Disney Junk Journal / Travel Journal (Post 5)

Journaling our 2019 Family Trip to Disney World

(To view the first post in this series, click here, Post two, Post three, Post four.)

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More miscellaneous pictures I just like on this page. I did the pink and purple background with Dylusions paints.

Finn loved the smashed penny machines throughout Disney World. The top right is Finn and Neal smashing a penny. They were a pretty cheap souvenir (until we bought as many as we did). That natural paper is a flap. We had a nice arcade that Finn loved at the resort. It was a great way to entice the kids to leave the parks, and there were games we all enjoyed.

All the pics to the right under the flap are from the arcade.

Although it was only September, Jess, Neal, Finn, & Shae went to Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween after-hours party at the Magic Kingdom. They loved it!

They dressed in Lilo & Stitch theme (Hawaiian for Jess & Neal).

While they did that, Tom and I headed to the piano bar at the Boardwalk, and I included a picture of that under the "Boo Crew" flap.

There's a jack-o-lantern charm on this page too, which is easier to see in the above picture.

The right side is a flap too. I didn't post a pic, but underneath are more scenes from Not So Scary Halloween.  I also glued one of their admittance bracelets to the bottom of the page.

The next page is a pocket page on the left and snapshots on the right.

You can see the luggage tag on its side at the top left used as a page tab. The Not So Scary Halloween guide fits in the left pocket:

The next pages are all from Epcot, which the kids liked way better than I thought they would at their age:

There's a pocket on the left with more pictures:

(front & back of pocket insert)

And the right page folds out:

More fun-at-Epcot pics, and a little tuck spot in the middle under Donald Duck with a picture in it.

More fun pics with no extras on the next pink pages:

The next pages are all about meeting characters:

The right side folds out:

It reveals a yellow/orange page that also folds out:

Here are all the pages open:

On the yellow & white polka-dot page, there's a pocket with a bookmark-style tag with journaling front and back:

These character pages were all designed well before we left on the trip. I just added pics and embellishments.

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Family Vacation Layout No, 4: The Arcade

Wisconsin Dells

This is the fourth in a series of layouts, to see the first three click on one of these links: Layout One; Layout Two; or Layout Three.

I don't know how many arcades our resort had, but we definitely hit all the big ones. Finn loved that he could play some of the games, and all the lights and machines were very exciting for him. And since we're all kids at heart, we all got into the spirit and played along too. Who doesn't enjoy skee ball or a good crane game where you win a ball the size of a beach ball?

 

Here's my layout for the arcade:

As you can tell, I wanted it to reflect the super busy, overstimulating atmosphere of the arcade.

Here's the left page up close:

 

 

The papers for these pages are all, I'm pretty sure, discontinued.  All from CTMH, they are from most recent to oldest, Adventure "Fundamentals," "Confetti Wishes," and "Hooligans." I was so happy to find a use for the old "Hooligans" paper that actually has a video game theme!

I stamped the title banner with one of my all-time favorite alphabets: CTMH's "Pennant Alphabet." It wasn't shiny enough alone, so I added Ranger's Glossy Accents.

 

 The embellishments are an assortment of CTMH and other stuff from my stash, none of it new. This was a great layout to use up some old items. Here's a close-up of some of them, along with that "Hooligan" video game paper. The little white words on black backgrounds are from Tim Holtz's Ideology collection "Big Chat."--probably the only current product on the layout!

 

 

Here's a closer look at the right layout.

 

 

It's more busy-ness in paper and embellishments. The "Be Happy love life" are cut from a B&T paper in the Fundamentals "Adventure" pack. 

 

 

 You can kind of see in this close-up that I used Rangers Glossy Accents again over the letters to give them a shine. And here's a last look at the whole layout:

 

 

 

A great vacation! I can't believe I've already finished the scrapbook pages for it. That's definitely something I haven't been very good at keeping up on in the last several years.

 

 I'm ready for another one! Next up, the Parrotheads go to Pensacola for a long weekend, and I'm ready! Will it get scrapbooked in a timely manner? Probably not, but It's good t have goals.