle Bug! I LOVE that machine!!
Really stepping out of the box with water colors, embossing and paper crumpling! Thanks Pat! :)
5 comments:
wow gia! now im SUPER embarrassed at the bday card i "made" for Ava! your cards are so awesome! im gonna go rip up all the ones i "made" and go back to spending $$$$$$$ at hallmark and save myself the embarrassment! the crop looked like so much fun!
Those are AMAZING! I'd LOVE to see your supplies and tools grow to even a portion of what you seemed to be permitted to use there. Those are beautiful cards!!! Such talent. A lot of patience. Very creative mind.
Love you, you obviously got the talent of the two of us!!
I'm sooo jealous! I would LOVE to do something like this! Wonder if there is anything like this around here that we could do together. Wouldn't that be awesome! So, what are some of the supplies that you want which means I'm sure I would want them? What's the cuddlebug? I want to have a Gia and Jill Card making/wine drinking night!
Wow G! I am jealous too!! There is a little shop here that does embossing workshops for 2. Stacy and I are going to schedule the class...maybe Jilly should come up to!
Your cards are A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!! Nicely done!
When Erin?
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