Riverstone Crop-Food by Melanie

Meet Melanie the chef and the instigator of all the wonderful food.

Melanie even made the lemon sorbet.

This fresh fruit platter was served with dessert.

More dinner photos. There was so much to choose from.

This is part of the dinner served at night. Melanie cooked and organised the food.

This is the afternoon tea Melanie organised for the crop.

Camp-Cropworks 1st Camp

Melanie and I are holding a camp in 2010.

Where: Long Point Camp Site. Long Point.

When: 15-17th October 2010.

All other particulars will be finalised in January and I will let everybody know.

Melanie will be doing the cooking and if you have experienced her cooking then you will know that it will not be ordinary camp food.

If you are interested in coming please drop me a line at roseannemon@yahoo.com.

Dianne's Tag

This is Dianne's November tag. I love the verse. "God loves you because of who he is not because of anything you did or didn't do"

Dianne's Tag

This is Dianne's December tag. Love the snowman and all the work she put into it.

Raine's Tag

Here is Raine's December Tag. It is so nice and colourful.

Libby's Tag

This is the tag made by Libby for the December swap. She has used the new Kaisercraft Christmas paper.

Dianne's Tag

This is Dianne's October tag. The birds have been popped up and this makes it look more authentic. Love it.

Rose-Anne's Tagged

I decided to make a stocking shape my tag and made it out of Bazzill. I bugged the top to make it look 3D.

Raine's Tag

This is Raine's November tag swap. The pink and black always looks nice together.

Glenda's Tag

Glenda made this tag for the December swap. She has put the verse on a transparency. She has also used Bazzill cardstock and Kaisercraft patterned paper.

Libby's Tag

This is the tag made by Libby for November. This little owl was made from Kaisercraft Patterned Paper and Dimensional Magic put on top.

Rose-Anne's Tag

Here is the tag I did for November.

Libby's Tag

This is a great idea. The Bazzill and Coredinations that has been bugged and sanded were bought from Cropworks. As well as the brads.

The verse on the back is another Helen Keller one.

The most beautiful things in the world are not seen nor touched. They are felt with the heart.

Glenda's Tag

Here is another tag made by Glenda for our September Tag swap. Those Chinese Proverb are so good.

Glenda used her chops to ink the Chinese Symbols below the verse.

These Chops were purchased from Cropworks. So was the chain and lugs. This comes in gold also.

Treehouse Memories

This is just a simple card I made the other day using one of my favourite papers from Treehouse Memories.

I have also used cardstock from SALT and the Fiskars slimline punch. these punches are so good. They are so easy to use also.

I used a Crafter's Workshop stencil for the sentiment and a Fiskars brad for the star.

Glenda's Tags

This is the tag Glenda made for October. It is a lovely tag and the verse is so beautiful. I love Helen Keller's inspiration. She shows us we can do anything with determination and belief in ourselves.

Riverstone Crop

This is the boy version I did for the Make and Take I conducted at Riverstone Church Crop Day. Check out Rose-Anne's blog for the girl version. Riverstone Crop layout

Products Used

SALT white dimple cardstock

Salt Chipboard Star

Bazzill Blue Ribbon

Bazzill Brown Ric Rac

SALT chipboard template

Treehouse Memories Patterned Paper

Crafters Workshop Stencil

Gel Pens

Double sided tape

Brown Versa Color Ink

Pop dots

Riverstone Crop

We had a fabulous day at Riverstone Community Church Crop. We also had a successful day of fundraising for them. As usual the food was terrific and Melanie outshone herself. This photo shows Melanie with the morning tea.

Make & Take - Amie and I

This is a make and take I did at a crop yesterday. The crop was to raise funds for Riverstone Community Church Playgroup and was just fantastic. For $20 we got a 10 hour crop, afternoon tea (fresh homemade scones, chocolate fudge slice, homemade carrot cake, cheese and biscuits and a fruit platter), dinner (choice 0f 3 mains with baked vegetables and garlic bread plus dessert which was a choice of 6 items or you could have a taster plate with 4 small portions of different desserts) plus tea and coffee. It was great and Mel Rae did a fantastic job of catering, organising and running the event - Thanks Mel.
Rose-Anne had the mobile Cropworks Shop there as well and conducted this make and take class. It needs a title but I want to do a second page to go with it so I'll wait until I have done that page and then decide on a heading and maybe some journaling too.
This layout would also make a great Christmas layout.The patterned cardstock is  available ony from Cropworks and the white is sort of a bumpy texture and really beautiful to work with. It's from Salt. All items are available from Rose-Anne at Cropworks.

Libby

Breast Cancer Crop

Jessica in action. She worked all day.
Don't you love the surprised look on Libby's face. She is such a camera shy person.
It was Liana's birthday and Maree bought her a cake. Don't you love the surprised look on Liana's face?

Last weekend we had our monthly crop and we did some raffles for Breast Cancer. So far we have raised $189 from the raffles. Jessica my granddaughter had a lovely time making her mini album with me.

We had to wear pink and if we didn't we were fined.

Breast Cancer Fundraiser Crop 16-17th October

Breast Cancer Australia

The Crop at Beaumont Hills Primary School on the 16-17th October will have activities to raise money for Breast Cancer. Breast Cancer is in my family and I have just made an appointment to have a yearly mammogram. It is important to support this very worthwhile cause because 1 in 11 women will develop breast cancer before the age of 75.

If you would like to come to this crop either on the Friday all day or the Friday night or the all day Saturday Crop or a combination of several then please e-mail me - roseannemon@yahoo.com to secure a place.

$15 for each session but a combination of sessions is $25.

Friday Lunch is bring a plate and we will share.

Saturday Lunch is also bring a plate and we will share.

All morning, afternoon teas, supper and tea and coffee will be provided by me.

There will be a scrapbooking lesson on each occasion, a card design and a technique for each session. All sessions will have different lessons.

A gold coin donation will be required if you don't have something pink on your body.

There will also be some fun activities to join in if you want to.

Please come and bring a friend and support this worthwhile cause.

10% of all sales this weekend will go to Breast Cancer Awareness.

Melanie, Libby and Maree

This is the table decoration that the girls made. How cool is this! We had a wonderful time and had so much fun.

Wiseman's Ferry Camp-Purple Night.

The camp last weekend was great. Melanie and I had a great time in the shop meeting new lovely ladies and catching up with ones who come every year. This year Saturday night was a purple night and Libby and Glenda got all these cool things for us to wear and they also decorated our table.

Raine's Father's Day Tag

Raine did a wonderful job in making her Father's Day Tag.

It is looks good enough to wear.

Libby's Father's day Tag

Libby has Cuttlebugged her tag and used a FATHER tile bought from Cropworks. The black flower was also bought from Cropworks.

Father's Day Tag

This is the tag Rose-Anne made for the September Tag swap. It was based on Father's day.

Rose-Anne's August Tag

This is the tag based on JOY. The verse is on the back. JOY has been done using a foam stamp and Kaisercraft paint.

Lina's November Tag

This is another tag made by Lina. Once again she has used Whitewash from Coredinations. She has bugged it and sanded it. Lina bought this from Cropworks. Lina has also used Spellbinders to make the top part of the tag.

Another great tag by Lina.

Gin X Patterned paper Mini Album.

Barbara chose Gin X patterned paper to make this mini album I showed the ladies how to make last Friday night at the crop. The red cardstock is Bazzill. The flowers are SALT flowers.All products were bought from Cropworks.

Kaisercraft Patterned Paper Mini album

This is the mini album Sharon made last Friday night at the crop. Sharon chose all the same coloured brads for her spine. It looks great.

Lina's December Tag

Lina is so far ahead of us all in the tags. This is such a lovely Christmas tag.

Lina used Whitewash Coredinations that she put through the Cuttlebug and sanded for her background.

This is a lovely tag.

Kaisercraft Patterned paper

This is the album Dorothea made at my crop last Friday night using Kaisercraft Patterned Paper. Everybody loved making these albums.

September Crop at BH

This weekend gave us another great crop at Beaumont Hills. We are a sharing and caring group. It was my birthday last week and Glenda and Libby made sure I had celebrations both on the Friday night and the Saturday. What special friends they are. We also made many things including 2 different mini albums, cards and page layouts that I will share this week.

Then there is the Tag swap we are doing. I have new ones to add to this blog this week also.

If you would like to know more about these crops please contact me and join a wonderful group of lovely ladies.

Did I mention the laughter and the teasing that goes on. Nobody has a thin skin in the group as we all bounce off each other and as we know laughter is the best medicine.