Women's Retreat

The past few months have had me quite busy! I am the Women's Retreat Coordinator at our church and we just completed our weekend retreat. Now I can share with you a few of the goodies I've been working on....the others will come in a few days with the mid-month blog hop on the 15th.

We like to have a nice welcome gift in the rooms for each of the Ladies. This year our theme was TREASURE ... Discovering the Treasure of God's Love. Each attendee received a brightly colored folder with a Treasure Chest placed on top and some other various "treasures". I included some Hershey GOLD Nuggets, Gold Chocolate Coins, Seashell full of brightly colored "gems" aka Skittles and I hand made a fun Washer Pendant Keychain for each attender. Of course we all would like to get to know each other at the retreat so I made fun Name Tags and Door Signs so we knew where to find each other! Here are the Room Goodies I made.

Of course my printer ran out of ink when I reached the time for creating nametags and door signs, and the weekend schedule so I had to do it all by hand! Fortunately my ink arrived the night before we left for retreat so I was able to type and print out the check-in page.

September's SOTM Blog Hop

Here we are back to another round of Close To My Heart's
Stamp Of The Month Blog Hop!

Are you ready??

If you have arrived from Lori's Blog then you are on the RIGHT path!

September's special stamp set for the month is getting us ready for all of those
spooktacular Halloween Invitations/Cards/Layouts.
It is a 9 piece stamp set called THRILLER.



I think this set is creepy and fun! That big skull is a little girly looking to me and I think would make a fantastic image on a Pink Pirate Party Invitation!

The window looking image with Dracula in the center would be fun masked out and use that white space for the Invitation details or for something entirely different.

It is fun to manipulate the My Acrylix stamps and thing outside the box!

HERE IS WHAT I CAME UP WITH....I just love the new colors in the MAGNIFIQUE My Reflections paper packet, I couldn't resist using them. I know they are not your typical Halloweenish colors....And the new SPARKLES in Blue & Green were perfect on the crown from this stamp set.

Here is Creation #1:



I was trying to use my "outside the box" thinking on this one and was going for a non-Halloween card. I used cut out the crown leaving the spider webs behind. I added the new blue & green sparkles and the Glitter Glue to dazzle it up. I masked off the center of the "box" like image and masked off the crow and turned the "box" on it's side to create a Text Box. I didn't have any sentiment stamps with me to fill it in yet...





Close Up:



And Card #2...



I wanted the "pirate" image to look worn so I started off by just tearing the edges of the cardstock and inking them up with chocolate. Then I had this great idea to tear the B&T and roll back those edges and place the image so it appears to be burning a hole through.



Now hop on over to Chris's Blog to see what she has in store for you!

Ahoy, me Hearties!

I was asked to be the Women's Retreat Coordinator for our church this year. I served on The Retreat committee last year so I agreed to the task! I have learned over the year's from the best, my Mom. She is the QUEEN of organizing activities. I can not even compare to her abilities but I do think I have what it takes to throw an enjoyable bash. AND I've learned to delegate...I have an awesome team of ladies assisting!

I hadn't made up The Retreat flyers yet and thought the bulletin board would be a great eye grabber and get The Ladies eager to sign-up so that is where I began on the advertising end of things. I had it up a few weeks ago.

I am so thankful I bought a Cricut! It did most of my cutting for me. I did use all CTMH papers for the project. This is one of the most simplest of bulletin boards I've ever created but it gets the job done!



Our theme this year is TREASURE and of course with being a Mom of boys, my first thought was a Pirate's Treasure. So we are planning to set sail in search of some buried treasure, er...uh...God's Treasure anyways!


Now I've also finished up the flyers....and I'm currently working on our attendee favors. I can't wait to show off that project!