Last weekend the Embellees Team (Miss Lisa and Lizzie) had the best weekend away at the ScrapAlley Retreat at Lakeside Guest House - Summerland Point (Just south of our lovely hometown Newcastle NSW).
Thanks to the lovely Alex and Georgina and their ever trusty side-kick, the very vivacious Deb - all of the 30 ladies had a great weekend. The atmosphere was fun, friendly and everyone got their 'mojo' on and there was absolutely beautiful work being done in every corner of the large and comfortable scrap area. The weekend was topped off with: beautiful home cooked meals, lots of giveaways and gifts (just like Christmas when you woke up every morning to a new little goodie parcel on your scrap table) and who could forget the stunning location (right on the shores of beautiful Lake Macquarie).
We can't reveal why we have called this post 'From Budgewoi to Cows', as they say..."what happens at scrap camp, stays at scrap camp". Let's just say Miss Lisa was known as Miss Budgewoi for the weekend for her 'not so keen' navigating skills and we still get the giggles when we talk about, 'shaving calfs/calves, Legends and Eileen' (I can see the girls all laughing as they read this post). So you need to join us when ScrapAlley announce the next Retreat to be in the know - it was so much fun and the best retreat in a very long time!!
So what did we create - or in Miss Lisa and Lizzie case - 'play with'.......
Miss Lisa got busy playing with her texture paste and stencils - experimenting for our new class we are are designing: Plaster, Paint, Paste and Paper (try saying that after a few pink bubbles - we couldn't). Everyone just loved this gorgeous little canvas that Miss Lisa 'whipped' up on Friday night for our lovely friend Diane to put in her new creative space. She even managed to re-purpose her gorgeous retreat name tag before day 2 (see the lovely fabric and tulle yo-yo flower). The background was all about paste and pan pastels... simply gorgeous and obviously a hit cause lots of lovely ladies had their cameras out taking 'snaps' and visiting our scrap table asking to sign-up for the next Embellees Workshop - thank you all so much for the great feedback!
It wouldn't be a retreat without a 'challenge' or two... so Miss Lisa got busy with her retreat gifts and had fun 'repurposing' her packaging for this gorgeous layout incorporating mixed media techniques. Paper napkins, paint, stamps, rub-ons - it was so gorgeous to see this lovely layout of my DD finished. It is taking pride of place in my creative space this week (thank you Miss Lisa - Jessie just loves it)!
We often find that retreats are the perfect place to play with a technique we have been wanting to experiment with - well Lizzie (aka me writing this) - got our lovely friends Diane and Natalie convinced they should come play with the technique I was getting stuck into. Might I say if we ever see a heart punch again it might be tooo soooonnnnn!!! But you have to love the results on the layouts that we got underway. Miss Natalie painstakingly finished hers with hand sewing - I am still to get the machine out and do the final touches - but heck time to show the work in progress...
And, then there was the lovely Natalie's blue version (complete with hand sewing - good on ya Nat!).
Yes each flower is made out of heart punches - it took us most of Saturday afternoon and evening to finish off these lovelies and, it was a unanimous decision - this is not going to be an Embellees class..... maybe an on-line tutorial in the making...
Sunday morning saw Miss Lisa and Lizzie (yes it is true that I was the second 'camper' up and at the scrap table and even though showered I was still in my PJs for lunch... now that is a 'real retreat' if I do say so myself!) playing with the finishing touches to one of the projects for the Mixed Media Workshop for September. Here are some sneaky peeks of our gorgeous Owl (just for you Diedi Di)... not the finished product - couldn't give it all away - but enough to show our lovely workshop ladies what we have planned as one of our two major projects on the day!
Remember if you are interested in attending our Workshops you can register by emailing us at: Embellees@bigpond.com
We hope you have enjoyed our catch-up and we look forward to you joining us again soon!
Off to scrap (it's Sunday and lots to get done)....
Lizzie and Lisa
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