My husband was the Dread Pirate Roberts! We were lucky enough to be gifted an amazing prop sword from our local buy nothing group, and it was obvious that he would be the perfect man in black!
I sewed the shirt with Simplicity S4059 (shirt B) and a set of black cotton-poly sheets from Walmart! (more uses of that sheet fabric coming later…). The fabric had the perfect amount of drape and flow.
We only slightly modified the pattern: we took out some of the fullness in the front and back and added a few eyelets for the lacing at the chest.
Husband made his own mask from faux leather, and we hemmed a large square of the fabric scraps for his kerchief.
My daughter starred as Princess Buttercup in our (partial) family group costume.
To replicate the dress Robin Wright wore in the film, I combined a modified bodice of McCalls M4492 (out of print) dress A with the (free) Mood Fabrics Faye Skirt, which I pleated to look like the movie costume (box pleat in middle front and middle back, with two more pleats on each side).
The outer fabric is lightweight poppy-red polyester interlock, and the bodice is lined with matching red cotton woven to stabilize it. I chose the interlock because it was flowy and quite inexpensive; I needed yards and yards of it!
I slightly decreased the sleeve volume and length from the M4492 pattern and gathered it at the wrist, attaching the gathered edge to long cuffs.
The back lacing closure is constructed of two interfaced bands of woven cotton set with eyelets appliqued to the back opening; there is a modesty panel behind them. To make the belt, I cut a long strip of red woven cotton and sewed it into a tube with closed ends. After pressing it flat and topstitching the edges, I attached the gold trim with rows of basting stitches.
Almost as soon as costume season was over last year, our family started planning for this year! We knew we would be participating in our church’s trunk or treat and thought it would be fun to do a Princess Bride theme!
I’m celebrating because this project (at least, my part of it!) is FINISHED! I am so proud of how this journal came out.
The covers were the last pieces I did; all the way through the process of making this book, I was considering options (photo? no photo?), but in the end I decided to take inspiration from some of my favorite pages in the book (the Star Wars pages), plus spotlight this Christmas castle patch from @scraps_and_ink_crafts.
On the back, I collaged some of my favorite bits and pieces, and I used green patterned paper and green ribbon for the closure since it’s my son’s favorite color.
I created a closure by glueing one end of the ribbon inside the two cardboard layers I used for the cover pieces. On the outer front cover, I sewed a shank button so that there was space to wrap the ribbon, topping it off by super-glueing a sparkly Mickey over the button.
This album contains 113 photos that my son picked out with me when I started the project back in March 2023. He has started to add his words to the journaling blocks and tags that I’ve added to the pages— now I’m passing the torch to him to finish telling his stories about this amazing family trip!
Here’s the page I made about our last rides in Magic Kingdom on our last night in the parks. I used some darker background papers layered over the background and added some embellishments, but this page is pretty simple.
Each photo forms a pocket to hold a tag for journaling.
Counting down the last pages in the WDW 2020 junk journal! Here’s a page about my husband and son riding Rockin’ Roller Coaster together. I leaned into the red/white/black color scheme and used music note washi tape layered over the collage background.
I embellished the journaling tag (which slots into a pocket behind the photo) with gold paint and white splatters, too!
#junkjournaljuly was instrumental in helping me to finish this WDW 2020 junk journal that I began back in March 2023! After completing 30 of the prompts, I only had three pages to finish!
Here’s one of them: a cute family portrait that we took almost first thing in the morning on our second day in Hollywood Studios. I decided to use this as the opening page in the journal for that day. I added lots of layers, including a piece of map, tissue paper, and swipes and splatters of gold and white paint.
I began the junkjournaljuly challenge by matching prompts with pages to complete in the WDW 2020 junk journal, and from the beginning, I knew that prompt 30: shine should be this double-page spread about the nighttime castle projections.
We stayed as late as we could both nights we were at Magic Kingdom just resting and watching the lights shine on the castle. These photos are from the first night. I didn’t want to add much to the pages so that the photos were the center piece, so I added some white paint and layered stamping to the collage background behind the pictures. I added strips of metallic gold washi tape (shiny!) and some sparkly Christmas mouse embellishments.
Both the label and the journaling tag are embellished with metallic gold ink linework– I used my Silhouette Cameo with the sketch pens to make them.
Again, I think I’m stretching the prompt a weeeeee bit for 27: poetic. “Hi ho, hi ho…” is not exactly fancy, high-brow poetry, but when you’re finishing up a Disney junk journal, you make it work!
I combined die cuts to create the title and backed them with blue vellum to make sure they stood out from the background (and also so that it was easier to move them around the page together!).
Since the collage background had some stamping already, I simply added a swipe of gold paint so that my Snow White die cut would stand out even more. I added red, blue, and yellow embellishments to pick up on Snow White’s signature colors.
Often contrast (for prompt 29!) makes me think of a dark/light combination, but for this page, I went with a color contrast – in this case primary colors, inspired by the beautiful Dumbo attraction.
There is also a bit of contrast between the “white space” of the collage background, which is (for me, especially in this journal!) quite plain, and the cluster of photos and embellishments.
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