May Cottage Kit called "Countryside"

Hi there,
here is a pic of our May Cottage Kit, great stuff all for only $30.00+taxes. Call or email the store today and we can hold or ship one out to you - your May Kit includes...
7 sheets of 12x12 Cardstock- (2 sheets of Dotted Swiss in Salt & Neptune) other colors are 2 sheets of Kraft, 1 of Pickle, 1 of Lemonade, 1 of Gulf.
1 Scalloped paper from Twig
6 sheets of patterned paper - 2 from Studio Calico called Betsy & Barn Swallow, 2 from Cosmo Cricket-Upcycle called Re:Verse & Re:Love, 2 sheets from My Mind's Eye Good day Sunshine called Seaside & Head in the Clouds.
1 Sheet October Afternoon Mini market Alphabet stickers in Pine & Cream
1 Sheet of Flag Banner stickers from Jenni Bowlin
2 packages of Studio Calico Rub-ons - words & clouds
1 Crepe Flower and 4 Flag pins from The Girls Paperie
1 Repair Tag from Jillibean Soup
1 meter of Blue pompon ribbon and twine
1 bottle of Midnight Blue stickles

this is a great kit with lots of of great stuff to play with!

  I hope you feel inspired!

S

Fun times in Brandon...

so the last weekend of my crazy month came and went.  I was in Brandon...in the snowstorm...to Crop the weekend away for a bunch of charities:-)  Sooo fun - also got to teach 2 classes.

Here are some pics of the weekend...

the girls creating their lovely artist trays!

my lovely partner in crime - my sister Jen...see the Timmys(secret to late night cropping!)

Our awesome Croppin' buddies, Kim & Shanley:-) Kim was annoyed at me for taking a pic on Sunday morning, the day she did not get all camera ready! Sorry!!

 all the croppers working hard!

me, being goofy - I worked on our last Disney trip ALL weekend!

 people always ask me how I get organized...clearly I am not the person to talk to on this subject:-)

one of my favorite layouts from the weekend...it seriously looks amazing in person!

using the New Echo Park "Playground" line, soo fun!

Brandon raised over $2500 for local community charities with the Silent Auction alone!!! Way to go!  The prize I donated (a tonne of really great Tim Holtz stuff) was won by my sister!!! She said she was going to win it and she did, lucky girl!!

I got LOTS done, even though I forgot my ENTIRE scrapbook tote at home!  Yup, I showed up with some tools, cardstock and my pics of Disney (thank goodness) -so needless to say I did a little shopping at all the great stores on site:-)  I was very thankful I did not forget any class stuff, as that would have been the worst.

Had lots of fun.. hopefull we will see you next year in Brandon too!!

I hope you feel inspired!

S

fun new things...

I just love scrapbooking:-) What a great hobby!  All the companies constantly come out with soo many great products to create with...

New Studio Calico - gorgeous soft colors, neat accessories - all in the store and online right now!!

sooo we survived!!!

the craziness of another event!!  Wow, what a busy couple of weeks!  I did that fundraising crop at the beginning of the month, then the next weeked I was at a ladies retreat at my church, sooo great! At the retreat I was able to do this great little project with a number of the women there!

 

well a version of this project, the ladies were all VERY creative and this Prayer journal was different and beautiful for each one of them, as they received various papers from Bo-Bunny's Gabrielle line to play with!

I got to play with my new toy...

LOVING the Cinch... I think the ladies liked it too!!

Then the week was spent packing up the store for the Creative Gathering!!!

Here are just a few pics of our event-

 

Peeking in on a class:-)

 

Canvas Mini album class

 

Tannis- instructor showing off the project

 

Jodi & Tracey have their Twoonies ready for the next special!

 

Cottage Girl - Lori

 

Time for another special!

 

Lydia - doing a Cinch Demo

 

Everyone just cropping the night away:-)

Just a few of the great samples on our display wall - using all new products in the store!!

If you joined us - thanks for a great time!  

I hope you feel inspired this week to create a little something:-)

S

packing....

Miss Connie, packing up all sorts of fun stuff for the Creative Gathering:-)

  Picture a little blurry cause I am not a tall girl you see, so I had to hold my camera waaay up:-)

I hope you feel inspired today!!

S

REFENS Fundraising Crop

last Saturday I helped out at a fund-raising crop in Transcona area, some of the ladies were new scrapper's so it was lots of fun to do a Make n' take project with them, and give them an opportunity to "Play".
We used border punches, distress inks, distress tools, and we used the the new Double dot paper by Bo-Bunny!  It was great to meet you ladies,  I hope you raised lots of money!!

here is what we made!

here are some of the border punches we used...Martha Stewart, Fiskars &  EK Success

 

and here is the fabulous Double Dot paper...

I wanted to attach 2 samples with photos...but they are packed away for the Creative Gathereing- so will have to post those another day!

I hope you feel inspired:-)
S

Creative Gathering time...

2 times a year, we put on our Creative Gathering event - an opportunity to crop and create for 140 women ( we we would accept men as well if any came:-)  We offer classes, we offer food, and we offer GREAT shopping!! We keep and release many new lines of product for our CG ladies to take advantage of first - before it goes into the store. So in turn, we need to have many great samples of all the newest releases - so needless to say, blogging takes a back seat to creating and planning for this event... here are a few sneak peeks of some creations:-)

after the CG I will post full projects....or you can come and shop at the 55Plus on Friday, April 15th from 5pm-9pm and Sat, April 16th from 10am-4pm, and see everything for yourself:-)

I hope you feel inspired!

S