Hey there my crafty girl squad!! How are you this week?? I have another post going up tomorrow, but I really wanted to pop in and share some things today before too much time passed by. I wanted to tell you about the Nor Cal Planner Meetup I went to this past weekend! And I found an amazing new paper collection to share with you also (and it's all on sale too). So, I had a wonderful three day girly weekend with friends last weekend. I left on Friday morning and came home Sunday afternoon. It was entirely too much fun and really good for my soul and my spirit.
My amazing, sweet, kind, talented and all around awesome bloggy friend Audrey was in California visiting so I got to spend the entire day with her on Friday. We had lunch, and shopped and laughed; and talked about important stuff that you can't talk about when you're emailing and texting. SOOOOOO good to see her in person and HUG. OMG we talked for eight hours straight and my cheeks hurt from smiling. She is very special. We met about seven years ago through blogging! Somehow we ended up finding each others' blogs and leaving comments, and then emails, and it has led to a wonderful friendship. We have seen each other grow through new opportunities and watched our projects and styles change. That is the number one best thing about blogging - the people I've met.
Saturday was the giant Nor Cal Planner Meetup that was held at The Island's Creative Escape in Los Gatos. This is an AMAZING place and you have to go here!!! Laurie, the owner, is the nicest person and so generous and gracious too. I kinda love her. So there were FIFTY planner girls!!! I had no idea what to expect since I'd never been to a planner event before. Basically, everyone brings all their planner gear, stickers, stamps, washi, embellishments, etc...and you sit around and work on your planner(s) together. WHAT FUN. Okay, so planner girls are awesome! So happy, and funny, and welcoming! I went by myself but after about ten minutes I had a whole table full of new friends. Everyone likes to share what they're doing and talk about new ways to organize and plan. It was an 8 hour event that went by in about five minutes. Laurie had pizza and salad dinner for us. Layle from Simple Stories was the facilitator/teacher of the event and she showed us all kinds of fun new things to make. Really just a wonderful day. I will go again in a hot minute!
It has been VERY VERY hot here in Northern California and it will not let up. I was going to do some errands and things in the bay area on Sunday but decided instead to just take my time and drive home the long way via the ocean and the Golden Gate Bridge. Trying to soak up a few precious moments of ocean cooooool air before hitting the heatwave at home. So I was at the beach in the morning (64 degrees) and at home in the afternoon (109 degrees!!!) I had a nice day and a nice drive home.
So one of the things you do at a Planner Meetup is buy all kinds of stuff!! LOL. Laurie's store is pretty freakin' awesome and I spent a LOT of money! EEK. It's been a while since I shopped for paper crafting things like that. Turns out I am the only person there that only had ONE planner! Almost everyone has several! I ended up buying some Prima planner things that are beautiful (and some traveler notebooks), some great stickers, and one fabulous paper collection. Now, normally I would hoard this new paper collection, but I decided to make a card with it today to show you instead!! Ha!! It's from Pebbles and it's called Girl Squad!!!! It's been a LONG time since I went gaga over an entire collection. It has everything you might want: cute girls, adorable sayings, coffee, gingham, gold foil, flowers!!!! I bought two paper pads and one of everything else! I hope you love it too!
So this is another 'no stamping' card! Sometimes it's fun to make a quick and easy card with just paper and die cuts and embellishments! All of the papers are from the new collection. It all came together so easy. I used the stitched banner dies to make a banner down the front of the card. The sentiment is cut from the 12x12 sheet that has a ton of beautiful cards on it. The felt flower was in my stash and I have no idea where it came from!
I thought this was a beautiful sentiment for a card today, because I am truly feeling filled with gratitude for the fun and uplifting weekend I had! I adore these colors together. So FRESH and pretty at the same time.
It's hard to see, but the patterned floral had touches of gold in it! Squeeeee!
Here is a photo from the Planner Meetup! I didn't take too many pictures, because I was having too much fun!!! Everybody was so friendly and kind. See how huge the store is? Yeah, you gotta get here sometime!!
One of the fun things we did was make a Planner Stack! This is allllllll of our planners all lined up together! I love all the color and the flowers, and dots, and pom poms. Really fabulous! We all took turns taking pictures of it! You can see there are so many different kinds. I use an Erin Condren Planner - spiral bound ones on the left. There is truly something for everyone.
A close up of that beautiful Planner Stack!
You guys know that coffee makes me happy, right? Well, Philz Coffee makes me VERY happy! They make this drink called a Mint Mojito Iced Coffee. We don't have Philz Coffee in Sacramento (but we're getting one finally!) so every time I'm near one I have to stop. This drink is creamy, minty, sweet, coooool, perfection! I'm dreaming of it again right now....
Happy, crafty, blogger girls! XOXO
I took a picture of this flower while Audrey and I were walking around the mall. It's a Dinner Plate Dahlia! OMG it is actually as big as a dinner plate! I wish I had put my hand in the photo or something for scale. I've never seen these before. WOWZA!!!!
I had a great business breakfast meeting on Monday morning to discuss joining forces with another local creative to do some photography work. Please say prayers for me about this opportunity! I have a really good feeling about it and I want it to work out! Send some good vibes!! Tomorrow I will have a blog post for Papertrey Ink - for Throwback Thursday! Hope to see you then. Have a wonderful day! XOXO
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Glad u had a really good time! Your card is awesome with all that fab paper & wonderful design. Hope your photo deal works out just the way u want it. Your photos are spectacular!
Posted by: Patt H. | 06/23/2017 at 03:35 PM
Great post Wanda. Loved hearing about your planner weekend. Would love to see pictures of your planner & hear more about what you learned. Love the card too. Sending positive vibes for your photo op. You've got this!
Posted by: Linda | 06/22/2017 at 11:37 PM
What a fantastic, happy post this is, my friend! Your joy is absolutely infectious, and I am sooooooo blessed to have your sweet friendship in my life! Cannot even express how much I enjoyed our fun day together! I am still on Cloud 9! There's nothing like girlfriend time, that is for sure!
Love, love your beautiful card, and love all your photos! That closeup of the planner stack is amazing, and yes, can you even believe all those flowers at the mall? I still think tending them would be one of the best jobs ever! Sending lots of good vibes your way on the new opportunity. May it be one of many!
Posted by: Audrey pettit | 06/22/2017 at 11:53 AM
What a great weekend and looks like tons of fun!Love your card and just love your energy.
Posted by: Chris Cowan | 06/22/2017 at 08:31 AM
Loved your post and the pretty card. As you know, I can't resist a pretty paper pad either. Hoping for some inspiration but it's just TOO HOT! For some reason I find it hard to craft in an a/c bubble.
Sending positive vibes for lots of fun photo work.
Posted by: Julie | 06/22/2017 at 08:07 AM
Beautiful card Wanda and to think no stampin'!
love all your pictures and good luck with the photo opportunity.
You're a great addition to the PTI team.
Posted by: Nancy Lempinen | 06/22/2017 at 06:58 AM
You make me very happy with this great update on your planner weekend. The photo of you two made my heart smile. I am not a planner girl but I do admire a good planner. Since I retired I am more a "free bird". I am sending good vibes for the photo opportunity. Your pictures are so good. That dahlia is wonderful. Try to stay cool and I am going to look at the paper. I think I still have a Doodlebug set in my stash. All the best my friend, fingers crossed...
Posted by: Anne Sturgeon | 06/22/2017 at 06:10 AM
OOOh, what a darling card. Looks like it was a fun weekend.
Posted by: Joan Vancourt | 06/22/2017 at 05:43 AM
What a beautiful card Wanda! Love the patterned papers and that gorgeous felt flower!
Posted by: Celeste Goff | 06/22/2017 at 03:31 AM
I will send SUPER vibes...
Such a great and happy blog post!
so good you had such a great weekend out!!
and LOVE your card....
HUGS holly.
Posted by: Holly Saveur | 06/22/2017 at 02:58 AM
Sounds like you had a BLAST!! I have a planner but do not "decorate" it but would be fun to do some during a planner session like you went to. I LOVE your card. So pretty!!! I like that you used paper and findings rather then stamping. I need to do more of this as I have a boatload of supplies to use!! Thank you for the inspiration!!
Posted by: Nora | 06/21/2017 at 04:04 PM
sounds like a badly needed fantastic weekend. best wishes on the photo gig!!!
Posted by: Joan B | 06/21/2017 at 03:36 PM