Scrap retreat

On Friday Haylee & I joined Kylie for our trip to Penrith for the inaugural Dragonfly Scrapbooks retreat at Castlereagh Academy, which is on the site of the first Westleyan Church in Australia. Right behind the academy is the Lake that that was used for the Olympic rowing events. In fact the cabins we stayed in were the Olympic Village cabins.

We had a wonderful time over the weekend, meeting new people, eating good food, and just plain having fun.

My BIG task for the weekend was to run an OTP class. A few ladies had wanted to make the Kaiser Advent Calender so that's what we did. Over two 2 hour sessions each of the 7 wonderful ladies completed the putting together & painting of the box and also the covering of the 24 little boxes.

After the class most of the ladies continued to embellish their calenders. I am extremely proud of what all my ladies went home with and I know each one of them were very proud too.

I didn't expect to get to much scrapping done over the weekend as most of my time & energy was put into the class, so I took bits to make up a heap of cards, I did manage to complete one LO also but have not taken a photo of that so will show you when it is done. We were given a challenge kit, we could make anything we wanted with the PP, piece of card stock, ribbon, 4 flowers and 2 brads. We were allowed to add three elements. I made this little box from a piece of chipboard, some ink and dimensional magic.

Haylee & I also took Kristy's simple card class using a Kaiser 6X6' pack. There was a lot of cutting involved as we cut enough pieces out to make 24 cards but only made 6 cards during the class. The purple cards are the three I actually completed as I wanted to add something to the other 3 cards.

It was a fabulous weekend and I WILL be back next year. Maybe you would like to join us. It was a very reasonable price and possibly the most relaxed retreat I have been to. The food was good and I believe it will be even better next year.

Dragonfly Scrapbook retreat class

I am teaching this weekend at the DragonFly Scrapbooks retreat in Penrith.

Each lady will leave hopefully with an Kaisercraft advent calender looking much like one of these.

This is mine in it's almost embellished state. I added a ornament to each top corner but that pic is still on my camera.

Come back Monday to see the pics oft he retreat.

I am considering adding this as a class on my tutorial blog.

Creating for Dragonfly Scrapbooks

Kristy, a friend of ours, from Dragonfly Scrapbooks asked Haylee & I to help her prepare for the Wodonga Craft Alive fair that she attended with her shop over the weekend.

She presented us with a stack of new products and asked us to come up with whatever we could to help promote the new product. Here are what we came up with.


Hokitika made with Ruby Rock it "The Summerhouse" range including PP, buttons, trims and alpha's.











Fun at the park - used My Little Shoebox "Little critture" PP and alphas cut using cuttlebug's Olivia.












Gorgeous girls - My little shoebox "Imginary Friends" PP, Kaisercraft rhinestones and American craft thickers alphas.










Wedding day (photo taken before completed) - BG Cappella PP, Mini Mono alphas, die cut stickers.












Floral bouquet - BG Cappella PP, dies cut stickers, Ribbon doileys, Kaiser Pearls, inks and the vase was made by altering a aluminium beer stubby.

Close up showing the large flowers which has a die cut sticker and it base.

Hanging frame -Kaisercraft 3 frame set, Memento "Petite Princess" & "Impish Girl" PP. WOW chipboard shapes (trees), Tattered angels Glimmer mist, Ruby Rock it "The Summherhouse" alphas (sanded back and covered in glimmer mist), BG Cappella ribbon doileys, Kaiser flowers, kindy glitz.

Treasure tin - Corinthian wafer tin, My little shoe box "Monsters Knocking" PP, Kaisers rhinestones, Making memories mini glimmer alphas, unknown ribbon.

Post cards From New Zealand - Kaisercraft framed album, Ruby Rock it "the Summherhouse" PP, alphas, trims, bitty buttons, unknown ribbons scraps and chipboard tags.

All these products and much much more are available at Dragonfly scrapbooks website (which is my website of the day).

My blog of the day today is Crafting in Croatia . For card makers this is a blog packed full of great ideas and designs from the talented Nina B. I have adopted her quick quilted cards as one of my favourite bases for cards. I hope you find her blog inspirational as well.