Scrapbook DooWop

Last summer Greg's parents came out for a visit to celebrate Dave's 60th birthday. Marcia had secretly bought him tickets to one of those DooWop reunion concerts (you see them on PBS sometimes) out in NJ. He was very surprised when he found out and they ended up having a great time at the concert. Well, after the concert Greg's mom handed me 2 ticket stubs, 2 programs, and a sheet of white printer paper with concert info on it and asked if I could "turn it into something" that could be hung on the wall in Dave's office. WOW! That is a tough request. They didn't have a camera that night so there was not a single photo and the memorabilia wasn't great either. So I put the stuff on a shelf and forgot about it.

I had finished all my shopping for Greg's family and found out one item I had ordered for Dave wasn't going to come in time for Christmas. I sat on the couch really annoyed trying to think of another option. Just then I remembered the concert memorabilia sitting on the shelf and thought I would try and "turn it in to something" as his Christmas gift. I finished it last night.
First thing I did was get on the trusty old Internet and found lots of stock photos of the bands that played that night. I tried to find an old and new photo of each. I printed them out in 1.5 inch sizes and began putting them together on the layout. The title mimics the title that was on the program (which I am going to stick in a pocket on the back of the frame with the white piece of paper). Greg helped me come up with some journalling, I labeled all the bands, attached the ticket stubs (after spraying them with archival mist), added some ribbon and painted the edge. I feel like it could use something else but it is going to be hung in a man's office so I didn't want to go too crazy with the embellishments.

I hope he likes it. I am going to swing by the frame shop today. It felt really good to scrapbook again. I am definitely going to do more of that over my Christmas break!