Leela's First Halloween Toy Layout

Hi everyone! I hope you are having a good week! Recently I got a new Jack Russell Terrier puppy. Her name is Leela and she is perfect! Anyways, I got her a new spider toy and she loved it. She carries it everywhere with her, and I love it when she lays on the Halloween rug in the kitchen. So I snapped a picture of her, and decided to use the new Crate Paper After Dark collection to scrapbook the first layout of little Leela.

I love when collections come with a diagonal striped paper because they make great 12x12 mats for your layout. I decided to outline everything on the layout with a black 08 pen to stand out a little more.

After the background paper was matted onto the striped paper, I cut some papers down to make a few layers. I absolutely love the backside of the Trick or Treat paper! Then I went in with a few ephemera pieces and stickers, plus an orange paper clip, at the top right side of the layout. 

In the bottom left corner is a glitter foam spider web with a wood veneer spider on top. For the title, I used the Midnight Thickers and the Halloween Script die from Tim Holtz with a piece of orange glitter paper from Michaels. 

Underneath the photo are three banner pieces that are outlined with a black 05 pen. Even the black banners are outlined. 

I'm super excited for Halloween this year! We have my step kids this year. So we will be taking them Trick or Treating, then my friend is throwing a little get together afterwards. So I should have lots of pictures to play with! 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful day! 

Too Cute to Spook layout

I haven't been scrapping my Halloween pictures from this year yet. I finally started printing them off to scrap. 

This year we took the girls to my friends neighborhood and it was hopping! Kids everywhere! The girls made out with so much candy! 

For this layout I used the Scraptastic October Thriller kit and add on. 

 To the right of the layout I put a two inch strip of paper from the Simple Stories Frankie and Friends collection and some Jillibean Soup Witches Brew Pea Pod Parts. The kit came with some Jillibean Soup Beanboard Alphas in purple and I bought the black ones from www.Scrapbook.com to use with the kit also.

I didn't do any layers in this layout, Just a simple mat behind the photos and some embellishments.

I did my journaling sideways along the edge of that Simple Stories paper then added some splatters and enamel stars. 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week!

Fright Night

Today I have two Halloween layouts to share that I completely forgot to blog about because there's just so much excitement going on right now for me! But I can't share that excitement yet, but I will soon! I made these two layouts about ten days ago and it just skipped my mind to add them here. 

In this layout, I used the Scraptastic Thriller kit and add on. The picture I chose is from 2011 at a party at my friends house. The guys were trying to be scary!

I layered a couple stickers with a skull wood veneer at the bottom of the photo. I love the exclusive wood veneers that came in the kit!  The little banners are too cute tucked underneath the Friends sticker.

I love doing split background layouts! They're just fun and looks nice! I loved both of the papers so much that I decided to cut the skull paper at 7 inches and the purple chevron paper at 5 1/2 inches and glued them together so I could still have some of the paper left over.

We Are Oh So Spooky

For this layout, I ended up drawing up a little sketch by hand. I was getting ready for bed, and it just popped in my head. I didn't want to forget about it, so I drew it out quickly so I could work on it the next day.

I love the pictures from Halloween 2011! Everyone dressed up and and we had such a great time and the Scraptastic Thriller kit is just perfect for these layouts! I chose to do all the pictures in black and white so they would stand out more with the fun and bright colors in the kit!

All the banners were cut by hand. I just cut different sized papers, then folded them in half and cut diagonally at one end to cut out a triangle. Then unfolded the paper and there are the banners!

I used a Halloween spiderweb border punch to layer under the pictures and a Scraptastic exclusive print and cut tab. I did mini journalling on the tab and tucked it under a picture. 

Thank you for stopping by! Have a great rest of your week!

October 2011

October 2011

Today I have a Halloween layout to share! I bought the Thriller kit from Scraptastic thinking I would use it for this years Halloween photos, but I couldn't wait any longer!

I love the colorful diagonal stripe paper from Authentique, but thought it was a little too bold as a background. So I matted black cardstock on top. I used lots of bits and pieces from the Jillibean Soup Owloween Pea Pods and the Jillibean Soup Witches Brew Pea Pods to layer on top of the Bella Blvd. cut apart paper. 

I stamped the spider web down in white Prima ink and then did a couple splatters with my Mister Huey's Opaque White. Then added a few enamel dots here and there.

Here's a close up of my layer cluster. There were so many fun Halloween themed items in the kit, I wanted to use them all! 

My favorite part of this layout is where I stamped the cute spider from the Scraptastic Thriller stamp set. I embossed the little spider in purple Stampendous embossing powder.

Thank you for stopping by! Have a wonderful week!