Another Granada Getaway

Hi all - yikes, can't believe it's been 2 months since my last post!  Last weekend some crafting friends and I went to the Granada Getaway in southern MN off I-90 near Fairmont.  This was my 3rd time at this event to benefit a Relay for Life team, lead by our friend Karen.  I had to miss last year due to a chorus retreat but when I arrived it was like old home week - I was so glad to be with these 14 other enthusiastic paper crafters!!

I drove my own car with trunk and back seat full of stuff - of course, I didn't use all of it but it was there just in case!!  I wasn't as productive as 2 years ago but I managed to finish 13 cards.  Here are some of them:

The facility is so comfortable, both for crafting and for living - cushy beds, big kitchen, lots of craft space & tools.  This year each subgroup prepared a meal for the entire group.  We Twin Cities girls - Bonnie, Julie, Sandy & I - made brunch on Sunday, including 2 eggs bakes, a fabulous fruit/lettuce/granola salad, croissants, and OJ or mimosa depending on how soon one had to drive :)  Thought I'd share the recipe I made - modified from one that Bonnie found:

Egg Bake with Hash Browns
30 oz bag of frozen hash browns (shredded style)
1/2 pint half & half
1 dozen eggs
1 lb ham cubed (I used a 1/4 inch thick slice from the packaged meat dept)
salt and pepper to taste
2 cups shredded cheese (I used a cheddar/cojack mix)

Butter (or spray with Pam) a 9x13x2 baking dish.  Line bottom of pan with hash browns.  Crack open eggs and place atop hash browns; break the yolks but don't scramble.  Add desired salt and pepper, then top with 1/2 the cheese.  Pour half & half over this mixture, then add meat and the rest of the cheese.  Cover and refrigerate overnight.  Next morning, bake about 40 minutes at 350F.

I'm sure you could add lots of other things depending on your tastes - mushrooms, switch the ham with sausage or bacon, etc.

Back to the cardmaking - my masterpiece, according to the crafting girls, for the weekend was this flower basket card.

 

My friend Julie found the basket stamp at a thrift sale - it just says by Judith on the side.  I googled and found it here.  I remember meeting Judith and Heather at the Bloomington Rubber Stamp Show last year, now that I think of it!  They have tons of cute basket stamps and many other categories as well.  I stamped the basket on kraft card stock and embellished with brown markers. 

I stamped the dogwoods from the Hero Arts/Sizzix set Antique Flowers and Butterflies three times on a pinkish Basic Grey paper, then trimmed them out and arranged in the basket.  I added some highlights with markers.  The dimension on the handle was achieved with foam tape; I also put some behind some of the flowers.  The tag was cut from a Spellbinders label set and stamped with a sentiment from Hero Arts clear set It's your Day.

I also made my Father's Day card at the Getaway.

 

I used a fun Stamp & Cut Hero Art's set for Archiver's featuring four ties with a matching tie die cut.  I put a diecut tie on the inside of the card but simply stamped the four ties on patterned paper for the card front.  The cute banner and sentiment comes from Lawn Fawn.  The patterned paper came from a 6x6 pad by Basic Grey called Hey You.

After the Getaway brunch I headed to my parents' house for Father's Day dinner.  Here I am with my sweet Dad - he loved his card, of course!

Thanks for stopping!  Hope you had a crafty weekend!!

Father's Day and Granada Getaway

Hi all - busy week, culminating in a fun Father's Day.  Here I am with my sweet Dad:

We enjoyed brats on the grill cooked by my brother and potato salad made by my sister in law.  Yummy!  And here's the card I made for him:

I had such fun creating this card using a darling hammer digi cut for the Silhouette SD by Hero Arts.  I cut out the hammer and a shadow using grey textured cardstock and colored the hammer with Distress Inks.  The soft blue card base was stamped with the envelope pattern by Hero Arts, still a fave of mine.

I spent Friday morning until this morning at the Granada Getaway in southern MN with 14 other crafty ladies.   Deb Kelly, the owner of Picture This, Scrap That!, converted an old church into a retreat center with lots of craft equipment and space, along with comfy accomodations.  My friends Bonnie, Julie, Sandy and I went last year -  Bonnie heard about it through a shop in Owatonna and we enjoyed it so much!  This year Bonnie couldn't make it - darn - so we roped our friend Sayo into going.  What fun we had!  Besides crafting, we shopped and ate plenty of great meals made by our Getaway friend Jodie.  Another Getaway friend Karen organized this weekend to help raise money for her Relay for Life team.  Activities included make n' takes, a Thirty-one product demo, and Bingo with prizes.  Karen made us each a cute treat bucket with our name and a mesh butterfly.  Here I am at my crafting spot at what we call "Camp Granada" (even though they pronounce it Gran - a' - da with a long a):

And here's my productivity for about 18 hrs of crafting:

I made 14 cards and a scrapbook page.  The tulip image is one in the lower center came from my Hero Hostess sister Sally along with several others waiting to be used.  Thanks, Sally!  I colored it with some Twinklette pens and framed it in black - so perfect for a birthday card.  Of course, we had to have time to pop in to Fairmont for shopping and we spent a lot of time eating!  Very little sleeping - hopefully I'll catch up this week!!  Thanks for stopping!