First Concert Experience

It was a pretty cool thing taking the kids to Bon Jovi this week - their first concert ever.  It was one of those things that just kind of fell together for us, like it was meant to be.

When we first planned our trip to Edmonton, it was simply to be a little getaway from everything.  It's been a busy and stressful few months and some family time away was just what we needed.  So, Jason found a hotel at a rate we liked and we booked it.  Then he discovered that while we were there, so was Bon Jovi!  I figured we'd never get tickets, but it turns out that in Edmonton, there are secondary ticket sites where you can buy tickets from a third party.  And we found tickets - for just $20 each!

The catch was that the tickets stated they were "behind the stage" so I realized that we might have a compromised view.  But, we figured that the concert experience would still be worth it and purchased them.  It turns out that behind the stage was really not accurate as Jon Bon Jovi played to the fans behind the stage!  We ended up with far better seats that most people in the stadium who had paid much more than us! 

Although Richie Sambora left the tour the day before, Bon Jovi certainly did not disappoint.  The fill-in guitarist did a good job covering and Jon pitched in with guitar as well.  But, hands down, my favourite part was when they played my favourite song "We Got it Goin' On" and Jon danced on the hexagon pillars that moved up and down along the back of the stage!  Way cool :)

That, of course, inspired the scrapbooker in me.  Isn't it funny how Bon Jovi's concert set is using a very in-style thing in scrapbooking - hexagons!  I couldn't get it out of my mind and just had to do a totally hexagon layout with the great photos I was able to get.  It was hard to narrow them down to just 11 lol

I adhered the hexagons in a wave look - they're glued on one side, but on foam squares on the other side.  The effect is much better in person!

Each of the hexagon photos is hand cut.  I created one in cardstock, then cut around it for each photo as well as for the bases of the washi tape hexagons.  It took a lot of time, but I just had to do it once I saw that stage!  It was very cool how they illuminated the fabric on the hexagons with various images for the different songs.  Yup, Bon Jovi still has it goin' on :)