I have a hard time doing Halloween pages, mostly because I am into Halloween colors and ideas leading up to it, but after it I am gearing up for Christmas. So when Halloween day comes I get my picture of the kids, and then I am over Halloween. So now I have years worth of pictures that the colors are all wonky and the images are blurred from the kids moving around because they are so excited to go to each of the houses, that I really have not done much with these pictures. Then I saw Linda's "Little Spook" layout and poof it hit me, why not black and white or sepia for the pictures of the kids? Make them neutral so the pictures don't fight with the colors of the papers, if they are blurry I thought so who cares it adds to the story of the night, and with 3 pictures and lots of kids and movement I wanted to keep the layout simple.
I really wanted to keep the layout about the pictures and the stories about the pictures, not over power them or add too much to them. I took a very different route to my layout this time, very traditional and even printing out a lengthy journal story from my computer to fit even more story on the layout. Add in a large title sticker and those fun little cat stickers from the October Birds of a Feather Kit and poof a cute little Halloween page!!
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| October Birds of a Feather Kit |
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| October Birds of a Kit Extra Papers |
Below is the journaling I wrote on the page in larger size but the same font
This was the
beginning of Morgan’s stretch of Star Wars costumes. In 2011 he was General Grevious, 2012 he was
Luke Skywalker, and 2013 he was Captain Rex complete with a sound effects
blaster. Mike brought home the Captain Rex
mask from deployment, and Morgan fell in love with it, so needless to say we
had to get Brandon something just as cool and he got a very fun Spiderman mask
the same year.
Brandon was a spider
in 2011, then a tiger in 2012, and then Spiderman; I am starting to see an
animal theme here!! The spider costume
was the only thing he would keep on that year, and when he saw the tiger
costume nothing else would do. In 2013
he started to fall in love with superheroes, so Spiderman it was complete with
red light wrist web cuffs.
Catherine started
out as a cute little cupcake in 2012, but she tore at her costume and only wore
it for a whopping 15 minutes as it is just too hot in Houston in Oct. In 2013 I got her an adorable ladybug costume
complete with a little headband, tutu, and wings – she hated it as you can see
from the picture of her trying to escape (this was the best shot I could get). The wings lasted the length of the picture
then off they came!!
The
first two pictures are in our house in Missouri City, TX. Our neighborhood was very hit and miss, lots
of dark houses and odds candies, complete with candy canes being given
out. In 2013 we had just moved to
Pflugerville, and we were just wowed by the explosion of community out to Trick
or Treat (picture the movie ET), you could not ask for a better Halloween experience
than this!!
Supplies Used
Patterned Papers - Echo Park & MME - Oct Birds of a Feather KitCardstock - American Crafts - Oct Birds of a Feather Kit
Cardstock Stickers - Reminisce - Oct Birds of a Feather Kit
3D sticker - Little B - Oct Birds of a Feather Kit
Alpha Stickers - American Crafts - Sept Birds of a Feather Kit
Font - Chiller - MS Word
Ink - Prima
Adhesive - Scotch & Beacon
Trimmer - Fiskars
Enjoy!!
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