Oh WOW! I Just realised I forgot to post about my retreat I went to!
So a group of us on the Project Life Australia Group on Facebook get together twice a year to catch up and get some crafty goodness happening. Michelle and Carol lovingly organise this camp (Camp.Paper.Scissors) and we get treated to a lovely relaxing weekend that is affordable and a great group of women.
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| Our abode for the weekend |
This camp was at the YMCA Lady Northcote camp in Rowsley (about 20 minutes from Bacchus Marsh in Victoria, Australia). It was a lovely setting to just relax, Big windows with fantastic natural lighting and a large hall. There were 33 of us staying there over the weekend, Some having flown in from the sunshine Coast in Queensland. We were able to start arriving from 4pm on Friday, as some of us were running early we met in Bacchus Marsh for coffee before heading out to camp.
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| This Scrapbooking is messy stuff |
Upon arriving at camp it didnt take long to make a mess and get creative. We were greeted at our tables with goodie bags which are always exciting. This year we received some brush script cards from Jodie at
Polka Dot Creative, Some flair and wood veneer from Raquel at
A Piece of cake Designs, An overlay and lined cards from Mary and David at
Craft House, a 1/4 kit of the Strawberry kit, a 1/4 kit of the Azure kit (I fell in love with this kit) and a packet of Thickers from Spotlight, a camp.paper.scissors pencil, a tumbler with a straw, and some ribbon and twine. There were also some stamped elements that worked well as embellishments. Quite a good haul. The girls out did themselves this time around, THANK YOU LADIES!!!
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| The planning stages of my monochromatic challenge |
On Saturday some of the girls attended archery, while the rest of us woke up. We were then greeted with videos from Elise Blaha-Cripe, Wilna Furstenburg and Maggie Holmes and CHALLENGES. There were 4 Challenges. Scrap your Sentence (my sentence was create a layout about someone you love, and journal about why you are proud of them.), Monochromatic, Layers and Kill your Kit. I entered a layout into 3 of the 4 Challenges running out of time for the kill your kit Challenge. I was Pleasantly surprised when I won the Scrap your sentence Challenge as that was my least liked layout out of them all.
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| Taking photos of my layouts is not my forte. However here is my scrap your sentence Layout |
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| My prize |
I also took a canvas class using photos from the summer with Kellie from
Kellies Stamps. I love love love how this canvas turned out and I has taken pride of place in my loungeroom. If you want to have a go at making your own visit Kellie
here for her tutorial
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| The canvas I created in Kellies canvas Class |
It was such a fantastic weekend. So many laughs, shenanigans and Project lifing. I achieved so much, all I need to do is add journalling to my holiday layouts. Which one month on.... Yep you guessed it still waiting to be journalled!!! It will happen.
I really feel I have made friends that will be around for a long long time...
