Scrapbooking retreat

Have had a wonderful and productive Scrapbooking Retreat weekend!  I held it at my place and there were up to 13 people creating layouts, off-the-page projects and sewing projects.  An awesome bunch of ladies from Cambridge, Morrinsville and Wellington!

We were all pretty impressed by how much we all got finished.  We put up all our layouts on 'The Wall'.  76 pages completed!!!!!  There were also 6 optional challenges (sketch, technical, product etc), which helped the creative juices to flow.

Can't wait for the next one!


The Wall

Some of the 'Scrappers'

The work room (once upon a time my lounge and dining room!)

More of the work room

The Cricut room/Mini shop/Chillax room (once my playroom)

70!

Happy 70th to my dear Daddy!

I made Dad two cards.  I used Cricut cartridge 'Art Deco' for the first card and I made a wallet card (Inspired by Pinterest), to hold messages (that look like credit cards) and money.

Front of Wallet card

Inside of wallet card

Little pirate

My daughter was invited to a pirate party (which was absolutely fabulous!).  So of course I made a pirate card (using Cricut cartridge 'Paper Dolls Dress Up').  Here's how it turned out....

My litle pirate girl!
 

Back to School

Lachie's 'Back to School' layout using the fabulous Kaisercraft 'Class Act' Range.

Fruity

I found this fabulous fruity paper from Imaginesce but I only had one piece and an off cut (I managed to obtain from who knows where..), but two layouts I wanted to use it for.  So I padded out the layouts with washi tape and cardstock and here's what I came up with;

Beach boy

Happy birthday to Nigel - the big 40!

I made some board shorts (from Cricut cartridge 'Life's a Beach'), for the impending Fiji holiday.

Bunny bags

I made 'Bunny Bags' from small paper bags, ribbon and patterned paper (for the ears).  A great find on Pinterest!  I filled the bags will little Easter eggs for special friends at Easter.