Disney layout with Mickey Mouse

Happy President's Day Monday!  My family all had the day off from school and work, so I was looking forward to today...until some kind of virus found me.  I've spent the day in bed with the cat, both of us sleeping (which sounds nice except it's that dizzy fitful sleep that goes with sickness).  Although the cat seems quite content.  On the bright side, at least nothing important was going on and the fam has been bringing me juice and food!  I can definitely say however that I prefer to BE the nurse, not be the sick person, lol!

Our BBTB2 challenge this week is to use a licensed character in a project from one of the Disney, Pixar, Hello Kitty, or other licensed character cartridges.  I went Disney with my favorite character of them all, Mickey Mouse!  This layout has pics from a trip to Disney World several years ago with Mickey and the Disney logo front and center.  Hope you will join us making something fun and check out all the design team projects over at BBTB2!

Cricut:
Mickey and Friends-Mickey Mouse, Disney logo
Paper-Simple Stories Say Cheese prints, CTMH solids

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

Magical Memories Disney layout (for BBTB2)

Our DT sister Maureen has given us an interesting BBTB2 challenge this week:  to use a cricut cut as a stencil.  This had me searching for an idea for awhile, but as I looked at the scraps on my table, I had cut a border of Mickey's hands out of some red paper as an accent for something and the idea came to me to use the negative cut-it seemed sort of like a stencil, anyway.  I made it into a journaling spot and backed it in white so the white would make the border stand out.   And then I added the Mickey Heads with the letter M cut-out in the center to the layout for an accent.  I'm elbow deep in Disney photos from our trip in 2013 as well as our recent trip!  It feels good to get some more of them scrapped!

Cricut:
Mickey and Friends-negative of the Mickey hands border
Mickey Font-title font, mickey heads with the M cut out
Paper-from an old Creative Memories pack
sticker-from the stash

Check out what the rest of the super-talented design team has come up with and play along!

Disney tag (for Exploring Cricut)

We have a box, bag, or tag challenge (including a ribbon) at Exploring Cricut this week!  I made a tag that will go on a Disney themed scrapbook layout, since I only have a million or so pictures from our recent trip to see the Mouse!  My tag base is cut from the Mickey and Friends cartridge using kraft paper (and this tag is my absolute favorite shape of all the Cricut tags).  I added some stickers I've had in my stash forever that were too small to really make an impact on a scrapbook page but look great framed on the tag!  This will go a layout for pictures on the Jungle Cruise in the Magic Kingdom.

Cricut:
Mickey and Friends-tag cut at 5 inches
kraft paper
stickers-
white gel pen

Sorry this picture is not in the best focus!!!!!  I don't know what I did with my camera settings, but clearly they were not quite right!  Hope you will join in on our challenge and check out what all the DT came up with for their projects over at Exploring Cricut!

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 :)

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!

24/7 mini album (for BBTB2) warning-pic heavy!

There is such a fun challenge for you this week at BBTB2-it's called Pass It On-Celebrate the Joy of Giving.  You can use ANY cricut cut to make something new to "pass on" to someone else to spread some joy.  The design team has some wonderful projects to inspire you over at BBTB2 and I hope you'll make something and link up to share with us.

I've had such fun making a little mini album with overlapping pocket pages (each has a pull out for more pics) of the kid's school year to give them, to remind them of all the good times this year.  I was trying to make it have a bulletin board feel (inspired by the cork board paper) and I wanted the photos to feel kind of like an Instagram or Polaroid- they are a 2x3 size.   I used my cricut to do most of the titles and added some embellishments.

I made my mini using a tutorial from Ginger of My Sister's Scrapper.  It's available on YouTube:

Part 1

Part 2

Ginger's Finished Album

I used some recycled chipboard (cereal boxes!) for my covers and the paper/stickers are from the Simple Stories 24/7 collection. Each of the 6 pockets holds a pull out with both sides available for pictures, so this mini holds LOTS of pics!  It has a magnet closure for the front and on the little back pocket.   I will admit this took me several nights to make and put together, but it was enormously fun!  My kids LOVED it and asked me to make more!  Now on to the pictures of the album (warning-there are a lot and I think I got them slightly out of order).

the cover (there is a hidden magnet closure under the flap)

Here's the first page with the front covers opened up (the yellow zigzag paper is page 2).  There are 3 pages attached on each side:  Page 1 is attached on the left, Page 2 on the right, etc. and they overlap.  Each page has an insert in the pocket with 2 sides for more pics. 

 I squeezed a LOT of pics into this little 6 page album!  They are in the following pics.

Page 6 insert-ready for some May pictures

Bottom of album with magnet flap closed for more pics

Flap opened-spot for more pics on the polka dot mat

Cricut:
Plaintain Schoolbook-font
Locker Talk-apple
Doodlecharms-spider, Christmas tree
Sports Mania-football
CM Cheerful Seasons-friends
Mickey and Friends-Mickey head

Paper-Simple Stories 24/7 collection
brown chalk ink
Stampin Up scallop border punch
Tim Holtz metal corners
magnets

Whew!  Lot of pics, I know!  It's much easier to see how it all goes together on a video, which is why I included the link to Ginger's video showing her finished album.  It was a SUPER fun little project!   This challenge is the perfect excuse to make that card or mini or little set of notes for someone, so jump in and join us with a project at BBTB2.

I'm also going to link this to the Cut It Up challenge this week to make a mini!

Tower of Terror layout (Disney project)

I am at Disney World today!  So it seemed appropriate to set up a Disney themed blog post for while I'm gone.  For this Tower of Terror layout (a ride in the Hollywood Studios park that I am going to ride today), I totally scrap-lifted the elevator door idea from a kit by Lynn Stuart that I saw someone making at a crop one time.  It was so clever-very impressed with her creativity!

 I used Happy Hauntings for the other page for the spooky cat, mirror, and Beware sign.  The spiderwebs are from Mini Monsters and the title font is the vampire font from Happy Hauntings.  Mickey is from Mickey and Friends, and he is psyched and ready to ride the Tower of Terror!  (Unlike me, who always gets butterflies of dread when getting on!)  Oops, just noticed part of my brick embossed background did not get stuck down well-sorry about that for the pictures!  (And yes, these are pics from 2011 that I'm still working on...)

Cricut:
Happy Hauntings-title, cat, mirror, Beware
Mini Monsters-spiderwebs
Mickey and Friends-Mickey
embossing-brick Sizzix embossing folder
brown chalk ink
paper-CTMH and CM solids

If you're interested, my other Disney projects are indexed under Disney on the right.  

Let's Hang Out layout

It's 2013 and while cleaning off my craft table (well, sort of), I realized I have a lot of unfinished projects from 2012!  Lying around in partial stages of completion!  Mocking me!  While I'm not much for New Year's resolutions, I think my crafty resolution is going to be:  finish up all the unfinished projects.  Maybe not all once....there's a lot!

So, here's one of my unfinished projects, now completed.  Son#2 had a sock monkey themed bday party in 2011.  There were a lot of pictures and after doing a few great monkey layouts, I was burned out.  I put the rest of it aside to get my monkey mojo back.  The awesome background paper is from The Paper Studio and the adorable sock monkey stickers I found at Hobby Lobby last year.  The monkey word paper is from the most awesome monkey stack ever-Cheekee Monkey-which I also found at Hobby Lobby last year.  The title is from Create A Critter.  The journal box tag is from Mickey and Friends and is my favorite tag from all the cartridges I have.

Edited to add:  Fantabulous Cricut is going to feature this on Scrapping Saturday, so if you came over from there, thanks for checking out my blog :)

Cricut:
Create A Critter-title
Mickey and Friends-tag
Paper-background print and green paper from The Paper Studio, word print is Cheekee Monkey stack
ribbon-Stampin Up
brown chalk ink

I'm going to link this to the Fantabulous Cricut challenge this week-"Tag Your It".
  

Disney Christmas tags!

The big Christmas gift that will make everyone whoop and holler:  we are going to DisneyWorld in January!  Each of the kids is getting a Disney gift card so that they can buy some amazing souvenirs while they are there.   Did I mention the kids will be really excited?   I made some Disney Christmas tags to tie onto the gift card bags, just for fun!  All the  cuts are from Mickey and Friends except the santa hat, which is from Create A Critter 2.  The tag itself is cut at 5 inches, the Mickey head is cut at 3 1/2 inches, and the word Disney is cut at 1 1/2 inches.  I had to cut the Santa hat at 4 1/2 inches to make it be the right size for Mickey (since it's supposed to go on a critter :).

My husband is Mickey.

I'm Minnie, of course.

Teen #1 is Donald Duck.

And Kids #2 and #3 are Pluto and Goofy!

Cricut:
Mickey and Friends-tag, Mickey head, Disney
Create A Critter 2-santa hat
Paper-scraps
brown chalk ink and Stampin Up ribbon
Stamp- K Andrews

I'm going to link this to the Exploring Cricut challenge:  It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!
I'm also going to link this to the Die Cuttin' Divas More Holiday Spirit challenge.   And I'm also going to add this on to the Pink by Designs Tag your it challenge!

And one more photo, of the back of the tags, which I had forgotten to add:

I will write the trip details here for the kids.  The sentiment is from K Andrews designs.

from Soaring to Test Track layout (Disney)

Another Disney layout-this one I struggled with because I only had a single photo (or none, in the case of Soaring) of some favorite attractions at Epcot.  I decided to combine them into a two page spread, but it was difficult to make it flow and feel unified.   Mickey and his plane seemed like a good representation of the Soaring ride. I had some pics from Test Track, which was Son#3's favorite ride that I represented with the road from the CM Traveler cart.  The traffic cones and sign are from the Cars cartridge.  I used three of the different fonts from Lyrical Letters for the titles.

Cricut:
Lyrical Letters-fonts
Mickey and Friends-Mickey and plane
CM Traveler-road
Cars-road sign, traffic cones
Paper/stickers-Echo Park

I'm going to link this to the Fantabulous Cricut transportation themed challenge this week, since I've got a plane and road going on!  I couldn't quite get a race car for test track squeezed onto the road, so you'll have to imagine the car is just out of sight, lol!

Capture the Moment layout

While on vacation, the theme park we visited had an area with old fashioned rides themed after the 1908 (I think) World Fair.  It was really cute, and we enjoyed icy cold lemonade while watching them ride the carousel, merry-go-round, and teacups.  This hot air balloon paper from Echo Park so exactly captured the colors and feel of it!  I cut the plane from Mickey and Friends and the sticker is from the paper pack, Everyday Eclectic (which I LOVE).

Cricut:
Mickey and Friends-airplane
Paper/Stickers-Echo Park Everyday Eclectic collection
brown chalk ink, twine
I'm linking this to the BBTB2 challenge this week to use a hot air balloon (or plane) cut.  I don't have a hot air balloon on any of my carts, so I went with the plane, but the challenge definitely gave me a reason to use the hot air balloon paper!