This is the final page from October.   I decided to re-do it when I didn’t like how the cut outs lined up.  I’m still not 100% into it, but it is much better than how it was before.  Hanson in NYC…

Just a sampling of some of the November events scrapped.  More to come hopefully next month 😉  (With it being winter and less events I expect I’ll have a couple of weekends to get things done, but who knows!)

In the second edition of October scrapbook pages we have Comic Con, Action Item, Katie Stevens and Honor Society’s CD release.

October’s first scrapbook post is a HANSON edition – 2 concerts (New Haven, Boston – NYC still being worked on) as well as a Members Only Event from New York City where they told “The Story” of the making of The Walk before the show!

The Slice Safety cutter is a great alternative to scissors for couponers or scrapbookers! The ceramic blade stays sharp, never rusts and is made with a finger friendly design.   The slice safety cutter safely clips, cuts and opens. Opens difficult packages, perfect for CDs or DVDs, scrapbooking, coupons or recipes.  It also has a build in key ring hole and magnet to keep it either with you on your keys or on the fridge in a handy place so it won’t get lost!

My favorite feature of the cutter is that you can’t cut your finger! (Well, maybe you can if you try hard enough but that is one challenge I am not about to try!)  One of my newer scrapbooking tools I have used only once or twice because the first time I tried to use it, I sliced my finger open.  It wasn’t a deep cut, more like a big paper cut, but man did that sting and take a while to heal back up!  With the Slice Safety Cutter, I don’t have to worry about accidentally slicing my finger open while I am trimming pieces for my scrapbook pages.

My second favorite feature is the key ring hole!  I am notorious for misplacing my scissors.  I keep saying I need to get a hook to hang them on when I am not using them.  I tied a string through the hole on the Slice safety cutter and hang it on the lamp near my scrapbook table when I am not using it. I also have a magnetic strip in my room for my magnet collection, but it isn’t close enough to be helpful.  But I did however try out the magnet on the strip and it worked out quite well for anyone who might want to keep theirs on the fridge or a magnetic strip closer to the scrapbooking table :).

As far as cutting, there is no problem going through glossy coupon paper or thin printer paper.  When it comes to scrapbooking, it doesn’t cut cleanly through thicker card stock. It also works great on photos.

slice™ Safety Cutter – Great for couponers

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The second part of September had concerts by Elliott Yamin, Kicking Daisies and Josh Gracin!

In early September I took a trip to Washington DC to see the Mets and the Nationals.  Those layouts are still not created, but I did make a couple pages based on the site seeing that we did in DC!

The first part of September had concerts from Steven Page, Stevie Nicks and Ingram Hill.  After photographing these I realized that the pen I used for the Ingram Hill setlist was really bad and it didn’t photograph well at all 🙁

August 25th I attended the American Idols Live tour VIP Style. And front row center in front of the catwalk style. While I’ve been trying to keep concert pages to 1 page or so for my scrapbook – I broke ALL the rules for this show.  Generally a meet and greet guarantees an extra page – but what happens when you meet 8 of the 11 idols?  And are front row and have great photos?  Well, then each of the idols get their OWN page! (With the exception of Naima and Thia who I did not meet, so they share a page)

Under the cut are the pages 🙂

Some more not so greatly photographed photos… from the rest of August ’11. KC101’s Ticket to Ride with Joe Jonas, featuring some stickers from Sticker You.   Also American Idol from Nassau Coliseum.  I got a bit carried away with my VIP American Idol scrapbook pages (Maybe even more than a bit) so you’ll be seeing them shortly in their own post since it will be pretty image heavy!