Gina's Little Corner of StampinHeaven

It's been a week now since I've returned from Petticoat Junction.   A group of us try to get down there at least twice a year - once in winter/spring and once again in the fall.   We always have such a blast.   This time the winter weather stayed away and the drive there was absolutely gorgeous!  It was hard to stay on my side of the road because I just wanted to gaze at the beauty of the landscape.  Petticoat Junction sits in the little town of Normandy, Tennessee which is about 20 miles off I-24 heading towards Chattanooga.  Once I got off the boring interstate, my drive became winding country roads through a landscape of rolling hills with white fences and green fields.  The Bradford Pear trees were in full bloom, and the sky that met the hilltops was the most beautiful blue with fluffy white clouds here and there.   You really feel God's beauty on quiet drives like these. Once I got to the retreat and unloaded, I was on a...

I just returned from my weekend retreat at Petticoat Junction on Sunday and we had a BLAST!  The weather was wonderful (no blizzard to deal with this year) and the food was delightful (as always!).    The weekend flew by so fast and it was hard to believe that it was time to pack up and get back to our busy lives.  I think I accomplished nearly everything I planned to. I completed the layouts from 4 of the WOTG kits - Sweetheart, Fanfare, Miracle and Mayberry along with cards from the kits.   I'll be sharing those in the near future.   I think the most pages completed by one of the retreaters was a whopping 52!!! WOW!!! Way to go Sue!   This year I wanted to do something fun with the ladies so I had a little card challenge.    I provided four card patterns from Jeanette Lynton's How To books - Wishes and Originals and also Close To My Heart paper samples from the past several years.    The ladies were to choose a car...

As much as I have been enjoying participating in the H2H Challenges, I really did not intend to participate this week.    I'm leaving for a scrapbooking retreat on Thursday and I've got sooo much to get done before I leave, I didn't think I'd have time to make something.   One of the items on my TO DO list was to make name tags for the attendees.  We've got 16 gals (including me) going on the retreat and not everyone knows each other so I wanted to make name tags.   The name tags needed to be fairly simple due to the number I needed to create and the amount of time I have to do it. The weather this week has been so spring-like that I wanted something fresh and new!   So I chose paper from the Miracle paper pack from our new Spring Summer Idea Book.    I printed out each name on my printer using the Close To My Heart Font - CTMH Girlfriend.  (was that not appropriate?!)  I used the stampset that is included in the Miracle WOTG kit and a...