October Scrapbook Retreat

Wow! We had so much fun this past weekend! What a great group of ladies! The title for the retreat was "Spooky Christmas" because it is so spooky how close Christmas really is! So, I made these nametags for everyone from the Cricut Paperdolls cartridge...





This retreat sold out, so the crop room was full. Sara took this picture after everyone had FINALLY gone to bed... at 5am on Saturday morning! Yep... they were having fun! Several ladies stayed up until 5:30am the next morning too! LOL!



Dinner on Saturday night consisted of sandwich trays from Subway, chips and a salad. Yum!





And lots of snacks on the Ladybug Snack Bar!






Sara helped me teach a Flip Book class. She did a great job and everyone liked the class...









Cindy did such a great job on her Flip Book! She used it right away for a Thanksgiving layout that she was working on. I loved the colors she used!





Sara used her Flip Book for this Sweet 16 layout:



Beth made the cutest layout of her son jumping in a Johnny Jumper! She used the Pooh Cricut cartridge to make these Tiggers:



Susan is one of my regulars! She and I became friends back when Lisa owned the business and I was just a Crop All Day customer.



Carolyn & Erin were in 'the zone'! They cranked out some awesome Disney pages this past weekend! I was impressed! Both had pre-planned their pages and arrived with cricuts in hand!




I was especially proud of one of my new customers, Ann... she used the cricut Storybook cartridge to make this layout of her daughter wearing a dress that her aunt had worn about 65 years ago!! It's just adorable:





Well, Anne, a good e-pal friend of mine, sent me a great link for some really cool paper trees. I think I am going to try to make one this week... they will be perfect for the wedding in December. Thanks Anne! I'll show you my progress here on my blog!

See ya!

Aunt Betty's Funeral

Wow... what a weekend! The funeral for my Aunt Betty was so beautiful... there were over 200 family and friends there. My cousin, Kathy and I organized tons of pictures in photo frames and I cropped 3 storyboards of her life. My favorite one was a board of pictures of Aunt Betty with all her grandchildren... they called her MEMAW.



I also loved handling the pictures of Aunt Betty when she was a baby and growing up... and her wedding photos! Everyone said she looked like a princess and she did... those photos were so precious and brought back many memories for her family and friends at the services.



This last storyboard was a combination of pictures that family & friends had donated. I put this board together around 2am the morning of the funeral, so it's not necessarily my best work, but just getting it done was the important thing. Kathy and I both finally climbed into bed around 3am and got up at 7am to go set up at the funeral home. The pictures and the flowers looked wonderful.





Aunt Betty loved Betty Boop stuff, so we displayed some of her favorite pieces. I put together a little 8x8 scrapbook of the Hat Party that was given for Aunt Betty when she lost her hair from the chemo... and that wedding dress of hers... wow!



It was a beautiful service and special time with family.

In a Card-making mood...

I got alot accomplished today... it was busy... but I got alot accomplished. I worked in my new studio all day and loved it! I would work a little on the computer then go and work a little at my table, load my cricut and go back to my computer. The hum of my big cricut is in the background even as I type this post. I got alot accomplished today and I feel good.

I am in the card-making mood now. Thinking about all the holiday cards I want to make for the upcoming retreats. I started making tons of scalloped cuts today for cards. I like this cute little 'Homemade Memories' stamp... what do you think?



I made this card for my mom... she's in Spain and I miss her.




Shhh... this one is for my neice Sara! Her birthday is one week from today!

The DRESS...

These pictures are from Prom in 2007. I'm so happy that I had not gotten around to cropping them, because I needed the new Storybook Cricut Cartridge to make it look just right. The right side layout was inspired from a template challenge with the Scrap-a-doodles... it was fun! I've never done this before and really enjoyed it. I also used the Home Accents cartridge for the flowers and butterflies. The two cartridges really compliment each other. Tell me what you think!

Summer Gone By...

Wow... I have been so neglectful of my blog! It has been two whole months since I posted anything... how did that happen?! The summer has just flown by and now school is starting in two weeks!

Good news is... I have gotten alot of scrapbooking done over the past couple of months. I won't post all of them, but here are a few of my favorite layouts that I have recently done.