Spotted....Sign Please.....Smile Big.... Nashville Stars Kelsi Got to Meet :)

Day 1 in Nashville, TN for CMAfest and the Gary Allan Fan Club Party!!

It's a crazy town, full of neon dreams
Everybody plays, everybody sings
Hollywood with a touch of twang
To be a star you gotta bang, bang, bang

CrazyTown
Jason Aldean

We had a great week in Nashville in early June. We went for the Gary Allan Fan Club Party and CMAfest. The first activity of the week long country music festival was the City of Hope Celebrity Softball Challenge. Getting there a little early, we parked and really didn't know where to go since I had to go to will call to get our tickets that I had previously ordered, received and then promptly lost. I asked a parking attendant who, we later found out, pointed us in the wrong direction. The place we ended up, we find out pretty fast, is the place where the stars park and come in for the game. HMMMM....not a lot of people over there...maybe a crowd of about 40?? So we stand around a little while and see what happens.

After a few minutes...the country music artists start showing up...some in their cool sports cars, others in their jacked up trucks and some even came in their tour buses. We could see them drive up and get out and make their way over to where us and the others were standing around. Most graciously stopped for autographs, pictures and conversation. A few others would rush on in. We saw the Oak Ridge Boys rush on in to the stadium, as well as Jaron, the Band Perry, and a few others.

Here are the ones that Kelsi was able to meet, have them sign her hat and take a picture. Most stood around and talked, meeting each and every one that wanted a picture. Very impressed.

Julianne Hough--saw her play in the softball game and later in the week at a concert. Personally, I think she should stick to dancing. Her performance was a little much for country music..IMO.

Luke Bryan--very sweet and very cute!!

Chuck Wicks---signing her hat

Chuck Wicks....smile! :)

One of the Gloriana guys...loved his spiky bleach blond hair and tattoos.

Other Gloriana guy...signing her hat.

Other Gloriana guy...smile  :)

Another great...Craig Morgan...she actually ditched Justin Moore to go see Craig!! Met him at his truck as he was getting out. :)

Up and coming female artist...Mallory Hope

And saving the best for last....JASON ALDEAN.. signing her hat!!

And a great country boy smile! :))))

After doing all the meet/greets we went in and enjoyed a great entertaining celebrity softball game also including Carrie Underwood, Vince Gill, Joe Nichols, Melissa Peterman and many more!! We had great seats right behind home plate and look how cute that scoreboard is.

Leaving afterward, traffic was being re-routed to get keep traffic moving along, but it got us lost in downtown Nashville, as they directed us out a different way from the way we had gone in. But we obviously made it out alive after going the wrong way down a one way street. :)))

Disney Family Memories Mini Scrapbook Album

I am making some Disney memories mini scrapbook albums to sell on etsy to get some spending money for our upcoming Disney vacation this Christmas. I just completed a couple of new albums and wanted to share the instructions for the chipboard castle one.

I found this pdf printable of a castle from coloringcastle.com--I printed 4 copies:

Castle



I decided how I wanted to cut up the castle to made templates for 4 separate album pages.

 I made my templates, traced them onto chipboard and cut out my new castle shaped album pages:

 

I then covered all of the pages with black cardstock to serve as my background for the pages:

If you look closely you can see the brown chipboard edges, which bothered me--so I went around the edges with a sharpie--probably would be easier to do before covering with black cardstock.

Next--just gather all the supplies you want to embellish and accent your album--Since this was a Disney album, I stuck with a color scheme of black, white, red and little hints of yellow. I used patterned paper,  ribbons, stickers, stickles, tags, rub-ons, pop-dots, souffle pens, journalling spots....just anything you want to complete your album!! Tools used included: glue sticks, glue pens, ZIG pens, cutter bee pen , binder rings, scissors, chipboard, printer.

Complete each page to your liking and punch some holes along one edge and add some binder rings, accent ribbons and hangy thingies! and enjoy!

Here's my finished product:

I put clips on each one of the photo mats, that way all you have to do is slide your pic right under.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial on making your own shaped mini scrapbook albums!!

Here are some other albums also finished this week--all of these will be listed in my etsy store this week.

This is a cute little scalloped edged round pocket album.

 

 

 

 

A 5x7 simple album with just places to place pics and journalling tags tucked under the mats.

 

 

 

 

 

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