The Ultimate Scrapbook Retreats, Maple Ridge

12/31/2024

Retreat Dates 2025 & 2026

Effective January 2024 retreat prices are as follows:

2 nights (Friday-Sunday) -- $420
3 nights (Thursday-Sunday) - $610

2025 Dates:

Jan 9/10 - 12 *4 day option
Feb 6/7 - 9 *4 day option
May 2-4 *150th Anniversary Retreat*
May 30 - June 1
August 15 - 17
Sept 25/26 - 28 * 4 day option
October 23/24 - 26 *4 day option
Nov 20/21 - 23 *4 day option
Nov 28 - 30

2026 Dates:

Jan 8/9 - 11 *4 day option
Feb 6 - 8
May 8 - 10
May 29 - 31
August 13/14 - 16 *4 day option
Sept 25 - 27
Oct 22/23 - 25 *4 day option
Nov 19/20 - 22 *4 day option
Nov 27-29

The most popular dates fill up in advance thanks to our dedicated clients. Don't let that deter you! Spots do come available once in a while, so please put your name on the waiting list for the dates of your choice.

12/12/2024

$1240.50 in cash plus an overflowing box of food was donated to the Friends in Need Foodbank in Maple Ridge!

We are grateful for the support from our generous creative community at the Ultimate Retreats and our other local Creative Events 💛

12/01/2024

This weekend’s 50/50 total donations
for the FoodBank
is $412.50 !

11/24/2024

Reminder to those of you coming this weekend for our last retreat weekend of 2024…

We have FOUR class opportunities!

Lorree is offering a Scrap Your Stash layout class Friday evening AND a Scrap Your Stash Card class on Saturday afternoon.

Kristine is offering an Autumn Layout Workshop Saturday morning and a Christmas Card class Saturday afternoon.

Check your emails for the class information 💛

11/24/2024

FOOD BANK total from 50/50 proceeds this
weekend was $620 !!!

Amazing donation!!! THANK YOU all ❤️

11/20/2024

50/50 donations from September’s Retreat Weekend, hand delivered by Heather!

11/19/2024

November 23rd and November 30th classes

08/21/2024

Helll Friends! Kristine here, looking forward to getting back to some creative time with all of you 💛

For those of you coming this weekend…I’m selling my Cricut Explore One machine for $100 and will bring it with my shoppe if someone is interested?!!

Send me a PM!

Creating with Kristine

06/03/2024

Another fabulous weekend with all of you lovely ladies this weekend 💛

We’ve raised $297.50 for the Food Bank this weekend and $110 at our Retreat earlier in May❤️❤️❤️

05/21/2024

Take advantage of the free shipping offer TODAY ONLY!

I can bring it to you next weekend at our retreat!

FREE SHIPPING TUESDAY (May 21th) ONLY!!!!
Click the link below to take advantage of free shipping, for May 21st only, using the link below.

https://www.stampinup.ca/?hostcode=YUS6HG2P

05/21/2024

Scrap Your Stash!

Friday, May 31st 7pm, Koerner Dining room.

Looking for a jump start to your weekend?! Join us for another fun SYS class with Kristine 😊

Four double page layouts, $40 class fee. You’ll get the kit instructions emailed to you after payment. Colour instructions ready for you during the class 💛

Etransfer to [email protected]

11/21/2023

I am the keeper of the memories in this household…I’m blessed to be able to call it work ❤

Copied from the fabulous Donna Ashworth…

"I am the taker of the photos…

I am the receiver of the groans, they eye-rolls and the hurry ups.

I am the one who disrupts the ‘moments’, to capture them.

And sometimes it’s hard to be that person.

But I am also the holder of the memories.

I am the one who keeps the precious proof.

I am the bearer of the stories, the maker of the scrapbooks that bring tears, laughter and love rushing into the room each time they are opened.

And if you are too, please know you are capturing this life, as it happens.

You are capturing stages, ages, twists, turns and last moments no one could have foreseen.

And generations to come will thank you for it, even if no one does right now.

The eye-rolls will be replaced one day with absolute all-consuming gratitude, for the image of a smiling face so missed and a memory returned home to stay.

Keep disrupting life to capture it my friends, when it’s all that is left, someone somewhere will be so very glad you did."

-Donna Ashworth

09/06/2023

we’ve got another Scrap Your Stash class on Friday evening, after dinner, for you to get FOUR double-page layouts completed straight outta the gates this weekend!

I send you ‘kit’ instructions, photo sizes and a layout sketch that shows you where the photos will sit on the pages.

You get your photos ready and shop your personal stash to ‘build’ the ingredients for each of your 4 layout kits…I walk you through cutting and assembling your paper selections to create your layouts!

A fantastic way to get layouts done where you don’t need to do the heavy lifting…just make the cuts and stick it down! You’ll add embellishments and titles and you’re done!

Message me with any questions or to sign up!

09/02/2023

Did you know that Operation Smile is the official charity at Close to my Heart?
In 2023, we have raised enough money to change the lives of 7 children and families directly because of our continued support and donations.
Purchasing 50/50 tickets at my Let's do Paper & Glue Creative Crops and at the Ultimate Scrapbooking Retreats has been the primary source of these donations and I THANK YOU!!!
When placing an online order through my website, consider 'rounding up' in the donation box at check out...every penny counts as you can see!

09/02/2023

Home for Christmas is our featured collection in the NEW* September/October catalog release...are you excited to start creating those Christmas cards? Or have you already made them???!
If you love this festive time of year, it's time to grab those stamps and paper packs! Remember that our Seasonal Catalogs are always... While Supplies Last!
Message me for upcoming classes!
Remember that VIP customers get loads of perks including 15% back in spending credit PLUS a FREE Stamp of the Month!

09/01/2023

Look what's LIVE TODAY!
Loaded with awesome new products INCLUDING CHRISTMAS! Get a jump start on those cards and get last year's Christmas scrapbooked if you are like me and are nowhere's near caught up!!! LOL
Remember that VIP customers get loads of perks including 15% back in spending credit PLUS a FREE Stamp of the Month!

07/28/2023

CUT THE STRINGS…

I copied this from a friends post…

*the story…The first police officer reaches under the one-ton bale of hay and attempts to lift it off of me. Of course, it doesn’t budge. He grabs his flashlight and shines it under the hay into my face. I blink. He yells over his shoulder to his partner, “He’s alive! He’s alive! Help me move the hay.”
Even working together two officers can’t move it – not a fraction of an inch. A thousand pounds each? Of course they can’t move it.
“Cut the strings,” I whisper. My voice is weak. They can’t hear me.
I am not going to last much longer. If they will just cut the strings, the bale will break apart, and they can drag me out of here.
“Lift, Joe, lift!”
“Just cut the strings,” I mumble, “Please cut the strings.”
“C’mon harder.”
“It’s too heavy! We can’t lift it. We gotta go for help! Hang on Chad, we’ll be right back!”
I am alone again in the growing darkness. Wonderful painless, peaceful, irresistible sleep beckons. I struggle to remain conscious. One. Two. Three. Four… Where are they? How long does it take for police, fire, ambulance, to arrive? Where is the Coast Guard? Where are the Marines? Where is that one old farmer with enough common sense to just cut the strings?
The desert air grows chilly as the sky darkens. I grow weaker. Dizziness overcomes me and I begin to drift off into that gray space somewhere between the living and the dead.
Help finally arrives. One of the police officers bends down so I can see his face. “Hold on! A fire engine is here. There are six men aboard.”
I do the math. Two big, strong cops and six burly firemen must move a ton of dead weight off me. That’s two hundred forty five pounds each. No way can they possibly do that – but somehow, miraculously, they do. A couple of neighbors who have arrived at the scene stand by to catch me. They lower my limp body to the ground where I lie in a broken heap.
Why didn’t they cut the strings? They could have saved a long, tortured hour.
How heavy is hay? A piece of hay is about the weight of a feather. How many pieces of hay does it take to make two thousand pounds? Lots. That package of sixteen bazillion individual pieces of hay wrapped in a gigantic bundle is a crushing weight. But separated, it would have been nothing. I feel bad saying this, because it makes me sound ungrateful – and I am very grateful to the guys who saved my life that night – but there is a point to be made here, isn’t there?
Is it too big?
Is it overwhelming?
Cut the strings – just cut the strings!
Are you buried under crushing burdens? Projects that are too huge? Schedules that are too complicated? Maybe you are trying to do too much at once – trying to do everything instead of doing something.
Cut the strings and cut yourself free. Do one thing at a time – and get it Done. Move “out of the strain of the doing into the peace of the done.”