Movie Star

All good things must come to an end, and so this is the end of a great LONG weekend! It's back to work tomorrow morning for 3 days of LONG hours. Because we have off on Fridays and this week had off on Monday as well, we have to make our 35 hours in just 3 days. So that means sitting at work until 5:45pm. Fortunately I only have to do that tomorrow as I put in for time off on Wednesday to leave at 4 and Thursday I will leave at 2. Every year when these long hour weeks creep up I say "Next year I am taking this week off". But I never do! Anyway, crew ran really late tonight and we didn't get home till after 9. John had made ribs on the BBQ so after eating dinner I decided to do ONE more layout before I have to be responsible and work to earn more money for scrapping supplies! LOL!! In keeping with the Disney theme, I decided to scrap these photos of John who was caught at the entrance to MGM Studios by a "director" who cast John as an EXTRA in his film! The photos show John being helped by the director! Fun!!! 

This layout is based on the June 10, 2009 sketch by Cheri O'Neill at Let's Scrap.  All the papers were purchased in Downtown Disney, the glitter letters are actually wooden letters and the stickers are EK Success except the ticket which is Little Yellow Bicycle. Because of the challenge this week at Practical Scrappers being Animation, Cartoons and Characters, I am hoping to get quite a few Disney layouts done this week....we'll see how it goes. Hope everyone has a great week!

Dream Fastpass

While we were in Disney for my 40th birthday we won Dream Fast Passes! We were standing in the elevator on Tower of Terror and the Disney Team Member stopped the elevator and told us that we had all won Dream Fastpasses! It was so exciting and the first of TWO dreams we won on that trip!

This layout is for Brenda's July 5 Sketch Challenge at Sketches For You. I really like how simple the sketch was and it allowed me to use that HUGE Disney Carriage embellishment without it getting lost on the page! The theme also qualifies this layout for the Animation, Cartoon, Character challenge over at Practical Scrappers! Another Double Duty layout and YES....another Disney page in the 2007 trip album. I used papers by Sandylion and EK Success, more of the white chipboard letters I found in my scrap bins, three disney brads from the Eyelet Outlet, a metal "dream" eyelet from Making Memories, the Princess carriage and Wishes Do Come True stickers are EK Success.

I'm Going To Disney!

OK not really!  I WISH I was though!  And I was right back there tonight as I was looking through pictures from our 2006 trip.  Even John was enjoying looking at the pictures.  The kids look SOOO young and it was not even a full 4 years ago!  Amazing, actually!  So in my mind I'm in Disney, having the time of my life!  Its my favorite place in the world and John is just not into it at all so my next hope to go is when I have grandchildren....at least that's what he says!!  Hey Wendy, maybe we should plan a trip together!  LOL!!  Me, you, Mickey and scrapping in Disney!  Anywhooo, this layout accomplished several things on my to-do list (which I left at work today so was sorta lost when I sat down to scrap...I NEED my notes!!).   I mentioned that I am taking the Camp Scrap class at Big Picture a few posts ago.  One of the challenges was to use a color you are not comfortable with.  For me, that color is yellow.  I don't know why, but I find myself avoiding it as much as possible in my layouts.  But these pictures demanded yellow!  The photos are of Susie and Matt sitting in the big chairs inside Minnie Mouse's house in Toontown.  You can't see it in this picture but Susie even has a yellow skirt on!!  I used yellow Minnie Mouse print paper and red/white polka dot paper by Sandylion, dot ribbon from $1 spot at Target, the yellow braided flower is a new favorite that I just got in a fun order from Creative Charms, the Mickey and Minnie stickers are by Disney, the title letters are from Michael's and the bubble ones I have no idea!  The layout is based on the sketch over at Sketch Inspirations this week so I got that combined with the Camp Scrap challenge! 

This layout is also from the same 2006 Disney trip.  It is ALSO today's "recipe" from Camp Scrap.  1 piece of cardstock, 2 sheets of patterned paper and embellishments.  And while I am not a huge fan of double layouts, this worked out perfect as it called for 7 landscape 4x6's and it just so happened I had exactly 7 shots of the kids (John's son is also in the picture....we don't see him often so you don't see him appear in too many of my layouts) getting their faces painted at MGM Studios.  Again, Sandylion patterned paper, Disney stickers, the chipboard bookplate is SEI, the Mickey Balloon brads are from The Eyelet Outlet and the the white letters are American Crafts Thickers.  The Mickey Head I cut from the Mickey and Friends Cricut Cartridge.  Took me abuot 20 minutes to do this layout and I got an entire event scrapped!!

That's it for me tonight!  I'm actually thrilled that I got these two done and I didn't even come into my scraproom until 9pm!  Tomorrow is Crew again with Susie so I probably won't be getting anymore scrappy time until Wednesday night and boy do I have a lot of layout ideas and challenges to complete in my notebook!