HUGE Garage Sale this Saturday!!! Come shop and craft!!!

This Saturday, May 4 is National Scrapbooking Day and we are celebrating in a HUGE way!!!

Come shop and craft with us for a great cause... we are building 3 homes in Mexico this summer for 3 very deserving families!!!  Each home costs $6000 so we are looking to raise $18000!!  It's a HUGE number, but when many come together, HUGE things are possible!!!!

Join us for... 

HUGE CRAFTING GARAGE SALE

and CRAFT PROJECTS

Grace Baptist Church

2670 Radcliffe Dr SE Calgary

All day (from 10am - 6pm) we are holding a HUGE Garage Sale of crafting and scrapbooking supplies along with back to back craft projects YOU can make!!!

And 100% of ALL money spent goes towards the fundraiser!!!  ALL OF IT!!!

Here are just a few projects you can make to get you excited...

And if you can't make it out to shop and craft, but still wish to contribute to our fundraiser, you can buy any of the above kits (based on availability) or you can simply donate to the cause (right now until Saturday, for every $5 you donate, we will enter your name to win this (over $500+ worth of gift cards) as our way of saying THANK YOU for caring :)  

My personal faith goal for this weekend is $12000 which would cover the building of 2 of the 3 homes... how cool would THAT be?!?!?!?  And YOU can be part of it... every single $1 matters and will help change lives in a way we can't even imagine...

More info and ALL classes are HERE.

Shopping can change lives!!!

Who doesn't love to shop???!!!  Did you know that this Saturday, March 10, your shopping can change the life of an entire family?  Before I get into that... check THIS out...

See this beautiful mixed media canvas designed by the talented Christy Riopel????  YOU can create it along with this "Family" layout sponsored by Quick Quotes...

AND a card AND some of my best photo tips ALL in ONE fantastic class this Saturday, March 10 from 1-3pm!!!!  And the best part????  100% of your $45 class fee goes towards building a new home for a needy family in Mexico!!!!  

PLUS... check this out...

Here is just a sneak peek at some of the yummy goodies you can win or buy on Saturday too which brings me back to SHOPPING!!!!  We are hosting a "Garage Sale" of crafting goodies from 1pm - 4pm and 100% of your spending goes towards building a home for a needy family in Mexico!!!  How FUN is that???!!!  Bring your friend, your children, your neighbours!!  Your shopping and crafting will change a family's life FOREVER!!  We did it last year and we want to do it again!!!

And if you can come crop, create, play and shop the entire day away, with 3 homemade meals, make & takes and helpful guys to carry all your stuff... we still have 5 spots left...

To register or for more information, please click HERE or send an email to gbcscrappers@hotmail.com.

Crop For Mexico!!

YES, we will have delicious homemade food again (this year we will also serve a light breakfast of delectables in addition to lunch, supper and snacks!!)

YES, we will have strong abled guys to help carry all your crop supplies in and back out to your cars (and shovel the snow and start and scrape your cars!!)

YES, we will again run an on-site garage sale for attendees and the public (so please start gathering your donations now to bring along to the event!!)

YES, we will offer optional add-on classes taught by our hosts and instructors (will post these as they become available... meanwhile let us know what you'd like to learn!)

YES, 100% of your registration fee and ALL spending at the event will go towards building a home for a very needy family in Mexico!! Have fun and change lives!!

Registration opens Friday, Jan. 20, 2012 at 5am!!!

Click HERE to register!!!

TV Segment: Halloween Crafting

It was soooo very much fun to reunite the crafting team of myself with Christine Collier and Christy Riopel for another fun TV segment!!!  It's been way too long!!!

So each of us agreed to come up with some fun crafting ideas and here they are!!!

Christine created a fabulous necklace and earings set (blinged up with glittery Mod Podge), some oh "sew" cute felt critters (click HERE for instructions) and a bowl full of eyeballs (styrofoam balls with coloured reinforcements and some red inking effects!)

Christy crafted a stack of treat boxes (from Michael's) and I complimented it with a ghostly lollipop (perfect for young kids to make for their classmates using a white napkin and orange yarn) and a witches shoe that can also hold treats (perfect for the teacher).  Click HERE for the instructions for the shoes.

 Halloween is definitely NOT my favourite holiday, but I must say I LOVED the elegant decor that Christy came up with... the hats are made with Crate Paper and some lacy embellishments, the rocks were painted with Christy's favourite paint: ChromaColour... then written on with a white Sharpie marker.

Her willow decor was my favourite not only because it had bling, but I can see using this idea for all sorts of holidays and seasons!!!

And her daughters helped put some fun Apothecary jars together (poison is simple food colouring)!!

And my "Speciman Jars" were inspired from HERE and were both disgusting and yet intriguing!! The "Albino Jellyfish Stingers" are simply strands from a hot glue gun, the "Pickled Brains and Eyeballs" is cauliflower and peeled grapes (yes I sat and peeled grapes!) and the "Unknown Specimen" is one of those "mega grow" creatures that grows 600% when put in water.  This picture was taken less than 24 hours and apparently it will continue to grow for 3 days so perhaps I'll post an updated picture when it's finished!!!  Looks creepy enough for me already though!!!  And I darkened the water simply with assorted amounts of coffee grinds :)  Easy Peasy!!!

Finally, the "Bleeding Candles" were super quick, easy and inexpensive!!  I simply used black acrylic paint to paint red candles then added some small spiders on the holder for extra ickiness and voila!!!!  

And now I'm soooooo ready to start thinking about Christmas as that IS my favourite holiday of the year!!

It's turning into a PARTY!!!!

It's still over a year away and we already have 30 people registered to come with us to Hawaii in November 2012 on our next Crop and Cruise scrapbooking and photography event!!!

IF you are thinking of joining us, we strongly recommend that you register sooner than later as space in portions of the event are limited (and certain rooms/cabins fill up quickly like triple and quad occupancy). 

 Also, the sooner you register, the greater chance of being able to take advantage of PROMOTIONS that come along (like right now you can get up to $250 in cabin credits, but only until the end of October!!)

You had me at Aloha!!!!

Now to completely switch directions...

Be sure to watch Breakfast Television on Thursday, Oct. 27 at 7:50am for a fun Halloween crafting segment with my good friends Christine Collier and Christy Riopel!!  We are gathering some super fun ideas... I've caved and joined Pinterest and WOW!!!  I can totally see how addicting it can/will be, but it is a huge resource for ideas like these super cute and easy candles and check this out... 

What a great arrangment with some BLING!!!!  Just click on the picture to go to the websites for instructions!!

And be sure to watch on Thursday for more fun ideas!!!

Trying to make a difference... wanna join me???

How would you like to live here...

This was the home of a lovely family in Mexico before a group of Canadians went down last year to help build them a new home.  Below is a picture of their new home almost finished...

Now I just built a new home for my family this year (or should I say we had it built for us)...

Here's a quick peek at my kitchen the day our appliances were being installed... I absolutely LOVE my kitchen and am really trying to do more cooking and baking there...  baby steps!!!!

But back to my point... I must say that the new home in Mexico does not compare with my new home here in Canada and in my constant quest for balance, my family decided to join this year's group going down to Mexico (by bus!!!!!) to help build at least 2 more new homes for needy families.

We will be going in July (thank goodness I LOVE the heat!!) and until then, we are doing fundraising. 

Now I am always seeming to be involved in fundraising whether it is through my kids school or their soccer teams, but I must say that I struggle raising money for "rich American kids" (as in North American) to get new computers or new matching track suits when children in other parts of our world don't even have their basic needs met of food, clothing and shelter.  

Now don't get me wrong... I support the fundraising efforts of our local kids and obviously believe in the benefits of them, BUT you will find I personally throw myself full force into causes that help others much less fortunate.

And so with great excitement, I personally invite you to attend a super fun event... 

You're Invited...

This event is two-fold:

1.  A scrapbooking party lasting 10 hours including 2 meals and a class of your choice taught by myself and two other fantastic instructors (see classes below)

2. A overflowing garage sale of NEW and gently used items!!!

And for both of the above 

100% of your money 

goes directly to the 

Mexico home building project!

It costs $6000 to build one home so we are hoping 

to raise the money for one completed home on that day!!!

So... want to make a difference in our world?  Want to be part of something life changing?  I'd love to have you join us!!!!!!  Here's how you can get involved:

• join us at the Crop For Mexico event!!!  Space is limited, but there is still room!!  

Click HERE to register!!!

• donate new and gently used items for our HUGE GARAGE SALE!!!! 

• come SHOP at our HUGE GARAGE SALE on April 2 from 1-4pm!!!!!

• please tell all your friends... post on facebook, your blogs, etc. about this event!!!

And if that's not quite enough to entice you, here are the classes that you can choose as part of your registration!!!!!  That's right, FREE with registration!!!!!!!

And tomorrow I will tell you about another amazing event...

near and dear to my heart...

life changing...

soul searching...

inspired creating...

one you won't want to miss...

Scrapbook Your Heart

and we'll announce this year's featured instructor for this annual Alberta-wide retreat!!!