Music and Scrapbook Pages - Part 4 - Sarah McLachlan

While I admit that not much out there could possibly be better than chocolate - PUH-lease!! - Sarah McLachlan did sing her song "Ice Cream" at this concert with the great line "your love is better than chocolate." This is exactly how I feel about my guy.


Still - I think it's time for a chocolate break RIGHT NOW! Nummies!

My favorites...

Godiva - anything with caramel or more chocolate AND the hot chocolate mixes - WOW!
Cadbury - Caramellos and Fruit & Nut bars - so creamy!
Max Brenner - introduced to by a friend while visiting NYC - walking into the store is like walking into a chocolate cloud - I love the caramelized pecans rolled in praline paste and fine cocoa powder - sigh...


Now - back to the page... Since I bought the tickets online, I was able to get them "delivered" as pdf files and print them from home. I cut the ticket part of the print out to use for the page. And, since it was a print out anyway, I didn't have a problem embellishing over the tickets with rub ons, stickers, and a heat-embossed image.

Bill - my guy - chose the paper - it's this great swirling paper with a chocolate-colored background - the swirls themselves are made with tiny dots. Just whimsical enough!

Another "we sat here" locator - Bill usually finds and creates these things for the pages. And, since the opening act was good, too, she got a spot.

I spelled out Sarah's name using this great set of alphabet stickers. I have a real problem using up my alphabet stickers - what if I'll need "that" letter for something else? So, I have lots of unused sets of alphabet stickers.

One other touch I included for this page - I copied, pasted, manipulated, printed, cut out some of her album covers. Just another set of embellishments made with the help of the internet! Woo hoo!

I hope to get the next post up in a couple of days.

Warning!! You may get Spaced out! ;)

Music and Scrapbook Pages - Part 3 - Seasons of Love

The last post pretty much closed 2003 for us - our 1st year living in Boston. So, when my mom comes to visit, I take her to NYC to see RENT!! She surprised me with the letters - the page just wouldn't be the same without them.

Since we were keeping the playbill and event brochures for everything - HINT: USUALLY CONTAIN EXCELLENT EMBELLISHMENTS!! - I had to have a way to keep the material on the page without ruining it. I found these large-size photo corners. I recently ran out and can only find jumbo photo corners. But, aren't they great?!

There is quite a bit to show you on this page. I think I first used ink embossing here - and all three colors I had - I used a great big staff music stamp and overlapped silver, pewter, and gold embossing, then proceeded to create the page. I also used theatre-themed stickers and Quickutz music notes - oh - and pop dots on the music note!

You may also notice the red square in the bottom left corner - that's the narrative for this page. Just some details about the event and other tidbits. It's another thing we try to do for each page. A fun way to remember little details.

The next page will be "better than chocolate".

Music and Scrapbook Pages - Part 2 - "At The Zoo"

Okay - I admit - this entry has nothing whatsoever to do with the zoo. But it has everything to do with Simon and Garfunkel! This was the 3rd ever scrapbook page I created. I started with the paper - I gave my guy a few options, and he selected this great diagonal stripe.

When The Fleet Center in Boston was still the Fleet Center (it's now called TD Banknorth Gardens - or The Gardens), I heard about the Simon and Garfunkel tour. I spent my 15-minute morning break at work trying to get the best seats I could from Ticket Master the day tickets became available.

The price was high - can you see it in the picture? - but worth it!

And what a treat, too - The Everly Brothers joined them on stage and did a 4- or 5-song set - by themselves and with S&G!

Nothing pops up on this page. I didn't even know pop dots existed. I didn't know a lot of things existed out there, yet. But, to embellish, I found the great "Feelin' Groovy" sticker. I also wanted a way to list the songs they performed without just printing and gluing standard list. I created text boxes in MS Word to include about 3 songs each. (I found a song list from the concert online - I don't have that good of a memory.) I printed out my page of boxes onto a letter-size sheet of label paper. (I think Avery actually has rebranded some of their label paper as sticker paper - same stuff but more expensive!)

The pictures of S&G and the Everly Brothers I found online.

To wrap up our scrapbook moment, we began a tradition we continue (although we aren't very consistent) to this day... We document the location AND where we sat. Here, we have a picture of the Fleet Center in the upper right corner of the page. And above, next to the tickets, you can see a seating chart with an arrow and a dot showing "We Were Here".

And - well - they did perform "At the Zoo" afterall.

Be sure to come back tomorrow for 525,600 great ideas!!

Music and Scrapbook Pages - Part 1

Today, we went to a Handel and Haydn Society program at Boston's Symphony Hall - so no scrapbooking... But, I had an idea to post scrapbook pages to commemorate past musical events. Be sure to return to this site over the next few days to see these pages - some made by me - others by my guy.

I can't wait to share these experiences and the creative results.

Thank you.

KittyKards

I am inspired by my mom, encouraged by my husband, and supported by both to begin this blog. While I have a full-time job that requires sporadic travelling, whatever free time I can manage to scrape together goes into card making and scrapbooking. Even when I travel, I can occassionally manage to create two or three cards (like the one below) on the road from my extremely stuffed scrapping travel bag.

You can check out my wares at my kittykards6473 store site on etsy.com.

My inspiration... mom... You should definitely check out her blogspace AND her creativity at her online studiobeecreations shop at etsy.com.

My encouragement... and heart of hearts... and closet scrapper... my guy... He is SOOO supportive. And creative, too. He helped me design this card by drawing the truck using the draw function in MS Word. Believe it! How talented is that?!

There are so many wonderful things I can say about these two rocks in my life. I look forward to sharing with you in future postings.