Scrapbook Expo Weekend

Had a fantastic weekend! Lots of great classes as well as SHOPPING!!!! Lets start with the classes... As always, I am the teacher's pet. So I have nothing made... just the kits...
1. SEI's An Irresistibly Intriguing...
"Vacation/travel" layouts, recieved a kit to make 6 layouts (3 two page layouts), all three were very similiar but with different themes (travel by ship, travel by car, travel by plane). You learned to create a pocket where you pull the journaling out and the die cut also moves. Cute.

2. Quick Quotes's Hang It Up
Made a 16x20 canvas to hang up. As always, I *heart* Quick Quotes! We worked with this neat paint. It is a metallic color. Very pretty, need to go out and buy it (Michael's here I come!)

3. GCD's 6 pages in 60 minutes
The class managed to make all six pages. Very simplistic, perfect for beginners. The paper's were very pretty. I like some of the embellishments that was used.

4. Quick Quote's Magic Moments
Made layouts, forgot how many... I think four? I could be wrong. But it was cute. :-)

5. SEI's Expanding Album
You basically took their 12x12 album in a box and expand upon it by adding extra goodies and changing layouts around. You added extra pockets on the outside of the page protector. I like this because it teaches people to take something that is "pre-made" and be creative by adding more to it. Get people out of their bubble.

6. Basic Grey's June Bug
Basic Grey always have cute papers! For this class, we several layouts. We had to cut a pattern paper to create embellishments for a solid pattern paper. The layouts were cute. I believe this was the instructors first time teaching this class...or overall.... during this class we had a battle of the speakers.. *sarcasim* joy...

7. Basic Grey's Lemonade Live with Intensions
Cute mini album... just a repeat of the same layout using different pattern papers on each page.

8&9. Outdoors and More Co.'s Oh Baby Girl & Oh Baby Boy
Two seperate classes... but similar concept. Using those chipboard letter mini-album. For each class you get two sets of chipboard letter album. One for baby and one for child. The class was very small....

10. Tatter Angel's Journey Travel Album
Made a mini album and learned techniques for Gimmer Mist. Also got to see Glimmer Glam in person. Liz got an ELMO (a document camera) for the projector so she was able to demo and project for all to see. Glad she did because it was so hard for her to teach and people in the back can't see.

Overall, the classes weren't that bad. The location, as always, sucked. Most of the classrooms were outside in tent. And it was cold!

Shopping was extremly awesome! LOTS and LOTS of deals and discount EVERYWHERE!!! Got this huge pack stuffed with over a hundered dollars worth of goodies from MAMBI for only $12... so I bought two. Got a bunch of Marah Johnsons' metal embellishments in the dollar booth. There was this booth called The Button Farm, that sold the mose BEAUTIFUL mini-albums project kits. I wanted to get a few but could not afford it, so I only bought one for now. Found some neat hunting and shooting stickers and die-cuts. Bought this kit to make a really neat necklace, using glass squares. Yes I could've probably used Tim Holtz's version, but these were thicker.

The food was horrible. Parking sucked. People who don't know how to park....suck.

Next thing to look foward to... CHA! Woohoo! I will be attending part of Friday and a little bit on Saturday (will be doing a Copic Certification class all day).

After doing teacher's pet for so long... I know just about everything.... I would like to eventually teach. But for now, teacher's pet it is... but darn it! People are slowly buy surely starting to figure out how to sign up when the window opens....