Showing posts with label meeting American Idol contestants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meeting American Idol contestants. Show all posts

Thursday, September 10, 2009

American Idol autograph book

Every year I go and see the American Idol tour and every year my friend, Paula, and I spend time trying to meet them. It takes effort and pre-plannnig but we usually manage to be in the right place at the right time. Last year we took one of the Close to my Heart accordian albums, a blank one, for the Idols to sign. It worked okay except the Idols signed it every which way and when I later scrapbooked it the autographs were upside down and right side up and just didn't look as readable as I'd hoped. This time Paula and I decided to make the book ahead of time leaving the perfect spaces for the Idols to sign. We were lucky enough to get 9 out of 10 Idol autographs. It's not Close to my Heart paper in case you're wondering. Here's the title page. There are 10 Idols and only 8 pages so we had to squeeze a few together on the pages.

On the left page was supposed to be Megan's along with Allison and I totally forgot to put it on. Megan signed anyway on the upper left, Allison right on the journaling block. Matt (my fellow Western Michigan University alumni) is on the right. He was very popular at the show being a Michigan guy.

Anoop was the only one who didn't sign. He came out only briefly and never made it down to where we were standing. Michael signed next to his picture. Adam Lambert was most obviously the favorite at the show and after as was in evidence when a herd of people shoved their way through the very thick bushes behind me when Adam came near. I was most thrilled with meeting him myself and was more than pleased when he looked at my book then up at me and said, "that's neat."

Danny was the person who I voted for the most (along with Matt). I liked his voice and his story. He came out to see us during the day (we were at the arena from 2:30 in the afternoon to about 1:30 in the early morning). I was very excited to meet him. There's a picture of Paula and Danny down below the album pictures that turned out just excellent.

Lil and Scott signed very close to each other but I could make it out. The winner of American Idol, Kris, signed the last page of the book. He was very cute and very sweet.

Here's Michael and me, early in the day.

The best photo, Danny and Paula, what a great time we had!

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Framed

I did a workshop last week where we made a layout and framed it. This particular version was inspired by a piece of artwork I saw on a Close to my Heart bulletin board but I can't remember the name of the artist. If anyone recognizes the idea, please let me know her name. In the meantime, here's my friend, Paula and David Archuletta from American Idol. Paula and I go and try and get autographs at the Idol show every year, we've had great luck having met twelve idols so far. This is a great way to display your layouts too! Workshops are a great way to get some scrapbooking or card-making done without having to find the time in your own home. If you are interested in having a workshop in your home and you live in the southwest Michigan area, send me an email and we can set one up for you. caldreamin05@comcast.net

I just got a chance to take a picture of another one of the frames we made at the workshop last weekend. This is using More to Adore paper (above was Back Country) but the same basic layout, the stamp set is Extreme Happiness. You can also add ribbons around the frame, just slip a long piece of ribbon (or two) between the frame and the glass before closing it up in back, tie a bow (or two) and trim the ends. This is my sister and myself a few years back.