Version Scrap - #PATwits on tour!

I've just got home from four days in Paris with my good twitter/blog friends Sam, Emma and Lin.   We were lucky enough to get tickets to go to the Version Scrap show in Paris and decided also to sign up for a class whilst we were there... Warning - picture heavy post (one of many!) ... the photos of Paris itself will appear over the next few days on my photosbyh blog (link to the right, click the fountain picture)  but this post is about the Version Scrap show and our class.  The show starts properly on the Friday but has a "VIP" night on Thursday,and we were kindly given tickets to that by Leandra.

 We walked through this pretty park (Parc de Florel) to the venue for Version Scrap though on the show days proper, there is a little "noddy train" that takes you up the road from the Metro stop.

where we found some familiar faces!











it was lovely to meet Sally, in the middle here, from twitter - she lives in France and goes along as interpreter for Lin and Leandra.

Leandra and Lin both working hard away!

The stands are beautifully set out, they seem to take so much more trouble than here.  (Read the Paperartsy review  here)

 Lin off on a shopping mission!!

  I think I surprised her with this one, lol!!

 You can't actually see from this very well, but these are all hung on a sort of tree...

 lovely!

 and there are huge pieces of artwork on display - they were fantastic!

On the Friday, we went back to the show, where we spent 3 inky painty messy hours doing a tag class taken by Birgit Koopsen   Here we are setting up our spaces..

 I can't get this the right way round, even though it is rotated in my pc!!  As you can see, even away from home I make a mess quick!!  These inks we used were fabulous!

 and look, Sam journalling!!  (admittedly, only mopping up some spare ink in a little journal Emma had bought, but hey, it's journalling!)

PATwits - the 4 of us and Linda and Christine standing, thanks to class teacher Birgit for taking this one!

 and then it would have been rude not to shop !! - gorgeous 12x12 papers

 stencils (and class kit to the left - unfinished yet, so I haven't taken it out of the bag!)

 those are the inks we used... stamps, another stencil (Memory box) and some glass pebbles on the red mesh bag.

 some wooden bits and pieces - Lin and I both loved the book with the flexible spine.

and some bits from Paperartsy - ATC cards, Paris ones, fabulous! flowers, little birds, oh and more flowers!

I don't go back to work till Tuesday so will try and blog some of the sights we saw round Paris tomorrow...

I highly recommend Version Scrap if you ever go to Paris in April (which I also recommend!!)