November Weekend Retreat Review....

So...I'm a bit behind announcing our November Weekend results......Here they are.....better late than never! 

The Scrap Cabana November Weekend Retreat was a big hit with our loyal croppers and our first time attendees! We had over 30 new scrappers attend our retreat with a total of 52 scrappers in all! We held our Retreat at the Hampton Inn & Suites in Aurora. This is our 8th Weekend Retreat at this location and I believe a great time was had by all!

Our event is open 24 hours, therefore we offer 50 hours of scrappin time for those die hard scrappers who actually take great advantage of this time. Everyone spreads out on Friday evening, gets comfy and creative and hesitantly leaves on Sunday evening. We have a lot of late night scrappers competing to be the die hards. This months Late Night Scrapper Award goes to Mary Odom from our 2nd room and our Late Night Duo, Lori Durling and Sara Wolfsmith from the main scrappin room. Mary stayed up all night on Friday and didn’t head to bed until Saturday evening at 11:30pm! WOW…30 straight scrappin hours, now that’s determination! Our Late Night Duo stayed up until 6:30 Saturday morning, earning their 3rd Late Night Scrapper Award. Congratulations to our Late Night Scrapper Winners, I hope that you were able to create lots of wonderful creations!

Our weekend retreats also offer a few enhancements for your pleasure. We have a massage therapist on hand and she helps loosen up those tight scrapping muscles. New this retreat, we had an Embosser on hand to add the perfect titles to your scrapbooking albums. We held our first “Garage Sale” Table this event…each scrapper was able to bring along those “Must have’s that have become Have Not’s” and sell garage sale style…the sales you earn can be used as Cabana Credit. Scrapper Vicki really benefited from our Garage Sale and sold a grand total of $170.00!

For each of our retreats we like to offer various contests or make-n-take options. For this event, we provided each of our scrappers with a 4X6 creative Snow Fun pad from Pebbles, Inc. Each pad included 30 sheets of paper and 4 sticker sheets. Each scrapper was offered the opportunity to create a Snow Fun card creation to enter into our Card Creation Contest or just keep the pad to enjoy. Each card creation that was submitted into the contest was to utilize at least 80% of the creative pad contents along with any additional embellishments they preferred. We had a total of 15 wonderful, phenomenal, creative card entries into our contest. Each of the scrappers, whether they entered the contest or not, were allowed to vote once for each card they favored! Our Snow Fun Creative Card Contest winners were: 1st Place: Lori Griffin, 2nd Place: Lori Durling. Thank you to all for taking the time to create such magnificent, creative, exceptional cards! Check them all out under our photo section on our Facebook account! Become a Fan of The Scrap Cabana on Facebook Today! THE SCRAP CABANA FACEBOOK PAGE

We added a new Award to our Weekend Retreats. Since this weekend is all about scrapping, we felt it necessary to add the award, Layout Scrappin Queen to our Awards Ceremony….the recipient of the first Layout Scrappin Queen Awards goes to…..Geriann Weisbrook! She completed a total of 72 layouts! She unquestionably took great advantage of her time away! Way to go Geriann!

At our retreats we have a wide variety of scrappers and crafters.

We had another large group join us again this November, MaryLou, Mary, Maria, Becky, Marian & Kathy P. This is their 2nd year joining us in November and we hope they continue the tradition in 2010~!
We also play The Scrap Cabana BINGO at each of retreats and each of our scrappers can earn Raffle Tickets to win FREE Scrapbook Gifts including a FREE Scrapbook Weekend by completing various challenges during the weekend. Our BINGO Winners were:
Cloud 9 Paper Pack: Susan

Blue Scrapbook Album: Alice

Halloween Reminisce Paper Pack: Carole K

Pebbles Paper Pack: Mary Lou

School Years Scrappin Sports Paper Pack, 12 Years with Stickers: Kim

Pebbles Ribbon Pack (8 Packs!): Alice

Hunting Reminisce Paper Pack: Kim

Creative Options 12x12 Paper Holder Organizer: Lori D.

Cricut Cartridge Font 123: Duvonna

Creative Options Brad Holder: Kelly T.

BOGO Scrapbook Weekend: Meg

Cricut Cartridge Font Disney: Meg

50% Off Scrapbook Weekend: Sara

FREE Scrapbook Weekend: Alice

In addition to offering our BINGO challenge we also award a BINGO QUEEN Award to our scrapper that is the first to complete her BINGO card….the September BINGO QUEEN Award goes to…..Alice Smith! Way to go!

CONGRATS TO ALL OUR BINGO RAFFLE WINNERS! Thanks for participating!

After a great weekend escape, I believe that we all had a wonderful, creative, relaxing 50 hours of scrapping fun! Thank you to all our loyal returning scrappers and I hope that all our new scrappers will join us once again in the future! Without all of you our event would not be as fun and successful!

We will be adding a few new perks to our future Weekend Retreats….for our Awards Ceremony, we will be adding The Scrap Cabana Sash’s that will be worn and on display until the next retreat winner dethrones the winner! What fun! We will also be introducing our “Loyal Cabana Croppers Awards”, cool buttons that showcase your retreat attendance!

Check out our information regarding our 2010 and 2011 Weekend Scrapbook Events! JANUARY 2010 WEEKEND SCRAPBOOK RETREAT! I’m confident that you will enjoy our events and we welcome new scrappin buddies to join our rapidly growing scrappin family. Our New Year January 2010 Event already has 21 registered scrappers! Sign up today as we only have room for 50 scrappers! Hopefully we will scrap with you soon!

Until our next chitchat…..Happy Scrappin!
Michelle
The Scrap Cabana