Lfundoo & Kiki's Epic Crafty Adventure Day 5: Prima Warehouse and Family Time

So after the classes were finished, we started to assess the damage.  Time to decide if we needed to ship anything home.  We DEFINITELY needed to ship home, so good thing we had brought some flat rate boxes with us.  Here's mine all ready to go.  But that's not it.  I also sent two more with these.  I think that's a record!  And that's not all... ended up shipping one more box after that!  Yikes!  We had too many boxes and had to call a bellman to help us take them to the car.  LOL!

 



 

After the post office, we decided at the last minute to go to the Prima Warehouse.  After a super long drive due to a car fire, we finally made it to the Prima Warehouse in Chino.

See how happy I am to be there?

One of the first things that caught my eye in the warehouse was this HUGE bag of flowers in trash bags near the door! 

And here's a shot of my happy place!

I was surprised to see charms there!

They had lots of samples too.  Look how simple these tags are?  I need to make some of those!

I love the flowers on this one!

OK seriously... wanted steal this bag!

Hey, maybe I'll make a paper dress!  Lord knows I have enough supplies!

This one caught my eye.  Normally try to use small embellies on a small project, but I liked that they used large ones on a small mini.

More warehouse samples...

After we got back from Chino, got ready to head to my brother's house.    Tried to leave early to avoid the traffic, so I got there before they got home.  Took the time to check out Hobby Lobby and Michaels where they live.  Soon enough, they called me to come over and I got to hang out with my adorable nieces!

My older niece is now as tall, if not taller than me!  I guess I'll end up being the shortest in the family.

She shared with me some of her rainbow loom projects.   Pretty cool huh?

Thought these were pretty cool- a bee and a ladybug!!

After I came home, I decided to take a photo of my Prima Warehouse haul before I packed it away.  Now where am I gonna pack everything!?

While I was eating dinner with my brother, Linda had met up with her YT sis the Scrapstress! She was so sweet to bring a RAK for me.  Love it!  She made me a musubi wash cloth!  I think the bear bag wants to eat it!

 



Oki doki.  I'm tired.  Gonna try to post about Day 6 soon, but in case I don't get to it,  you might have to wait until I get home.  Catch ya later!

Lfundoo and Kiki's Epic Crafty Advenure Day 4: Prima ArtVenture Day 2

Holy Moly!  Can't believe that we just finished up 6 Prima ArtVenture classes!  Woo Hoo!  That was sooooooooooooooo worth it!  Had so much fun learning new techniques and getting so much fun stuff to play with!  I highly recommend it.

 

 

Day 2 of Prima ArtVenture began in Stephanie Miller's class.  She informed us that all of her kits didn't make it in time, so we got some stuff that wasn't in her original sample.  No harm done... we still got cool stuff!  Here's the work in progress...

 

 

Initial layout using a Julie Nutting doll and Princess paper!  Love that new paper!

Here's the sample by Stephanie Miller..

And here's the sweet lady herself! Nicest lady at ArtVenture!

 

Here's all the toys we got in our box along with my project.

 

 

 

 

One of the things they were doing at ArtVenture was a silent auction for Charity Wings.  This was a canvas donated by one of the instructors.  I believe it was made by Steph.

Pretty awesome design huh?  Check out the back!

And can't wait to get my hands on this TV frame!!!!!  They didn't have any at the Prima store.  This was made by Frank.

Our second class of the day was with Nathalie Kalbach.  She was so awesome!  Poor thing wasn't feeling well after lunch, but managed to get through our class and teach us some awesome techniques.  She walked around class with the sample around her neck.  That's just how cool she is!

 

Here's what was in our box.

 

 



 

 

And here's a better look at my project completed.  Used a photo from Cami's birthday at A Cup of Tea!

 

And we made a new friend!  Meet "Ninja", aka Reese Whitherspoon.  No, not the real Reese, but doesn't she totally look like her?  She acts like her too.  She came all the way from Canada and is super quick at making her projects!  Plus she seems to always be a step ahead of us... quick like Ninja!  Found it funny that she told her boyfriend that she latched onto us!  Little does he know that we were stalking her because she seemed to always know when the new product was delivered to the Prima Store!!  She would disappear and then later seem to have all the new stuff!!  Ninja skills.

Our last class was with Jamie Doughtery!  Jamie is the artist that has a new line called Bloom Girls!  Congrats Jamie!!  I just have to say that Jamie was sooooooo nice!  Her class was totally challenging.  Didn't realize how difficult a time I would have painting, but somehow I finished my project.  Thanks for the challenge Jamie!

Uh oh!  Who made Linda mad?  Bwahahahahahaha!

Here's what we got in Jamie's class.  A Bloom Girl stamp and mini album!  Check out all the yummy embellies!

And here's a better look at the finished product.  Oh!  And we used the new Prima sprays on the project.  Overall I have to say that I like them!  I would totally buy them if I can find them somewhere!

After we said goodbye to Jamie and our Ninja friend Sherry, we stopped by to see if Nathalie was feeling better.  She managed to take a photo with me and Linda.
 

After we got back we started packing!  OMG.. Linda is still packing now and I'm falling asleep.  Gonna head to the Post Office tomorrow to mail some stuff back home. Before I sign off, I leave you with one last photo of Prima goodness.  My last Prima ArtVenture Haul!

 

Nighty Night!



Lfundoo and Kiki's Epic Crafty Adventure Day 3.5- Prima ArtVenture Goodie Bag and Hauls

So one of the cool things about attending Prima ArtVenture is all the FREE STUFF you get!  Talk about Prima Heaven!  Check out all those flowers and tools!!! Yes, that canvas camera bag was included.  Already trying to figure out how I can alter it.

 

 

Here's a close up of the flowers.  So pretty!

And a close up of the tools!  I'm loving those glue dots!

Oops... another sideways pix.  Sorry about that.  Had to share the inspiration book.  I have a feeling this might be the best part about the goodie bag!

And here's my haul of Prima goodies from the store.  Stocked up on the new resin pieces including the large frames used in Frank's class.  And totally scored with that frame!  Love it!!!  Lucked out too cause I was asking the cashier if they were gonna bring in any more tomorrow and she said they are all out.. the lady behind me heard me and said she just put one back... then found it and brought it to me!  Crafters are so nice!

By the time you read this I'll be fast asleep dreaming of Prima.  So inspired by all this creativity and can't wait to start working on class ideas!

Lfundoo and Kiki's Epic Crafty Adventure Day 3: PRIMA ARTVENTURE ANAHEIM BABY!

 

After getting very little sleep the night before, Linda and I woke up early to get ready for Prima ArtVenture!!  Woo Hoo!  The day has finally arrived!!  We got to the Marriott just after 7:00am to register.  There we met Denny- he has been the contact for Prima ArtVenture.  Hi Denny!

 

And no, that's not coffee in Linda's cup. She wasn't that tired I guess.  Only water.

Our first class was with the famous Limor Webber!  Her class project looks intimidating yah?  She told us that she hand carried that project on the plane.  Hmmmm, wonder if I should do that too?

Here's what mine looks like so far.. didn't have enough time to finish it.

Since we had snuck in the room to "reserve" our spot, we caught Limor there alone.  Since Linda knows everyone, she asked Limor if we could take picture with her.

So of course I copy cat her..

I think this is my favorite picture of the day!  Limor Webber photo bombed us!!!!  How cool is that!  I knew I'd like her after she did that!

This is what was waiting for us in the room.  So pretty!

And here's a peek inside our class box!

After Limor's class, we had a lunch break.  What was the first thing that we did?  Go to the Prima Store!  They were originally set up in the hallway, by the classrooms, but had to move upstairs to another room.  Thank goodness because it was too congested where the classrooms were.  Will share more on the shopping later.

Before I forget... true story.  Next door to our class was Finnabair (Anna Dabrowska) and Frank Garcia's classes.  Frank's class ended up using too much power with all the heat guns going and they couldn't use the outlets.  Anna's class had someone set a chair on fire by leaving the heat gun on and putting it on a chair.  We were very lucky that the alarm didn't go off and the sprinklers set off.  I would've been one PO'd sistah.

Next up was Frank's class!  Yay!  I love Frank.  I try to watch his Live with Prima classes online. Yes, he's really as nice as he is on Live with Prima.  His class featured his new Prima line Cartographer!  Congrats Frank! Here's the layout we did in his class..

And here's Frank teaching us how to make this cool layout!

 

 

 

We finally got a picture with the man!

 

And here's all the goodies and my project!

After Frank's class, we took our class stuff to the car, had a small snack and then headed back for our last class with Finnabair herself.. Anna Dabrowska!

Confession time... Anna Dabrowska is the main reason I wanted to go to Prima ArtVenture!  Although there was no guarantee that she's be teaching, I signed up anyway and crossed my fingers.  She does mind blowing work!  Here I am sooooo happy with my class supplies!

Here's Anna's class sample- "Black Beauty".  Simply Stunning.

She's such a Rockstar!  Check out her hair!

Totally surprised Linda didn't do a purple cover!  She went for blue and green.  She later couldn't resist adding purple highlights.

And here's my project half done.  I'm so happy!

Although it was the end of the night, I had to take a picture with Anna!  She is so nice for a Rockstar!

This time Linda got in the shot too..

And here's my almost finished project! 

Still coming down from my crafty high today!  Three classes down, three more to go!  I have absolutely no idea how I'm going to get all this stuff home, but if there's a will, there's a way and I will find it if it kills me. 

Tomorrow will be sure to get some photos of the new crafty friends we made in our class!  Good night from Cali!