Smile: Disney Aulani

It's all about Take 5 October today!  I love the fun prompt list and getting products out to use to meet the list that Mary Ann has posted each month. I used new Elle's Studio Family Fun for this project. The prompts I used: orange, blue, white, sticker, and enamel dots.

This striped paper is just bold and dreamy for background paper.  I loved matching up the ephemera shapes to overlap the color lines and swap the light to dark. 

Tone on tone is a favorite design technique.

 Puffy Stickers and enamel dots= instant dimension! Loving the white acrylic paint splatters to make the white stand out against all of the bold color.

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Oh, that was Fun

Using up a bunch of Seven Paper from the Amelia line. 

I am loving the pops of gold metallic thread. I also busted out several star punches for this Disneyland page.

Happy faces for the fun carousel near the castle.

#allthethings

A grid design is a great way to showcase several pictures without overwhelming the page. I created this LO back in March for PI's online Scrap event and realized I never blogged it. Our family adores our time at Disney parks so this is a snapshot of a day at Disney World in March doing #allthethings ! 

I wanted to use wood veneer numbers to correspond to the vellum journaling at the  bottom of the page.

The fun #allthethings cut files are from The Cut Shoppe. I watercolored it to coordinate with the Amy Tangerine papers. The grid of circles can be found on Kim Watson's blog. Here's to hoping all the things are magical in your world today!

Linking up to Tech This Out on the PI blog. Hashtag titles are super fun.

Disney on Ice

I was excited to use Dear Lizzy's newest line Serendipity by American Crafts. This worked well with Dear Lizzy's Alpha Thickers from previous collections.

We enjoyed this fun Disney night out last year with our youngest two. I hid the journaling on the little tab stamped with Dear Lizzy's roller stamp for this collection placed right above the title. 

The sparkle Thickers work to enhance that icy/frozen feel I was looking for!

I had to include a hidden Mickey made with one of my punches. It was fun to use teal thread to sew on the paper triangle and hello card! I love the added texture it brings to the layout. 

I finished it off with some of Heidi Swapp's Color Shine in amethyst and teal.

  

Hello there, Love!

Disney adventures are something our family loves! Having such close access to Disneyland when we lived in California, meant our kids grew up thinking everyone went to "the most magical place" monthly! Now that we live farther away, trips to Disney World have been easier to coordinate with family members wintering in Florida!  This photo was captured a year ago in December. Our littlest guy was curious and interested in all of the noses and faces of each character!

The free background plus sign cut file can be found on http://www.Birdscards.com 

I used many of Amy Tangerine's Plus One Collection papers for the spaces and used other bits to layer from her collections from American Crafts.

Magical Memories

Paper Issues offers free cut files in their online shop and this one is their circles and stars file.  The sparkly sequin paper is from Carta Bella.  To make the background varied, I layered various circles cut from Studio Calico kit papers.  The Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Open Book Collection Gold glitter Thickers were used in the title for "Memories" and the hearts to connect the three photos.  Enamel dots and sequins were used to create clusters at different places in the LO.  Journaling fit right along the diecut border.  Sewing around some of the circles on the background die cut added texture and interest to the stars.  Chip and Dale coordinate perfectly with this star-studded LO for our Hollywood Studios trip.