A fond farewell.....

...... to two of our members, for Desiree and our first, and only, Scrapbaby are about to move far far away across the ocean.

In true Scrapbag tradition we made sure you won't forget us too easily even if you would really rather like to.

 

We will miss you as our crops and retreats will not be the same without you, and we hope you pop in to see us and maybe scrap a while whenever you are back on this side of the pond.

Good luck in your new life, bon voyage, and, of course........

Happy scrapping

xx

Spring has finally sprung

at the Bobsleigh with the Scrapbags Spring retreat.

We've had a wondersful weekend filled with scrapping, friendship, laughter, challenges and a not-inconsiderable amount of food.

I set up the cropping room and waitied for eveyone to arrive

Which they did...

And before long.........

And that was just the sketch challenge- WOW!!!!!! 

We also had three classes, the ready steady scrap challenge, the goodie bag LO and card challenges, and the recipe challenge.  What with the raffle, bingo and draw there were lots of prizes too. 

We have never had so many layouts displayed before and I really did appreciate everyone's participation. I think Chris & Mary's idea of a prize draw rather than competition was a winner and we'll be doing this again. Although next time I will bring THREE packs of blue tack and more prizes.  This does mean that I don't have challenge 'winners' to show, but it really is worth looking through the slide show which is HUGE.

Some scrapping action: 

 

 

 

 

Notice that this a bottle of WATER!

 

 

The sun came out on Sunday and so did the Scrapbags

And so did the stripes:

 

 

All that scrapping, having not eaten much (?!?), meant that we were ready for a good meal and boy do the Bobsleigh do a good meal

 

 

 

Never before have I been relieved  not to have been offered a pudding.

 

 

Here's a last peek of the lovely ladies before it was time to pack up and head for home.

 

 

 

 

And that was another retreat over.

 

 

But.....................

 

 

 

 

We will be back......................



 

 

 

xx

Here come the girls....

Yes it's very nearly time for the Scrapbags to pack up their stash and head for the Bobsleigh for our Spring retreat. Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We'll have fun, and eating, and chatting, and drinking, and eating and a little more drinking, and we may even manage a little scrapping too!!!

We have a lovely StampinUp range to play with for our 2 way kit.

 

 

 

Mary has made this gorgeous LO, but there will be lots left over for those who want to enter the ready steady scrap challenge.

 

 

I'll put up pics of everybody's entries next week.

 

 

For those attending friday we have the Friday Freeblie challenge which will involve crochet - I can't wait to see what the Scrapbags make of this, but have some ready made flowers ready just in case.

 

 





And we also have two extra classes this time, both quick and easy.

 

 

I loved these Kaiserkraft papers so much I made a second alternative LO too.

 

 

 

 

This second page was great as it used lots of odd photos that probably wouldn't have been scrapped on their own.

 

That's all for now as I have a couple of surprises to prepare for the weekend.

 

I'll be back next week with more pics.

 

Happy Scrapping

xx