What A Weekend!!!

    We had a great time at The Manor Inn with our guests at our first ever stamp retreat! We made new friends and stamped our hearts out. We made some beautiful cards. This weekend really brought the creative side for all from the newbies to the more experienced paper crafters. We enjoyed the wonderful hospitality of the Innkeeppers, Denise and Ron. By the fireplace was a great spot to have a glass of wine and get to wind down after a long day of papercrafting. everyone was really enthused to paricipate and put their own little spin on their own projects(as you can see). Thank you so much to our retreat guests - Tami, Terry, Alexia, and Judy. Thanks to Myra, our Stampin'Up! Demonstrator. Thanks again to Denise and Ron our Hosts at the Inn.

     Some of what we accomplished in just one day...

    

       We got torelax a bit.....   oh and ...  Yes....there were prizes.....

    

   Here are some of our creations...

 


We'd like to see you back or invite you  to our next retreat in Blue Mountain Lake, NY. April 4-6.
Check it out at reapwhatyoustamp.com

        

This afternoon I head off to Club 101, our monthly Stamp Club with MsMyra. can't wait to see what she has in store for us today. Check back this evening to see our swaps and the projects we made!!!

12 days til The Manor Inn Stamp Retreat!!!

        

I had a great time today at Stamp Camp! What a fast paced fun day! I played around with some new ideas and some older ones I have not yet tried. I love the SU! aqua pens(new to me). We also used sponges with circle punched stencils and inks...fun!fun!fun! I am a huge fan of ribbon and we got to use plenty of that along with new SU! Hodgepodge Hardware. I am also new to watercolor paper...very cool! We used the crop-a-dile to emboss little circles on our cards( instaed of setting an eyelet impress the paper using the D4 setting.
                                          

                                                 EMBOSSED WITH CROP-A-DILE ON D4 SETTING
                                            NOTICE A PIECE OF THE NEW HODGEPODGE HARDWARE




                                                       SU! MERCI! SALE-A-BRATION
                     BUTTERFLY ON WATERCOLOR PAPER WITH BLACK STAZON, STENCILS CUT
                     OUT W/ CIRCLE PUNCHES, THEN SPONGED WITH INK.




                                                               CREATING MERCI! CARD



                                                           SU! GARDEN WHIMSEY




                                          SU! SALE-A-BRATION LOT OF THOUGHTS



                            THE BEAUTIFUL CARD WE MADE WAS SLID INTO A CLEAR ENVELOPE ON
                                                 THE FRONT  OF THIS GORGEOUS BOX!




                                            MY CRICUT EXPRESSION MAKES BEAUTIFUL BOXES AND THERE ARE 
                                                MATCHING NOTECARDS INSIDE.
                                             

What a day!

        

Tomorrow I head off to StampCamp with my mom to learn new techniques and meet new people!! Can't wait! We are also going to be using the SU! sale-a-bration sets(I'm sure)!!! Sunday I am host at our monthly club aka CLUB 101 with MsMyra.Look for our new creations Monday morning!

        

Here is yet another evidence to my becoming more web savvy. I have been encouraged to enter the world of blog to share, create, and of course expose my new business to the many stampers and scrappers out there who might be interested in traveling to the Adirondacks to get together and SCRAMP( a new word to me: Stamp+Scrap=Scramp) Watch for updates as I get the hang of this!