Weekly Challenge #142 (7/11-7/17)
 

Hi fellow Mousescrappers! This is my first ever challenge and I’m going to be trying something a little different in an attempt to get your creative juices flowing!

I want you all to recall (or discover) a fun Disney fact. It can be about anything: Disney World in general, a particular ride, a particular park, Walt himself... Anything. I want this to be the inspiration for your page. The fact it’s self doesn’t have to be on your page if you don’t want (there is no journaling requirement), as long as you tell us what the fact was and how you were inspired by it.

I’m obsessed with the amount of detail in the parks and I’m hoping some of you will tell me facts that I don’t know of yet!

To clear up any possible confusion here is my layout:

I was inspired by this fact {It’s a long one}: “Walt’s loved trains from a young age, and when young classed his claim to fame as having an uncle that worked on the Santa Fe’s accommodation train. At the age of 15 he applied to work on the Santa Fe with his brother Roy and then went on to work on various railroads across America, before moving on to carious other posts. However his passion for trains never died and the railroad was one of the first attractions he planned. Walt wanted a train station at the forefront of the Magical Kingdom park Florida as he wanted it to be the first thing the guests saw. Disneyland Paris also has a train station at the front of the part to pay homage to this”.
From that I made this:

http://www.mousescrappers.com/photos..._CHOO_copy.jpg

Additional rules:
1. Use as many photos/ papers/elements as you wish. However since, this is about Disney’s secrets I want to see at least one hidden Mickey on your page... The harder it is for me to find the better :D I LOVE finding hidden Mickeys.
2. Leave Love to at least 3 people in the Gallery – it’s always nice to receive love.
3. No double dipping with any other challenges and no use of quick pages to complete the challenge.
4. As usual post in this thread with a link to your layout in the weekly challenge Gallery and post a link to the forum thread where your page goes.

Not only is this my first challenge, it’s also my first ever attempt at designing. So here is the PP you will be playing for... Hope you guys like it and can think of some uses for it!

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8150/7...f4bb8d820b.jpg

Hope you guys have fun with this one, I cannot wait to see what you come up with!

Also Posted here: http://www.mousescrappers.com/forums...672#post111672

I must say... for your first time hosting and your first time designing....... you...... ROCKED them both!!!! Great challenge and awesome PP! I'll have to get to doing some research and scrapping.

THanks for the inspiration and your page is amazing too.

Nicely done!

wow, this is beautiful! Love the pp and what a great challenge.
Good job!

Excellent challenge and what a wonderful pp! I'm going to have to dig deep down for this on. Thank you!

fat free
 

Great challenge, made me research a fact me and my sister were just discussing the other day, and made her feel better about those dole whips! Yes they have sugar, carbs and calories, but those dont' count in Disney World anyhow. Just thought this would be a fun fact to make us feel better. :) Great challenge & pp! I'll leave love later. Thanks!

http://www.mousescrappers.com/photos...75/fatfree.jpg

http://www.mousescrappers.com/forums...690#post111690

Thanks for the kind words ladies, I'm glad you liked the challenge and PP.

Wow, how fast are you Robills? Love your fact about Dole Whips being fat free, I genuinely didn't know that. But then again I've never even had the pleasure of trying one yet :no:

Fun challenge! I've been meaning to scrap Lion King pics for a while and never was inspired. The info about the parade floats, below, inspired me to keep the focus on the nice pictures of the floats and animals and add minimal elements. Had it not been for the tidbit of info, I probably would have done lots of clusters and elements and the clusters probably would have fought with the pictures.

"Coincidentally, about the same time that this project got dropped in WDW's Entertainment's lap, Disneyland's "Lion King Celebration" was ending its nearly three year run at that theme park. And since the floats & puppets that Michael Curry had designed for this acclaimed street pageant were now due to go into storage to make way for Disneyland's next movie-based parade, the "Hercules Victory Tour" ... Well, WDW Entertainment requested that these elements of the "Lion King Celebration" be packed up and sent off to Central Florida ASAP.

And then - in an artful bit of recycling - those parade floats & puppets became the bones on which Disney World's Entertainment Department built one of the more popular shows to ever be performed at a Disney theme park, "Festival of the Lion King."

Info from this article on Jim Hill Media: http://jimhillmedia.com/contributors...x#.T_2k7pHsZXs

http://www.mousescrappers.com/photos...King_small.jpg

also here: http://www.mousescrappers.com/forums...703#post111703

Wow! This was fun! Thanks for the great challenge and the awesome PP!

I also posted it here...
http://www.mousescrappers.com/forums...714#post111714

And my fun fact is...

1. The Haunted Mansion is the only attraction located in four different lands in four different Disney Parks: New Orleans Square at Disneyland; Liberty Square at Walt Disney World; Fantasyland at Tokyo Disneyland; and Frontierland at Disneyland Paris.

THANKS!

Debbie

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Two more entries in the first day, you girs are super speedy :)

TurkoGirl - I love that the fact inspired you to let the photos be the focus of your layout and the elements you did use compliment the picture perfectly without overcrowding. Love the result!

Debpop - I've loved that fact for a while and I'm so glad you used it to inspire you to get a Haunted Mansion layout complete! I love your autumnal colour scheme and your title work.