Lionel Richie has been one of my favorites for a long time. As he says in his act, he's got a song for just about every emotion you can have. I've listened to him when I was happy and when I was sad. I've danced to his songs and cried to his songs. This is from the time we saw him in 2013. We saw him again in 2017 and Mariah Carey was his opening act. I wasn't impressed with her, but Lionel was great again.
For the 2013 pictures I went with a set of papers called "Rugged" from Creative Memories with a couple of extras thrown in. I liked the rough edges and the colors went well with the pictures.
Driving in to the SAP Center we saw the moon. You know how I am about that thing! We had seats 10 rows back from the stage. Almost the closest we've ever had at that venue. We got some pretty decent chicken strips to share for dinner before the show. Also, if you look closely you can see the blue gum in my mouth. I should at least remember to chew white mint if I'm gonna open my mouth with that smile!
I used the Rose Window stencil again.
I used some of the leftover pieces to fill in the blanks.
I'm not sure if I'm finished with this page for good but it came out okay so far.
Here's the set list. 26 songs and he could have gone on longer! He mixed in some Commodore songs with his own.
How about some "Dancing on the Ceiling?"
Well that's the letter "R." Do you like Lionel? Have a favorite song? Mine is "Lady" which he actually sang with the Commodores. Hopefully I'll see you tomorrow!
ELO is my contribution for the letter "E" this year. It is another one of those bands that I kind of forget about until I hear the music and then realize I love the songs!
For this set of pages I decided to go with a watercolor collection because I knew the pictures were going to be very colorful on their own and I didn't want the background pattern to take away from that. This is a pack of paper I got from Michaels.
I also went through the rest of my papers and found one or two that would coordinate.
It is the "Electric Light Orchestra" and when I found this purple and yellow paper it reminded me of the flashing lights.
I used some glitter letters for the title and then went around the border with some Stickles glitter.
The opening act was Dhani Harrison and we were hoping that he would sing some of his father's songs but he did not. The performance he did with Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty and Prince of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is just fantastic and that would have been our pick. He does look like his dad, although I had a hard time getting a good picture without the microphone in front of his face! He did come out during Jeff Lynne's set and sing a song from the Traveling Wilbury's, "Handle With Care."
I decided to use this punch to trim the edges of the pictures. I think it carries the theme of the light show with the color of the papers showing through.
I used a lot of Dazzles stickers and some paper accents to finish up the pages.
Check out those flying drumsticks!
Although sometimes it is a sad one, I do agree that life is a song to be sung.
The light show was absolutely amazing and the colors were gorgeous.
I put some beaded bling across the top of this page. It's hard to tell but it is purple and green. See how the lights kind of look like bubbles to match the punched corners?
I thought this flowered gem went great on this page.
The tickets were on our phones so I took a screenshot of it. Since it has the time, 8:40 PM, that was another way to document the night. I even did a printout of the seating chart. I put a little blue line where our seats were in Section 1.
Definitely went into my bling stash a lot. That's another benefit, I guess, of not being able to go shopping during this time. I am using a lot of supplies that I have had around for a long time.
I like this stencil of the musical notes and I am trying to put something different in each layout so I used it here.
Came out pretty good, don't you think?
Bonus is that the page itself has some smudgy images so if I had made a mistake with the stencil you probably wouldn't be able to tell! (I didn't!)
Even though I don't always like my own handwriting, I wrote the setlist out. I'm okay with it.
Managed to get them taking their bow and used some washi tape under it.
Here are the spreads as they look in the album.
A bit of the light show from "Shine a Little Love." I have seen them give a warning to people who might be affected by flashing lights such as epileptics so if that might be you, don't watch please. I wouldn't want to be responsible for anyone passing out.
Here is "Telephone Line."
All music rights to Jeff Lynne and ELO of course.
It was a great show! And so we begin our second week of the A to Z. Are you having fun? Have you seen ELO? Do flashing lights bother you? See you tomorrow with "F."
"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?
Driving in to the SAP Center we saw the moon. You know how I am about that thing! We had seats 10 rows back from the stage. Almost the closest we've ever had at that venue. We got some pretty decent chicken strips to share for dinner before the show. Also, if you look closely you can see the blue gum in my mouth. I should at least remember to chew white mint if I'm gonna open my mouth with that smile! 
