Calling Cards and Etc. from my Retreat

Hello Peeps!

I know it's been a while since I posted anything but I've been a little busy and I just came back from a fabulous 4 day retreat in Alabama. The retreat was hosted by my friend Lynne. She picked a winner this time for sure! The ladies were so much fun to be with and the food was awesome!! I'll share a few pictures with you of the retreat but mainly I wanted to share some of the calling cards from the retreat. For most of the ladies it was their first time making a Calling Card but they did fantastic job. Some even made tags.

I like to post any Calling Cards I get because so many times ladies (and gents) that attend crops for the first time have no idea what a Calling Card is or it's purpose. I know I panicked my first time having to make some. I googled and googled and could not find any information.

Calling Cards are usually 3" x 3" in size with your contact info on the back.  Basically it's kind of a get-to-know-me or remember-me token you gift to other crafters at the crop. Sometimes there is a theme chosen, by the host of the crop and sometimes it's just your creative expression.

I start with mine:

Front

 Back

Sharon's CC front (so many details)

 Sharon's CC back

Kisa's CC (done with Copics)

Debra's CC (embroidered)

Carol's CC ( 3D)

Mazie's NameTags and CC

Denean's CC (frame)

Kerry's CC and gift

Cheryl mistakenly left her CC's at home, but she came through with stickers and a gift box

 full of candy! 

Diane's CC and Tag (colored with Copics)

Terri's Tag (colored with Copics)

Rhonda gift us with Wraphia (sp) Ribbon. I have never heard of it but I love it and I used it. 

Here's our gifts from Lynne:

 T-shirt 

Gift bag

Here's a picture of the group:  Southern Style Scrappers!!

Here's my gift to the group. Wine to go Cups with our logo

Here's a picture of the Inn (backside picture from the boat dock)

And here we are on a boat ride in the Coosa River

Pool with a hot tub on the side!!  Yes we got in it!!

 Craft room

There a lot more pictures but it would take me forever to upload them here and "yes" we did do some 

crafting. lol

Calling Cards, Swag Bag and More from Circle Mania 2013

I attended Circle mania this past weekend and as promised, I'm sharing some of the items from Mania with you.

Here are some of the calling cards (Crafter Trading Cards) that I collected at Mania. I think I'm missing a few!! Maniacs if you don't see yours, please contact me so I can get one from you!

Enjoy:

 

More Goodies!!!

 

This is what was in our Circle Swag Bag!!!
 
We also got a T-shirt and some Cricut Iron-on Vinyl.
Anna Griffin stopped by to autograph all of our embossing folders!!!
Cricut Mallie from Provo Craft also dropped by with Anna.

Circle Mania, Crop T-shirt and Calling Card

Hello everyone!!

This month has and is going to be just crazy for me. I have a crop every weekend up until Thanksgiving and even one after that. Whew!!! There was not much crafty time for me to come up with projects other than what I did for the crops, so I'll share them with you.

I attended a crop last weekend at a friends house where I was able to get 30 card bases ready for Operation Write Home, (OWH) cards for soldiers. This may not sound like much, but those who know me now I never do ANYTHING at crops other than socialize!!!

This weekend I am attending a 3 day crop called Circle Mania. It's a huge semi annual event hosted by Paulette Trent (Scrapalette) in Alpharetta, Ga.  Crafters from all over attend. Provo Craft(the makers of Cricut/Cuttlebug) came last year bearing gifts and is schedule to attend this year as well. They are providing us with lunch on Saturday and bringing a special guest!!!  I can't wait to see who it is!!  We always have a lot of fun and leave with a lot of gifts and crop bags!!!  I will post more pictures throughout the coming weeks. Also, the Maniacs always turn in cards for OWH. Our goal is 1000 cards, so far I have 70 made!

Be sure to click on the links to get more information about the events I mentioned above. OWH is great for those you who like to make cards and it serves a great purpose. Check out the link.

Okay, lets start with the calling card. It is a 3"x3" trading card for crafters. It usually has a theme, and you make a card for however many are attending the crop, in this case 50. Here's mine for mania:

I use the Crafty Girl Stamp, scaned it into my Silhouette software (ya, I know, not Cricut) and colored it. Normally I would use my Copics, but this was 50 cards!!! The actual size of the girl is 2.50 inches!!! I also did the Chevron background with my software.

Here's a close up shot.

I put my name on the craft bag and I made my Cuttlebug the new Anna Griffin one! See all the supplies in the bag??

 

I try to make a gift for each Mania event I attend.  This time I made a charger. It's not clear whether or not this will be a give-away or a hostess gift. So far none of my gifts have made it to give-ways!!!  lol.

 

 

I also made "me" a matching T-shirt with my heat press.

Here's both together

Here's the back of the shirt

Thanks for looking and be sure to check back soon as I will be posting more pictures from Mania and my other upcoming crops.

 

 

Circle Mania 2013

Some more Circle Mania pictures.  Sorry for the delay in posting.

This darling little hat pin was made by Sandie O. Isn't it just marvelous?

We had the choice of a brooch or a hair pin. I choose the brooch so I could sport it on my shirt!!

This adorable little number was made by Paulette, aka Scraplette. It was filled with kettle corn.  I just don't know what happened to it!! 

Here's a cute little basket from Jayne. It "was" filled with chocolate but I think it went to the same place that kettle corn did!!!        

Check out this little suitcase filled with goodies from Gina P!!

Another goody from Sandie O. It has my favorite candy inside, Ghirardelli!!!  I won't eat it because it's only one and that's just gonna piss me off!!!  lol

I got this a gift from Sandie O.  Wasn't that sweet of her?

Here's a flower pot goody from Sis-O-Snap.  It's so cute!!  How come I'm just now figuring out that pot is made of chocolate?  I'm going to have to do some further investigating of this!!

Here's my Mania badge made by Paulette.  Strange......it was the only chocolate one there. lol  Oh I added the bling on the sash, you know I had too!!

This was a canvas made by Barbara S. for mania. The picture does not do it justice!!  And she even included me down at the bottom!!!

Barbara S also made this beautiful tag.  Each tag she gave out was different. She's very talented.

Calling Cards!!! 

I don't think I got all the CC's that were there, if fact, I know I missing some. Well, maybe next time!!