Card's and Projects By SU! Consultant, Catherine Black

Catherine came and did a card class with us and introduced us to Shimmer paint. I used the card we made in last week's Play Along Monday challenge (Thanks Nancy..lol!). Here's her display table from the retreat of some of her creations. So much talent and inspiration here!! Thanks again for joining us, Catherine!

Some Photo's Of Our First Retreat!

Hello! As promised, here are some photo's from our retreat! We're missing about 5 girl's in our photo as they had already gone. We'll have to get them in there next time! We had a fantastic turnout for our first retreat and we've already started booking for June! We're already almost full, which is so exciting!

"Smilebox Greetings" From Our Retreat

Visit my cousin Nancy's blog for a little retreat slideshow she put together!

Retreat was AWESOME!

Good morning!! We're back from the retreat and now it's back to reality too! I tell you, you go from being pampered to being mom/wife in a matter of seconds, lol, there's no time in between! We had a wonderful relaxing wknd. The food was fantastic, oh my goodness. There was dessert with both lunch AND dinner and when you don't eat that normally, I feel like I need to run a marathon right now! We had 2 classes and a demo on Saturday and learned to watercolor with markers with Pam Russell and we also learned all about shimmer paint. OH WOW! Let me say, I think our SU! Consultant, Catherine Black did very well with orders!! That stuff is fantastic! I'll post my card later today as it's part of this week's challenge. New friendships were made and it was just an all around fantastic wknd. We have booked already for June 3 - June 6, 2010 (yes, an extra day girls!) as well as Nov 19-21, 2010 AND June 2 - 5, 2011!! We had a request for an extra day and we're accomodating it! We're so excited! I'll have to do some sweet talking to my son though, as June 2nd is his birthday, but this place is already booked up to 2015!!

I did manage to get some work done on my Disney book, as well as some of my DT projects done, so over the next few days, I'll be showing it all off! Stay tuned!

Our Very FIRST Weekend Scrapbooking Retreat Is Almost Here!

I can't believe it's only 3 weeks away...our very first scrapbooking retreat! My friend Kelli and I run a monthly scrapbookers club in town and we decided to try our hand at hosting a retreat. Well, we're doing amazing! We're almost full and we have ppl coming in last minute to see if we have room left! This week we've been getting emails and phone calls. It's so exciting! We have to have final numbers in on Nov 11th. It's being held 5 min's from my house, so that's convenient for me! We have some special events taking place, demo's, classes..all free of charge AND we've decided to do a "Trade or Sell" event on Friday night along with 'Mock'tails. Bring anything you'd like to sell or trade off for something else! We're offering both weekend and day options and we have both filling up nicely, so we're really excited. We've already booked the conference center for next June and Nov!!

If anyone out there is interested in coming, send me an email and I'll send you all the details!! We're located an hour north of Toronto, an hour south of Barrie, right on Lake Simcoe. The rest will be in email. I wish all my US friends could come, would be so fun to meet everyone. I promise to post pics and details of all the fun we have.