CROPTOPIA 2010

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Hiya!

I am still recovering from Croptopia this past weekend. I had an amazing time. This crop was held at Camp Iawah in Godfrey, Ontario. This camp is beautiful. The really neat thing about this place is that it is always full of dragonflies when we come. It's specatular. Here are all the ladies. There were over 90 of us in attendance.



Here are my cropping buddies:

There is Clare, Veronica, Me and Rose, in our matching PJ's. We wore them Saturday night.



We had so much fun at this event. I took Friday off of work and spent the night at veronica's. Rose came Friday morning at 4am. Veronica (the master packer) was able to get all of our supplies into the car in twenty minutes. I think this was the fastest time so far.

We had a good trip out to the camp. Sadly, we were unable to pick lilacs this year as they were already past their blooming stage. We took a nap in the parking lot of a Tim Hortons as we were all pretty tired....not me though, I got a good nap on the way down. Thanks again Vern for driving.

We got to Iawah about 9ish. We got signed in and our stuff emptied out of the car. Then we got down to work. I got quite a few cards done. Here is one.



This is a new Stamping Bella stamp. It is part of the LULU collection. it is called LULU's wedding cake. I love how fanciful it looks on the card.



Here is the close up of the cake.

I chalked around the image with a rose colored chalk. Under the cake I used a bit of grey for the shadowing. On the cake itself I used copic markers, specifically: R81, R83, R85, YG23, R20 and R21. I used perfect pearls on the cake to add a bit of sparkle. I love how this card turned out.

I ended up staying up until 1:30 on Friday night, just working away. I was one of the last people to leave.





I was up again Saturday morning for breakfast about 7:30am, then back to scrapbooking. We didn't stay up too late on Saturday as I was pretty tired.

On the way to the rooms Saturday night Veronica and I saw this beautiful sunset. The picture doesn't do it justice.



We were up again Sunday morning for breakfast at 8:30am. We scrabooked until about noon. After lunch we were on our way home.

Here is another neat thing we saw on Sunday. It had attached itself to the netting at the doors. It's a moth. VERY NEAT!!



Well hoped you enjoyed.

A disasterous long weekend

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Well the last few days have been interesting to say the least. I was supposed to go up and visit my sister at school in Waterloo this weekend, however, my body had a different idea. I ended up staying home from work on Thursday due to a very sore throat. I woke up Friday morning and it was worse so I ended up going to the walk in clinic. I was in and out within the hour which was fantastic, but the prognosis was strep throat. By Friday night, it was terrible. I ended up having to go to the emergency room as my glands in the back of my throat were so swollen I was having problems swallowing. The staff at the hospital were amazing. My doctor was great too. After looking at me and taking a throat swab, he thought I might have mono. I was not looking forward to that!! Luckily, that test came back negative. YAY!! So with some medication I was outta the hospital, feeling much better. I had a very relaxing rest of the long weekend.

april showers bring may flowers

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I love The Greeting Farm stamps. Their images are so cute.

Here is their little gardener.





Here is the close up of the image. I coloured her with copic markers. I chalked around the image.

The fence is a punch by Martha Stewart.

oh rainy day.....

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It is absolutely awful outside today....so I thought a card would make it better.





Here is the close up of the Bella. She was stamped with Momento ink on Bella's Bestest paper. I coloured her with Copic markers, and chalked around the image.

~enjoy~

I'm a total Klutz...

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This weekend started out pretty great. Got some cards done friday night, got to sleep in Saturday morning. Then.....I walked down the stairs....

That's right, I totally fell down the stairs. I even managed to wake everyone up. Not the most pleasant way to wake someone up. Luckily I walked away with some really awful bruising, a sore little toe and a very sore back.

Now, to the good stuff. I got this stamp when I was in Kitchener. She is a Greeting Farm. Her name is Cheeky Glamour.





I used some scrap black and white paper I had in my bin. I think it is Basic Grey. I colored her using copics.

well, hope you like her.

enjoy!!

so many cards....so little time....

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Hi Everyone!!!

It has been WAY too long since I last posted.....

Here's the low down on what has happened since...oh WOW...I didn't think it was that long....March 1, 2010.

I have been very bad with not keeping this up to date.

So here goes....

I bought a new car. YAY. A little dark silver Nissan Versa Hatchback. I LOVE it. It's so cute.

I went to The Workshop's weekend retreat from April 16-18, 2010 in Stratford. A little change from our usual Collingwood, however, it was a great new experience. My friend Carmen and I drove down together. We spent sometime in Stratford before starting to crop. We went to a little burger and fry place on the main street called Boomers. It's really great. Burgers are good, and the BESTEST thing: if they don't make it there they get it locally. YAY. love the local support.

Here is where we cropped. It was in the Guthrie Room in the Hotel. There were about 50 ladies that attended the event. I cropped with some of my SISTAH's, Carmen, Carol, Elaine, Carrie, and Sharrie.

Here is my desk. Do you think I could get any more on it.....hahahahaha I had a huge laugh looking at this picture after....can you see it? what i was laughing at.....my Timmie's coffee. As any true Canadian can attest to, you day doesn't start with out that morning's timmies coffee.

We had a great time. We even went out to Scrapfest. It was such an amazing experience. For all those out there that couldn't make it....there's one coming to the toronto area. YAY!



Here is Carmen, Carol and myself, under the Scrapfest banner.

I am going to post some cards tonight....


STAY TUNED....

Proud to be Canadian...

OUR COLORS MAY BE RED AND WHITE, BUT OUR HEARTS RUN PURE GOLD!!
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I love being a Canadian! With the end of the Olympic games and the amazing goal by Sidney Crosby yesterday in the hockey match, I was extremely proud of my country. We have so much talent here in Canada. It's great to see all areas come together to celebrate, the athletes, artists, builders, and the companies that donated their time and supplies, it goes to show you how we can come together.

Here is one of the cards I created on Saturday at the Diva Crop. The stamp is called Rabbits of the Round Table and is by House Mouse. As soon as I saw this stamp I fell in love with it. I coloured the image with copic markers.



Here is the close up of the bunnies.