Spring Fling!

So yesterday was a little too hectic for my taste and before I knew it the day was gone and there was no page posted!  So here is my page for the day, and in honor of the gloomy weather I decided to go with something super springy.

I think these pictures are really fun because I love action shots!  One of my favorite things to do with my camera is to set it on multi-shot and just push the button down.  It's the very best way to get really great candids and you never know when you'll get the perfect picture and not even realize it.  Once again I took way more pictures than I could fit on a layout, so I had to pare it down and try to make it fit.

Every one of the pictures is smaller than a standard 4x6 size, with some of them half that size and the pictures in the filmstrip the smallest.

At first I wanted to put the pictures in the filmstrip in order so it looked like a moving picture, but since I had way too many, I only did it for the small pictures in the top right.  I love the use of the filmstrip to include a lot of photos!

The paper is some coordinating paper from Hobby Lobby (Paper Studio)--I love it because it takes all the guesswork out of matching the paper.

I cut the various sizes of circles using my Sizzix and a circle die cut. I love the idea of lots of circles with the page because it matches so well with the frisbees and giant ball. The ribbon is American Crafts, and the 3D bugs are Paper Bliss.  The word Fling is made with sticker letters from Doodlebug and I cut summer with a Sizzix alphabet.

Some people shy away from pink paper, especially when they are dealing mostly with pictures of boys, but it is such a fun spring color for everyone that it definitely has it's place so don't be afraid to use it!

On another note, we are coming close to the end of our "30 days of pages" and have some fun new ideas for future posts, including a page kit giveaway, which we are hoping to have ready to go next week!

Tiggerific!

Two "Tails" of Tigger...
Since we go to Disneyland so often and make it a point to always visit all the characters we can find and get photos, we have a LOT of character photos.  Here are two different takes on our visits with Tigger:

Jayme's "Tail"
I love all the characters you find at Pooh Corner in Disneyland, but I think I like Tigger the most! He is so playful with the kids and we always get the cutest pictures with him!This page was one of my all time favorites to scrapbook and one of the pages I am most proud of!

I found this sticker in the Disney section at JoAnns I love the color scheme! I love doing any page with bright colors! I used plain green for my background, the stripe and polka dot is from American Crafts and the orange gingham is from Pebbles.

My title is made up of more of those cute metal letters from Provo Craft and the word Tiggerific I spelled using sticker letters I got from Doodlebug Designs! Which I am happy to say you can still get if you visit the Doodlebug Designs booth at the scrapbook expo! I embellished the page with Doodlebug buttons as well, which you can also still get from the Doodlebug booth! I made a frame for my big Tigger sticker using chipboard which I covered with the striped paper. I usually use the backs of my paper pads for the chipboard, I find that it is the perfect thickness. The swirls at the bottom of the page are spare part paper clip swirls, from Hobby Lobby! 

The Tigger tags on this page are also mounted on chipboard and attached with matching brads.The ribbon on both pages comes from walmart! 

Why doesn't Tigger have any friends? 

Cuz he's always playin with Pooh!

Wendy's "Tail"

I agree that Tigger is one of my favorite characters at Disneyland!  And sometimes he's better than others (I suppose it depends who's in the suit...)  I love it when he's playful, posing, and joking around with the kids.

 My page is from a totally different trip several years later when the kids were much older.  The Tiggers on my page were made with the Cricut Pooh and Friends cartridge--one of my very favorites and most used!  The font for the title was cut with the Mickey & Friends cartridge--another all time favorite.  None of the paper I used came together--it was just loose paper that I had in my stash and I have no idea where it even came from.

These little guys are called "Twinchies".  Not sure where that name came from, but I saw some online that several people had done and I thought they were an adorable way to make use of very small stickers so they don't get lost on the page.

Since I had some very small stickers that I didn't want to lose on my page, I decided this was the way to go.  I punches some squares with my Sizzix out of chipboard and covered them with some of the patterned paper from the page.  Then I just decorated them with buttons, brads, ribbon, etc as though they were a mini page all their own.  Because they are made from chipboard, they really stand out on the page and give it some dimension.

I love Twinchies!  Now that I know about this fun idea, I no longer hesitate to buy small stickers or other small embellishments because I know I can make good use of them.  And you can make them in any shape--although I haven't tried round ones I think they would be awesome!

So there is my Tigger "tail".  This last year at Disneyland I had to bribe my kids to get pictures taken with Pooh and friends...apparently they are way too old and mature for such nonsense as posing with enormous stuffed animals (yet strangely not too mature to beg for treats like fudge and Tigger Tails at the shop in Pooh Corner...go figure).  I guess I must look forward to the day of grandkids now, so I can continue to scrapbook all these fun characters.