Some Day

My mom got me a pack of Echo Park This & That Graceful awhile back and I figured it would be perfect for this layout.
I made this layout for the Disney Scrappers NSD Challenge #5 - A Sketch and a Song

 We were to use this sketch by Susan Stringfellow, and then incorporate a Disney song into the title.

 I thought the colors and feel of this paper perfectly fit Snow White's Grotto in Disneyland.
Walt had some statues commissioned from a sculptor in Italy, but when they arrived, he was a bit dismayed that Snow White was the same size as all of the dwarfs.  He put imagineer John Hench on the job and through the use of forced perspective, with Snow White at the top of the grotto and a small animal next to her, it appears that she is indeed taller than the dwarfs.  This is one of our favorite areas in the park.

 The song I used is not the one she sings in the grotto -- I wanted a different song for the title, so I used,

Some day my prince will come,

Some day we'll meet again,

and away to his castle we'll go!

If you have never been to Disneyland, here is a fairly jumpy video of it, but I liked it best of all I saw on youtube.  Kinda makes me want to make my own. You do get to see  some up close shots.

Jingle Jangle Jamboree Tag

I promised a Disney tag RAK to some friends over on Disney Scrappers, and I wanted to make one that will easily go on a Disney Scrapbook page.  One of the friends is here in So Cal and goes to Disneyland often, so I felt safe making a tag that will go with pictures taken at the Jingle Jangle Jamboree back in Big Thunder Ranch in Frontierland. 

 I used a #8 kraft tag and did the Tim Holtz Distress ink and texture fade embossing technique to make the tag look like distressed wood.  Then I cut out the title using Echo Park's This and That paper and Tim Holtz Inside Out alpha die. 
 I'm going to be honest here -- Sizzix, the ejection foam you use on these detailed dies really sucks.  It was a complete and total pain cutting these letters out!  And it is such a simple alphabet. COME ON!  You are a premier die maker, you should have developed a sturdier ejection foam by now!  I don't know if this is due to manufacturing in China and getting crappy quality, or what, but this is not the first of your dies that I have noticed has this problem.  You really need to get this fixed.  And while I am on my quality rant, please bring the manufacturing back to the USA.  You can do it and it is so much easier to monitor quality control and shipping problems.

I used the left over quilted paper from my last entry, to cut another ornament shape and then decorated it with an old holly punch, a tiny jingle bell, and just the letters from the Inside Out alpha. 

I made a complete tutorial on how to make this tag, including the wood grain tag on Instructagram.  You can see the step by step directions here.

This was such a fun little tag to make and I can't wait to use it on a layout.  Yes, I know I said I made it for a friend as a RAK, but, well, I made TWO of them so I could have one too!  ;-D

Just Before Takeoff! Echo Park Contests

I made this layout and the quilted embellishments for two Echo Park Paper Company challenge contests.  One was to make a project using one of their current Christmas lines.  This layout was made using This & That 6x6 paper pad.

I love this picture!  We took it at Disneyland back in the Big Thunder Ranch area just before Santa took off for the big flight.
This layout was based on Sketch Savvy Sketch #91.

 All of the shapes are Tim Holtz die cuts, the holly, ornaments, #25, and title shape. The title font is an OLD QuicKutz font that I like for "country" style layouts called Khaki. 

The second challenge contest was to make a tutorial using Echo Park paper and post it on a new site called Instructagram.  I did that earlier this week. My tutorial was a step by step guide to making these quilted paper ornaments.  If you would like to know how to make these ornaments, check out my tutorial on Instructagram!