I has so much of the Afternoon Tea paper that I decided to make a few more layouts with it.
A few weeks ago when we went to DCA for the Food and Wine Festival, we made our way over to Stage 12 for the tapas (appetizers) tasting.
Again I turned to one of my friend, Susan's sketches. I thought this one would be perfect for showcasing the many different things we tasted that day. Check out her blog, Sketch Savvy.
I left it pretty simple since I decided to make some kits out of this layout. But it does the job and I love it!
And if you would like to try some of the delicious little tapas pictured here, you have until may 31 to get to DCA to try them! I wrote a detailed critique on my Disneyland blog.
I woke up one Saturday morning a couple of weeks ago and had this banner in mind. I really wanted to use my QuicKutz banner die and the Graphic 45 On The Boardwalk paper. Unfortunately I had to wait a couple of weeks to get the time to make it. This last weekend I spent a good portion of the entire weekend at my LSS for their National Scrapbook Weekend Crop. So, I got everything cut and ready to go for the crop and put it together on Saturday.
Hopefully you can see some of the wonderful vintage beach tags and posters from some of the papers. I chalked the edges with Ranger Distress Ink in Rusty Hinge (my new favorite!)
To see more details, click on the picture and it will get bigger.
I used more QuicKutz dies to make the scalloped circles on top of the fans, and the letters are QuicKutz Katie Grand.
I'm thinking about searching through the disaster I call my scraproom, and finding some tiny sea shells that I bought on my last vacation and adhering them to a few of the banners. Still undecided on that though.
This was a fun project (although it did get a bit tedious at times with all the scoring and inking!) and I'm so thankful for the weekend of cropping so I could get it done. That's one of the 102,593 projects I have planned that I can actually cross off the list! Woo hooooo!
Yeah, pretty cliche, I know! But I really wanted to get this picture scrapped and nothing else was coming to mind. These are three friends from Texas that come and stay in out home for a week every few years. They call us and send us stuff in-between and they crack us up! Good guys!
For this layout I used the Sketch Savvy #6 from my friend Susan's sketch blog. I ordered some paper from Miss Paper Jane (Cosmo Cricket) and they sent me a bunch of free strips of Jack's World paper. I bought a few more pieces from my LSS and thought they would be perfect for this sketch! Thanks Miss Paper Jane!!
I added a few paper circles and some grommlets and called it good. It seemed like simple was the best way to go with this one.
If you know me, you know that I am a picky eater and that I hate the taste of wine and beer. Well, my Disney travel agent friend, asked me to go to Disney's Food & Wine Festival at California Adventure and tell her about it. I have been blogging about my experiences and you can read all the details about my wine tasting on my blog Disneyland Diva.
Even though this sketch by my friend Susan Stringfellow has a heart on it, I decided to use it anyway as kind of an ironic twist on my wine tasting adventure. You can find this and many other fabulous sketches on her sketch blog, Sketch Savvy.
Since I had a lot of this Afternoon Tea paper from Scrap Within Reach, I decided to use it for my wine tasting pictures. It matched my outfit and the wine theme. And no, I didn't plan it that way, it was just a little bit of scrapping serendipity.
In order to include mutlitple pictures and not clog up the layout, I had the wine bottles printed as wallets and then punched them out with my square CM punch. Then I adhered them to the bottom corner of each photo so I knew what expression went with which wine.
In the bottom corner is my wine passport. They stamp it each time you taste a wine because you only get to taste 4 of the 16 offered unless you pay another $10. I wrote my immediate reactions about each wine in the passport at the time so I'm pretty much just using that and my expressions as my journaling.
The cute wine colored trim came with the paper, and so I thought it pulled the color scheme together with a line of it across the bottom of the layout, but I had about a foot left over, so I cut the little circles apart and used them to make a bunch of grapes and some little grape bunches in the top and bottom corners. It was just the embellishment it needed!
I had a great time making this layout and remembering how horrible the wine tasting was. It was worth it though to be able to make such a fun layout about the experience.
Truly, the Loaded Baked Potato Soup at the Carnation Cafe on Main Street is one of our all-time favorite meals in the Disneyland Resort. On most days, Chef Oscar Martinez will be going from table to table talking to guests and greeting them. He is a Disneyland icon. He's been at Disneyland since 1967. On this particular day he came by our table and sat down next to me and just chatted with us for about fifteen minutes about all kinds of things. He signed copies of his Loaded Baked Potato Soup recipe and gave us some pointers for making it taste just right.
The layout is based on a sketch from my friend Susan Stringfellow's sketch blog, Sketch Savvy.
This is her Two-Page Sketch #6.
I thought the colors in the Afternoon Tea line from Scrap Within Reach would be just perfect for these pictures. It was a girl's day out at Disneyland and all three of us had worn our deep plum shirts.
I haven't done it yet, but when I get time, I'm going to shrink the recipe down and put a Mickey tab on the top and hid it behind the picture of me with the soup.
As I said in my last post, my LSS is having a contest to make a layout using only the My Mind's Eye Abbey Road paper. For this layout I decided to go with the blues and pinks in the line. I thought it went perfectly with our picture of Princess Aurora.
For the layout, I decided to turn my friend Susan's 8 1/2 x 11 sketch into a 12x12 layout. You can see all of her sketches on her blog Sketch Savvy.
In addition to the sketch, I wanted to used a technique she featured on the Serendipity Scrapbooks challenge forum, which is to make a border using the folded flower technique. There is a little problem on the site right now so I can't link you to her tutorial, so my sorry directions will have to do.
First, punch at least a dozen 1 1/4" circles out of double-sided paper. Fold the flowers in half with the pattern on the outside that you want to show the most. Line these up as seen and sew onto your page or card.
Once you have the half circles sewn onto your paper, then open the circle up, and fold it in on itself along the fold as shown.
Do this to all the half circles on both sides and you will end up with a fun, dimensional border like this:
The blue and pink flowers and green leaves were made using seam binding ribbon that I colored with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist and Ranger Distress Ink Reinkers (I mixed colors to get just the right shade.) Then once the seam binding was dry, I followed this flower tutorial.
The sketch called for a leafy vine to run across the bottom of the page, but I decided I wanted a lace trim instead. Because one of my favorite scenes from Sleeping Beauty is when Flora, Fauna and Merriweather fight over what color Aurora's dress should be, I thought it would be fun to color the lace blue and pink. I broke out the cream lace trim and some glimmer mist and got to work. After I colored both ends of the trim, and dried it, it looked pretty good, but was a little strong for the page. It was okay, but I just didn't want it to stand out that much. While I was thinking about what to do to lighten it a little, I accidentally brushed it aside and noticed the back. WOW! I loved how the Glimmer Mist didn't soak in to the embroidery and allowed the cream lace detail to show through! One of those happy accidents!
For the title and the dark blue circle, I just sprayed a bit of Glimmer Mist on some of the polka-dot paper and cut it out with my QuicKutz.
I thought this layout was going to be an easy one, but it ended up taking me quite a long time with all the dying, drying and sewing. I'm really happy with the end result though!
Now here's a little fairy magic to put a smile on your face:
My LSS is having a contest this month to use the Abbey Road line of papers from My Mind's Eye. You just have to make a one or two page layout using that particular line of paper and only that line.
Since I'm still using my friend Susan's sketches from her Sketch Savvy blog, I decided to use this sketch with that line of paper.
Because the topic of the layout is the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit and Alice, I wanted to papers to be vibrant and to mimic the craziness of the photo session we had that night. So I mixed and matched all kinds of colors and patterns from the line.
I couldn't pass up the opportunity to use some of this fun trim! The little cotton balls reminded me of a white rabbit tail, and I loved the flowery teal Webster's Pages trim.
Since I have been so inspired by my friend Susan lately, she has also been doing some templates, and I decided to try my hand at a couple of templates myself! Here are the two I made for this page. You're welcome to use them for a layout, card or party favor if you'd like. Just a warning though, they are a little time consuming so put on a good tv show and start cutting!
Please let me know if you use the templates so I can link your project back here. It's so much fun to see what others do with something you made.
Wow! Another whole layout finished!! That must be a record for me in the last couple of years. Here's hoping I get a few more finished before Spring Break is over.
I wanted to use some of the beautiful Scrap Within Reach paper that I recently purchased and thought it would go perfectly with these pictures I took at Disneyland a few years ago. I absolutely love the mix of brown, green and blue in these papers!
My friend Susan has just developed a new sketch blog that I absolutely LOVE! You must head over there immediately to check it out! Sketch Savvy
This is the sketch I thought would go perfectly with this paper, but since I wanted to make it a two-pager, I adapted the sketch and added a page. That's the wonderful thing about sketches, they give you inspiration and a place to start, and then you can make it into something that works for you!
In addition to the paper, I added a little Creative Imaginations felt trim which matched perfectly, and cut some flowers and leaves from Bazzill cardstock. The top flowers are some old cardstock that I covered with sheets from an old dictionary using Claudine Helmuth Studio Multi-Medium. I colored them with Ranger Distress Inks.
The brads on the flowers were made with the I-top by Imaginice. First I took a few small pieces of Claudine Helmuth Sticky Back Canvas and colored them with distress inks, then stamped on them with an Inque Boutique stamp. Then I just followed the directions on the I-Top and voila!
The title comes from Disney's Tarzan movies since these pictures were taken out in front of Tarzan's Treehouse (formerly the Swiss Family Robinson House). The cute little elephant, Tantor, says this as he is getting in the elephant pool. It cracks me up, so I thought I would link that section of the movie here.
Wooo hooo! Another February challenge finished! This was another challenge by my friend, Susan Stringfellow.
I purchased a bunch of Graphic 45 paper a couple of weeks ago and made plans to use it for some Disney pages. This telephone paper was perfect for a couple of silly pictures my husband took of me at the Disneyland Resort over July 4th weekend last year. The journaling is pretty much true. Because I have an annual pass, if I know someone is going to be going to Disneyland for the day, I do everything I can to go down and meet them, even if it's just for a few hours. Although I prefer spending the whole day there if I can!
I used the following Sketch #10 from Sketch Savvy.
Here are some close-ups of the various embellishments I used from Graphich 45 and Prima. I thought it quite apropos to use the Liberty is calling tag b/c it was july 4th weekend, and whenever you get to go to Disneyland it's very liberating.
Thanks again for a fun challenge Susan! What a great time I've had this month making these layouts.
Supplies:
Font - Disney Print (cut with scal on cricut)
Prima Say it in Pearls
Prima velvet flowers
Prima black velvet flower trim
Graphic 45 Communique paper and tags
This was her challenge to us "Create a patchwork heart using the pattern provided and then use it on your layout. (pattern is found on the Serendipity website) *You must use all patterned papers and you must crumple the papers before attaching. **You do NOT have to stitch the heart, but you can if you like. *** There must be RED somewhere in your papers. "
So, here is my heart, made from Graphic 45 paper, "Playtimes Past" and a few other Graphic 45 lines thrown in for good measure.
Then, because the photo is one of us with Conductor Mickey, I made a little paper feather to match the one on his hat, and included a copy of "The Band Concert" poster and the "William Tell Overture" which is what he leads his orchestra in playing in the "Band Concert." Of course, Donald Duck comes along and tries to get everyone to play "Turkey in the Straw," but Mickey will have none of it.
Here is a youtube video of "The Band Concert." It is this short cartoon of Walt's that is the theme of the new Silly Symphony Swings that will be replacing the Orange Stinger in Disney's California Adventure in May.
Thanks again to my friend Susan! I have had such a great time scrapping just for fun!!!
Supplies:
Graphic 45 paper - Playtimes Past, Transatlantique
QuicKutz Music Notes
Heart Template by Susan Stringfellow
