Creative Escape Day 5---Finale

Finally it was time for the final fancy dinner. At each place there was a lovely little wrapped box that we were all told to unwrap them at the same time. Inside, each one of us received a little crystal star, but inside one lucky person's box was a small silver mirror. She won a trip to Creative Escape next year for her and a friend. I did NOT receive the little mirror---Darn it! The ballroom was decorated beautifully and. as is their tradition for the last dinner, they served dessert first. It was so yummy that I ate every bit and was too full to take even one bite of my dinner. Oh well.

Creative Escape Day 5---Classes #3 and #4

Next up after lunch was our class with Heidi Swapp. She is pretty amazing. She looks great (even after 5 kids), she is so talented, and in addition she is a very good speaker and great storyteller. In addition to everything else she does she is one of the designers for House of Three which offers wonderful scrapbook elements to be used in digital scrapbooking. Her project is really lovely and I hope to share it with you. Here she is with her two helpers. It was a really good class.

Janice decided to skip the next class. It was on paint and she doesn't really care for that. She went upstairs to start packing our boxes. (We sent home 4 boxes in addition to the jam packed luggage we returned with) I went ahead and took the class and I was glad I did. I learned some pretty cool techniques which I will be incorporating into my card classes.

Creative Escape Day 5

Same as yesterday---breakfast at 7am and classes beginning at 8. Our first today was with Pam Black, one of the incredibly talented teacher from the Scrapbooks Etc store. How I wish I could go there and take every one of her classes! This was one of my favorites, so here is a picture I took with her. I can't wait to share this project with all of you in some form.

The next class was mainly a lecture class on photography which I must confess, Janice and I did not enjoy too much. There was a small project to make during the lecture though, so the class was worthwhile. Also, she offers online photography classes which I am going to check out. When this class was over it was time for another quick break and another bag lunch.

Creative Escape Day 4---Class #3 and 4

After Jessica's class we had a short break for a bag lunch and then it was on to class #3 which for us was with Trisha Ladouceur who came to us from Canada. We covered and embellished a box to hold our Creative Escape treasures. It gave me an idea for a possible class for a box to hold a mini book with a baby theme, with spaces for baby trinkets like the hospital bracelet and maybe baby's first pair of little shoes. Be watching for that in the future.

Next we hustled over to our class with Teresa Collins who has her own line. She was one of Janice's very favorites and I have included a picture of them together. We made an album to house some special life moments. We bound it with the new Cinch machine from We R Memory Keepers. Janice and I both find the Zutter a bit confusing, so we were sold on the Cinch. We have brought a couple home to use in my classes.

Following this class we went to dinner and then immediately in to one more class. It was a small embellished magnet board with three matching magnets made from the brad maker, designed by Heidi Lynn Schreiber.

Next I ran upstairs to the room to unload myself from the days activities. I grabbed my laptop and then back downstairs to take my last class for the day. Jessica Sprague held this workshop which gave us a lesson in brushes in Adobe Photoshop.

I finally made it back to the room at around 11pm to shoot you all off a quick message, check my emails, and fall into bed.

Creative Escape Day 4---Class #2

Our next class with Jessica Sprague followed immediately afterward. Her website JessicaSprague.com offers classes in Photoshop. In this one we made a really cute Christmas garland. I will be designing a different version of this idea as a class to be offered to all of you in the upcoming months. Before each class the teacher gives a short presentation about themselves and during some I took note of some of their inspiring words to be used on future scrapbook pages. During her class I jotted down the following:

You are the mark I will leave on the world (On a page about her baby)

Do what makes your heart sing.

Creative wings are real.

Look for miracles.

Here is a picture of her with Janice snapped after the class.

Creative Escape Day 4---The classes begin

We were up bright and EARLY on Friday morning. Breakfast was served at 7am with classes beginning at 8am.

For us the first class was with Margie Romney-Aslett, the designer behind "the girls' paperie." Let me just tell you that she is SO much fun! If you are ever presented with the chance to take a class from her, you can be guaranteed to have a good time no matter what project you might make. We made a memory necklace. I'm sure you will see me wearing mine at some point as soon as I put on the final touches. We took a picture of Janice with her after the class. If you look closely at the picture, she is wearing her version of the necklace. It was lots of fun to make and you make each one your own. Any of you out there interested in this kind of class?

Creative Escape

Well girls, I'm back home and at least partly rested, so it's time to tell you all about the remainder of my trip. I'm so sorry that I wasn't able to keep up with the updates daily, but when you here about the schedule I was on you will hopefully understand.