Cruising Day 2 - first Creative Workshop - Memories of the Journey

Yup, I'm at the right place.



Class kit, donated by Ranger. Had to bring it to class each day so we could use the goodies. Distress ink, crackle paint, black paint dauber, mister, white pen....see all the goodies below.




The first project: Memories of the Journey. We made a small book with Grungeboard covers, covered with crackle paint and inked. 7 Gypsey's knob, ribbons, new prima flowers and all sorts of goodies. The book was made to fit in the tin - I'll be decorating mine later.




Here are some of the internal pages - each inked with our ink blender and decorated with fun stuff. Tim likes stuff and knows we like stuff, so there was lots of stuff in the workshops.




Speaking of stuff...here's some of the free stuff we received on the first day. Lots of companies donated goodies for us.



And my favorite picture....Tim and me...he is such a funny and creative person.

Cruising Day 1

Welcome reception in the Spinnaker Lounge. We were given our name tags & a tote to use every day. Had to wear the name tag, or we weren't allowed into the classes. The name tag holder was big enough to hold the schedule of events, my camera (Sony Cybershot) and ATCs for trading. Had to bring the tote EMPTY to class....hummm, I wonder why???





After a bit of housekeeping details, Tim was introduced and he is such a wonderful & funny guy. He wouldn't give away any secrets as to what we would be doing each day. But, that's OK, we were ready to roll!!

Do you post your family photos online? Read this!

ORPHAN WORKS OF 2008

There are two bills that are coming up in the House & Senate that will change copyright as we know it. They were shot down once before because of action against it, but now they are back as bill numbers HR 5889: The Orphan Works Act of 2008 (House of Representatives) and S 2913: The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008 (Senate).

This is text from the Illustrator Partnership web site:

Due to the lack of publicity about this bill, the most innocent victims of this plunder – those who put images online - are still completely unaware of it. Who am I talking about? Average American families who have enjoyed the internet as a way to share the happiest, and even saddest, moments of their lives with their friends and family across the country, and even around the world, through the wonders of technology. Google has already said they plan to use these orphan works in the millions. Why should companies like this be allowed to to harvest our property from private web pages, blog sites, share sites and the like?

If you are posting your photos online, you should send the email letter on the Illustrator Partnership web site (all you do is enter your info and press send!)Takes 1 minute!!!

I've been looking at the Basic Grey new lines and am in love with Boxer.

Aren't those colors and patterns just gorgeous?