Toy Story and the Hundred Acre Wood

Two years ago we won tickets to preview the new Toy Story Mania ride at Disney's California Adventure Park two days before it opened to the public. We got there early and got to ride it several times in a row. What a fun ride and it's really interactive.


This layout was made using Scrap Within Reach "Carnival Ride" paper line and stickers. This layout was made using a sketch from Sketch Savvy.


I thought it was perfect because there are pennants hanging all around inside the ride.


I'm really struggling to accept the "white space" on this layout. I like a little more on my layouts and this just seems a little bland, but I am trying not to make it too busy.


The CM doing the bunny ears behind me actually remembered us when we went back that weekend to ride it again with my family.

This layout was about a day that a bunch of fellow Disney scrappers decided to go to Disneyland. Some of the girls took their kiddos with them. It was the first time at DLR for one of the little guys and since most of us were totally clueless about taking kids to DLR, we took him on Pirates of the Caribbean and it totally terrorized him. So, in order to make up for it, we took him to Critter Country to hand out with Pooh and the Gang.

For this layout I also used a sketch from Sketch Savvy. I used this sketch for the layout.


I absolutely love the tree!!

Wine Bottle Covers

I went to a crop recently at my LSS that had some Make n Takes. One of them was a wine bottle cover. It was a simple project, but included some stamping and embossing techniques. I thought it was a great idea, but wanted to change it up a bit.


For my bottle covers, I cut Tim Holtz Grungeboard into strips, squares and then die cut one piece using one of his Alterations die cuts. Then I used a Quickutz embossing folder to emboss all the grungeboard pieces. Once they were all embossed, I painted them with Distress Paint Dabbers, let the paint dry, and then sanded the raised areas. Once the raised areas were sanded, I inked the entire surface with Distress Ink, and wiped off the ink from the painted areas. The paint acts as a resist for the ink, allowing the embossed areas to show through, but not color the painted areas too much.


Then I stamped a circle and an initial onto some QuicKutz Adhesive Cork. Two kinds come in a package, so the one on the left contains larger, more irregular pieces of cork, and the one of the right has smaller, corkboard type pieces. I wanted this to resemble the top of a wine cork (even though most of them have a date on them.)

And for the top, I took four pieces of jute and dyed them using Ranger Color Wash in colors that matched the paint I used. The colors here are Lettuce, Eggplant, Wild Plum and Butterscotch. Once they dried, I tied them around the tops of the wine bottles.


Lastly I punched small holes in the edges of the decorative piece, and the strip of grungeboard and attached them with a brad. In order to get the piece to fit around a bottle, I punched a hole in each side piece and tied them together with a small piece of jute.

This was a fun, easy project that will make a great gift for someone.

Woo hoo! I won! Twice!!

In April I entered a layout contest for my LSS, Remember When. They challenged us to make a layout using My Mind's Eye Abbey Road line of paper and embellishments. I just found out that I won! This is the great MME paper and embellishment pack that I won.


I made the two layouts below. What fun! I may make some layouts with the paper I won, to share on my kit blog!



And just a few weeks ago I entered the Graphic 45 Renaissance Faire May Madness contest. For this contest you could make any paper crafting project, you just had to use the papers and things from their Renaissance Faire line.


I made this layout and won! They sent me a complete set of each of the lines above! Transatlantique, Renaissance Faire, Le Romantique, A Proper Gentleman, and On the Boardwalk.

Little Dancer

I made this for the Graphic 45 Renaissance Faire contest. You were to make a project using that line of paper. I thought it went perfectly with the pictures we took last November at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. We walked into a room and suddenly I saw it -- Degas' Little Dancer! It was stunning!

The pictures just don't do it justice. If you ever get a chance, you must go see this amazing bronze sculpture in person. He actually used a green ribbon and bronze dipped fabric for her outfit.

Along with showcasing this piece of art, I wanted to add some of my own artwork to the page. I found this rose tutorial online and wanted to make some to put on this page. Here is how you make them.

First, punch out 8 flowers or scallops. I made them in two different sizes. I used the EK Success punches.

Then spritz with water. I spritzed with water and some bronze perfect pearls for a tiny bit of shimmer.
Then crinkle each one into a little ball.
They should look like this when you are done.
The flatten them back out and stack them into a stack of 8. If you have double sided paper, you might want to flip them over every other one so that you can see the other side. I didn't do that because I didn't want it to be too busy for this layout.
Then using an awl or paper punch (as usual I couldn't find my Tim Holtz paper punch, which is my favorite!)
Stick a long brad through the hole and open the back to fasten all the papers together.
Then starting with the top petal, pull it up and squeeze it tight in the center.
Then do the same with the second petal.
And once you have squeezed all the petals around the center, it will look like a rose bud.
Then very gently, take it and spread the petals out and down to form the rose blossom.
Here is one of the smaller ones.
And the larger red one. I added some Prima swirls to fit with the feel of the metal sculpture and the grace of the dancer.


Thanks Graphic 45! This was a fun challenge!

Wild!

Serendipity Scrapbooks is having an online crop this weekend. It is an old TV shows theme, so all the challenges are based around old TV shows like Star Trek, Brady Bunch, The Adams Family, etc. Every once in awhile they break in with a "commercial break" or a mini challenge that is only for 1 or 2 hours.

My friend Susan posted this commercial break for Fruit Striped Gum.

Basically, you had to make a card using a red, green, yellow, orange and pink stripe and include one animal on your card. It sounded like a fun way to use up some stuff in my stash, so here is my take on the challenge.


Just for the fun of it, here is a link to one of the original Fruit Stripes Gum commercials.

Quacked - My Minds Eye

This layout was for Blog Challenge #11 on the My Mind's Eye blog. It was an anything goes challenge. You could use any My Mind's Eye products. I used all My Minds Eye paper from the Tres Jolie and Magnolia Collections.

You were supposed to follow this sketch.

I cut some of the flowers out of one of the Magnolia papers and then layered them with felt and added a little bling.




This was a fun, quick layout to do and I was able to get some recent pictures scrapped that we took with Donald Duck at Disneyland last month. Thanks MME!!

Orange Stinger - DCA

On one girls day at Disneyland Resort, we decided to go on some of the attractions we never usually try. This was our ride on the Orange Stinger (RIP). The Orange Stinger is no longer. It was retired and has been revamped as Mickey's Silly Symphony. I thought this was going to be a rather benign ride, I mean, it's just a bunch of swings that go around in a circle! But when we got off I was completely nauseous. I vowed then never to do the Orange Stinger again.

This Page Maps sketch from November 2009 was perfect for this Breaking Free paper from My Minds Eye.

I used SCAL on my Cricut to cut out the title and then added some Bazzill flowers, felt and Prima bling.

Screamin'!

Woo hooo! We love California Screamin'! I loved the oranges, teals and greys of this Breaking Free paper from My Mind's Eye.

I used this page maps sketch for this layout:

Family Ties - Cosmo Cricket

This is another layout using Cosmo Cricket Honey Pie. I wanted to use the quilted heart technique again and thought it went so well with this paper.

I added a couple of areas with some simple cross stitching for some texture in the corners, and used the twisted flower technique for even more. I love the combination of the printed stitching on the paper, the cross stitching, the machine stitching and the flowers.



I had planned on making this a grandma layout, and then a few weeks ago my cousin got married and all the aunts, uncles, my parents and my grandma posed for a family photo shoot, and I immediately knew they would be absolutely perfect for this layout!

Tea Time - Cosmo Cricket

This was a fun layout to do. Simple, light color scheme, and the fun pennants. I really like it. There are no techniques or anything, just a simple, straight forward two pager to scrap a memory for several years ago.

I used Cosmo Cricket Honey Pie for this layout, and my mom made the scalloped circle for the center.

This is of a tea time we had with our friend Gerri Ann and her mom one Saturday morning at our favorite little tea shop, The Four Seasons Tea Room. They make the best scones and have the best food of almost any tea we have ever been to except for their neighbor, the Rose Tree Cottage.

D23 First Anniversary Party!

On March 10, 2010, we went to Disneyland for the first D23 Anniversary event. We met some Disney legends, got pictures with a bunch of rare Disney characters, and ate some yummy Disney desserts. You can read more about the actual event and some some pictures on my Disneyland blog.


Yet again, the Afternoon Tea paper from Scrap Within Reach was the perfect color scheme, and yet again, my friend Susan came through with the perfect sketch! Be sure and visit her blog, Sketch Savvy and check out all the great sketches.

For this layout I chose to use Sketch #19 and because it was a one page sketch, I decided to turn it into a two pager.


Instead of the stitching, I added the line of ribbon across the top, and then did do some machine sewing on my layout.

Because there was no title on the second page, the top corner needed a little something, so I decided to stamp and emboss a design. I found this stamp set to be just the perfect thing for each of the top corners of this layout. I stamped the image on the green cardstock with clear embossing ink, then embossed it with purple distress embossing powder. If you've never worked with Ranger's Distress Embossing powder, it is really neat! It doesn't get shiny, but it is a dull, very textured feel and I love it.

The stamp set was also designed by Susan for Inque Boutique/ Darice. It is called Ornaments (#50391).

I really loved the simplicity of this layout. It wasn't cluttered and really let the colors of the paper and the pictures shine through.