Buttons, brads, trinkets and Nickelback!

Let me start off by saying this is going to be a very picture heavy post!

Today's layout was done for a focus on buttons, brads and trinkets and I chose to use the new Powder Mountain range which is is just gorgeous!  I love all the wood textures and silhouettes in this line which make it work perfectly for older kids winter layouts.  I can't wait to use it for some more updated photos of the kids sledding!

I love stitching on layouts and I have done loads of stitching on this one, around the edges, the photos, on the 'snow' and to hang my snowflake. 

To make my 'snow' I wet some white cardstock, scrunched it up then straightened it out and dried it with a heat gun.  I then used my sewing machine to stitch wavy lines all over it and stitch it to the page.

I used an Ek Success bubbles edge punch around the edge of the page and then used some of the punched out circles to scatter around the page for some random snow flakes.

 Supply List :
Patterned Paper: Words, Scarf/Powder Mountain
Cardstock : Buttercup Vintage Paper
Stickers : Combo Sticker; Dimensional Stickers/Powder Mountain
Brads : Powder Mountain
Buttons : Powder Mountain
Jewels : Powder Mountain
Chipboard : Powder Mountain Layered Chipboard
Trinket : Enchanted Trinkets

Punches : Ek Success Bubbles edge punch; Martha Stewart Iron Gate edge punch

We went to our Nickelback concert recently and can I just say WOW, WOW, WOW!  I have been to quite a few concerts at this stage and this was the best one yet, even Paul said it was brilliant and he isn't a huge Nickelback fan and mostly only went for my sake.  The sound was amazing, crystal clear and let me tell you Chad's voice is as good live as it is on cd and there are not that many bands that can say that!  The opening act was Daughtry who I also really like and they were really good too.  Here are a couple of Daughtry photos :)

 

 These are a few of the Nickelback photos.  This first close up one I took from one of the big screens.

 

 The lighting was fantastic too!

 This is the drummer doing his solo, he was amazing!

 One of the things that also made the concert so amazing was the crowd.  The stadium was packed they even had all the very top tiers open (I don't think they even had those open for Guns 'n Roses) and the crowd was just sooo responsive and clapped and sang and screamed the whole way through.  In fact when Chad asked them to sing he could have probably not bothered singing the song at all because the crowd sang the whole way through!  I always feel so bad when the band asks the crowd to sing parts and the crowd doesn't know the words or not enough of them sing and you can barely hear them so it was brilliant to have everyone singing along so enthusiastically!

 Now I just can't wait for them to come over again because I will definitely be going again next time! :)