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Coffee & Nib-bles / Scrapbook Expo
« on: June 13, 2015, 08:09:41 PM »
So I found out that there was a scrapbook expo being held about 10min away from where I live now (moved in a month ago). I'm not actually a scrapbooker, but they use A LOT of the same supplies and techniques that we, as calligraphers could use to go along with our calligraphy like making cards and envelopes, so I figured it would be fun to go, and I could pick up some patterned paper at the very least to use with envelopes since I started doing those pretty recently.
IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. And I just really wanted to share my experience with you all on here.
I stayed the entire expo from 8:30a when the workshop I’d paid for started to 5:00p closing. It was the most conversation I have had since I graduated and moved to the new apartment. I learned A LOT since I’ve really only just started to expand into paper-crafting type things and there’s a lot of techniques that I wasn’t even aware about.
Other than the buttons, these are all the things I either made myself or were demoed for me and I was allowed to keep the demo piece. The apon in the bottom left is from the workshop which was about shading with copic markers. The apron itself is actually a vinyl sticker. I also made the cards in the upper left corner and lower right corner, and I made painted water color pot in the center. Other than the apron from my class all of these items were completely free.
These are all the ‘supplies’ that I got for free. The apron card kit, the three copics, and one of the sheets of stickers came with the workshop. The additional sheets and the glitter paper was an extra raffled prize at the end of the workshop that I won. The pencil and stick of glue was given simply as part of going to the expo. The stamps were being given when you did the ‘make-and-take’ for the card I made using two of them above.
This is everything I bought. As you can see I ended up with a lot of paper, haha. Most of those sheets are double-sided too so there are twice as many designs as you can actually see in the image. I more than doubled the amount of washi tape I owned as well. Picked up some adhesive that I never knew was so useful until this event. And some sparkle pens I’d already been eyeing online so I just went ahead and got them.
And finally a picture of my total haul altogether! It was just a really wonderful experience altogether.
IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. And I just really wanted to share my experience with you all on here.
I stayed the entire expo from 8:30a when the workshop I’d paid for started to 5:00p closing. It was the most conversation I have had since I graduated and moved to the new apartment. I learned A LOT since I’ve really only just started to expand into paper-crafting type things and there’s a lot of techniques that I wasn’t even aware about.
Other than the buttons, these are all the things I either made myself or were demoed for me and I was allowed to keep the demo piece. The apon in the bottom left is from the workshop which was about shading with copic markers. The apron itself is actually a vinyl sticker. I also made the cards in the upper left corner and lower right corner, and I made painted water color pot in the center. Other than the apron from my class all of these items were completely free.
These are all the ‘supplies’ that I got for free. The apron card kit, the three copics, and one of the sheets of stickers came with the workshop. The additional sheets and the glitter paper was an extra raffled prize at the end of the workshop that I won. The pencil and stick of glue was given simply as part of going to the expo. The stamps were being given when you did the ‘make-and-take’ for the card I made using two of them above.
This is everything I bought. As you can see I ended up with a lot of paper, haha. Most of those sheets are double-sided too so there are twice as many designs as you can actually see in the image. I more than doubled the amount of washi tape I owned as well. Picked up some adhesive that I never knew was so useful until this event. And some sparkle pens I’d already been eyeing online so I just went ahead and got them.
And finally a picture of my total haul altogether! It was just a really wonderful experience altogether.