Sit back, relax, and listen

Bill and I are big fans of NPR programs including This American Life. When I saw this program was being offered with Sarah Vowell and David Rackoff - two of their best contributors - I had to get tickets.

The venue was the warmly appointed with rich woods. As I sorted through paper trying to figure out what to use, I came across this sheet that looks almost like the pattern for an old velour blanket.


I love the super chunky clear photo corners for placing programs on pages. I can also doo dad them up with pieces like this strip I cut from a spare program and backed up with some coordinating cardstock.

This was the one picture I took for the night. Just the stage before the show began. The pictures from the book covers is an idea I borrowed from Bill. He uses this for a lot of his pages and includes a signature page. This was one event, though, where we did not stay for signatures.

As I have indicated in other posts, I am a big fan of using images cut from programs. It's a great way to fill in the spaces.

Next weekend we will be heading for D.C. for a mini trip ahead, but I have a post ready to go. And, I hope to have my newest cards up and ready, too.

Time to Toot the Horn

After many months, I have decided to get back into the blogging, posting, card making, and scrap booking groove. To go along with that groove, I have decided to begin with a post for this page I put together for the Chris Botti concert we went to last September.

Since this was a live show on a stage with lots of production and it was being taped by PBS, I wanted some spotlights for the page. Since Quickutz didn't have a die or an image for the Silhouette of a spotlight, I found an image with 3 spotlights, cut out 3 with the Silhouette (I just love the outline feature!), and laid them side by side. Doesn't it make a great border?

I also used a couple of metal, brassy pieces I had been saving for... I don't know what. I guess this page exactly.

I wasn't really sure how to frame the pictures until I found some fantastic scraps of gold paper. To borrow from the color scheme of the page, I used some great ivory and black scraps to layer with the gold.

And this pic I took with the digital camera IS Sting, Josh Groban, and Chris Botti getting ready to perform Shape of My Heart. They had to do three times because they kept messing it up.

See you back next week for another post. And in two weeks I will post new cards to Etsy.

TTFN!