Thursday, November 20, 2008

thanks girls, a reminder and some of Karen D's scrapping genius

thanks girls for being so patient with the blog and lack of posts while we tried to plug the retreat classes. Hopefully some of our devoted groupies come back soon!! We hope you understand that we wanted to give the classes as much exposure as possible during the registration period.


In saying that we have been OVERWHELMED by the response!! Wow to think that we had only 15 allowed in our classes last year - and a max. of two classes per person so they could be shared fairly..........well our expectations have been waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay exceeded this year. Luckily we have no rules this year ;-)

Just a gentle reminder for those that haven't registerd (there are about 11) that time is running out. Next friday is the cut off to register and pay. No registration or payment recieved = no class.


While we understand some peoples reluctance to take a class - and we are definately not pressuring anyone - they are a great fun way to extend your skills, produce a beautiful piece of work without thinking too much and re-vitalize your scrapping.


I know i felt a bit ho-hum about attending classes when Meredith and I went to the Melbourne retreat but it was fantasticly inspiring and made us all go 'WOW- we had never thought about doing that!'


Anyway i hope i hear from some of you soon. (ga.hall@bigpond.com) to register. Please find class details down the page a little (scroll down) or look to the links on the right of this post.


Earlier in the week i had a lovely surprise in my inbox. The incredibly talented Karen had dropped me a little letter which contained an amazing piece of scrap-work.

she said -

Thought I'd share my latest project with you, its an idea that is getting
around on a few websites and blogs and the original inspiration was from Ali
Edwards. Its a journal for December "Days till Christmas", the idea is
that you have it all "done" so when December comes around all you have to do is
add the photo and journal. In mine I have just used up off cuts and left
overs from my box of scraps, nothing matches and that is the look I am trying to
achieve. Now just to find something interesting enough to journal about
every day!!!! LOL







This is stunning Karen! Thankyou so much for sharing it. What a brilliant way to document those exciting days leading up to Christmas!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a stunning idea Karen. Yah I have been eagerly checking every day for something new on the blog. Marika

sandra said...

woohoo! Great to see some new posts!
Great idea Karen, love the way you have used 'uncoordinating' papers.
great way to use the 'left over' stash, but they do not look 'uncoordinated' if you know what I mean.
Great to see you on here again Judy. Love the photos in the Dawson page... fantastic. And the barb wire fence looks great!
Teagan loved making the shaker card and I think a few more will be made soon... pretty easy to make! Inside the shaker box is little music notes, which look pretty cool.

Anonymous said...

Hey Karen I like it love everything about it. I'm sure with journalling it will be a terrific momento of busy December. Great idea would be great to do for a wedding gift ohhh whos getting married I might get my Scrapping block rid of.
Thanks for sharing Karen seeya soon.

Anonymous said...

Hi girls, sent a text to my daughter-in-law to check the blog so Dawson could see himself and she said he thought it was "so cool" to see himself on the internet. Have got few more layouts to post (a couple of transparencies) Thanks for the encouragement from you. I check the blog most days and am amazed what beautiful ideas you all come up with, was just blown away with your layout of the bee Sandra the photo was unreal and the colour was just sooo great.