Disney Transportation

 "Kings of the Bus"

If you stay on Disney property, you become very familiar with Disney transportation, especially the bus. We tended to take a lot of bus pictures--waiting for the bus, happy on the bus to be going somewhere fun, or dead tired on the bus on the way back to our suite. 

I used a mixture of Best of Heidi Swapp papers and Echo Parks Magical Adventure elements, plus Mickey punches and black Nuvo Crystal drops. "King of the Bus" is the term we used when sitting on the very back bench seat that sits up higher than everyone else. It's also one of the worst seats because it sits over the engine and is hot.

The strips that mimic roads are just a chevron paper cut into strips. The picture of the bus at the top was found on the Internet. I love the picture of the kids hanging on the fence anxiously waiting our bus.

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--Ms. Molly

Funny Pics from Disney World

 A Layout of Leftovers

This layout is just a bunch of funny pics from around Disney World. People sleeping, hiding from the camera, or just wearing or doing something that brings back a good memory.

I formatted this two-page layout as if it was a set of two file folders. The folders are just cardstock cut to look like a folder. The "back" of the folders only tucks just behind the front part, and I used real folders and traced them to make the shape look real.

The background patterned paper is from The Best of Heidi Swapp paper stack.  Except for the "Our favorite thing" piece, all of the words are also cut from a piece from the same paper stack.

The right page is pretty much the same except for the tab on the folder is on the right side.

I had a lot of photos for this layout, so I added an insert for six more photos to put between the layouts.

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--Ms. Molly

Jess & Neal

 Disney Couple Layout

I had several cute pics of Jess and Neal from Disney World, and because they got engaged at Disney World, I thought a layout of just them would be appropriate.

I started with a grey card stock background and added the heart paper from the paper pack Best of Heidi Swapp, cropped down so there was a half-inch margin all around. The three 4x6 elements are arranged around the edge of the patterned paper. The bottom-left element is a cut-apart from the Echo Park Magical Adventure pack. It's the yellow and white stripes with the castle silhouette. I cut apart and added the sticker of Mickey and Minnie watching fireworks so it looks like they're watching them at Cinderella's castle. The center is a Mickey punch with a heart punch centered on it. I added Nuvo Crystal Drops Morning Dew to the heart.

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--Ms Molly

Disney Treats Layout

 Yum!

This layout is for some of best pictures we took of treats. Of course, the rainbow "Happy Bar" was the number one treat.

The background paper is from the stack "Best of Heidi Swapp." I also used a couple pages from an old travel journal, and a few stickers from Doodlebug's "Bar-B-Cute" stickers set. I wrote the journaling by hand. "Yum" was stamped with a retired CTMH set, and I made the exclamation point with black cardstock, my small Mickey punch, and a sticker.

I don't usually like to use stickers, especially the kind with the white margins, but I learned this trick from Dyan Reavely: If you outline everything on a page in black ink, it makes all the details more coherent, and that's what I did on this layout. I also added a few Nuvo Dot drops in the corner of each page.

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--Ms. Molly

Belle and Gaston Layout

 Shae's Absolute Favorite!

While Finn's number one must-see was Baymax, Shae really wanted to see Belle. She got to meet her during Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party. You can tell Shae was a little tired, and a lot sweaty, but she was SO happy. She was a little nervous to meet Gaston at first (because he's mean!), but Belle convinced her that he is nice now.

First, sorry about the show and crooked picture. I swear the title is straight! The background is from the paper pack "Best of Heidi Swapp." It's less grey and more brown in person. The title stamp and journaling block are retired stamps from CTMH. "Belle" seems easier to read in person. The embellishments are all from my stash. The abstract square surrounding the "B" is a Sizzix Thinlits die.

Again, this layout is square in person!. The top right was curling up a little, so it made the whole thing look askew. The background paper here, as well as the blue mat & heart on the left page are from the DCWV paper stack called "Collage Art." I cut some of the flowers from the same paper as the left page to put on the edges.

Again, we had so many pictures, and they were all so cute, I added a photo insert page to hold six additional pictures of Shae with Belle and Gaston.

Have a great day!

--Ms. Molly

EPCOT layout

 Jess & Neal at Spaceship Earth

This is a pretty plain layout, but I plan to have it be the title page for my EPCOT section of the trip. The background paper is retired CTMH. The paper with circles is from the paper pad "Best of Heidi Swapp." The title was cut out with a Sizzix Thinlits die set 664729. It contains an alphabet in all caps, that you can use three different ways: shadow & letter (as I did here), letter only, or shadow only.

Have a great day!

--Ms. Molly

Pluto Layout

Big Hugs from Shae 

This bright layout is my interpretation of a layout by Linda Rodriguez in the Leisure Arts/Creating Keepsakes book Fast Scrapbooking with 4x6 Photos (2012). Ms. Rodriquez's layout was called "Tea Party," and is quite a bit different in color and details, but the general picture & paper layout is the same. Even though the book is eight years old, I still find some layouts in it from time to time to get me started when I'm not feeling creative.

The background paper is from BoBunny and called Brilliant Blue DoubleDot from the DoubleDot series. I like these papers a lot because you can use them like a plain cardstock, but they give your projects a little extra design and look of texture.

The hearts patterned paper is from the "Best of Heidi Swapp" paper pad.

The yellow large polka-dot paper is from CTMH and is called "Fundamentals-Adventure."

The little row of red flowers is from something I just discovered, Doodlebug Design, Inc.'s "Paper Frills." It reminds me of the borders that Bazill used to sell.

The black embellishments are from my stash. They might be CTMH.

"Pluto" was stamped with CTMH's retired alphabet set "Rustic Alphabet." I cut it out and filled in the little "rustic" area with black marker. 

The journaling was done in Word and printed on white cardstock.

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--Ms. Molly