Disneyland Altered Notebooks

We are going to Disneyland this weekend with my sister and her family (we leave Utah on the 25th and come back on the 30th). I decided that I didn't really want to the money on the signature books at Disneyland (last time we went, in 2000, it was $8 a book), so I figured I could make some myself. I picked up 2 four packs of small spiral bound notebooks at the dollar store (total $2.14) and then covered them with paper I had left in my paper stash from when I did the 2000 Disneyland pictures (yes, I do occasionally get rid of things, but I figured I'd use Disney paper eventually). I mounted the paper on the front and back covers using moge podge. I cut some character faces from a paper that had the faces in little squares and mounted those on the front. I put a good coating of moge podge over everything once I was done to make sure that it wouldn't rip easily. After these pictures were taken, I strung ribbon through the spiral binding so the kids could wear them around their necks, making it less likely that they leave the book on a ride like my oldest did last time. My sons got to pick which characters (and background paper) went on their books, as did my nephew I babysit who is going with us. For my sister's other 3 kids, I just picked for them.

This is my younger son's book. He loves Mickey Mouse, so he picked Mickey paper and also Mickey and Minnie faces to go on the front.

This is my older son's book. He picked some character signature paper I had and picked Goofy and Pluto to go on the front since he loves Goofy.

This one is for my nephew that I babysit. He's only 3 and loves the idea of going to see Mickey Mouse, so he picked the Mickey Mouse head paper. I picked the characters for him.

This one is for my other nephew. This one is the only one of the other 3 that didn't have girl characters on it so I figured it was best for him.

This one only has girl characters so it's for one of my two nieces that are going with us.

This one is for my other niece that is going with us. I mounted the cut out characters on white paper to set them apart from the background paper, since it's the paper I cut the characters out of.

Christmas cards, take 3

I had a Stampin' Up party on the 20th of September and got the "Wishing You Cheer" set as part of my Hostess gift. I loved the saying stamp in it and I really liked the clipboard idea in the catalog (it's on page 33). The saying stamp says "Wishing you sparkle, wishing you cheer, for a bright merry Christmas and happy new year!" I also purchased the Bright bulbs Standard stamping wheel at my party. I stamped the card background with the bright bulbs stamping wheel in a dark green. I then stamped the saying stamp in blue on a white piece of paper. I colored the tree and the ornaments with different colored markers and stamped those on white paper also. I mounted the white paper on some dark blue and dark purple paper scraps I had. The tree images I mounted on the card front with regular adhesive. The saying I mounted between the tree images using 3d foam adhesive. I mounted them on a diagonal just to give it a little more visual interest. I really like how this one turned out.