Friday, April 23, 2010

Estes Park Crop Weekend, April 2010

So, last weekend was the first Estes Park Crop Weekend, and it was a BLAST!!

Our house was perfect for a crop, with TWO living rooms and a nice kitchen & dining room, (plus 3 full bathrooms - perfect for a house full of women!)

We had some GORGEOUS views too!

This is the view from our back porch on Saturday morning:

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The fog was rolling in, and you could see the tip of the mountain poking through the top of the fog:

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It rained later that afternoon (perfect scrapbooking weather!) ;-)

Here's the gang (minus Suzanne) at dinner:

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Scrapbooking fun:

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The weather on Sunday was absolutely PERFECT and the mountains looked BEAUTIFUL!!!

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Hello Elk! (we saw SO much wildlife during our stay!)

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On the way down the mountain, traffic came to an unusual stop:

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What's holding things up??

A herd of BIG HORN RAMS!! SO COOL!!! (For those not familiar with driving up the mountain, this is a pretty rare sight!)

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Oh, and this is what I got done over the weekend:

(These first 3 layouts were actually created by Jody at Capture. She designed them for a class back in November and I bought one of the kits. I just saved them for when I had time to scrapbook, then added my pics!)

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Funny story about this layout...After I had finished laying everything out and then gluing it all down, I bumped my tool tote and knocked a dark brown ink pad FACE DOWN on the top, right where the white part is! I had to come up with something to hide it, so I made those two big snowflake embellishments at the top.) Whew! Crisis averted! ;-)

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Notice the little red rhinestone on "Rudolph's" nose. :-)

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Denver Zoo Lights:

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I added Glossy Accents to the word "Wild":

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For these snowflakes, I ran them through my Cuttlebug to emboss them (I used the Swiss Dots embossing folder) then I Stickled the dots with Diamond Stickles.

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This snowflake shows some of the bling-y, Stickle-y goodness I have going on. What's a snowflake without Stickles?!? I just wish they photographed better. They're so pretty in real life!

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My favorite layout of the weekend:

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BIG thanks to all the ladies who came! I had such a good time! Let's do it again SOON! (October maybe??)

Thanks for looking!
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1 comment:

Suzanne said...

Thanks for hosting the crop Jessica. I had such a great time!! And I got 26 pages completed! Wahoo! I can't wait to do it again, hopefully this Fall!!

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