Scrapbook crop
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Additional Crop ideas
As an avid scrapbooker, I love to crop! All of the ideas I have read are great! A few suggestions I may add... If the space is donated and the food is supplied by committee members or donated as well, then cost is none existant. Be sure to let everyone know that the registration fees and proceeds collected are going to ACS's Relay and perhaps share your reason that you Relay. You can sell 50/50 chance tickets (50% of the ticket money is the prize, the other 50% is donated to Relay). You can also have a silent auction of items donated by local Creative Memories/Stampin' Up/etc reps. Be sure to ask them to invite their clients and friends. If you have a large hall, such as a church fellowship hall, and more space than croppers--invite other crafters to join in the cause. A quilter could bring her supplies and enjoy th e fun while helping raise money for Relay. THe Bake sale during the crop is a great idea, perhaps have the croppers bring their favorite goodie to add to the table and that makes it that the committee isn't doing all of the work. Remember to have fun and all will go well! My last crop raised over $600 Hosting a crop
Hosting a crop is not difficult. The hardest part is finding a site to have it at. I do them all the time. Just had one for the 3 Day and raised $2000. We charged $35 a person, it was a 12 hr event, fed them a light breakfast, lunch and dinner. I invited popular home party vendors ie.. creative memories, stampin up, close to my heart to set up booths. I ask them to pay the same crop fee and give us a gift to raffle off. I also ask that they help advertise. We had 54 people attend our event. It was great. Your relay team could donate the food nothing complicated, people don't want to eat heavy just something that tastes good. The big concern when finding a location is table space and lighting. You should try to give people 4ft of crop space and make sure the room is bright. Try your local school district, we use our High School cafeteria, my husband teaches there. I'll answer any other questions you might have. It's scarey the first time but sooo much fun. Go for it and good luck! Cindy  Breast Cancer Scrapbook Supplies
I haven't hosted a crop before but I did see some really cute Breast Cancer Awareness scrapbooking supplies on www.orientaltrading.com They have pink ribbon brads and a whole Breast Cancer kit with paper, stickers, buttons, brads, ribbons and die cuts. These would be a nice tie-in to be sold or raffled off at a crop.  Scrapbook
Hi, We did our second scrapbook fundraiser this past weekend. It was Sat 10am-5pm. Tickets were$15 for a table and lunch. (Three different types of soups and bread to go with the cold Michigan weather) We also had a bake sale at the event so that when people go the munchies the could buy goodies and pop/water for $0.50 each. We had quick bread that went over really well before lunch. An of the items not sold were brought to a team members work where the rest sold in no time at all. Everyone who preregistered and paid was given 2 entries in our our door prize. Everyone else had 1 entry. Team member collected items for the door prize. Good Luck! Scrapbook Crop
My team will be doing our 6th crop on the 4th of April. We do 1 in the Spring and 1 in the fall. At this point we only do 1 night but in the future we might move it to a Friday/Saturday crop. We actually have some local consultants with Creative Memories, Memory Works and Top Line Creations that come in as vendors and have cash and carry items for the scrappers that evening. The vendors donate a portion of their proceeds from the cash and carry items and orders placed that evening. We get donations from local businesses for food and door prizes. We put together gift bags for each of the attendee's that we give them at registration. We try to hold the event at a church or other location that we can get for free so that we don't have to pay for room rental. We did have problems for a couple of crops because we didn't have the best lighting. We have remedied that and now have a big bright space. Because we get so many donation and some of the team members donate items we have been able to give ALL of our proceeds to Relay. The last few crops we have actually come up with a theme that we try to carry throughout the event - ex. Crazy for 13 which we held on Friday the 13th; we ran from 5:13 PM - 12:13 AM; we did door prize drawing at 13 minutes after the hour; we had 13 items in their gift bags; etc. We have had good response and people seem to like the theme idea. Our events started out pretty small (just a few outside attendee's besides our committee) but we are now up to over 20 people. We acually liked starting out small because we could find out what was working and not working for us. Hope this helps you. Lisa |
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