Finally ......

... I have receovered from the Scrapbags Summer 2012 Retreat, which for some reason I found absolutely exhausting.  We scrapped all weekend long with only brief periods of respite during which we took on board only the calories needed to see us through the next few hours.  It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it, and boy, can the Scrapbags do it!

Here we all were on the Saturday evening before going into dinner.

 

As usual we had the Ready Steady Scrap Challenge whereby entrants make layouts using only the contents of the 2Way Kit.  It always amazes me how so many different pages are created from the same limited materials.

 

Here's Sheila's winning layout

 

 

A slideshow of some of the other entries is up on the right hand side of this page, but for some unknown reason, I seem to have lost some of the photos.  Sorry girls - I'll add them in if/when I find them

 

We also had a sketch challenge where we had to make a layout based on a sketch.

 

Here's Chris' winner with the sketch from lets capture these sketches

 

 

 

 

Finally we had a recipe challenge - we had to choose a line of three elements from a grid to include in our layout.  Of course I had to show off and include all nine, but then I did have lots of time to contemplate this in advance.

 

Here's my offering - VERY busy for me. It has distressing,sewing, embossing, buttons, a brad, a ribbon, paint, liquid pearls, and a flower.

 

 

 

Chris won this challenge too with this entry

 

 

Thank you Sue for the challenge ideas - they went down very well, except perhaps the Paper Chase Challenge.  The Scrapbags decided this one was far too hard, even though most of tha papers were from Scrapbag class kits.  Marina won this one, but to be honest, the competition wasn't great.

 

Another retreat over  :(  and another to look forward to :)  We'll be heading back to the Bobsleigh on 12th April for our Spring 2013 retreat - woo hoo - so watch out Bovingdon.

 

Happy Scrapping

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