Crop and Cruise Projects!!

A HUGE thanks to our wonderful Crop and Cruise sponsors for providing our amazing talented instructors with such hot tropical products to design with!!!  Check them ALL out!! The talented team...  Christy Riopel, Jill Hildebrand, Allison Orthner...  AND their projects!!!

Will post more from our Canadian Crop and Cruise scrapbooking and photography vacation soon!!

The Sights of Hawaii... coming this November!!!

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!!

Check THIS out!!!!  Crop and Cruise was the featured "Made In Canada" company in the Spring Issue of Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine!!!!!!!  

A HUGE thanks to CS magazine for this special feature and I love that so many of our readers are planning on joining us in HAWAII in November!!!!  If you ever wanted to connect in person with other like-minded Canadian scrapbookers from all over the country, we invite YOU to join us on this hot tropical adventure!!!!  

You had me at ALOHA!!!!

Get to know Allison Orthner

Allison Orthner has enthusiastically organized and hosted every Crop and Cruise event since 2007!!  Her happy place is to be teaching her best photography tips and tricks to anyone with a camera... especially in hot tropical locations!!

  

Her "gadget guy" husband is her partner in crime behind the scenes and accompanies the group as the official videographer.  He can often be heard saying, "No I don't know where Allison is, but can I help you with something?"

Outside of Crop and Cruise, Allison keeps very busy with a wide variety of activities including TV segments on scrapbooking and photography and writing for Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine including her Lights! Camera! Action! article in each issue.

Her work has been widely published in Canadian Scrapbooker, Creating Keepsakes, Memory Makers and Scrapbooks Etc. including 12 front covers.

Allison also organizes and hosts numerous scrapbooking events in Canada and keeps her photography skills honed by operating a photography business where she specializes in unique portraits of newborns, children, grads and families!  Capturing a special moment or event makes her heart sing... it is her true passion!!

While on the Crop and Cruise LAND and CRUISE events, Allison will be your personal photographer for the group, guide you through countless photo ops, host Photo Field Trip Excursions and whisper in your ear all week to help YOU capture amazing photos with YOUR camera!! She specializes in being as practical as possible and only as technical as necessary!!!

For more insight, visit Allison's website at www.AllisonOrthner.com.

Get To Know Christy Riopel

CHRISTY RIOPEL is also back for her 3^rd time teaching on Crop and Cruise where she is known for taking you on an artistic journey like no other!!  From cards and layouts to mixed media and home decor, Christy does it all!!

She not only enlightens you with more tricks and techniques than you thought existed, but thoroughly entertains you as she pushes the boundaries of creativity!  Christy’s background in art and design mean her classes leave you inspired, infused with potential and simply wanting more!!

As a contributing writer for Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine and co-owner for MondayNightClass.ca, Christy’s art has been widely published and enjoyed across the country including numerous appearances on Breakfast Television!!

She has also taught internationally at CHA, Scrapfest, Camp Croppin' and The Great Canadian Scrapbook Carnivals and for companies like Basic Grey, Westcott, myStampBOX and Upsy Daisy!!   Her favourite part is meeting people who share a love for creating.

Besides crafting, Christy has become a quick study in photography and has some stunning shots from a recent trip to China!

Christy lives in Calgary where she is mom to two beautiful girls, wife to the most patient man in the world and caretaker to two dachshunds who all together give her much joy and plenty of antics to scrapbook!!

Christy is super excited to join Jill Hildebrand and Allison Orthner as instructors and looks forward to spending time with you in Hawaii and is already dreaming up projects!!  To get to know Christy Riopel better, visit her blog at http://www.christyriopel.blogspot.com/

The Big Reveal: Our Featured Instructors for HAWAII

We are so very pleased to announce:

Joining Allison Orthner 

as Featured Instructors on Crop and Cruise HAWAII in Nov. 2012 are:

Jill Hildebrand

and

Christy Riopel

 We are stoked to have these past Crop and Cruise instructors back on board with us by popular demand!!!!  Not only are they ridiculously talented (you will learn TONS and TONS of the industry's best TIPS and TRICKS just hanging with them and taking their classes), but they are also more fun than we can even put into words!!!  And if a picture's worth a thousand words, check these out from the last time the three of us were together to get an inkling of what's in store in Hawaii:

And as a special bonus, we will also teach you the top ways to wear Hawaiian leis...

The "Roman"

The "Bam Bam"

and the "Scrunchie"!!!

Watch here over the next week as we introduce each of these ladies a little better... we promise that their passion for crafting, photography and sharing their heart and soul with you will be inspiring!!!  We invite you to join us on this ultimate adventure!!

You had us at Aloha!!!

Guess Who?????

We are sooooooooo excited as we are getting ready to announce our Featured Instructors for Crop and Cruise Hawaii!!!!

GUESS WHO THEY ARE???!!!

We think you are going to be delighted as these ladies are not only ridiculously creative, internationally experienced and fantastic educators, but they are FUN FUN FUN to hang with!!!!

You had me at Aloha ladies!!!!