A to Z Challenge - 2020 - Frampton

"F" is for Frampton.  We've seen him twice at the Mountain Winery.  The first time was in 2010.  I scrapbooked these pages a while ago so I don't have the "how I did it" photos. 

The view from the top of the mountain is so pretty, although these photos don't do it justice.

I was lucky enough to get this picture of Peter waving to the crowd.  Almost looks like he is waving to me, no?

The most memorable thing about this show was the woman who was behind us dressed in a butterfly costume.  She went up on the walkway and danced, waving her "wings."

I did use a Lea France template (I think it was the Beach Umbrella) and wrote the set list around it.

Peter Frampton's son was playing with him that night.  

The last time we saw him was in 2016.  For this set I used a paper collection called Rhapsody from Paper Wishes.  

This collection also has some die cuts and tags that coordinate with it. 

I used a corner punch that looks like a flower for some of the pictures.

There was a notice at the entrance that said that Peter and the band requested limiting picture taking to the first three songs.  It was the first time we had seen something like that.  We had really good seats though!

I wanted to convey my dilemma so I used this stencil to make a double pointed arrow.  

Another Lea France stencil here, Rose Window.  

I love the way this one turned out with the paper design framing it.  I just added a few sparkle gems to the center of the flowers.  The guitar in the middle is from the drums.

I used one of the embellishments on this page.  It looks like an old cassette.  

The musical notes are Dazzles stickers. 

He had a pretty full set list.  

I used another stencil on this one.  Since they were limiting the picture taking, I thought this Say Cheese! would be appropriate because it is the shape of a camera. 

I added a "flash" and smile button.  The middle section is supposed to look like a lens shutter.  

Here is the finished set.  

At the time I know I was a bit disappointed with the limiting of the picture taking.  I did break the rules and take some during later songs and their final bow but I figured that the show was over so they wouldn't mind.  Given that we have been prohibited from taking them at all a couple of times, I'd rather have them limit it to a few songs than say no pictures period.  After all, the reason I take them is to be able to scrapbook the experience and I think this documents it pretty well, don't you? 

I believe Peter Frampton is one of the artists who have said they will not be touring anymore but given the state of affairs at the moment, maybe all those groups who said they were not going out on the road will be so bored having been in isolation that they'll change their minds!  We'll see. 

Okay, that's it for "F."  Tomorrow's "G" is going to be just a bit different.  Come see!

A to Z Challenge - 2020 - Daughtry

"D" is for Daughtry.  He is one of my new favorites, although the first time we saw him was in 2008 as the opening act for Bon Jovi, the band I used for "B" in 2017.  I knew he had been on "America's Got Talent" but I never watched that so I wasn't really familiar with him.  I only had a couple of pictures from that show and our seats were farther away so they are not the best.

The next time we saw Daughtry was nine years later and he was again an opening act, this time for Nickelback.  These pictures were better and I found some great paper to use.  Again from Paper Wishes but I can't remember the name of the collection.  I took all the papers out of the packaging and just have them on the shelf.     

I think the colors match our clothes so well.  We went with our friend, Lois, and her son but they were in the row ahead of us and to the side a bit.  I remembered to take a picture of the marquee on the way out.  Usually I get one on the way in but I think it looks cooler at night.  I'm using that as the title. 

I had picked up this template at one of the Scrapbook Expos.  I am so sad they had to cancel the Expo this year.  I had been on a scrapbook spending freeze so I could shop there and I'm having a bit of withdrawal symptoms.  The backing paper matched the colors on the other page so I left it.

It was easy just to slide the pictures in and I added some sparkly to the notes.

I had this stamp and it reminded me of the flower on the first page.  I stamped it on pink paper and then used a pen to color in the notes.

Kinda looks like it, don't you think?

Time for another stencil, this one is Beach Umbrella from Lea France.

I put the Set List in the middle.  He has quite a few new songs but also sang some old ones.  "Backbone" is a great one.  I added some black triangles around the frame to complete the design.  

I used blue and red triangles around the outside to fill this one in and make it match the paisley print on the page before.

Here is the finished product as it is in the album.

We've seen Daughtry two other times recently and I have much better pictures but I'm trying to fill the albums in order as best I can.  I know I'm going to have some empty pages to fill between some of these and I'm trying to figure out what to do with them.  Maybe I'll put a page in about the different venues we've been to.  

That's it for "D."  Make sure to stop by some of the other A to Z-ers and come back Monday for "E."  Can you guess who it might be? 

A to Z Challenge - 2019 - T is for Tools

For the letter "T" in the 10th Annual A to Z Challenge I am talking about tools.  Every good craftsperson has their tools.  My husband was a mechanic and he has a garage full of tool boxes with multiple varieties of tools.  The neighbors come by asking for this size wrench or that type screwdriver and he has them all.

I have my tools too.  Of course I have the standard pens, markers, scissors, ink, stamps, all that stuff.  I showed them a little bit in my post for the letter "S" last year when I talked about the Scrapbooking section of Michaels.  These are a few of my more specialized tools. 

The first is my Slice machine.  Many (most) people have the Cricut, Sizzix or a version of them to make their die cuts and alphabet letters.  The Slice machine came out about 10 years ago or so and I was so excited to get one.  It is a portable machine whereas some of the others are not.  I can use the Slice to cut out lots of different letters and shapes for almost any theme.  It comes with a design card that plugs into the machine.

Design cards

 Once the card is inserted you have lots of options to choose from.  I used this guitar to make the guitar embellishment I talked about yesterday in the "Special Order" CD Music mini.

It goes from 2 to 4 inches.

 Each card comes with a booklet that shows all the designs you can make.

 These are two journal tags I made using elements from the Slice design cards and then stamped some lines on them for the writing.

Unfortunately the company that made the Slice went out of business and the Slice is no longer supported by anyone.  I will be sad if something happens to mine.

We R Memory Keepers is a company that makes a lot of punch boards that you can use to make things as well.  This one makes envelopes, bows and boxes.  On the inside it tells you what size paper to use for whatever size envelope, bow or box you want to make and then just by punching the paper at certain points and then scoring and folding, you have your finished product.  I haven't used the bow or box feature much yet but the envelopes I use a lot with my cards.

This one makes different sizes of frames for pictures or whatever. 

 This one makes party favor bags.  I made the orange one below.

 I have a lot of regular punches too.  Some are to punch things like flowers or leaves and some are border punches to use for making pretty borders on the page or edges on cards.

This one will take a 6 inch piece of paper and turn the edges into really detailed finishes.

This is another type of border maker from Creative Memories.  I am a consultant for them so of course I have to try out the product, right?  Next to it are two sticker makers.  You put small pictures or embellishments through them and they turn them into stickers.  

Sticker makers

Another tool I use a lot, mainly in my scrapbooking, is the stencils from Lea France.  Creative Memories just started making some too.  These stencils allow you to put a lot of pictures on one page.  I showed some examples of how I used them two years ago in the A to Z when I showcased my concert scrapbook album.  Check A for Adele.  I just got the one called "Cruise" and I'm looking forward to using that one!

 Of course there is the Fairy Tales castle!  How cool to use that for pictures of a Disneyland vacation!

The last example of tools I'll show are the templates from Paper Wishes that I used to make the gift card holders I talked about in the letter "G."  

This one made the Christmas holders

This one made the ice cream and mug holders

Those are some of my tools.  Do you use special tools in your work?  Is there a scrapbooking tool you think I NEED to try?  Lemme know.  

Quick aside, using the "tools" on WP I see I have at this moment 146 "followers" on my Word Press version of this blog and 23 on Blogger.  Can I get to 150 and 25 before the end of the A to Z?  Hope you come back tomorrow for the letter "U."