Brisbane Scrapbooking and Papercraft Expo - Part 2

Hi, I hope all is well with you and yours. A cool winters morning here in New South Wales and especially in our little part of it, here in Dorrigo. Sun is out but the wind makes it cool!

As promised here is part 2 of my Brisbane Expo experience.

The images I am going to share are from the third and last class that I took on Sunday 10th June.
In summary I would say that I was a little disappointed with this class. Please don't think I am being a grouch! We were all provided with a pack which included images of the 3 cards we were to make as well as instructions and all the ingredients (which were not too generous I remember thinking!).

Basically we were told to get on with it and if we had questions to ask. When asking about the stamps we were to use we were pointed to a table at the front of the room and that was about as much teaching input that was provided. To be fair the facilitator (as I will now call her) did say it was not her style to guide us through the process "step-by-step" as people, she said, work at different rates. Which is true!

With that said and my mini catharsis over, I and a few others decided to make the most of this time together and enjoy making the 3 cards. Here are the 3 cards I produced.

Card Number ONE:

This card encouraged you to use the technique of tearing. Ideally we were told this was a great way of using up scraps of paper. As this isn't a usual technique for me it was good to give it a try.

The 12 x 12 papers we used were from Echo Park and the set was "Victoria Gardens".

The supplies were provided by Craft Queen Australia.

Card Number TWO:

This card showed me how to mix and match different types of ribbon and braid. Included is Ric Rac (which I cannot find on their website?) Pink Paper ribbon, elastic lace, rosette ribbon, gingham and seam binding.

I really like the pearl ribbon, great for the centres of hand made flowers I was thinking.
It comes in two sizes in both white and cream.

Card Number THREE:

This card I was the least happiest with, in part because we ran out of ingredient particularly the Green gingham.

I have since shortened the bunting flags so you don't see the spaces.













I show below what I can find on their site at Craft Queen Australia and alternative supplies for other ingredients for this post:

I hope you got a bit of inspiration from these cards. I took several lessons form my class.
- Try something different - get out of the comfort zone
- Use left overs in your stash to great effect
- It's lovely to meet and sit with other crafters as we all seem to giggle and have a great deal of fun!

Thanks for popping back in today. I have some other cards made up so I will start to share those as well.

Scrapbooking & Papercraft Expo - Brisbane 9 - 11th June 2012

It's been a while since my last post and I have had a ball in the meantime (also work too!).
The wallet is looking a bit sick and my stash has grown proportionally. More on that later. In this post there is a lot of chat and then some pictures. So grab a cuppa and put your feet up for a few minutes for a read.

So what happened?
We decided to make a long weekend of it. Here in Australia it was the Queen's Birthday Long Weekend so the timing fitted admirably with our plans! On Friday 8th we decided to go to the Cinema to set ourselves in the mood - we went to see Prometheus - Yikes! It was a great movie, I only embarrassed my dear and patient husband Frits once, by leaping out of my seat noisily in alarm, so as movies go - not bad at all!

We then set off for Brisbane. Australia is a big place, so we "broke the back" of the 6 1/2 hour journey and stayed in a lovely little Motel for the night. Saturday we were up early with a lovely home cooked breakfast and then very soon on the road.

We had booked a Hotel in Toowong (suburb of Brisbane) so decided to call in and leave our gear somewhere else other than the car. We were delighted to find our room was ready so we immediately were able to take cases up to our room and not have to leave them with the concierge. Lovely.

Next was the Exhibition and Conference Centre. The venue was easy to find and we were able to take a train there. The WOW WOW WOW! It was packed . We had got there at about 11.30am, doors opened at 9.00am. Frits noted that he was the only male within the visible vicinity (he loved it as all the ladies made a fuss of him). The plan was to make an initial reconnoitre and get a feel of the layout as well as discover where my classes would be held the next day. Well I did a bit, but when you see something you like/want/need/desire/couldn't live without - you just have to get it! And I did! Some lovely papers, more COPICS, stamps, some really great mists, flowers, dies, ribbon, glue and so on and so on.

OK now some pictures.
I did Three classes on Sunday 10th June.
The first was an Introduction to the basics of using COPICS.  I was thrilled to meet Kathy Jones. Who I am sure thinks I am stalking her. She is a favourite of mine and someone who inspires me. She has done some great pieces for some of the well known crafting magazines here in Australia and internationally.

We made a Marci Tag and got some REALLY great info on where to start, different techniques we can use, how to choose which Copics to buy as well as the unique colouring numbering system. The coolest thing for me was to understand (and practice) how to go about colouring skin as well as blending colours.

Kathy was really great and VERY patient despite being in recovery from poor health just recently.

The second class was equally FANTASTIC. We were with Mandi-lee Klinger. She was excellent, good fun, loads of energy and lots of patience too. This time we made a Marci easel card as part of our Copic Learning journey.

I don't know the Design paper we used as it was pre-cut in little kits for us to assemble.

Wow! Copics colour almost any thing. Bling, Pearls, Ribbon - -  even Hair. Mine got  a nice vibrant purple highlight by Mandi-Lee!

In addition to different techniques we also learnt about shading and using the W1 & W3 colours.

Here is a side view of the easel card I made.

Here is Marci from La La Land stamps herself.


















OK. I think I will stop here for now as this is turning into a really Looooong post. I will do another quickie post a little later showing you the cards I made from my last class at the Brisbane Expo.

Thanks for stopping by I really appreciate your comments and feedback!