The Simmons family does Disney! (SOUS March 19 and Paper Popsicles.

After a year, I'm finally working hard on my Disney album. Paper Popsicles has a challenge to use vacation themes this week, and it was the right inspiration.   The sketch at Stuck on U Sketches this week seemed perfect for the title page.  Easy....just some Disney paper (background is Doodlebug), lots of bright color photo mats, some decorative edge scissors, and lots of odd/ends black stickers.   Added a Mickey and Minnie (cut at 3 1/2") for embellishments.  "Disney" is from Mickey Font.

Dinomite!

Still scrappin' those Disney pics!  For this one, I used the sketch at Stuck on U Sketches, well....I sorta used the sketch....I cannot follow sketches no matter how hard I try!!  The basic layout of paper is the SOUS sketch anyway.

I used PDDU for the dinosaur and palm trees as well as the bone (aged with ink) for the title bar.  Used Thickers for the title, and the little triceratops was hand pieced by me from a clip art image (I printed it out and cut from it.)

Pirates of the Gift Shop

To get my mind off of all the snow, I've been scrappin' Disney pictures (finally!)  My crew loved to go around trying on different Mouse ears...these pics were at the Pirates of the Caribbean.  I used the pirate map from PDDU, cut at 10" real size, inked well, for the background.  Matted the pics..added a skull and crossbones from Indie Art and a title from stickers.   I like this one....and it only took 30 minutes!

Tigger-ific

There is a wonderful sketch posted at Practical Scrappers this week, designed by the amazing Ann-Katrin.  I used it to finally scrap some of last year's Disney photos.  We took our kids once as children and then again as teenagers, and it is so amazing the different things you do.   I had great pictures of Kati with Tigger on both trips and wanted to make a "Then and Now" layout. 

This is my first attempt at a character although I have owned the cartridge for a while.  It went together really easily...probably because he is cut at 5".  The vines are from Zooballoo and the flowers are the "Blossom" cut from Walk in My Garden, cut incremently from 1" - 2", inked, petals folded up, and layered together with a button center.  We found the layered, glittery Kathryn sticker while shopping a while back.  Edged out the borders with MS ribbon.

Kati Finds Nemo! Practical Scrappers Design Team -Acrylic Paint

Over at Practical Scrappers, the challenge for this week is using acrylic paint. For this layout, I used the paper bag/smoosh technique to paint a blue background on white cardstock. I used paper from DCWV Indian Summer paper stack for the rest of the background. Embellishments are from Life's a Beach. Seaweed is cut in regular and layers at 5" and 5 1/2" in light and dark green.......went over them with green dimensional paint. Glued the bottoms only so they would "flutter." Cut the fish border out at 2 1/2"....decorated with dimensional paint and glitter....separated....and hid them among the seawood.

 The waves are LAB's wave border.....covered with an acrylic glaze with blue glitter in it. Then I went around the crests of the waves with some irridescent blue and silver glitter paint. Glued the bottoms only to get dimension. Nemo is a fabric applique I found in a clearance bin. Title is green Thickers and Mickey Font (2 1/2")