Duck Tales

 On our last trip to Disneyland a few weeks ago, the ducks were out in force!  And there were a lot of ducklings running around too.  They are so funny the way they really aren't bothered by all the people.  Sometimes they are so blatantly careless that the mamas take the ducklings out into the central hub to go popcorn hunting and are in danger of either being trampled by people and horses, or run over by one of the vehicles, so the Disneyland Security assigns a duck patrol to follow the around with umbrellas and make them get out of the way when danger is near.

 I stretched this one-page sketch into a two-pager for all my duck pictures.  

This is from Sketch #70 from Sketch Savvy.

 I love the mama duck in the main photo on this page.  She had her little brood up on the banks of the Jungle Cruise and she had some things to say to us as we passed.  I caught her in mid quack.  And the ducks just sit wherever they want.  The top photo on the side is from the Pirates Lair on Tom Sawyer's Island where they are sitting on the sunken ship, and the duck butt is was taken from the deck of the Mark Twain near New Orleans Square.

 This side has one of the ducks sleeping on the back of a moose along the Rivers of America, and from the poo running down the moose, you can tell that he sleeps there a lot.  The bottom picture is of a momma duck and her brood swimming in the upper pool in Pixie Hollow.

 The papers I used on this layout were from Scrap Within Reach, and I made my own flower jpg. to use as a cutting file so they matched the flowers in the paper. You are welcome to download it for your own personal use.

Bang that Beat!

This Disney layout is dedicated to some of the great Disneyland Street Performers. The Trashcan Trio is a group of percussionists who play in Tomorrowland at Disneyland. They keep a foot stomping, toe tapping beat going using just trashcans, buckets and trashcan lids. As you can tell, they're a fun group!


Again, I used Scrap Within Reach " Paper Boy" paper for this layout, and sketch #11 from Sketch Savvy. It was a one pager, but you know I can't do just one page for my Disney photos or I will never get them finished! So I turned it into a two-pager again.


I decided to put part of the title in a trashcan. The template for the trashcan is at the end of this blog post. No, I still can't make an SVG file, so if you make one, please let me know and I will link it here.



The trashcan is cut from some really old Black Tie Basic Grey paper that I had.


To add to the industrial look, I added some Tim Holtz Ideaology washers and some large pewter brads. The teal trim is Creative Imaginations.


Here is the template. Please let me know if you convert any of my templates into SVG files so I can link to them and we can share them with others.

Not Today Zurg!

I think I have a hundred photos from Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters at Disneyland. We ride it just about every time we're there and since we are AP holders, that is quite often. So, the next few blog entries you may be inundated with Buzz pictures okay?

This layout is based on Sketch #22 from Sketch Savvy. I made it into a two-pager, but I just felt like the sketch went so well with these papers.


I had fun with this paper; it is a line from Scrap Within Reach called "Paper Boy." The funky shapes are an exclusive QuicKutz die from Hobby Lobby, and the stars are QK too.

I made my own "unscalloped border" for this layout, and blew up one of the Quickutz shapes so I could make a large journaling box. I've linked those below. I would have made them SVG's for those of you with SCAL, but I just got it and can't figure out how to do that just yet. Maybe soon though!


Yay! Another Buzz layout done!