Announcing Our First Sponsors!!

Besides getting to scrapbook in a hot tropical location, one of our favourite parts of Crop and Cruise vacations are the AMAZING SPONSORS that come on board with their yummy goodies we get to create and play with while on vacation!!  This means you don't have to worry about what supplies to pack as we provide what you need for the entire trip!!

So it is no surprise that Crop and Cruise HAWAII this November is starting to look FANTASTIC as several companies have already said "YES"... some are providing EPIC kits of goodness while others are sending highly anticipated door prizes and we have some familiar favourites mixed in with some oh so fun newbies!!!  Check them out...

And this is just the beginning!!!  Watch for more information on each of the above sponsors as well as new ones added to the list leading up to sail date!!!  This truly is turning into the ultimate crop and create vacation!!

You had me at Aloha!!

Get to know Jill Hildebrand

JILL HILDEBRAND is back by popular demand for her 3^rd Crop and Cruise!!  This smalltown, farm-girl is not only profoundly creative, but comes with a contagious personality and high energy to boot!! 

She is a widely published scrapbook artist who has taught at numerous events throughout Canada and USA and is best known for her colourful and edgy layouts.  In Jill’s classes she encourages scrappers to get CRAZY and become excited about the products in front of them believing there are “No Mistakes – Only Unexpected Creations” in the Life Art we are creating. 

Jill is currently a design team member for myStampBOX and Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker.   Her work has been featured in Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine and her keen eye in photography portrays a wildly fun passion for life and will most definitely rub off on you in Hawaii!!  

As the wife of a grain farmer in Manitoba, Jill stays busy being a SAHM to three children and working as a substitute teacher.  In any spare time she happens to find, she will get “lost” in home decorating, travelling and watching NBA games with her family… oh and folding laundry!!!!

To get to know Jill Hildebrand better, visit her blog at www.fromthefarm-jill.blogspot.com

Watch here soon to meet Christy Riopel, our next featured instructor for Hawaii!!!

Blog Giveaway!!!!

It's time!!!!!!!  Time to set sail for Crop and Cruise and time for a 

BLOG GIVEAWAY!! 

Wooooooo Hoooooooooo!!!  Crop and Cruise is officially setting sail for our next ultimate scrapbooking and photography vacation!!!!  And even though many of you couldn't join us this time (start planning NOW for the next one!!) we wanted to share the LOVE while we are gone with a fun giveaway!!!  We will give away some beautiful swag from our sponsors upon our return!!!

So here's how it will work!!  You have 

10 ways to enter to WIN!!

That means if you do all 10 of the below, you get 10 entries!!!!  And you have until November 26 to do it!!  So let's get started!!

For EACH of the below, follow the instructions and then post a comment for EACH one!!!  

Each comment will count as one entry (max of 10 entries).

1.  We have over 25 AMAZING SPONSORS on board this Crop and Cruise!!!  Which is your absolute favourite and why? (see some below or visit HERE to see them all!)  Here are our FEATURED SPONSORS that have been extra generous!!

2.  Which sponsor is NEW TO YOU that you think you would love to try out???? (visit HERE to see them all!)

3.  Which is your favourite CANADIAN sponsor "eh" and why???  Here are a few more in addition to some of the featured sponsors...

4.  If you could choose ANYWHERE for the next Crop and Cruise vacation, what location would you want to go (land and/or sea) and what month in 2012 would you like to go?

5.  If you could be on board with us right now, which PORT do you think would be your favourite??  We are in the Western Caribbean... you can see the ports HERE.

6.  We have some super FUN TOOLS going to be on board helping us create!!!  Tell us your favourite tool from these companies!!!

7.  Crop and Cruise is on FACEBOOK!!  If you are not already a friend, join us and then post a comment there and here!  If you are already a friend, refer us to a few more friends then post here!

8.  Become a FOLLOWER of this Crop and Cruise Blog then let us know!  If you are already a follower, recommend us to a couple friends then post here!

9.  We have 2 brand new FEATURED INSTRUCTORS along on this cruise!!!  Tell us who they are and where they are from!!

10.  We also have special kits from 3 PAST FEATURED INSTRUCTORS on board... Christine Collier (AKA the "Craft Diva") designed this fabulous "Travel" kit and who are the other two??  One designs for Nikki Sivils and the other is co-owner and designs for www.MondayNightClass.ca????

Alright!!!  We are all gathered in TEXAS right now and will set sail on Sunday!!!  Wish you were here, but meanwhile, you can live vicariously through some of the swag you can WIN and be sure to watch here for a ton of photos of the fun and crafting we will do on board this year's Crop and Cruise!!!

Another Canadian Company... MyStamp Box!!

Stamping simply has HUGE creative potential and we plan on having some fun with it on our Crop and Cruise Scrapbooking Cruise to the Caribbean this November!!!  

Check out this layout that Jill Hildebrand created... Jill is a past Crop and Cruise featured instructor who is currently on the MyStamp Box design team totally having fun using a wide variety of their stamps!!!  

We are excited to have Jill design an exclusive kit for our Crop and Cruise attendees using MyStamp Box stamps and Nikki Sivils products so watch for that and check out Nikki's blog for even more inspiration including Jill's work!!!

And click HERE to be inspired by the MyStamp Box blog!!

Another Amazing Sponsor!!!!

Soooo excited to announce yet another awesome sponsor...  

Nikki Sivils 

for our upcoming 

Crop and Cruise 

Scrapbooking Cruise to the Carbibbean this November 2010!!


Nikki Sivils is a delightful scrapbooker who has turned her passion into a fabulously fun company!!!  We first met Nikki at the Winter CHA event and immediately saw something special!!  Be sure to check out her website and watch here for more goodies from her product lines!!!


And to make it even more exciting... we have asked a special guest to design this exclusive layout kit from Nikki Sivils...

Jill Hildebrand

is a ridiculously  fun and talented lady that has been a featured instructor on two of our past Crop and Cruise events and although she won't be personally on board this one, attendees will still get a taste of Jill through her fabulous kit!!!  Jill has recently been added to the Nikki Sivils design team so she is completely STOKED about creating something wonderful for us!!!  Be sure to check out more of Jill's designs HERE!


This is getting exciting!!!  Be sure to sign up NOW to join us on this ultimate scrapbooking vacation... 8 days of glorious HOT TROPICAL scrapbooking and photography fun in the Caribbean!!!!  We'd love to have you on board!!