Fall Fest Was a Blast

This past Saturday was my Annual Fall Fest Retreat
and Fall Fest was a BLAST!!

My car was loaded — it was still dark out so it’s hard to see it all,
but my SUV was filled with bags, lots of projects and fun gifts.

All attendees were greeting with this fabulous bag that was filled with all their projects for the day.
They each received this beautiful fall box that has a Bath & Body Works Fall scented Foaming Hand Soap inside.
The boxes were made with Crumb Cake cardstock and decorated with Rustic Harvest Designer Paper and a tag
made with the Leaf Label & Amber Gem Combo Pack was added to the front.

Three of the ladies who did displays for our Stampin’ Sisters Holiday Hoopla back in September
brought their gorgeous displays back to share with everyone at Fall Fest.

Dorothy Gunter made this fabulous display using the Gingham Cottage Suite.
She had to many fun things to get inspiration from.

Sue Coomber did a fabulous job with the Lights Aglow Suite.
There were beautiful cards, a framed art project, a scrapbook page and so many
other wonderful things to get inspiration from.

Roseann Basford used the Sweetest Christmas Suite for her display.
I just love this — it is so Christmassy.  Don’t you love the lights she added – so festive.
Again, there was so many things to gather inspiration from.

We had a card swap and all cards were entered into a contest and everyone voted for their 1st and 2nd favorite cards.  The cards were FABULOUS making it hard to choose their favorite.

Roseann was the winner — can you tell she was excited!!!

Here is Roseann’s card.
She learned a new technique at our Stampin’ Sisters Holiday Hoopla and had to give it a try.

It’s an Explosion Fun Fold Card.

Can you tell how happy Kim Vale was when her card got 2nd place.

Kim’s card has wonderful, sparkly snowflakes.

Both ladies received the new Birthday Card Organizer Kit as a prize.
I am so proud of both of them — their cards were wonderful.

I wanted to be sure everyone was filled with energy so mid-morning I passed out
these fun Peekaboo Treat Bags that were decorated and filled with Werther’s Caramels.

When everyone returned to their seat after lunch, they were greeted with this
adorable Santa delivered Hershey’s bar.

I had a helper for the day, my daughter and assistant, Katie.
We try to take a selfie at each event we are together, so here is this year’s picture.

My oldest two grandsons came to help in the morning.
Katie’s younger son helped with set up and her oldest has started a film production company,
so he took pictures and video to put together a marketing video for me.
He is only 15 but does wonderful work, so I can’t wait to see it and share it with you when he finishes.

I’ll be sharing the projects everyone made later this week so be sure to come back Wednesday to see
the first project.

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