I finished it!

I did it! I finished my 2003 Disney Album! I am so excited to go to Disney in June now! I just can't wait! Now I can come home and not have two albums waiting to be done, which is such a bonus!

This page is from the Lego Store in Downtown Disney. I used a Simply Scrappin Kit from Stampin' Up! to get 'er done! I used a Cricut to cut the letters for the title and I used my new favorite tool the Imagine book of layouts to complete this awesome layout! I love this book and recommend it to all scrappers who like the mix of pattern paper! Quite a few of the layouts if not all came with a lot of help from this awesome book! A must have text for any scrapper! Can you tell I love it! All the measurements are there, the layout, how to cut the paper the whole enchilada! The little arrows point to Jackson in the shadows, I wished I had the arrow punch from Stampin' Up! it really would come in handy when scrappin pictures from back in the day, before photoshop, digital cameras and lots of practice. Jack is in the pictures but it's sort of like playing I spy.





This layout is a compilation of all the ride pictures I had. I used a pad of cardstock that came with embellishments for this page. Note the circle cutter was still on the table and I used it! Out of the square for a straight edge girl!





The Pooh Diecut came from of all places Creative Memories, circa 2002. I had saved all the embellishments I had bought back in 2002-2003 from my friend Jenn Dixon in a Craft Keeper and actually used some of them to help finish the book. The beehive and bees are Creative Memories too! The blue strip with the characters is from somewhere, not sure where and the giant Pooh is a postcard I bought in the Wonderful World of Disney! The printed paper was from Joanne's and the "and friends" was cut from the cricut!





I had way more pictures of Dylan then of Jack, but Dylan was two years old in 2003 and spent a lot of time in his stroller eating, so he was more likely to pose for the picture. The Disney diecut is another vintage Creative Memories I found it in my stash! All you die hard scrappers have to be proud of me for using the stuff I have! I used the Cricut to cut the other half of the title and all the black Mickey heads came from a punch I purchased at Joanne's with my coupon!




This is a page that was my last page completed, I used the same pad of cardstock that I used for the "ride the rides" page!



I love the way this page came out! The "I shrunk the kids" was printed on the computer! This is the playarea in Hollywood Studios where they had a garden giant sized for the kids to play.




This was a tough page. I used a postcard of the Castle and stickers and tags to create the title. It was a three part thing, the Mickey metal edge tag, with the red sticker letter, with the Mickey shaped bubble sticker on top. Note the arrow to show the small family in the crowd!



I have to finish this layout. It's the night we went Trick or Treating in the Magic Kingdom, hence the Halloween motif. The layout came out great by I have to add a few touches, I just haven't decided what yet! Note: I actually made it into a picture that night, actually two!









More small family large landmark pictures!



I don't love this page, but it's growing on me. This was Jackson's favorite ride, the raceway. I was distracted by Dancing with the Stars when I did this layout!

Blast from the Past

This is supposed to make me more organized!


In my bug to get organized and unclutter my life, I cleaned the kids side of the basement, which led to the fact I needed a cabinet with doors to put away games and toys with many pieces. That led to the idea of emptying one of my Large Rubbermaid cabinets in the basement that stored papercraft supplies that never made it upstairs to my Studio when I relocated from the basement over a year ago. In my new mind set of releasing my clutter and unused stuff I unloaded the cabinet and sorted through the treasures. Among the finds, I was able to gift supplies to Dylan's first grade teacher and found my unfinished Disney Scrapbook from our 2003 trip to the Happiest Place on Earth. Looking at the Scrapbook I had completed 4 pages 5 years ago and the rest was just waiting to be finished.

So I brought the supplies up from the basement and actually located the pictures I had printed off in my "waiting to be scrapped" case. Yes, I am just as behind as everyone else!

I must say the thing that struck me the most was over the past five years I have become a much better photographer. I still have a lot to learn but five years ago I was taking those pictures that our parents took when we were kids. Way off in the distance you see the family you recognize next to some landmark. Many of pictures were blurry and poorly framed. I still have the pictures on my snapfish albums (they are pre-digital, back in the day when you actually sent in the film), unfortunately, I tried to reprint some of them to 5x7 and learned that without the negative they really don't look very nice. Sooo, I am working with the 4x6 prints from 5 years ago with my funny eye for photography, rather than try to come up with the negatives from the boxes of negatives in the storage room. Here is my work so far.....

This is one of the pages I finished in 2003, I did add some journaling to it.



This is the second page from 2003, I added some journaling but not much else.

This layout uses the Simply Scrappin Kit from Stampin' Up Summer Days, plus a Goofy Sticker, no, not a goofy sticker, a sticker of Goofy, silly! I actually used my circle cutter on this layout too! I am such a straight edge girl that is HUGE!

This is another layout from the Simply Scrappin' Kit Summer Days, plus the Chip and Dale stickers.

I did this layout last night, note the small family and large lion in the picture.





This layout is from 2003, I added journaling and will add a title as soon as I have access to a Cricut this week.




I did this layout last night after I made a run to Joanne's. (Funny story: I told my husband, "I am going to run to Joanne's I 'll be back in an hour" and he says "Who" and I say "Joanne's" and he says "Who" and this goes on until I finally catch on and say " You know Joanne's the craft store like Michael's" and he says "I never heard of it" and I think we have been married going on 12 years, where have you been!) Anyway I ran to Joanne's to pick up some Disney themed paper and accents.

This layout I did last night, it too needs a title and will have one when I get my hands on the cricut this week.

This was a 2003 Layout that I added Journaling to, just to finish it off.