Saturday, April 2, 2011

Mickey Ears - From Sketch to Layout

I have been slowly but surely planning and working on my Disney album  and so while I may not have been diligent about posting I have been working. This week's challenge at the Cricut Circle Blog is to work from a sketch and since that is the way I work anyway I thought I would share my process for this layout and how I design my layouts in general.


The details:
I usually begin by sitting down one night with my pencil and paper and a stack of pics. Then I group my pics together by theme or event and begin to sketch. I sometimes use my Becky Higgins book of sketches or ones I have cut out of magazines or sometimes I just move the pics around until I come up with an order I like. Then I begin to sketch my page layout - and what I have started to do is next to the sketch make a list of the possible papers and cricut cuts I want to include as well.


My inspiration for this particular layout was I wanted to model it after the pair of Mickey Ears my daughter picked out and designed for herself at Disney World. Here's a closeup so you can see:


And once I have done a few of those (or on a different night) I pull out my Gypsy and use the first layer as my design layer - I layout the cuts as I want to see them on my page. I might use more than one layer if I have to plan welding and shadow cuts.


When I do get around to start cutting (usually after a torturous afternoon trying to pick out papers - oh the decisions!) then I simple copy and paste the images to a different layer for cutting.

For this particular layout, the big Mickey shape is cut at 9.5 inches, the font is cut at 1 inch and shadowed, and the little Mickeys in the corners are cut at 2.90 inches and then I trimmed off the excess that hung over the edges. The printed background paper is DCWV Blossoms & Butterflies, the holographic pink is from Target, and the rest to the paper is Recollections. The gems are from Michaels too - from the kids crafts section and adhered with glue dots.

I hope this is the start of more layouts to come - and if you enjoy looking at the sketches too please let me know - I will be happy to include them.

16 comments:

  1. Wonderful layout! love your sketch, I will enjoy seeing more to come.

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  2. How cute. I can hardly wait to take my grand-daughter to Disney Land. It's going to be a few years though because she's only 3 months old. Love your layout.

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  3. I love this! I may have to lift it for my granddaughter's photo! So cute!!!

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  4. Totally cute! I literally have 1000's of Disney pics from the last 15 years that I need to scrapbook. :( I have a pic of my girls with their first ears, so I just may have to scraplift this one! :) Thanks for sharing all the details and I like how you show your sketch.
    Lori

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  5. This is so adorable!! You did a great job on the G with this one!!
    Steph

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  6. Great layout! I may have to scraplift this one for the millions of pics I have from just two trips to Disney;) i like that your showed the sketch also and the details on the project are very helpful...thanks for taking the time.

    Karla

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  7. This is an adorable layout! And I like how you showed us your sketching plans on how you made the LO... it's a great process... :O)
    Theresa

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  8. I love all things Disney - great job designing the Cricut art yourself!

    Charlotte (buggin_out)

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  9. I love having your thought process behind your design. That is very helpful. Love this LO!

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  10. Aw, this is fantastic! I love it when an element in a photo is enough to build a whole layout from!

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  11. this is zoo cute, I am so scraplifting this after our trip to Disney world!

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  12. This is ADORABLE!!! I have my first ears picture from when I was little, I may make myself one of these. So great!!!!!!

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  13. Oh this is soo...sweet. I love your layout.

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  14. I really love these pages. I am working on my disney albums...and I still have a long way to go. Thank you for the inspiration to keep moving forward with the project!

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  15. Fantastic! Love the layout and colors! Good Luck in the challenge!

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