Calgary's "Crop Crawl" event!

Calgary's Sail Away with Crop and Cruise event looks like it's going to turn into a "Crop Crawl"... pack scrapbookers onto a bus and head around to some great local scrapbooking stores for discounts, challenges, make & takes, prizes and a ton of fun all along the way!!

Watch for more details of this Fall 2008 event over the next couple months!

Saskatoon's Sail Away event with Leica Forrest already has over 107 attendees registered and we only opened registration this morning!! Be sure to go to http://www.cropandcruise.com/ to register soon if you'd like to attend!

And... looks like Deanna Hutchison will host an event in August in Vancouver so those details will also come shortly along with information on the Manitoba and New Brunswick events!

Sail Away with Crop and Cruise - Saskatoon

Our Saskatoon "Sail Away with Crop and Cruise" event hosted by the talented Leica Forrest will open registration on June 25, 2008!! If you are wishing to attend, be sure to log on to the www.CropandCruise.com website under "Sail Away Fun" and follow the links to register!

Great Sponsors coming on board!

WOW!!!! We have some exciting news to share!!

Those of you attending our next Crop and Cruise Scrapbooking Cruise for Canadians to the Caribbean in Feb. 2009 are going to be uber spoiled!! We have recently received word from these amazing companies who are going to be sending a ton of their fabulous products for you to create and play with!!!

Watch in the upcoming months as we showcase these two Diamond Level companies plus numerous others who are "jumping on board" our Crop and Cruise!

Sail Away with Crop and Cruise events!

Crop and Cruise has decided to have even more fun outside of the cruise to the Caribbean in Feb. 2009 and we are currently planning some exciting "pre-cruise" events we are affectionately calling:

Sail Away with Crop and Cruise!

These events will be hosted across Canada by our talented team of instructors so watch our website for details on one close to you! And know that they are for EVERYONE including those coming on the cruise who wish to get to know one another ahead of time as well as those WISHING they were coming on the cruise who simply want to experience a taste of what this ultimate adventure is like! Stay tuned!

Hostess Bio - Allison Orthner

Allison is a retired Jr. High school teacher turned photographer and scrapbooker who still LOVES to teach anyone willing to learn! She appears regularly on City TV helping Canadians improve their scrapbooking and photography skills, has been published numerous times including 9 front cover photos and has just launched her new column called "Lights! Camera! Action!" in Canadian Scrapbooker magazine.

On the cruise, Allison is looking forward to creating the ultimate vacation and is especially excited to help you capture all your memories in photos! She specializes in being as practical as possible and only as technical as necessary and brings the fun back to photography the way it should be! Allison plays house in Calgary with her "gorgeous gadget guy" husband and two "delightfully fun" kids!!

Click HERE to check out Allison's website!

Instructor Bios - Kathy Thompson-Laffoley

Kathy Thompson Laffoley is a talented photographer and scrapbooker hiding out in Riverview, New Brunswick! For Kathy, life with husband Jim and daughters Emma (16) and Rebecca (13) – two teenage girls -- is always a photo op waiting to happen!! She runs a small photography business and has been scrapbooking for about 6 years... and absolutely LOVES this hobby of ours! She is a Design Team Member for Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine and Upsy Daisy Designs, and is the Creative Planner for Scrap Shotz, an online site serving scrapbookers all across Canada!

Kathy's style leans towards bright and graphic, usually with the photos being front and centre and believes that with only a simple piece of white cardstock and a great piece of striped paper, she can put a great page together!!!! She is beyond excited to be a part of the Crop and Cruise team and is looking forward to sharing her talents and skills, getting to know other Canadians and helping everyone capture some great photos along the way!

Click

HERE to check out Kathy's website!