Blend This!

I love templates and honestly can't design without them. Well Natalie's Place Designs has just released the MOST amazing templates!!! I'm just in love with them and the blending mask is fabulous!! Check out Blend This!

I will say I went a little overboard on these templates as I feel in love with the versitity of them.  I like to take a template and modify to give me just the right design.  That's what I love about templates they give you the idea and then you either use it as is or make a few adjustments and it's just wanted you needed. My first layout I wanted to highlight our meet and greet with Tinkerbell on the Disney Fantasy and I just love Natalie's Place Designs "Believe" kit.

My second layout was a meet and greet with Pinocchio as we saw him a few times on the Disney Magic.  I just love the blend and all those terrific layer ideas.  The Pinocchio word art is one of my previous word art freebies from Natalie's Place Designs...No Strings Attached kit that you can find HERE.

My third layout is from meeting Remy for the very first time! I can't tell you how excited we were to meet a new character!  Bonus points!  We love characters.  I just love the ability to blend, have lots of photos, journal, and add those nice element touches!

Alright now for my slight modifications.  Our second new character was Emile and since they are both from Ratatouille I thought it would be prefect to do a mirror image so I simply flipped the entire template and carried over the same theme.  

For my next modification I wanted to save room in my book so I doubled up on Donald and Daisy as they are perfect together.  I grabbed the blend and photo elements duplicated it and then flipped it.  It allowed me to achieve my goal and created yet another wonderful layout from our Disney cruise.

My last layout I wanted a few more photos but really liked the fact that I could highlight just one.  I love the large photo with Adrianna and Chip and Dale but I also wanted to include the great photos of their interaction so I simply copied just the photos and flipped it up and used the align tool to ensure that it was all square.  

All credits for my layouts can be found in the gallery at MouseScrappers HERE.  Don't forget to check out Lisa Campbell Designs and MJ AJ Designs for more terrific inspiration!  These templates are a must have for any collection so head over to Natalie's Place Designs to get your set!  Wishing you all a magical weekend!

Who loves a Disney Cruise?

Who loves a Disney cruise? We Do!! I'm so excited with Natalie's Place Designs new release "Cruisin!" It has so many wonderful possibilities and I know I will be using this kit over and over again to create many magical memories from our recent Disney cruise.  Just check it out!  This is her largest kit ever!! 

Over 100 elements including

30 papers, 3 alphas, 10 flowers, 12 ribbons, 3 ricrac, 7 buttons, 2 clips, 2 bows, 2 string elements, a baker's twine, a cord wrap, a bunting, a kraft paper border, 3 fireworks elements, 2 leaves, a cruise ship, a palm tree, 3 beach umbrellas, 2 anchors, 2 beach chairs, 3 frames, a life preserver, a porthole (clear and with glass),a porthole element, a tag, 4 flairs, a pair of sunglasses, a seagull, a stingray, a dolphin, a sea turtle, a compass sticker, 3 paper wave elements, a wave border, a stitch line and a stitch circle, a sparkle trail, a mask, a snorkle, 2 shuffleboard discs, a shuffleboard cue, a shuffleboard court stamp, 2 seashells, a starfish, a fishnet, a ship's bell, a ship's wheel, a captain's hat, two cocktails, a passport (open and closed), a shopping bag, and a line of bubbles.

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To make your layouts easy to do she's also created this wonderful assortment of paper stacks, quick pages, page starters, brushes, and word art!

Postmark Stamps/Brushes

These include stamps for the years 1998-2020, 2 postmark circles,
1 postmark wavy lines and 13 word art circles. Each is created in black and in white. 
The set includes 70 png files and an abr file.

There are so many different possibilities!  Here is a some inspiration from me...

Here I used one of her paper stacks.  

I used one of her page starters for this layout.

I used one of her terrific word art and brushes for this layout

Be sure to check out Lisa Campbell Designs and MJ AJ Designs for more inspiration as these ladies totally rocked this kit.  Natalie has a great add-on to the kit as well so be sure to stop by Natalie's Place Designs to grab it.  I thought I would provide a little freebie of my own from my sailing away party layout.

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So be sure to pick up Natalie's Place Designs...Cruisin!  It's one of those kits you just have to have for beach, resort, and cruising layouts.  I can't wait to see what you create with my freebie.  I'd love to hear from your if you like my designs and freebies.  Wishing you a magical day!

Disney Cruise Layouts

Hello my fellow Disney fans and scrapbook designers. I haven't shared layouts in awhile so I thought I would post a few that I have been working on this past week or two.

First I thought I would share my layout that will go along with our Shutters Photo shot in a previous post.  The Royal Court is an amazing dining experience. The restaurant is so stunning and the attention to detail is in true Disney fashion.  I was so excited when the Shutter's photographers came around as we wanted a photo with Golf, Alexa, and our previous server and now head serve Wemick.  It was another magical evening aboard the Disney Fantasy.

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Next I thought I would share my layouts from some of our meet and greets.  We love Toy Story so when Buzz, Woody and Jessie were out and about it was a definitely Disney Must Do!  You can't even image how many characters we were able to see while on the cruise.  It was hard for me to narrow my pages down to 101 just because of all the character meet and greets.

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One of Adrianna's favorite characters this trip was Aladdin and Prince Ali.  They developed quite the relationship this trip.  We first found him walking around the ship.  We told him he must be up to something and he stated "you only get in trouble if you get caught."  Well I think Adrianna took that to heart for the rest of the cruise as each time they meet, which was often, they were both scheming up ideas.  The second meet and greet is when Aladdin and Genie introduced the Monkey Face!  Oh my goodness...now each time they saw each other this was their hello greeting...monkey faces!  Priceless.  Adrianna did the Princess Gathering 3 times aboard the ship and each time Prince Ali would mingle in the waiting line.  The second gathering he challenged Adrianna to have all the princesses make Monkey Faces with her but she refused.  She was too embarrassed.  The last gathering we were last in line and once again Prince Ali placed the challenge on her to have all the princesses do Monkey Faces and she still declined.  Disappointed Prince Ali ventured away and went to deck 5.  Neil and I talked with Adrianna and giggling she agreed to do it!  She yelled from Deck 3 up to Deck 5 to Prince Ali and told him she would do it!  He yelled back down to her "You will?"  and he came flying down two decks and jumped in front of her with his Prince Ali stance!  Adrianna was laughing so hard and Prince Ali was so excited as he felt that some of the princesses would not agree to his mischief. You'll have to stay tune for the rest of the story when I complete the Princess Gathering layout.

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My next layout is from Disney's private island Castaway Cay.  We absolutely love Castaway Cay and if we could stay here for 5-7 nights we would be in paradise.  It's an amazing and relaxing place to visit.  Our first cruise in January 2010 when we visited Pelican Plunge was still being built so we were unable to visit that part of the island.  This time around it was open and it was a blast.  The two slides are great and the one slide is super FAST!!  The water splash area is loaded with fun activities for young and old.  Definitely a Disney MUST DO!

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Well just a little sneak peek of what I've been up to these past few weeks.  All this cruise layouts makes us want to go back real soon.  The great news is we will be returning for Spring Break 2013 on the Disney Fantasy!  Did I mention if you book a cruise on the ship you get the BEST deals!!  Only 111 days to go until we return to the Disney Fantasy.

Stay tuned as I have several more layouts I'll show off with Natalie's Place Designs new release coming out soon.  Wishing you all a magical day!

Sneak Peek

Stay tuned Natalia's Place Designs has the most amazing kit coming your way!

Castaway Cay Meeting Donald and Mickey

I was able to complete another layout today. It's so hot outside I found myself wishing we were at Castaway Cay relaxing on the beach and cooling off in the water. Not to mention the yummy lunch offered and lots of activities to keep you busy. One of the first things we do before heading for the water is...character hunt (of course). We found Donald at the Post Office just as you get off the ship and then found Mickey further down the path hanging out in the shade and the palm trees.

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I used a great template freebie from MJ-AJ Designs so be sure to check out her Saturday template freebies. I also used Natalie's Place Designs - A Splash of Happy and one of her amazing Page Starters.  I just love the colors in this kit and it worked perfectly for the bright and happy colors of the characters.  I also thought I would share a little word art freebie I created which goes terrific with this kit and layout.  

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I hope you enjoy my design and find inspiration for your own creations.  I would love to hear your feedback on my layouts as well as my freebies.  I love to see what everyone creates with them as it is so inspirational to me!  Wishing you a magical evening!

Shutters Dining Portraits

Hey everybody I've done up another layout from our recent Disney Cruise. I finally sat down and laid out the 101 pages that I want to create for my scrapbook. I don't know how I did it but I actually had to double up some character meet and greets to make it fit. Here is my latest layout. Each evening the Shutters photographers (who are awesome by the way) have several venues offered for professional family portraits. These pictures were done on our 3rd evening before dinner.

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I really like how it turned out.  I used Natalie's Place Designs Kissin Me a Frog kit with a few color changes and I also learned how to make a pattern from a very special person while on vacation so I'm super excited that I was able to try it for this layout.  I created the cruise pattern to overlay onto the original paper. Woohoo! I hope you like it.  Wishing you a magical evening!

Meeting Capt Mickey

Here is another from our recent cruise. Our first Disney Cruise we were able to meet Capt Mickey prior to boarding so it was important that we were able to meet him once again. This is the beginning to our Disney vacation and of course our first official Disney photo.

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Wishing you a magical day!