Alien Swirling Saucers

A Very Handmade Layout

(Caution: crooked photo again) This one-page layout started with a purple piece of cardstock and a black piece of cardstock cut shorter all around. I then cut out the aliens freehand at the bottom (and it shows). I used circle punches for the eyes and antenna. Then I outlined the aliens with Nuvo drops. I handwrote the title. cut out the Buzz Lightyear picture from Sandy Lion paper, and added the sticker "The Claw" across the top. The two orange rectangles are just for a little color balance. I added random silver Nuvo drops randomly on the black background to look like space.

I think it turned out okaaaay. My daughter pointed out that ears on the aliens would have helped--oops!

Have a great day!

--Ms. Molly

Winnie the Pooh

And Tigger Too!

Shae LOVED Pooh & Tigger. The handler must have loved her too, because they took lots of extra pictures of her, and Pooh pretended to keep her away from Tigger and wouldn't let her go. There were a lot of people in line, and they all oohed and aahed over her, so I don't think it upset them. She was just so cute with the characters!

This layout is a combination of cardstock, old CTMH papers, and Sandy Lion papers. I picked up the diecuts from my LSS, and the flower were in my stash.

I used dimensional adhesive to pop up the cutout of Pooh with the kite.

"Pooh & Tigger" are Thickers, and I typed up the journaling on my typewriter.

Thanks for looking. 

--Ms. Molly 

Disney's Animal Kingdom

Finn Finds the Drums

This is another layout of miscellaneous papers from my stash that didn't come as a set. I used a cream cardstock for the "folder" behind the photo to make it look like a manila folder. I typed the "label" and my journaling on my old typewriter.  All the words and Mickey hand on the left side are stamps.

Finn was having a little bit of a rough morning. But, when he saw these drums, he lit right up, set it Kevin toy on the front, and started playing away. It was a moment we all remember well and one worth an 8x10 photo on its own page.

Many more Disney layouts on their way.

Cheers,

Ms. Molly

Disney World Layout

So Many Characters!

These patterned papers are super old from CTMH, but work perfectly for Disney layouts.

The Mickey silhouette is a punch. The fine black circles are made with a very vine black pen traced around a large circle. I intentionally made it a little sloppy and went over it a few times. Then I added the stickers for the title and little black stars at random spots on the circle.  There are also a few red "gems" near the Mickey.

This page has two more partial circles like the first page. The black scalloped border along the bottom of both pages is a Bazzil "Just the Edge."

Have a great day!

--Ms. Molly

Magic Carpet Ride

Magic Kingdom Layout

This one-page layout was made before I got ahold of the less-than ten pictures my husband took at Disney World.  Now I might need to add a second page. Oh well.

The picture is crooked (again). The title was made with my Cricut, and then I added some white pen highlights to the letters. The trees are stickers. The background paper is CTMH. I used up the long strands of border sparkles from my stash. I added some "gems" for even more magic. The bottom of the B&T paper is scalloped with a punch.

Thanks for looking!

--Ms. Molly

Disney Princess

Our Little Princess

This is another piece of paper from the Sandy Lion Disney paper stack. I cut it down an inch both ways, added a background mat, the photo & mat, journaling & mat, sparkle embellishments, and nuvo drops. That's it. DONE!

More Vacation Layouts

"Cozy Cone Motel" Pool

Inside Disney World, inside the Art of Animation Resort, inside Radiator Springs, sits the imaginary Cozy Cone Motel and its pool. The cabanas are extra-large traffic cones, and it's a quieter, small pool than the Big Blue Pool.

Keeping with the "motel" style, I used Echo Park's "Summer Splash" vintage-themed papers.

I added some white and blue paper strips around the photos to highlight them.

I glued down the wash line of swim wear, but I used dimensional adhesive along the longer items, so it looks more like the items are blowing in the breeze.  The title is done with Thickers.

I like all the motel ads in the Summer Splash papers. They fit pefectly with the Cozy Cone sign. I added a few Nuvo drops and journaled in two different colors for a little interest.

Thanks for looking!

--Ms. Molly

Finn Ready to Swim

Buzz Light Year in Radiator Springs

I love this picture of Finn in his Buzz Light Year swim trunks, rash guard, & sunglasses.  The papers I used were all from Echo Park's "Summer Splash" series, except for the journaling spot, which was from an unknown Disney set. This was taken in the Radiator Springs area of our resort.

I used different scraps 1" wide on the side. Super easy layout that I did zero planning beforehand.

To Infinity and Beyond!

--Ms. Molly

Minnie Mouse

Shae Showing Her Love of the Characters

Shae loved meeting Minnie (and Mickey) so much. She even chose to have a Minnie-themed birthday party a few months later when she was home. 

Mickey and Minnie were in their birthday clothing so I chose a paper to match that. I had the sticker of Minnie on a carousel in my stash of Disney stuff from years ago. These pink and blue papers are from a large paper stack by Sandy Lion.  I used papers from a different Disney pack on the Radiator Springs layout a couple days ago. This pack is more girl themed and includes princesses.

Here's a picture of the two packs. The papers aren't the best quality, but they offer a lot of different Disney papers at a pretty low cost. I cut some up for embellishments. Some of theme are themed for Disney things I've never heard of from Disney Jr.

(Aside: I hate gender themed products!!! Why couldn't these packs be combined for everyone?!)

Here's the second page up close:

The heart is a punch, and the "photo op" ticket is a stamp I raised with dimensional adhesive, and I added Nuvo drops for an accent:

I added Stickles to the polka dots on Minnie's bow:

I also added several flower embellishments that almost match the paper, just to give it some more dimension. Lastly, I added some black buttons for flower centers and sequins from my stash.

As always, thanks so much for looking!

--Ms. Molly

Lion King Layout

"Our Area" of Art of Animation

Every day when we walked back and forth to our room from the bus stop, the restaurant, the pool, etc., we walked through theming from Lion King.

We opted to stay in this area because (1) who doesn't love The Lion King?! (2) there isn't a pool there, so we didn't have to worry about noise ever, and (3) it was very close to the main building where the restaurant, arcade, gift shop, and bus stop are located.

The papers I used are from the CTMH paper pack (retired) Sarita. "Brave" is from Tim Holtz Ideology. The sun is made from two sun punches glued down so the yellow rays show through between the orange rays. The title is from a Sizzix alphabet die cut set.

Pictures from "the elephant boneyard." Two more suns added and "remember this," which is from Tim Holtz.

Thanks for looking!

--Ms. Molly

 

Radiator Springs

at Disney's Art of Animation Resort

Sometimes a layout doesn't need extra embellishments, and that's what happened here:

This two-page layout is from yet another area of Disney's Art of Animation Resort: Radiator Springs from the movie Cars. 

All of the paper on this layout come from a large paper stack by Sandy Lion. I couldn't find a title to this paper pad except "Disney." It has 150 sheets (3 sheets of each design. I think there were 5-6 different papers that were Cars themed.

"Cars" and "Radiator Springs" were cut out with a lower-case Sizzix alphabet. I matched the color of the letters and shadows to the words in the billboard in the upper lefthand photo of the first page.

Finn & Shae loved seeing all the Cars characters and taking pictures with them. They could name them all. I cannot name one.

Thank you for looking.

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--Ms. Molly 

Disney World's Art of Animation

Family Suite Layout in the Lion King Area

Not gonna lie: Disney costs a lot of money. We stayed in a value resort and were perfectly happy. We've stayed in more expensive Disney properties before, but we think for little kids the over-the-top cartoon themes at the value resorts is not only fine, but maybe preferable. We specifically chose the Art of Animation Resort because it offers a family suite, which the other value resorts do not (or did not at the time anyway).

Here's the layout I created showing our suite. It was all Lion King/jungle themed. The papers are from the retired CTMH pack "Sangria" that matched up color-wise perfectly. The picture above was taken with page protectors on, so there are some odd streaks and glares here and there.

Here are the pages sans page protectors:

The Mickeys are punches. I punched them out four times and layered them with dimensional adhesive so they stand out from the page a little. I'm not sure where I got the journaling block. I hand wrote the journaling. The title is made with my favorite lettering stamps CTMH "Posterboard Alphabet." This time I stamped right on B&T paper from the paper pack. Here's a comparison of when I used them recently on colored cardstock:

You can see how different the stamps look depending on what you stamp them on.

 

Page two looks a little different without its page protector. Specifically, because I attached two "Flip-Flap" pages to the page protector right in front of the bottom right photo. Here's the area with the protector:

The "before" picture shows Finn on the nice, neat couch when we first arrived to our suite. The pages underneath reveal the huge mess we created while we stayed and the couch pulled out into an unmade bed. Here are some pictures of the additional photos attached to the outside of the page protector:

Not only is this cute for "before and after" pictures, but it's an easy way to add extra photos to any layout. CTMH calls them "Flip-Flaps," but I'm sure they are available from other sources as well. They come in many sizes, and I just came across mine, so I'm going to try to use them more.

Here's one more look at the finished two-page layout:

Thanks for looking! Leave me a comment!

Cheers,

Ms. Molly

Pool Layout

Back to Disney World Layouts:

We were so busy we didn't swim too much on vacation, but the kids loved the Finding Nemo themed Big Blue Pool, at the Art of Animation Resort.

This is a simple layout with bright colors. It seems a little brighter in person too. I used two papers from the "Best of Heidi Swapp" paper pack (an awesome 180-pages of  paper that I will be using more of soon) and a piece of blue cs for the base.

"Pool" and "pools rule" both come from the Carta Bella "Summer Splash" collection. The clear "gems" near the word pool are Nuvo Crystal Gems. The frame is from my old CTMH stash, the rainbow sticker is from Amy Tangerine, and the heart, star, and circle stickers are enamel dots from Shimelle box of crayons. 

I received the Nuvo Crystal Gems, the Amy Tangerine stickers (a lot of them), and the Shimelle enamel dots as part of a monthly card kit from the Simon Says Card Kit. A shout out to this card kit. It is a monthly subscription, but if you don't pay in advance, you don't get anything, and you can see what the monthly kit is before you decide to order. I really like it, and I've received a lot of new products to try in the kits. There are a lot of monthly subscriptions out there, and I definitely give this one a thumbs up.

Thank you for stopping by my blog!

--Ms. Molly

Happy 4th of July!

Using Papers Together That Weren't Sold as a Set

I'm always coming up with goals. I never stick with them, but I'm really good at creating them. My newest goal is to work on the grandkids' books. Another goal is to use up my stash of paper. This layout works toward both goals. I made this for pictures from a 4th of July parade in 2016 (only 4 years later!)

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Try to ignore the carpet around the outer edge. I didn't realize how busy that made the pages look. I'm pretty short on cs that's a true red, so I took some white cs and stamped a pattern all around the edges for my base. 

The red hearts background paper (hearts aren't just for valentines) and the two different blue-themed papers are all from different CTMH paper packs. 

The second page has one of the blue papers for the background, again because I was very short on any kind of red paper. The red and blue stars are glittery felt pieces from my large stash of miscellaneous. The white stars (both sizes) are punched from white cs. I also added Nuvo Crystal Drops: Simply White and Silver Lining.

I can't believe my little Finn is 5 years old and ready to start kindergarten now. Also, looking at the parade photos I didn't use on the layout makes me appreciate all the events that have to be cancelled this year to keep us all healthy.

Happy 4th of July!

--Ms. Molly

Baymax Layout

Super Easy Custom Layout

Finn wasn't into the characters at Disney World like Shae was, but before we left on the trip he said he definitely wanted to meet Baymax. (Apparently, Baymax is a Big Hero 6 character. This grandma hasn't seen the movie.)

I made this layout with black cs and a simple chevron paper in shades of grey.

Close-up of left page:

I cut out the heart with a punch and made the letters with my Cricut. I'm not much of a Cricut user, and I'm not sure what cartridge these are from--possibly the one that came with the machine?

Like I've said a bunch of times, I'm trying to use my own handwriting more for journaling and am experimenting in different ways. 

Using a fine marker for some of the words, thick for some, and adding a pop of red to match the mat really turned out well, even if my handwriting wasn't the best. I just drew freehand the little hearts and Baymax "face."

Close-up of the right page:

I made the Baymax head in the bottom corner just by trial and error cutting out a piece of scrap paper and folding it in half to make it symmetrical. When I was happy with that, I used it as a pattern. The eyes (face?) is made from a straight strip of paper with punched circles on both end--same with the smaller versions on the page. I added the two pictures, another heart for a pop of red, and done! Very quick, very easy, but very dramatic.

Shae and Finn both chose Baymax plush dolls as a souvenir. Notice in the picture Shae making sure Baymax saw hers.  It was such a cute, unposed moment.

Thanks for stopping by, and please leave a comment if you like this layout. "I am a robot. I cannot be offended." (Baymax quote I just looked up.)

Cheers,

Ms. Molly

TriceraTop Spin

One-Page Disney World Layout

This very casual layout tries to capture this area, Dino Land, U.S.A., in Disney World's Animal Kingdom Theme Park. The area is more carnival-like than most of Disney. This ride is open air, much like you would see at any smaller amusement park. I used CTMH's  Lagoon cardstock and the B&T paper is from the CTMH "Chalk It Up" paper pack (long retired).

I pretty much made up the layout as I went, but I did copy the little off-center circle designs from a layout in Leisure Arts book, Fast Scrapbooking with 4x6 Photos (copyrighted in 2012!). The layout was called Johnny Rockets and was made by Kelly Purkey, so a shout out to her for the inspiration. Yes, I still have scrapbook BOOKS, and I still like to thumb through them and magazines for ideas. Even if they are old and out of date style-wise, they can usually offer some inspiration.  But, like most people, Pinterest has become my go-to place for ideas.

I used three different sized circle punches, a star punch, dimensional adhesive, and "silver moondust" Nuvo Glittler Drops to make mine. They add a little circular motion to this layout for a spinning ride. 

Fun fact: When I posted this layout, I realized I had spelled "TriceraTops" incorrectly, so I went back and changed the second "i" to an "a" in my journaling and glued a new "a" banner over the "i" banner. Good as new. Here's a before--Oops!

Lots more Disney layouts to post, so I hope you keep checking in.

Cheers,

Ms. Molly