A few new layouts

The Counting Crows - The Tuesday Template challenge this week at Scrap Matters was to scrap your obsession. Well most who know me know I have quite a few obsessions. After much thought I decided on the Counting Crows. I *LOVE* the Counting Crows! They are by far my favorite band. I've seen them 7 times already and have tickets to see them again in August. The photos are from the concert last year in Grand Rapids. The trickiest part was getting a good photo of the CD to use since its reflective and the flash kept hitting it wrong. The photos are sort of blurry, but I really wanted to use my own photos instead of someone elses. The concert last year was so cool! It was a general admission at a ballpark where you could sit up in the stands or go down to the area by the stage. We sat up in the stands for most of it, but did go down to the stage area for a couple of songs. The lyrics on the side is from "Mr Jones" which is the song they were playing when I took the photos, which is also my favorite song. The best part of the concert was when he changed the one lyric from "symbolic" to "confused." Adam rules!!!

Credits:
-Gray (recolored) and aqua papers from "Cinnamon Breeze" by MGL Designs
-Ribbon from "Spring Reunion" by Sworda Scrappin
-Staples from "So Sunny" collab kit from Scrap Orchard / Sunshine Scrap Studios
-Paper clip, medium tear action, and distressed stamp action from Atomic Cupcake
-Template from Britt-ish Designs

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California Dreamin - At Scrap Matters on Wednesday night they had another speed scrap, which are always lots of fun, though at times confusing and frustrating. The hardest part was picking 3 patterned papers that all kind of coordinated with each other. I also struggled to think of a two word title since most of what I wanted to use were more than 2. I think it turned out pretty good. I used one of our pictures from our photopass CD that arrived last week. The photo was taken on our first day of our first visit.

Credits:
-Alpha and blue/yellow paper from "Who needs a Fairy Godmother" by Brittish Designs
-Staples from "Spellbound" by Ellie Lash
-Flower and Button from Atomic Cupcake
-Pink papers from "Spring Reunion" by Sworda Scrappin
-Dark blue, swirly paper from "Cinnamon Breeze" by MGL Scraps

I've also finished several layouts for the Confederate monuments at Gettysburg. I will try to get those uploaded tonight to post.