"Wish You Were Here" Disney World Layout

12 x 12 Disney World Scrapbook Layout

Every scrapbooker knows Disney trips are one of the most fun subjects to scrap.  I've already finished more pages from our Disney trip than I have from last year's beach trip, and I LOVE the beach.

This layout is busy, busy, busy. The pictures of Tom & me and Jess & Neal are from Magic Kingdom (back by the Jungle Cruise, close to Aladdin's Magic Carpet ride).

I took this picture by sitting it in front of a framed picture on an easel, so note the black frame and black easel base isn't part of the page.

Almost everything in this layout is from Echo Park, with the exception of some Mickey silhouettes and some black "Just the Edge" from Bazzill from many years ago. I started with a similar pattern I saw on Pinterest, with lots of "clutter" on each side and a place for pictures down the middle. I took that idea and went crazy with the outsides. Some of the Echo Park items on the sides are stickers and some are cut from from 12x12 papers.

Many more layouts are on the way, along with the last couple posts of my Disney Junk Journal. If you're a Disney fan, you're in the right spot. And, I'll try to get some Valentines posted soon as well.

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Disney Junk Journal / Travel Journal (Post 3)

Journaling our 2019 Family Trip to Disney World

(View the first post; View the second post).

The next page in my junk journal is a colorful bunch of miscellaneous pics:

I forgot to take a picture, but there's a little bookmark-size tag that comes out of the polka dot pocket on the right side.  I made the background with paint and used the negative of a punch to make the Mickeys.

The next few pages all contain pics from Magic Kingdom--mostly princesses.

There's a little tuck spot at the bottom left with a picture of our "little princess" with a face full of chocolate ice cream.  The castle on the right is a post card Disney sent us before the trip. It makes a nice extra page, and I have a couple more in this journal. All the extra pages have been affixed with washi tape hinges, front and back.

After you turn the page, you can see the markings on the back of the postcard. I put a pocket on it for a long tag.

And that tag has yet another pocket with a slimmer tag on it.

The back of the first tag.

The next two pages are from our resort, Art of Animation. It had a whole Cars themed area.

These papers are from Sandy Lion.  There's a pocket to the left.

It has this pull-out. And, on the back...

1. ...it looks like this.  I just discovered I could add another picture or embellishment here!

The next layouts have Finding Nemo on the left and

some miscellaneous snapshots on the right.

The right side has a pocket and tag on the bottom. At the top, the area with the picture from the bus actually folds right and there are more pictures and a pocket with a tag under there. 

The next two pages are some of my favorites.

These are just all fun pictures from around the parks and resort. I stamped the teacups on the right side.

The left side opens up...

...and opens up more to a four-panel colorful fold-out.

These are the three panels on the back of the fold-out. The fourth panel is glued to the original page. Most of the papers on these pages are from Echo Park.

Thanks so much for looking at my blog and journal project. More posts are on the way!

Minnie Mouse Birthday Party

Little Shae Turns Three!

Our little granddaughter turned three shortly after the holiday, and she had a Minnie Mouse birthday party.  I helped with the decorations, and they turned out great!

The table has a cheap table cloth topped with black and white polka dot wrapping paper (saw this color/polka-dot table cloth combo idea on Pinterest). The ONLY licensed Disney product is the balloon, which cost more than anything but the cake.

Her other grandma had this cute Minnie cake made from a local bakery. The pictures of Shae with Minnie Mouse from this fall's Disney World trip make great table decorations.

These wall decorations are my favorites. A local party store was going out of business, and I bought the pleated circles for less than $2.00 (90 percent off!!!). They were actually part of a welcome baby set and had baby-themed pictures for the centers. I threw those out and added mouse ears on the big pink one and mini Minnie silhouettes to the other two--just circles and simple bows.

(The little frame is something I made at a demonstration party.  It says, "Well behaved women rarely make history."  Not Minnie themed, but it fits our granddaughter very well.)

The two pink cupcake decorations were also from the going-out-of-business party store (one shown here). I added the "3" picks (also 90% off).

And for a "hidden Mickey," look at the black plates. :)

Another look at the whole thing:

So cute--but not as cute as this birthday girl:

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Disney Junk Journal / Travel Journal (Post 2)

Journaling our 2019 Family Trip to Disney World

(To view the first post in this series, click here.)

The next pages are of our hotel & suite and our Magic Band (your ticket/room key/payment option at Disney World).

The left side has a horizontal band with two tags behind it.

I fastened both tags together with a ribbon so they make a little booklet.  All of the pictures on the fronts and backs are of our suite. I like using black with white ink for a little different contrast. 

The right of the page is a pocket that holds a resort map and one of our Magic Bands.

I used a LOT of different materials for this junk journal, including some pieces that are probably pushing 20 years old. My very first try at scrapbooking was a Disney Vacation album, and I probably haven't thrown any extras away. This page has some newer paper from Echo Park, but that's all I'm sure of.

Besides old and new papercrafting materials, I including lots of bits and pieces of Disney ephemera we either picked up on the trip at the parks or in our room, along with a lot of pieces that were mailed to us from Disney before our trip: ads, instructions, itineraries, etc.

These two pages are made with Echo Park papers. The left side is a large pocket (cropped to close to see very well in the photo), and the right is a shallow pocket with two small tags.

The pull-out from the left side, including a red cloth Mickey patch from my stash.

The other side of the pull-out.

The small tags on the right have a Mickey punched out at the bottom.

Thanks for reading this post. More of my Disney Junk Journal coming soon!

Disney Junk Journal / Travel Journal (Post 1)

Journaling Our 2019 Family Trip to Disney World

Our biggest trip last year was a Disney World vacation with Jess and her family.  I think my favorite projects right now are travel junk journals. You can see my Hawaii junk journal and family beach trip junk journal by clicking on the links.

I usually start these journals way in advance of my trip while I'm excited about going. Then we we go, I pack along some colored pens and my HP Sprocket mini printer. I try to add quotes, memories, and pictures while we're on vacation, usually on the plane or in the hotel at night before bed or early in the morning before everyone else is up and ready for the day.  That way, I have a lot of memories I might have forgotten (especially funny stuff the kids say) and finishing the book when I get home isn't so daunting.  

I used the Dylusions small journal (the blank original one) and painted the cover with Dylusions paints (Postbox Red, Black Marble, & White Linen), using some Dylusions small stencils. T added some little highlights on the black circles with a white pen--and outlined three to make a Mickey.  Then I wrote a title and date with black ink. 

                             

I ran a thick red & white striped piece of baker's twine around the spine and tied it in a knot. Then I added some black tulle and three charms--a star, airplane, and teacup--with black ribbon.

I always like my junk journals chunky and messy, with lots of bits and pieces sticking out from the edges, as you can see from the pictures to the left and above.

I left the inside of the cover plain. All the Dylusions journals have a nice pocket on the inside cover so you can store souvenirs to glue down later or odds and ends that didn't make it in the journal. I really like the half Mickey with all the words as a first page, so I left that as is.

The first pages are dedicated to the flights there. Finn  and Shae had never flown before, so it was exciting for them and a first for us flying with a then four year old and a two year old.

Most of it is stickers I've had in my stash with a bit of journaling and one of our ticket stubs.

The next pages were our arrival at Disney World. I included some luggage tags and a few pics from the Magical Express ride and the Art of Animation resort. On the right side, I added a pocket that holds six thin journaling slips. 

I wrote individual memories from the trip there on the slips. 

Each slip has a white punched Mickey on it. The white-on-white makes it almost look embossed.

The last page for this post shows a pretty boring page, but it's one we like to refer to. On the left side was our basic plan for each day. We didn't make a lot of Fast Pass or dining reservations, but we had a few. And there was one character we wanted to see on a certain day. We knew our plans would change when we got there. On the right side are notes about what parks and activities we actually did on each day. It's fun to look back at, and it helps figure out what day particular pictures were taken too.

I drew all the Mickeys with a marker, and I wish I would have taken more time. A lot of them look like bunnies!

Thanks for looking! More posts on this journal are on the way.

Happy New Year 2020!

New Year, New Goals 2020:

Remember all those artsy goals I had last year? Me either, so I looked them up:

1. Layouts (2/month or 24/year). (pretty sure this was a fail)

2. Christmas Tags (5/month or 60/year).  (Completed! I had more than enough for Christmas!)

3. Art Journal Pages (1/month or 12/year). (I'm going to call this completed. I finished a whole travel journal.)

4. Cards (5/month or 60/year). (I'm guessing this was completed too. I kept track of 22, and I know I did more for Christmas and miscellaneous occasions throughout the year.)

5. Etsy products (1/month or 12/year). (Partial Fail: I think I listed about 10.) 

6. Blogging (4/month or 36/year). (BIG FAIL. I counted 15 posts.)

I did have a great year! I made a lot of miscellaneous things. We went to New Orleans, beaches, Chicago, and Disney World. Travel plans for 2020 will probably be scaled way back. I gave up pop mostly, which for me is big. This is the year of saving and organizing (I hope). Not that I won't travel at all. I have a couple trips in mind.

So, this year's crafty goals:
1. Disney Layouts--Finish them. I'm not scrapbooking the whole trip, because I did a junk/travel journal of the trip, and it is done, so I'm just going to do 12x12 pages of my very favorite photos and/or memories.
2. Beach Layouts--I still have a lot to do from last year's (2018 I mean) trip. I want to do more of those.
3. Catch-Up Layouts--Lots and lots of possibilities here. I read once that you should never try to scrapbook everything chronologically because it's too overwhelming. Instead scrap what you feel like. This year (hopefully) I feel like doing some miscellaneous memory pages.
4. Cards. I want to do more from the supplies I have on hand, specifically my vintage photos, valentines, and postcards. These sell well, and they go together pretty quickly. I'm going to set my expectations low though. 40 cards.
5. Blogging. I made it into March last year. [eye roll] I've heard that many crafters are going back to blogging because of new YouTube restrictions. Maybe it'll come back into favor. Either way, I'm going to try to blog at least once per month.
6. Peace Pole. I've been wanting to make a garden peace pole forever, and I swear this is the year.

Tags and Etsy are both off the list. At this point, I have no strong feels about these. Wish me luck! And here's a cute picture of my family from Disney World, so this post isn't impossibly boring to everyone but me.

You Can Never Have Too Much Beach Time

Another Carta Bella Beach Layout

I love this layout of my grandkids in the Gulf of Mexico. Neither one was very fond of getting much more than their feet wet after they felt the tug of the waves, but they sure enjoyed the beach time.

This layout uses the Carta Bella "Summer Splash" collection, and I added the Recollections flowers, Nuvo Drops, and a starfish from Jolee's Boutique. The background paper is from Bazzill.

I can't say enough about how much I love the Summer Splash Line. My last four layouts were made with it.  Click back to my last three posts to view the other layouts.

Family Beach Layout

My daughter's family at the beach

This layout is of my daughter Jess's family at the Gulf Coast last fall. This was Finn & Shae's first trip to a beach, and it was a success, despite Hurricane Gordon coming on land while we were there.

As I did on my other recent layouts, I used Carta Bella's "Summer Splash" collection for the papers and a lot of the embellishments. The background cardstock is from Bazzill, which makes great, sturdy papers for scrapping or cardmaking.

I added the little flowers from Recollections, the tag, sequins from CTMH, and the Nuvo Drops.

Thanks for looking!

Fin[n]s Up!

Finn's Beach Layout

Finn enjoyed the beach as much or, because he's older, maybe even more than Shae. He was all smiles for his time at the Gulf.

There's a little glare on the photo of the left, but in person this layout looks great. I copied the basic pattern from the book Time to Scrap by Kathy Fesmire. It encourages the creator to use shape to create motion

The yellow background cardstock is from Bazzill. All the other papers and embellishments are from Carta Bella's "Summer Splash" collection, except the strings and the tag base. I also used Nuvo drops along the top edge of the photos for extra detail and texture. Both the tag and the upper beach ball are raised with dimensional adhesive.

(The title of this page "Fin[n]'s Up" is a play on the parrothead  phrase "Fins Up" referring to Jimmy Buffett's song Fins.  Parrothead jokes--only a few would understand, but I couldn't help it.)

 

Shae by the Sea

12 x 12 Scrapbook Layout

Sweet Shae loved her first beach trip, even if the waves were a little overwhelming. This layout of Shae at the Gulf Coast is simple, but I wanted to focus mostly on the pictures and her expressions. All the papers are from the line "Summer Splash" by Carta Bella, as well as several of the embellishments including the "Beachy" sign. I absolutely love Summer Splash, and have created several beach layouts using it.

To add a little more interest, I added the white to the background paper to look like waves breaking, using Tim Holtz's Distress Crayon "picket fence."

The starfish is from Jolee's Boutique from my large stash of everything beachy.

I added lines of Nuvo Drop dots above and below the main strip and randomly within the starfish paper print.

I LOVE this picture:

Thanks for stopping by! More beach layouts are on the way......

More Tags and 2019 Goal Update

So far, so good...

February wasn't quite as productive as January but hey, it's a shorter month, and the January motivation has passed. I still completed all my goals except for 1 card and 1 layout. Satisfactory, I think.

March is halfway gone, and I've completed several things. First, my monthly Christmas tags:

My goal is five, and I made six. I think it's probably easiest to make an even number, because you can make to of almost the same tag at once.

All of the stamps are from Simon Says Stamp's "Christmas Cheer" set. I used Dylusions paint pens and water color pencils for the coloring.

On the trees I used Nuvo drops for the center of the stars (I just moved it around with a pointed tool) and the garlands. I hand wrote the "to" and "from" on all the cards.

For the Santas, I used Nuvo drops for his mittens, and the trim of his hat.

It's hard to see in pictures, but the beards are covered in Sparkly Fluff by Our Craft Lounge. I don't know if this is even available anymore. I bought it several years ago. The color is "sugar," and it adds sparkle and a soft texture--kind of felt-like.

The North Pole signs have Nuvo drops on the top finial. I added Ranger's Glossy Accents on all the signs.

Look at all the tags I have done for Christmas next year, and it's only March 16!