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Beautiful Event, Beautiful Ladies in a Beautiful Country!

Hello everyone! Waving happily at you from a most 'brilliant' country - England/United Kingdom/Great Britain! This past weekend I wrapped up my classes at the fabulous Creative heART and Soul Event in Coventry, England ... what a blast! The group of ladies were so much fun to teach—well, actually, visit with as they were all so talented they simply followed the instructions and required very little of me ... so, I was able to chat all the while 'helping' them with our mini album and layout that I shared with you last week!

Feeling really blessed to have been a part of such a wonderful event and to be a part of a worldwide group that loves the same hobby that I do! We had a lot of fun creating a super fun mini book and a layout class! My project images were left at home, so I'll be sure to show you more of that class coming soon! In the meantime—here I've compiled a little look at the beautiful location and the beautiful people in attendance below—and my reminder of how and why I need to keep my passion for scrapbooking alive:

Sunday morning's frost ... this image when I woke up was exactly what I thought England would look like! So happy I had my camera handy!


This is the beautiful location of the event: Ansty Hall in Coventry, England—and I was fortunate enough to bring along my daughter, Abbi (that little speck on the front step :)), to see what Mom does on these kinds of trips! She even stuck it out late on Saturday night helping me with the make and takes!


Debbie and Tracie were so kind to invite me out to the event and take such good care of us (my Mom and Dad came along, too :)!) They truly love doing these and it shows! So impressed and loved every minute of it!

These last images are the fine groups of ladies that I was fortunate enough to "teach"—those that would pose for a picture I should say ;)! They were amazing, talented and just plain fun! Thanks to everyone for such a fabulous time! I hope I'll be able to return again some day! 

-Jodi Sanford

A Peek at Creative heART and Soul

Well, friends, today I am off to the United Kingdom to teach at the Creative heART and Soul event in Coventry!  I am very excited to be visiting Europe as this will be my first trip there and I'll be bringing along my cute little daughter, Abbi, to see just what it is that I do when I leave for a bit to go 'teach' at events! Plus, my parents have always wanted to go there, so they will be hanging with us as well! {I might be missing my post next week with all the traveling, so if I do, I'll be sure to catch up the following week with all the fun that happened at the event!}

So, to inspire you a bit, I have a few images of the mini album and the layout class I'll be teaching while I am there! I am thrilled with the classes—the mini book uses our new and ever popular journaling cards as the base—so fun—and I also incorporated a set of our stencil cards—seriously love these items for everything these days, and I couldn't go without using The Good Life collection here—turned out just as I had hoped! Definitely this book is among my favorites for classes I've worked on! 





And, the layout class uses our bright and cheerful fall collection Hopscotch!  I love using little photos and cute items to add special little touches to great big layouts—here's a look at the little accent banner! Tease :)! 



So, there's your exclusive peek at the classes and I hope they'll inspire you to scrap while I'm scrapping with some fabulous ladies in England—and, hopefully scrapping somewhere with you down the road {or have in the past :)} ... OH, and stay tuned for more details on how you can get your hands on this and some of our other classes down the road :)!  Thanks, again for visiting us often and being great fans—you're really appreciated ... really!!!

-Jodi Sanford

Scrapfest!

Welcome to September! This is a busy month for us and one reason for that is ScrapFest at the Mall of America, on September 14, 15, and 16th! If you haven't been to this fun event put on by Archiver's you are definitely missing some fun scrapbooking time! I wanted to take a quick second to share a little peek at what we are doing at ScrapFest this year—and sorry—our classes have already filled up, but please stop by our make and take booth where we'll be doing a super cute card and hanging out getting to know all of you! Plus, we'll be showing off some fun projects that you can get info on and create with the products you can get at Archiver's! Yay!

We hope to meet you there!

-Jodi Sanford