Disney layout: Akershus anticipation

As you’ve probably noticed, I’ve been focusing my scrapbooking on my Disney 2016 album lately!  I’m rapidly coming to a point where I need to do some planning– what photos and stories will go into layouts, and what will go into pockets– and one of my “roadblocks” has been the Akershus Princess Dinner that we attended the night we were in Epcot.  It was another one of those pinnacle experiences, especially for my daughter: as I’ve mentioned before, meeting the princesses was a dream come true for her on this trip!

The photos from that evening are many, and they are also quite dark.  As I was browsing some scrapbook blogs lately, I finally came up with a potential idea on how to showcase them, BUT before that (especially since they aren’t printed yet!), I did have these photos already printed from the beginning of the dinner!

My daughter was so delighted to be there, and I wanted to make sure to spotlight her excitement…and also the little story of my panicked construction of a flash diffuser from a napkin and some hair clips so that I could get semi-decent photos of her with the princesses when they came to our table!

The general arrangement of this layout is based on a sketch that Crafty Jen Schow released in her Facebook Group back in November.  I had seen some layouts using it pop up lately from people in the group, and so it came to mind as I contemplated this odd set of photos.  It was perfect!

find Jen’s group “Crafty Use It or Lose It” HERE!

Of course, I used three photos instead of two, but I added the title on a curve and a circular arc of stitching (boy, was that gold thread difficult to work with!) to reinforce that curved idea.

I mixed Shimelle “Starshine” with Shimelle’s “Head in the Clouds” (isn’t that background paper gorgeous?!) and a bit of Pink Paislee “Pen Pals” to pull in the blue of V’s dress.

I embellished with cameras precision-cut from another “Starshine” paper and circles stamped with images from a Kelly Purkey set (Clearly Kelly: “Magical”)…

And of course, some wood veneer and enamel dots, in keeping with my theme for this album!