Saturday 27 October 2007

Ranger U

It's been awhile since my last post as we have been busy with shows. Last weekend I went to Ranger U. This is held at the Ranger factory in Tinton Falls, New Jersey. It was headed by Tim Holtz and Robin Beam.
I left the UK on the 17th of October and met my roomie Wendy Vecchi the next day. Wendy and I had been emailing each other since we knew we had been accepted for the course. Me and Wendy

We exchanged gifts on arriving at our hotel. Wendy had made a box for me which was full of goodies. Lovely.


The course started on the 19th and was attended by a truly international group - US, UK, Sweden, Germany, Canada, Scotland and Ireland.


After our introductions we had a tour of the Ranger factory. It was very interesting and we closely watched the Stickle machine filling and sealing the bottles then each one of us received a sample bottle.
In the classroom we opened our box of products with great excitement.
We received goodies also from other companies and a kewl Ranger apron.

We spent the rest of the day with Tim Holtz walking us through some great techniques which we created for ourselves on tags. Robin Beam had prepared stickers for the reverse of the tags so we wouldn't forget LOL and these were also repeated inside a class folder. A CD completed the theory.

At 5pm we packed up and travelled in car parties to a Chinese restaurant. Very enjoyable as I was able to chat to some of the other ladies and then some of us went shopping at the Mall.

Wendy and I were shattered by the time we got back to the hotel.



Saturday we returned for Day 2.


Tim walked us through yet another barrage of techniques and by 5pm we had 45 tags in total, created over the 2 days.



We went over to Applebee's for a meal. Then it was time to return to the classroom and work on our project. We were each given a mirror and a bag full of chipboard squares and rectangles and we had to create something using the techniques we had learned. We had a couple of hours to do this. I thought about it, looked at my tag book and came up with this.


Wendy and I were shattered again but managed to talk till some unearthly hour.



Sunday was the last day and each of us had to make a presentation and show our project to the class describing which techniques and products we had used.

Each of us received our certificate from Tim.



The class of Ranger U October 2007.


Apron signing by Robin and Tim.



Me Robin and Wendy.

Back to the airport, shared cocktails with Wendy and then home on an overnight flight to Manchester.

9 comments:

Maggi said...

Thanks for sharing! What a lot of fun and work in such a short time. Be sure to share some tips and projects!

wendy vecchi said...

Dear roomie...
Ah, what a wonderful time we had. It was like a dream come true! Reading your blog brings back sweet memories.
I hope we can meet and play together again!!
Wendy

Carol said...

What a fantastic opportunity. We expect lots of creative activity from you. Will keep tabs on your blog.

Trish Bee said...

Fantastic pictures! Looks as if you had a blooming marvelous time!

Fiona said...

What a fantastic time! Thanks for showing us all your pictures
Fiona

Unknown said...

Logging in...hoping to add a new element!!
Keep your fingers crossed!!
Wendy

Robin Beam said...

Carol-It was such a pleasure meeting you...although the low point was probably having Wendy as a roomate (LOLOL!-she knows I love her!), you are a wonderfully talented person...and I'm itching to cut and use your stamps....

Inky Hugs,
Robin

julie said...

It was great meeting you Carol and hopefully will see you again soon at one show or another. May I borrow your pic of all the stuff we got - I never thought to take one and now its all packed away.

Anonymous said...

Carol I can only imagine the MEMORIES attached to this journey! What a super workshop and all those fabulous goodies and just to have the sightseeing tour inside of Ranger!