Amazing opportunity here ....

I went to the California Art Venture and it was an amazing fun filled weekend - so much learning, so much brand new Prima product and the talent those instructors have to offer will just amaze you.  The value in the goody bag and class product are nearly the value of the registration alone.  This event is ALL INCLUSIVE!! Your room, your meals, your crop time, and your classes - all SIX of them.

Don't wait on this, and think that you will catch it next year, because that won't be happening folks - this is the closest to home that Art Venture will be coming - $750 is one hell of a weekend all inclusive.

 

 

Crop & Create Ottawa 2012

I had the absolute pleasure of attending Crop & Create Ottawa 2012 a few weeks ago.  Crop & Create is an annual scrapbooking even hosted by Scrapbook & Cards Today.  They travel across Canada hitting up major cities and this year Ottawa was on their scrapbooking radar.  It is a weekend of cropping, fun challenges, classes,  and make n' takes.  During the weekend I took in one class by the ever amazing Kelly Goree, I was super happy with the results (but have yet to put photos on those layouts that I completed).  I took part in most of the challenges they had going on. Here are a few of the layouts that I entered.

The first layout is called Little Squirt - this was a sketch challenge, and I stretched the sketch over two pages.  I used the For The Record collection by Echo Park for both of these layouts.

 

The second layout, I titled Youthful, was a colour palette challenge and I decided to do a photo of my mother in her youth.  She is going through a very tough time right now, and I might just give her this layout to brighten her day.