Disney Name Art

by Cindy deRosier (Nov 23, 2012)

Here at Scrapjazz, there is no shortage of inspiration for your Disney-related projects. A quick search of the gallery brings up literally thousands of Disney layouts plus dozens of Disney cards and embellishments. I found sixteen Disney-related articles in the Learning section. The Scrapjazz store carries almost 400 items that are tagged Disney. What could I possibly show that is unique, that offers a different way to showcase your Disney photos? Disney Name Art!

My parents take our extended family to Disneyland each fall. We typically spend five days in the parks. One year, I broke off from the group and spent a few hours photographing signs at Disneyland and California Adventure. When we got home, I used photo-editing software to create photo collages of each person's name. I mounted these on cardstock and used my Crop-A-Dile to add gromlets, and then put each family group's names on a separate ring. Here are the rings for my sister Kari, brother-in-law Brian, and nephew Timothy, and my parents, Dave and Kathy.

Before our next trip, I gave each family their ring of names. They were a hit! It was fun hearing them try to guess where in the parks I'd photographed each letter. Some were easy -- everyone recognized that the ‘m' in Timothy's name was from the Monsters, Inc. ride. Others were much harder. I challenged everyone to find each of their letters during our next trip. It was a lot of fun.

Recently, I printed new copies of our family's names and used them to make a fun wall hanging. I started by mounting each name on black cardstock. I cut one large and two small Mickey heads using my Wishblade, and then covered the cut-outs with Stickles to give them shine. While the Stickles dried, I used a border punch to create a decorative background for our last name. I hung each of the names from black embroidery floss and covered the ends with the Mickey heads.