Chip and Dale Journal Boxes

Another simple item. I found the clipart on a Spanish website, PapaCaio. The leaves in the corners are punches.

Lilo and Stitch Title

This one isn't all that exciting. The stickers are from Hallmark, Prima flower. The backing mat is more of a bright orange that what it looks like here.

Paper:
Provo Craft - Blueberry scribble floral
Bazzill - Butterfly

Lady and the Tramp Lyric

Okay, this is one my favorite pieces I have ever made. If you watch Lady and the Tramp, it starts with the quote that is inside the box. Later, Jim Dear presents Darling with a hat box, and inside the box is Lady, the puppy. My first attempt was just the box, with the swiveling lid, but I thought it was missing something. So I found the clipart of the adult Lady and the Tramp and then made the red rug in Paint Shop Pro. It's just concentric ovals, nothing fancy.

Adventureland Frames

I dislike cutting out frames, because I hate cutting out the center hole. Then when they need to be double matted! For these frames, I did just that for the top layer, but the bottom layer is just four strips of paper arranged to look like a frame.





The "Adventureland" images are scans of pins sold at WDW. I used raffia to add texture and dimension to one of the frames. The leaves on the other, are using a Sizzix diecut.

Main Street Tags

The inspiration for these tags came from the vests worn by the Dapper Dans, a barbershop quartet that performs on Main Street. Each of the items listed, is a location on Main Street USA at WDW's Magic Kingdom. Some of them have a piece of fun foam behind them to make them "pop" out.

Paper:
Pressed Petals - Pink Stripe, Orange Stripe
DCWV - The Stack III

Haunted Mansion Shaker Box and Library Pocket

The shaker box is inspired by the tombstones visible from the queue at the Magic Kingdom. Each of the "dearly departed" is an Imagineer that worked on the attraction. The tombstone I used says,

"At Peaceful Rest Lies Brother Claude. Planted Here Beneath This Sod."

Brother Claude, refers to Claude Coates, one of the primary designers for the Haunted Mansion. Claude designed basically, everything before the ballroom scene. The Ballroom and Graveyard scenes were done by Marc Davis, who has his own tombstone.

The library pocket and tag were inspired by the "Beware of Hitchhiking" scene which is just before the unload area. I printed the ghosts on a lt blue vellum and then backed them with purple paper. The background of the letters is the same image that is on the wallpaper inside the attraction. The shape of the cutout is reminiscent of the arch the ghosts appear in on the attraction.

Happiest Celebration on Earth "Forever Dreaming"

For 2005-2006, the Walt Disney theme parks held the "Happiest Celebration on Earth" to celebrate Disneyland's 50th anniversary. The celebration was held worldwide, and so, of course, we needed a swap.

Disney released a book, celebrating Disneyland's 50th anniversary. Each chapter, focused on one aspect of the Disney culture: Magic, Enchantment, Thrills, Music, etc. So the idea for this one was that everyone would make items that used one of the chapter titles. Mine was "Forever Dreaming." In addition, we chose to limit the primary colors to Red, Blue and Gold, since those were the colors used in the celebration.

The matted lyric is actually doublesided. One side has the quote shown, which Walt made about the "Florida Project" which became Walt Disney World. The other side has the Disneyland dedication. I did it this way, because not all of the swap participants had been to WDW, and not all had been to Disneyland. This way, people could choose which side they wanted to use. The frame is a Sizzix diecut.

The idea behind the file folder, is that Walt Disney Imagineering, has so many ideas that they are just bursting out of the files.

Bazzill Paper: Watermelon, Blue, Metallic Gold
EK Success: Disney Princess - Pixie Dust Vellum
Capture the Magic: Character and Castle Punches

"Lights, Motor, Action!" Journal Box, Tag, Paper Piecing

"Lights, Motor, Action" is a stunt show at the Disney - MGM Studios. I made these for my first DISboards swap.

The image on the tag, is one I took, printed on vellum, and then backed with white cardstock.

For the paper piecing, I scanned a Disneyland pin of Herbie, and resized it. Herbie, the Love Bug makes an appearance during the show, so he was the perfect character to include. And he seems to have left some skid marks on the journal box. Here is a better scan of just Herbie.

Rafiki Borders, Journal Box and Tag

Another LaughingPlace.com swap. This time for characters. I try to pick rarer things for my projects, or to come at it from a different angle. For this one, I selected my husband's favorite character, Rafiki.

Cardstock is all Bazzill (I'll add the colors in the future).

I used raffia cut in pieces to try and give it a bit of a natural feel.

The font is Sizzlet "Girls are Weird."

Frontierland Photo Mats and Journal Boxes

For the third Laughing Place swap, the theme was Disneyland's 50th Anniversary, which the park celebrated in 2005. I picked two original attractions in Frontierland.

First, the Mark Twain Riverboat. As part of the celebration, Disneyland placed 50 "Hidden Mickeys" around the park, including one on the Mark Twain. So, of course, I had to include it on my box too.


Secondly, the Golden Horseshoe Stage. Although, it no longer shows the same show as it did when Disneyland opened, the building still exists. The stage didn't have a "Hidden Mickey" but I added my own, because I thought it fit the theme of the swap.

Sun Wheel Title and Paper Piecing

I made these for my second Laughing Place swap. The Sun Wheel is at Disney's California Adventure Park. I was inspired by the actual signage of the attraction,



and of course its most recognizable feature; the face at the center of the wheel.

Sleeping Beauty Castle Matted Lyric and Embellished Squares

These were the first swap items I ever made. I made these for a swap on Laughing Place
The lyric is from the song "Once Upon a Dream" from Sleeping Beauty. The photograph was taken by Disneyland's official photographer Rene Bardeau, one morning in October 1964, before the park opened for the day.

The compass embellished square is a scan of a pin, once sold at Disneyland. It is a replica of a compass located on the ground in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle. The crest is the Disney crest that is located on front of the Castle. The images on the other squares are from Sleeping Beauty paper made by Hot of the Press, that I scanned and edited.

Welcome!

This blog is going to be a place for me to show off the different Disney scrapping items, I've made. Most of them have been for swaps on the DIS Scrapping Board. If making stuff like this looks fun, you might want to check them out, we'd love to have more swappers.