Just got home today from a FABULOUS weekend up in Northern California with my best friend from College, Carolyn, her mom (my adopted mom), Kathy, and a bunch of Carolyn's friends. It was my first time at a scrapbook weekend retreat and it was great FUN! Everyone else was scrapbooking and I did a bunch of various art projects that I needed to catch up on.
It took me like 7-8 hours to get to Carolyn's house...phew...quite a drive!!! I left at 3am...it was brutal! Then, I slept for about an hour or two and then we left for another 2 hour drive to get to the camp site. We arrived Thursday afternoon before it got dark. The house we stayed in was pretty cool...three stories. Huge room with tables set up...we each got our own 8 foot table!!! Then, living room with couches, full kitchen and like 5 bedrooms filled with beds for all of us. We got THREE prepared meals cooked and SERVED TO US every day! It was amazing! I felt like a queen!
Here are a whole bunch of photos from the weekend. Enjoy!
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| Carolyn, Mom, Anne. Yep, this is our house for the weekend! :-) |
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| HAPPY campers! Killer view! |
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| All comfy! |
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| Mom is all set up and ready to get to work! :-) |
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| ...and here is Carolyn hard at work. |
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| The rest of the gang starts arriving! This is just the art supplies luggage... |
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| ...and here is the rest of the luggage!!! LOL!! |
I started off Day 1 by working on some half finished greeting cards
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| Created by Anne Corazza, turtle stamp by Rubber Cafe |
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| Created by Anne Corazza, turtle stamp by Rubber Cafe |
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| Created by Anne Corazza, stamp by ? (sorry do not remember) |
Then, I created a bunch of greeting cards with this one stamp from The Greeting Farm. I colored the girl in with copic markers and added various background papers and flowers.
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| Designed by Anne Corazza, girl stamp by The Greeting Farm |
Here are a few of them up close...
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| Design 1 created by Anne Corazza |
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| Design 2 created by Anne Corazza |
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| Design 3 created by Anne Corazza |
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| Design 4 created by Anne Corazza |
Here are some photos of all the other ladies. Such a wild, crazy group of FUN ladies!
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| Meet Beth |
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| Meet Tuesday |
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| Meet Anna & Kathy |
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| Meet Julie |
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| Meet Danielle |
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| Meet Linda (mom) and Lorrie (daughter) |
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| Meet Danielle and Kathy |
Day 2 - I started working on my ATC card trade for my November Strictly ATCs group. This months theme is "favorite artists". I chose Traci Bautista since I had this piece already done.
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| I took my 9" x 12" original painting and made photo copies of it shrunk down to ATC size. Then I added some extra glitter, a rhinestone and some crackle paint on top. |
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| Original artwork (white version) by Anne Corazza |
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| Original artwork (blue version) by Anne Corazza |
I also worked on a few more greeting cards....
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| Designed by Anne Corazza, stamps by Stampin' Up! I stamped the flower onto color paper a whole bunch of times then embossed them. Then, I cut the flowers out and glued them to the card. Awesome technique! |
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| Designed by Anne Corazza, stamps by Stampin' Up! |
Day 3 - Saturday....
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We might be smiling, but behind these apples are three desperate ladies that were hoping on a prayer!
(Warning: must have been present to understand.) |
Today, I took my original "Love is in the Air" art piece that I created earlier this year and made copies of sections of it. Then, I cut them to fit on my various blank card sets. I am real happy with the results of these!
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| Ready to sell or give as gifts! Original artwork by Anne Corazza |
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| Original artwork by Anne Corazza |
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| Original artwork by Anne Corazza |
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| Original artwork by Anne Corazza |
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| Original artwork by Anne Corazza |
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| Original artwork by Anne Corazza |
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| Original artwork by Anne Corazza |
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| Original artwork by Anne Corazza |
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| Original artwork by Anne Corazza. And these were made to be put on a set of rectangular blank cards I had left over. |
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| Original artwork by Anne Corazza |
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| Carolyn and I. I LOVE this woman...we have been friends for 25 years!!! |
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| I climbed in bed for a little while to take a rest and worked on my art supply journal book. |
And finally, my last project for the weekend...
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| This started with an accidental explosion of my blue glitter glue all over this canvas. LOL. So I added some blue ink and created an underwater scene. |
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| Then, I added some under sea life with a turtle and dolphins...I should have stopped here... |
But, then I had the grand idea to paint a mermaid....and it went down hill from there...of well. I was stubborn enough to keep working on it until it was finished even though I hate it. LOL. Oh well, practice makes perfect...
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| Original artwork by Anne Corazza |
