Disney pocket layout: Kilimanjaro Safari, part 2

This is the second pocket page in a series about our 2016 ride on the Kilimanjaro Safari attraction. 

I actually batch processed this series of pages: I laid out empty pocket pages (two of each so that I could do fronts and backs at the same time, placed my photos, and chose background papers all together. 

The next step was to determine where I wanted to place embellishments and start assembling my clusters. 

Once the clusters were approximately in place, I added my journaling.  Once those steps were finished, I completed each page individually, adhering everything together and fine-tuning all the placement.  

Here are the details for this second page in the series:

Disney pocket layout: Kilimanjaro Safari, part 1

Here is another pocket page for my 2016 WDW album.  My goal is to finally finish this project by the end of the year. Can I do it??

This is the first in a series of pocket pages that hold photos from our experience on the Kilimanjaro Safari attraction.  I was in photographer heaven!  I’ve already made two full 12×12 layouts about this ride (HERE and HERE), but I still have more to share!  

I referenced those layouts to use similar papers and embellishments to weave a thread of continuity through this section of the album. 

I made clusters with Shimelle and Echo Park Paper flowers detail-cut from patterned papers, used my Cameo to cut a plethora of leaves, and wooden mouse heads and my favorite filmstrip manual cutting die from Scraps & Ink Crafts.   

kraft die-cut tag from long-ago Jillibean Soup

wooden camera from long-ago Studio Calico

Disney pocket layout: Akershus food

In April, I took a little jaunt back into scrapbooking, before the spring whirlwind of activities hit. This is the tiny pocket page I made as a warm up. It is the closing piece to the small section of my WDW 2016 project devoted to our experience at the Akershus Princess Dinner.

I kept it pretty simple, since it’s literally small: it’s a 4-up pocket page that I cut down to about 4”x11”. I still managed to fit four photos (small because they were taken in low light) and a lot of words. I even had my husband write some of the journaling he’d recorded in my trip diary onto a tag in his own handwriting.

I embellished with stickers from @Shimelle ‘s stickerbook and my beloved wooden mouse heads and stamps from @scraps_and_ink_crafts.

Multiple Mouse earrings

Okay, so I LOVE all of the fun Bits and Pieces in the Scraps & Ink Crafts shop, and my daughter loves them too… and we love them enough to want to wear them! I had a great time turning some of these cute embellishments into earrings! 

It was so easy to turn the Mini Bits into earrings: I simply glued flat pad earring studs to the backs! I used super strong E6000 glue and made sure to let it set for at least 24 hours. 

It was almost as easy to turn the Mouse Shakers and Small Padded Appliques into adorable dangly earrings!

I used my 1/8″ single hole punch to cut a hole at the top of the mouse head between the ears, then I set coordinating eyelets in each of those holes. 

In order to allow the mouse heads to dangle freely, I attached a 1/4″ jump ring through the eyelet, then used a 1/8″ jump ring to link it to the earring hook.

These are seriously addictive to make, and you can bet that I’ll be making more as soon as I get myself some more jewelry findings!

supplies:
Scraps & Ink Crafts: Mouse Shakers – Basic Set, Mouse Shakers – Pastel Set, Mouse Shakers – Tropical Set, Summer Mini Bits, Small Padded Appliques – Royalty Collection

Note: I was provided products from Scraps & Ink Crafts as a past member of the design team.

Locker magnets and gift box

My daughter was invited to her friend’s birthday party, and we decided to give a gift themed around locker decor (they were starting middle school!). In addition to a few other items, we decided to include a set of fun magnets. My daughter selected a half-dozen padded Mickey appliques that featured her friend’s favorite color: purple!

I used a strong glue to attach magnets to the back of each of the appliques.

Of course, you need a magical little gift box for a magical magnet set like this!

I found a small cardboard box and cut cardstock panels to attach on the outside. Before attaching the top panel, I did some layers of all-over stamping in various shades of purple ink using the Birthday Girl stamp set.

As a finishing touch, I stamped the large sentiment with purple ink and embossed it with clear powder.

supplies:
Scraps & Ink Crafts: Birthday Girl clear cling stamp set, Padded Appliques (Carousel, Fairytale, Spellbound, Wishes)
additional supplies:
cardstock, stamping ink in various purples, clear embossing powder, super glue, magnets, small box

Note: I was provided products from Scraps & Ink Crafts as a past member of the design team.

junkjournaljanuary 2024 prompts 30 and 31

prompt 30: travel. When I think of travel imagery, I think of maps and the beach! Fun fact: none of the map papers I originally pulled out to use made it onto this page…except the compass rose that I detail-cut from one. I used extra die cuts saved from past projects, some stickers from Making Memories circa 2010, and I just played and made something pretty! I finished it off with some camera stamps because of course I take a multitude of photos when I travel!

prompt 31: reflect. I set out to simply have fun creating this page with scraps from my box, and to have a pocket holding a tag with my thoughts about the whole project. Inadvertently it turned out to be very similar to my page for the first prompt—sort of a reflection that shows how my style and comfort evolved over the course of the month.

junkjournaljanuary 2024: prompts 28 and 29

prompt 28: grungy. If you had talked to me in the summer of 2022, I would have told you in no way was grungy anywhere near my style. Having started junk journaling, I am finding that I can embrace at least a little bit of grungyness. A little! For this layout, I leaned into the “brown” and “messy” aspects of grungy. I featured a book page that I had embellished with bubble painting, some coffee-dyed tissue paper, as well as under paper from painting the circle grid from the “peeking out” prompt. I added lots of splatters and thread bundles. And then for some contrast/juxtapositioning, I added some translucent gold paint!

prompt 29: geometric. When I think of geometric, I think of polygons. I went through my supplies and pulled out anything that seemed to qualify! I started with daubing paint through a stencil I’d cut with one of @paigetaylorevans’ cut files, then I added several layers of stamping, and finished with fabric hexagon stickers (from @studio_calico; fairly ancient!). I had a square vellum metal-rimmed tag that I inserted into the pocket I’d created in the base page by pleating a security envelope.

junkjournaljanuary 2024: prompts 26 and 27

prompt 26 – translucent. I was looking back through my previous entries for this month and really liked how my “layers” pages came out. I decided to try that technique again here (random collage covered with tissue paper applied with matte mod podge). I have to admit that while it did give a translucent effect, I do not love this page. I tried adding more and more (stenciling, splatters, translucent stickers, rhinestones), and honestly it didn’t help—haha! Oh well, you can’t win them all! But it was freeing to just play.

prompt 27: lyrics.  It’s funny, I often have songs running through my mind, but it was like I froze up when this prompt came up. I couldn’t think of anything I wanted to highlight on this page! However, I had this little typed prayer/poem that my grandma gave me years ago, and I decided to use it as my focal piece on a partof a years-old wedding invitation. I made a tag to tuck inside, the foundations a dictionary page with stenciling, and I added a quote card with a phrase (lyrics!) from Psalms that paired well with the poem from my grandma.

junkjournaljanuary 2024: prompts 24 and 25

prompt 24 – fabric. This was the perfect opportunity to use these BasicGrey “petals” embellishments I’ve had for years (over a decade?!) I also used some Maya Road trinket pins (also over a decade old!) and some actual corsage pins to embellishment my flowers.

prompt 25 – ombré. I combined paper scraps, fabric bits, embellishments, stickers, and even a covered button to create this ombré strip for this prompt. I absolutely love how it turned out—so much texture!

junkjournaljanuary 2024: prompts 22 and 23

prompt 22 – bookshelf. I took this one pretty literally, creating “books” with pieces from my box-o-scraps. I embellished with stickers and other details. The shelves are the pearlescent border torn from a greeting card.

prompt 23 – texture. I delightedly crumpled and wrinkled and crinkled. My fingers got sticky with glue and bits of thread. I was a happy camper making this page.