fairy tale card

Happy Monday! The challenge at BBTB2 for the next two weeks is a fairy tale theme.  My 25th wedding anniversary is next week and this challenge gave me the perfect idea for a card for my amazing hubby.  We are still very much in love and have three great kids and the years have flown by....so it's truly my fairy tale happily ever after with everything I ever wanted!  While the pandemic has precluded doing anything big to celebrate, we are spending the day together and going hiking and getting our favorite takeout.  

For my card, I used a romantic flower frame from the Happily Ever After collection (the inside sentiment is from that collection also).  The front sentiment is from a collection called B is for Books, which I found after a search on cricut access and sized to fit inside the frame.  I think he will like it!  You can check out the design team's projects over at the BBTB2 site and link up a cricut project there.

Cricut:

Happily Ever After-frame and inside sentient

B is for Books-front sentiment

Paper-Tealightful 6x6 paper pad, CTMH solids

based on a movie or a book

Happy Monday!  Our BBTB2 theme this week is "based on a book or movie".  There is a story about my layout this week, which is based on the Disney movie Sleeping Beauty.  Several years ago we went to Disney World and to my great surprise, my preteen and teen age boys begged to meet the princesses.  So along with all the little girls dressed in princess gear, we slogged through a huge line until magically, there were Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and Belle.  The boys were starstruck!  It was their favorite thing they did on that trip....who would have guessed?  Not me!  While I have most of the pics from that trip scrapped, I never got around to doing all the princess pictures, so Sleeping Beauty got her layout with the fellas.  Hope you will join us with a book or movie inspired project this week!  You can see the DT projects over at BBTB2.

Cricut:
Happily Ever After-title, Sleeping Beauty
Paper-CTMH solids, Echo Park stripe
brown chalk ink

Lucky Silver Mine layout

While at Silver Dollar City (an old time theme park), we ate at the Lucky Silver Mine restaurant for lunch.  The fun part here is that you walk through a 60 ft "mine shaft" to get in and it's all underground with a mine theme, complete with lanterns and pickaxes!  Now that you have the background, you can see what I did with the layout.  I tore some paper on one side to be the side of the mine (the walls of the place were rough cement to look like a mine) and added some lanterns.  The checked paper reminded me of the tablecloths.  The miner is Grumpy the dwarf from Happily Ever After, but I trimmed off his stocking cap and added a hat from Old West.  The ore cart is also from Old West, but I modified it a bit also.   The lanterns (which I also added a layer to) and shovel are from Happily Ever After.  The font is Old West.  It all came out pretty fun and I was really happy with it!  I LOVE the wooden background paper from My Mind's Eye!!!!

Cricut:
Happily Ever After-miner with pickaxe, shovel, lanterns
Old West-font,  ore cart
Paper-My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline-the dilly dally collection, plus assorted solid card stock                                                                                                                                        

Snow White layout (Disney)

I am still SLOWLY working my way through my Disney pics from last year!  We snapped several fun pics inside of Snow White's Scary Adventure, including one of the wishing well, while we were on the ride.  I cut Snow White and the wishing well from the Happily Ever After cartridge, and added the apple, bird, border, and title.   I cut Snow White at 5 1/2 inches and had to do her eyes with gel pens, as the eye pieces were just too small to work with.

Edited to add:  I just realized I photographed this with the pages reversed-Snow White and the Wishing Well are supposed to be together!  Whoops!!!

Cricut:
Happily Ever After-all cuts
Paper-solid card stock is CM and Bo Bunny, print-Disney paper pack
embossing folders
Stamp-K Andrews set Of Mice and Lil Men
white gel pen, brown chalk ink for edges

I'm going to link this to the Exploring Cricut Disney Dreaming challenge this week.  I'm looking forward to seeing all the cool Disney projects there for ideas!

Disney layout from Epcot (China)

Mulan (from the Happily Ever After princess cartridge) was the inspired addition to the Epcot page where we visited the China section.  (I need reasons to cut the princesses, since my boys really weren't interested in meeting the princesses except for when we saw Jasmine in Morocco, which I suspect had more to do with her outfit, lol.)  The dragon is actually part of the Mulan title block, but I tossed the rest and just used him.  The castle and China title are from Destinations.  I trimmed the castle from the rest of the image it was attached to.  ( And Mom-it is OK to throw away the scraps-really!)

I'm going to link this to the Paper Playtime challenge this week to use an umbrella on the project.

Cricut:
Happily Ever After-Mulan, umbrella, flowers, dragon
Destinations-title, castle
Paper-from the stash, don't know the line
Stampin Up buttons

Magic Kingdom-Disney layout

Cinderella's castle is amazing to look at, both far away and up close.  I took some pictures outside and some of the murals inside.  I used Tink as an accent, since she flies down from the castle at night during the firework show.  The title is the Mickey Font.

Cricut:

Happily Ever After-Tink

Mickey Font-title

Paper-Paper Pizazz Disney kit (is that not the coolest paper?)

Norway-Disney layout

All the countries in Epcot were enormously fun to visit and the boys (including hubby) found themselves very amused in the gift shops.  For awhile I thought I would have to put ALL of them (including dad!) in time out, lol!  This layout is from Norway, where Viking gear and trolls were abundant in the gift shops.  I used the Mickey font for the title and used MyCutSearch to find a sword.  MyCutSearch (where you can type in the item you want to cut) showed several cricut carts have swords and I ended up using the sword on Happily Ever After. 

Cricut:
Happily Ever After-sword
Mickey Font-title
Paper-Simple Stories Awesome line for background paper