great american scrapbook convention

the first weekend in june was the great american scrapbook convention in arlington.
i hadn't been in a few years, but this year i met some of my friends from waco and we spent all day saturday shopping, laughing and crafting.

this picture, taken by a nice guy who happen to be there, was a little over(or is that under?) exposed. but i liked the way it looked, so i darkened it a little and used it anyway!

i don't know if i was really supposed to be taking pictures or not (some booths are funny about that. you would think they would want you to take a picture of their product so you would be more inclined to by every little thing they used in the laoyout?!) but seeing as i bought so much from this booth i felt justified in taking a picture of this cute layout.

to despise birds so much in real life, i sure do like them on scrapbooking paper! i bought most all of this cute birdy stuff.

we even got to see tim holtz himself--the ranger booth was so cool and he is just an amazing artist!

that afternoon, we took a class making a clear, acrylic album.
here's all our supplies waiting to be used.

we got there early and had time to take a few pictures.

jennifer, kathy, sheri, me

another one i thought was kind of cool

here the girls are working away

and here i am

here's the finished project!
i thought it turned out really cute and it was pretty easy to do.
i will definitely be making more of these in the future.

here's most everything i got--so fun to see new products!

and i'm so proud of myself. i bought a card kit from basic grey and i actually got everything out and made all the cards one night recently. there was enough left over to make 2 or 3 extra cards.
i wish i had bought every card kit they had, but i loved the colors of this one.
here are some of the cards it made:

that was our fun saturday at the scrapbook convention.
now i just have to use all this stuff before next june!

have a great day--i'm off to buy groceries!