Wild about Disney

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Astro Orbiter || Paper House Productions

Hey friends! A new process video is up today for a Disney layout I created using Paper House Productions products.

I loved transforming bits & pieces from different collections into an unsuspecting Disney page!

You can also find an amazing sale today on the PHP site!

Here are some detail shots:

You can use my code PH20NATALIE every day for 20% off your order!

xo, Natalie

2020 goals

Hey friends!

I decided to put a few of my crafty goals here in the blogosphere for some accountability, and mostly just for me to remember!

Crafting is and always will be just my hobby/passion. I am not here to make it a job ever. But I also feel as though if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well, so why not make goals to help do something well!

• Grow my YouTube channel
• I don't intend to try & promote it nonstop and I would definitely never go all Patreon on you, but I would like to increase my viewership to make my time making the videos seem well worth it. I love it when people tell me they enjoy my process or have learned something new! 
• I would love to increase viewership by creating more videos & by perhaps creating a few "series." I'm thinking a monthly flip through of an old, completed album? And some type of mixed media series - still in the thinking stage right now - Suggestions welcome!
• Host a Make & Take at Chicago Planner Conference (it's always good to set a goal you KNOW you're going to accomplish, right?)
• I am set to attend the CPC in February. I'm currently finalizing my projects with my incredible sponsor, A Cherry on Top, and I'm pumped about it! 
• I also want to see a little snow in Chicago, but not a ton. LOL - hoping they can pull that off for me.
• Complete my 2019 6x8 vacation album
• Complete my 2019 8.5x11 Disney album
• Create at least one MemoryDex card per week for our church's sermon topics/memory verse.

I feel like 5 goals is enough structure for me for sure.

2019 was an incredibly awesome crafty year for me! I am super proud of the consistency of my pages, the completed albums, the stories I told, and the design teams I made!  I feel really well settled into my #rusticsparkle style and comfortable just being me in the crafty endeavors. 

Cheers to a great, crafty 2020!!

OLAF - a Stuck?! sketch

Hi hi hi everybody!

I have a fun Disney themed layout today using a wonderful sketch from Stuck?! sketches.

I loved using the fun, summery colors for Olaf's photo, since he LOVES summer!

Here is the original sketch:

I stuck really close to the sketch this time. And I used almost exclusively Simple Stories Life in Color collection.

I dug out these old heart grommets which matched the blue plus paper perfectly. I had not used them in a while, but I am loving the little color pop that ties the page together.

Apparently my photography skills were lacking today what with the shadows and glare... sorry about that! I added the black and white twine to tie in with the polka dot papers, and balance the layout. It also adds a nice texture to the page.

 I even had this little bit of Olaf flair from a greeting card, that was perfect for the page! It actually inspired the bits of circle embellishments.

I kept the title simple, as I will do a corresponding pocket page with journaling about the story - which includes the baby trying to eat Olaf's nose! Ha - it was adorable!

As usual, I loved working with Laura's sketch! I look forward to new ones every month!

Thanks for looking!

Pere Noel - A Scrappy Christmas page!

Hi everyone, hope you're recovering well from the holiday (and hopefully long weekend).

Today I have another Scrappy Christmas in July page for you!

We all know I love color & a good dark background that is out of the ordinary from the "norm" you see around the interwebs these days, so I wanted a dark background for a classy sort of look for my Christmas in Paris page.

We were first to greet Pere Noel in France in Epcot last Christmas. He told us a story & it was so sweet how excited my boys were to meet him.

I layered some dark reds wth black and white scraps for the background of the photo and popped it up. I also embossed these chipboard circles as background elements.

Since the black alphas had gold accents, I used a gold Shine spray to sprinkle gold dots around the page. I also added a gold foil sticker to the photo.

I did a small sewing element along the top and bottom borders.

I strung some sequins as an added element like a little banner. I used shiny red, black, matte red adn some red beads.

The glitter snowflakes brought the red glitter alphas cohesively with the page.

I super love how my page turned out. Cranking through those old Christmas  photos. Scrappy Christmas in July!

Red checked paper - Studio Calico
Chipboard - Maya Road
Black alphas - WRMK
Red alphas - American Crafts
Snowflakes - K & Co
Red polka dot paper - unknown sorry!
Gold splatter - Heidi Swapp Shine
Black cardstock - CraftSmith Co.

Thanks for looking!

Scrappy Christmas in July!

You heard me right, my friends! It's Christmas in July!

It's one of my favorite subjects to scrapbook, so I had already begun thinking of a little blog series for some Christmas in July pages. But then, a sweet friend, Tracey Fox, suggested Scrappy Christmas in July on Instagram and in our Scrap Gals community, and this became a THANG, y'all!

You can find our projects on the Instagram by searching the hashtag #scrappyChristmasinJuly.

I'm kicking off my participation today with a pocket page I created for my Disneyworld Christmas album, complete with a YouTube process video! It's my first process video for pocket pages, so let me know what you think and gimme a thumbs up if you like!

I love a classic, green and red Christmas color scheme. I was inpsired to include a couple white background cards by this great little "merry" card scored at the Studio Calico sale a while back.

Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party is an amazing event! I'm sure you will see more pages about this par-tay this month.

#MVMCP is another hashtag you can search on Instagram for some magical Christmas inspiration. That castle, tho, y'all.

Is anyone else in the Christmas spirit, at least for scrapbooking purposes, yet?!

Stay tuned for a super busy, scrappy month!



Thanks for looking!!

Jambo - a Lasting Memories challenge

Happy Mother's Day!

I hope you're having a wonderful Sunday. I'm here with another challenge from Lasting Memories. This week's challenge is to use paper strips or washi tape in a BIG way!

I was searching from some inspiration on Pinterest, found a gem over at Scrap with Rachel, and I totally scraplifted it.

I created this page for my Disneyworld album - my family at Animal Kingdom.

I stuck down all the paper strips, and then I sewed on about half of them.

I felt like the paper strip background was busy enough that my photos didn't need backing.

Jambo is Swahili for Hello!

I had a lot of fun creating this layout, and I hope you will join us for this week's challenge at Lasting Memories!

Thanks for looking!

Magic on Main Street - A Process Video

Hey everyone!

Today I'm bringing you a fun Disney page I created with Simple Stories Say Cheese III.

I've been doing a lot of work for design teams or design team applications, and I just wanted to sit down and work on something solely for myself - it felt good!

I have been seeing more and more dark backgrounds, which I love. While I definitely see the pleasure and aesthetic of a white/light background, it is overdone IMO. I get so excited when I see my favorite designers post a darker page on IG!

I wanted to use my new castle stencil and RED, and I thought it would stand out well on black.

I also added red embossing powder and glitter. On the video you cannot tell the effect, but you can see it nicely in the photos.

I have to remind myself that I buy these ephemera packs to use - not hoard! I have been doing more intentional buying, not just of clearance items and hoping to use them - hoping to really make only pages I adore.

Sewing on a layout adds an element I believe that looks it took longer to complete a page than it actually did! Like you do a lot of extra work. There I have a custom embellishment cluster from sewing together a few ephemera from the collection.

While I have been buying more intentionally,  I make exception for Thickers found at Tuesday Morning! You can never have too many Thickers! I was excited to use these for the first time - black foam sparkles!

The little frame is from an older Say Cheese collection.

I love how it turned out & I hope you enjoy the YouTube process video!

Thanks for looking!

Art of Animation - a pocket page

Happy Hump Day!

Today I'm bringing you a rainbow themed pocket page documenting our stay at the Art of Animation resort at Walt Disneyworld. I loved making my other rainbow projects recently, so can't stop won't stop!

The colors in my photos were very bright and energetic, so a rainbow theme worked so well. I kept the backgrounds of the cards bright white to balance the page, and I did a white border around each photo.

I love scouring Instagram for inspiration, and I definitely used two cool techniques I've seen on there recently. I borrowed the letters over the photo idea from @ScrappySarah & stamp within a stamp idea from @gjoysy.

I put a tiny piece of washi on my card before I stamped my large letters, then removed it to reveal white space within which I stamped my smaller alphas,

I'm loving the clear stickers in the new Say Cheese III collection by Simple Stories! That's the white sticker on the top right corner photo.

I mean who doesn't want to shower under the sea?! I used up all my As on my Hakuna Matata - good thing I found another pack of those Amy Tan thickers at TM!

The tabs behind the top photo are rainbow washi folded over, and used as pull tabs for an additional photo that didn't fit on the layout. I like the fun, interactive element, especially for a photo that isn't spectacular which I don't mind hiding.

I loved making this fun, bright, rainbow page! I also really enjoyed using more stamps in my scrapbook.

Supplies;
Green Thickers - Amy Tangerine
Magic Stamp - Echo Park
Art of Animation stamps - Stampin' Up
Ink - Stampin' Up
White stickers - Simple Stories Say Cheese III
Puffy stars - Freckled Fawn
Heart paper - My Minds Eye

Thanks for looking!

#Italy - a Challenge YOURself prompt

Hey everyone!

Today I'm bringing you a new layout inspired by a challenge over at the Challenge YOURself blog. The challenge is to use RED and STAMPING on your layout. As always, you're also required to scrap a photo of yourself!

I thought this would be a great challenge for a photo of my mother and myself from our recent Disneyworld trip.

A trend I have been seeing more of lately is non-white backgrounds, and I'm LOVING it! I have never adhered to the mostly white background layout exclusively, so maybe I'm just happy that my style may be starting to trend? Haha!

I softened the black background paper with some silver texture paste and a heart stencil, as well as some new white HS color shine I just got (although it looks silver to me!).

We took this photo in "Italy" in Epcot. I thought it was just such a pretty display. It was a beautiful day as well.

I incorporated the stamping aspect of the challenge with this Tim Holtz Rome landscape stamp that I embossed on some vellum & fussy cut.

Supplies:
B&W polka dot paper - Becky Higgins
Buffalo check paper - American Crafts
Star paper - Pink Paislee
Doily - Michaels
Red Chipboard sticker - Me & My Big Ideas
Stamp - Tim Holtz
Metallic texture paste and Color Shine - Heidi Swapp

Thanks for looking!