Wow, It's been a crazy couple of weeks around here! Classes, a fundraising event, a couple of press checks, reconfiguring the booth...I need sleep or help. ;)
First, I have a couple of announcements to make...
Several of our Design Team members were included in an article from Sarah Hodgkinson for Ella Publishing. You can read the article here! Thanks Sarah!
Jillibean provided product for one of the classes for Creative Escape hosted by Heidi Swapp and Bazzill Basics Paper. They would like you to know that there are still spots available for this amazing weekend with some seriously talented teachers!!!!
Our friends at Scrapbook.com are offering a free beginner's scrapbooking class. You can check out the class here.
May Flaum is teaching a class at Big Picture Scrapbooking called Camp Scrap (it starts this week). Jillibean will be featured on some of May's projects. Thank you May!
On to the other stuff...
Last weekend I taught at Scrapbook Doodle in Peoria, IL. I had a great time with the ladies! Lynne and Teresa treated me to a yummy lunch and some great conversation! Thank you for a great weekend! I won't mention that I set the fire alarm off in my hotel room at 7:45am in the morning...just trying to make new friends. ;)
One of the classes I taught was a card class. Here are a couple of the cards...
I also taught an adorable mini-album class. The album was designed by Laina Lamb (one of our in-house designers) and we will be sharing pics soon!
This past Friday night was my first try at hosting a fundraising event. I hosted a "Card Bar" at B&B Scrapbooks in Powell. We had 10 stations set up with handmade cards or tags. It went really well and I think everyone had a great time! $700 will be donated to Children's Hospital, Columbus! Woo Hoo! Thank you everyone for supporting such a great cause! A special thanks goes out to Scott for the beautiful piano music; also a big thanks to Patty, Bev, Christine, Sandy and Alecia for all your help! One other thing, I need to do a shout out to Kimber who donated 2 of her books for our raffles. BTW, we'll be doing a giveaway soon for Kimber and Summer's new book "Remember This". You can purchase it here.
Here are a couple pics from the event...
Welcome to the Part-ay!
Our friendly guests making some cards. ;)
More card makers...
No event would be complete without cupcakes! These were donated by the Pink Moon Cupcake Bakery in Powell. These things are delish!
Here are some guests perusing the raffles. I'm showing one of our guests sneaks of our new collections. I gave away (or will giveaway) a designer pack complete with papers, stickers and all the new embellishments! You may see a sneak below...
Kimber and Summer's new book...Remember This. Great book!
Oh, I see a sneak...
And of course we wanted everyone to purchase more Jillibean products! Alecia (owner of B&B) donated 10% of all sales to Children's. Thank you Alecia!!!!
Great night for a great cause!
Thanks for hanging in for the longest post ever! ;)
Have a great week everyone!!!
Looks like there are some more summer colors headed our way!! And it looks like it was a great party\fundraiser too!
Posted by: Lydia Jackson | June 21, 2010 at 01:27 AM
Oooo.... I love that sneak! Gotta.have.it...
Posted by: Kate Anne | June 21, 2010 at 09:02 AM
EEEK! Loving the camera paper!!
Posted by: Jenn C. | June 21, 2010 at 12:00 PM
Teehee, sneaky sneak!!! ;P
Posted by: Melanie Blackburn | June 21, 2010 at 09:18 PM
Loving the sneaky peaky!!!
Posted by: Juliana | June 21, 2010 at 11:02 PM