Disney layout day!

Happy Monday!   Our BBTB2 challenge today is to use an imaginary character-well, I think ANY Disney character would qualify, right?  This makes it a Disney layout day for me, so if you love the Mouse and have a million pictures to scrap, hopefully you will find something fun to scrap lift.  And since I had several Disney projects to share, you are getting all three, although only two have imaginary characters.  These were so much fun to make, although I will admit to a bit of swearing while putting Buzz Lightyear together (DO NOT cut him small….unless you want to lose your mind!).  Please note:  for the BBTB2 challenge, any imaginary character will meet the challenge requirements-it does not have to be Disney related.  Go check out the design team projects over at BBTB2 and link up a project this week!

Hollywood Studios layout:

Cricut:
CM Traveler -Beach Bum font
Mickey and Friends-Disney and Mickey Mouse
Artbooking-vertical photo frames
Paper/chipboard piece/sticker-Simple Stories Say Cheese II collection prints, CTMH solids
square punch for photo corners
brown chalk ink

Epcot layout:

Cricut:
CM This and That-globe
Mickey Font-font
Paper/Chipboard-Simple Stories Say Cheese II collection
brown chalk ink

Buzz Lightyear layout:

Cricut:
Plaintain Schoolbook-stars
Toy Story:  Buzz Lightyear and title
Paper-CTMH solids

Music layouts

So we have a music challenge this week at BBTB2.  Since all my kids are very musical, I make a lot of music projects.  I have several musical themed layouts I've done over the last year that I haven't shared on the blog, so this is like a whole concert of layouts, lol!  I have kids in both band and orchestra and I have to say that the Quarter Note cartridge is the one to have if you have musical kiddos!  I use it ALL the time.

Project #1

However, this layout is NOT about the kids!  As a birthday gift last year, my husband got tickets for us to see my favorite band (Maroon 5) in concert when they came to the Sprint Center in Kansas City.  It was so much fun going to see the concert and of course I took some pictures...  My guitar and font are from the CM This and That cartridge-love the funky guitar (it feels rock and roll…).  The music notes are also from the cartridge.

Cricut:
CM This and That-all cuts
Paper-CTMH solids, bg paper unknown

Project #2

As Son#2 is in the marching band, pep band, AND jazz band at his high school, I have taken a lot of band pics this year.  My son plays trombone in the band, but this design could be changed up to include any instrument.  The frames are pop dotted so I can slide a picture underneath.  The high school band and orchestra students "fondly" refer to each other as band geeks and orch dorks, hence the band geeks title.  Guess I need to make an orch dork layout too for Sons#1 and #3!

Cricut:
Quarter Note-trombone, band hat
Artbooking-frames, notes, arrow
Zoo Day-title font
Paper-band bg paper unknown, Echo Park blue paper, CTMH other solids
brown chalk ink

Project #3

Another music layout for band and orchestra pictures from the pops concert last year for pics of all 3 kiddos playing…I wanted bright colorful paper for this fun end of the year concert of pop music.

Cricut:
Quarter Note-clef, notes
Robotz-font
Paper-Echo Park bg paper, CTMH solids

Project #4

Son#2 won the instrumental prize at the school talent show last year on piano (yes, he plays trombone AND piano and sings too), so I made this layout for the pics.  I had to trim some of the flourishes off the piano (from Quarter Note) to make it fit.  

Cricut:
Quarter Note-piano, microphone, keyboards, clef and notes
Nifty Fifties-guitar
Mickey Font-title
Paper-Echo Park prints, CTMH solids

Project #5

This layout is for an orchestra event where Son #1 is wearing a tux, so I wanted a more formal look for the layout with black, white, and cream.  Loved the music paper and the Quarter Note cartridge!

Cricut:

Elegant Edges-journal box

Quarter Note-all other cuts

Paper-bg print is Echo Park, music paper The Paper Studio, CTMH solids

Rocky Mountain High road trip layout (for BBTB2 travel challenge)

It's a vacation travel challenge at BBTB2!  We are leaving next week to go to Estes Park Colorado to see Rocky Mountain National Park and do some hiking and white water rafting, so this was very timely!  I cannot wait to be on the road!  I'm sure I'll be taking a bazillion pictures of the mountain views (in fact, I've scheduled us for a jeep photography tour!), so I've made a layout using Pack Your Bags and Zooballoo.  I cut the mountains from Zooballoo at fit to page, which turned out to be 4 1/2 inches.  The car, camera, and compass are all from Pack Your Bags.

Edited to add:  My kids informed me that this title could be misconstrued with the Colorado legislation legalizing certain substances (which did not even occur to me)….so just to clarify, we are going high as in ELEVATION,  lol!

Cricut:

Pack Your Bags-car cut at 4 inches, compass cut at 3 inches, camera cut at 3 inches

Mickey Font-title cut at 1 inch

Paper/Stickers-Echo Park Summer Bliss collection prints, CTMH solids

Space Mountain Disney layout (for Exploring Cricut)

It's my turn for the daily project at Exploring Cricut and since I'm having a Disney themed kind of week,  I'll add one more layout to the mix!  Hope you aren't totally sick of Disney stuff!  I promise I'll maybe mix it up a little next month with some other layout themes.

I was making a layout for some pictures of the Space Mountain roller coaster at The Magic Kingdom, so I turned Mickey into an astronaut!  I cut the title font and Mickey's head from the Mickey Font cartridge and cut the astronaut suit from the Everyday Paperdolls cartridge to get my space themed Mickey.  The planets and stars are also from Everyday Paperdolls.  The print papers are from the Simple Stories Say Cheese collection, which is absolutely perfect for scrapping those Disney pictures!  I'd highly recommend getting this paper collection for this type of photo.

Cricut:
Mickey Font-title font, Mickey head
Everyday Paperdolls-astronaut suit, stars and planets
Paper-Simple Stories Say Cheese collection prints

Be sure to check out the challenges at Exploring Cricut in March-Diane is opening them up to all machines that cut SVGs, including the new Cricut machine.  So new Cricut Explore and Silhouette Cameo owners, you can join in too!  Plus of course there are super awesome projects of all types every day with the daily projects from the designg team!

Downtown Disney (for Exploring Cricut)

It's a Disney challenge this week at Exploring Cricut!  I love all things Disney, so I was VERY excited to dig into my stack of Disney pictures waiting for a scrapbook home.   I made a layout for some pictures of my boys at Downtown Disney, many of which were taken at the LEGO store.  (It is the biggest LEGO store I have ever seen-if you have boys, definitely a must see!)  I used the Mickey and Friends cartridge for pictures of Donald Duck and his boat and other cuts and the Mickey Font for the title.  The Mickey Font is one of my absolute favorite fonts-so chunky and fun!  The Disney cut is also on the Mickey Font cartridge.

Did you know you can take a boat ride to Downtown Disney from many of the DisneyWorld hotels?  That's how I got these shots from the water!  It was super fun and relaxing to cruise down the river to get there.

Cricut
Mickey Font-titles
Mickey and Friends-all other cuts (Donald and the boat are both cut at 5 inches, anchor at 21/2 inches, little sailboat at 11/2 inches)
Paper-print is from a Disney stack, solids CTMH
brown chalk ink
Paper

So I will leave you with the fun Disney game we play over dinner sometimes for a laugh-which Disney character are you?  The funny part is that your dining companions have to decide, and it's not always the character you think you should be.  For example, I really feel like I should be Ariel or Minnnie Mouse, but my family does not agree and made me be Pooh!  Try it-it's pretty hilarious.  And join us for our challenge at Exploring Cricut this week :)

Field Trip school bus layout for (BBTB2)

It's almost back to school time for those of us with kids-I cannot believe it's on top of us already!  Don't ask how much I had to spend on school supplies this weekend!!!!  On a happier note, our BBTB2 DT leader Susan has challenged us to use a school bus on a project this week.  This immediately made me think of the little kid song "The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round"-see, aren't you hearing it now too?  We used to sing that a lot when my kiddos were in preschool :)  I used the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge for my bus and my favorite Mickey Font for my title.  I've actually never cut this bus before and I really like the way it came out!

Cricut:
Stretch Your Imagination-bus
Mickey Font-title
Paper-DCWV prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

So get in the back to school spirit and join us with a school bus at BBTB2!

I've also linked up to the Craftin' Desert Divas back to school linky party.

Getting Wet layout

I've got a swimming pool layout, inspired by this background paper from Authentique that reminded me of the tiles on the walls of our pool.  My whole layout is in shades of soft blues and yellow, picked up from the bg paper.  I used the Mickey Font for the title and the rest of the cuts are from the Pack Your Bags cartridge.  The kids and I are enjoying lazy days of summer and spending time in the pool every day!  I'm going to link this to the Craftin' Desert Divas Summer themed link party.

Cricut:
Mickey Font-title
Pack Your Bags-all other cuts
Paper-Authentique prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

Movie Night layout (for Exploring Cricut)

Today is my day to show a daily project at Exploring Cricut!  I have a layout about the movies, inspired by this fun Karen Foster film reel background paper!  One of our favorite family traditions is movie night, where we all curl up in the living room to watch a movie together with popcorn and pizza (along with a fire in the winter).  It's super fun (we pick the movie from Netflix) and MUCH cheaper than the theater!  With a couple of kids, who can afford the theater these days?  Plus you can have much better snacks at home.

My layout is for some pics of a movie night with friends recently.   I cut the filmstrip from Mickey and Friends (also the star) and cut it in half diagonally to visually connect the two pages.  The popcorn and soda cuts are from the Carousel cartridge.  The font is my absolute favorite:  the Mickey Font.

Cricut:
Mickey Font-title font
Mickey and Friends-star and filmstrip
Carousel-popcorn and soda
brown chalk ink
Paper-Karen Foster background paper, CTMH and CM solids

I hope you enjoyed this layout and check back every day at Exploring Cricut for a new daily project to inspire you!

Dyeing Eggs layout (for BBTB2)

Egg-ceptional Easter Eggs is the challenge theme for BBTB2 this week!  (Those yummy-licious chocolate eggs....definitely egg-ceptional)  We have a family tradition of spending an evening dyeing Easter eggs, which my kids love!  It's messy, but SOOO fun!  Last year I got 2 dozen ready for dyeing and they begged for more-we ended up dyeing almost 4 dozen eggs!!!!!!   So join us at the BBTB2 this week with an egg project.

So, on to my layout!  I always take lots of pictures of the dyeing process so I made a layout, using Stretch Your Imagination for the cute little bunnies with the paintbrushes working on some eggs.  I especially like the bunny on the tall stack of eggs, hard at work!   My beloved Doodlecharms cartridge gave me the basket and eggs (it is my favorite cricut basket on all my carts) and the title is from the Mickey Font-love the big fun chunky letters on that font!

The background papers are from from The Paper Studio and that Easter Egg paper inspired the whole layout.  Note:  For the Stretch Your Imagination cuts, I cut the main image/layers and then put the silhouette cut on top of it, and backed the whole thing with the shadow cut.

the whole layout:

my favorite stretched bunny who's been hard at work:

and my other cute little bunny:

Cricut:
Mickey Font-title
Doodlecharms-basket and eggs
Stretch Your Imagination-bunnies
Paper-background papers from The Paper Studio, solids are CTMH and CM, glitter paper is Target
brown chalk ink
ribbon-Stampin Up bashful blue
stickers-Echo Park, leftovers from an old collection

Alice and Mad Hatter layout (Disney project)

I have TWO posts going up today-kinda fun and crazy!  So if you're looking for the Pause Dream Enjoy Challenge for this week, it is the post just below this!  (Even if you're not looking for it, I really like my layout for it too, so give it a peek :)

I was so excited to be asked to be the guest designer today at Exploring Cricut!  I decided to do a Disney project, as we recently got back from Disney World (and I took approximately a million pictures, give or take a few).  I've been scouring the web for Disney layout inspiration!  Alice in Wonderland and the Mad Hatter were at one of our character breakfasts (we also saw Alice at Epcot), so I decided to go all Alice in Wonderland for my layout.   (Also, I've always secretly wanted to have a reason to have the Cheshire cat on a layout!)  So Alice, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire cat and the Dormouse are having some tea and breakfast.  I used the Disney Classics cartridges for all the cuts except the Mad Hatter/breakfast titles, which use the Mickey Font.

Cricut:
Mickey Font-character breakfast font
Disney Classics-all other cuts
Paper-prints are from the Echo Park Everyday Eclectic collection, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink
stamp-Fiskars set

This layout could easily be adapted for a fun tea party layout by eliminating the Alice and Mad Hatter titles and adding another 4x6 photo.  All the photo mats are for 4x6 pics. 

A few more Christmas layouts....

I hope you all had a merry Christmas!  We had much fun with all our extended family, sharing love and celebrating the birth of Jesus together.  We also tried really hard not to share the germs, as the flu unfortunately found my family the week before Christmas.   We'll see how well that went over the next few days....   But on to the layout.  (I'm finishing up last year's Christmas photos.)  The stocking full of gifts and journaling tag are from Winter Frolic.  Love the little candy cane on the tag!  The font is my favorite-the Mickey font.

Cricut:
Winter Frolic-tag and stocking
Mickey Font-title
Paper-Making Memories "Believe" collection print, solids CTMH
Ribbon-Stampin Up

Buckets of Fun layout

I made this layout last night for the Exploring Cricut challenge this week:  Summer Fun is the theme, using at least 3 cricut cuts, 2 patterned papers, and an embellishement.  I used the H2O cartridge for the pail, ball, sprinkler, and sun.  The title font is my favorite-the Mickey Font!  The pics are from our elementary school Field Day, which heavily featured water games!  The kids spent most of the day wet, so I thought the stamp was perfect!   For my embellishment, I added some orange stickle to the sun and diamond glaze to the water on the sprinkler to make it look wet.

Cricut:
Mickey Font-title
H2O-all other cuts
Paper/Sticker-Echo Park Sweet Summertime
Stamp/Ink-K Andrews Splashtastic Summer set/Stampin Up Early Espresso ink

Rootin' Tootin' Shootin' Toy Story Mania layout (Disney)

I'm very slowly working my way through the millions of pictures I took last year on our Disney trip.  Toy Story Mania was one of our favorite rides-we ALL loved it!  I saw the Rootin' Tootin' Shootin' title on a tshirt in the gift shop later and knew that would work it's way onto a layout somehow.   This took me a whole evening to make-those cuts on Toy Story are not for the faint-hearted!  I cut Jessie at 10 inches and I would not cut her any smaller, as I still had to dig out the tweezers for small pieces.  I cut Bullseye at 6 inches (he wasn't as bad as Jessie).  The army men weren't too bad either.  I love how my layout turned out in the end, even if assembly was a bit tedious :)

Cricut:
Kate's ABCs-MANIA letters
Mickey Font-title
Toy Story-all other cuts
Paper-all CM, both printed backgrounds and solid cardstock

I'm linking this to the Getting Cricky Simply Sunday Disney challenge.  There were a ton of fabulous Disney projects on the two day blog hop over there-very inspirational!

Daisy Duck-Disney layout

Back to some more Disney layouts, folks.  It may take until we save up enough money for the next trip to scrap the pics from this trip!!!!!  But I have to admit Disney layouts are superfun to make.  Daisy Duck in her safari outfit greeted us at one of our character meals.  Daisy is girly even in safari dress and she spent some time oohing and aahing over the autograph book I made, which made me ridiculously happy :)  I used several cuts from Mickey and Friends for this layout. 

Cricut:
Mickey and Friends-Daisy, purse, necklace
Mickey Font-title
Paper-The Paper Studio for the flower background

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

Hakuna Matata-Disney layout

 The Lion King show at Disney is THE best show in all four parks, in my opinion.  I got seeds of the idea for this layout from something I saw awhile back, so the lion on the cliff is not original to me.  I can't remember if I saw that idea on the cricut message board or on a blog somewhere, so if it rings a bell with someone, let me know and I'll give credit to the originator!   I cut my lion from Animal Kindom and just started tearing paper to make my cliff and setting sun.  I left a big journal box, because there is a big story to be written about us getting caught in a torrential rain before the show. 

Cricut:
Animal Kingdom-lion, ROAR
Mickey font-titles
Graphically Speaking -tree
Paper-Sandylion (background), assorted cardstock scraps
orange chalk around the setting sun
Swiss dots embossing folder on lion mane

I'm going to link this to the Fantabulous cricut challenge this week to use a lion, tiger, cat, etc. to celebrate March "coming in like a lion".