Halloween Scrapbooking Activities

I just came back from a long overdue shopping excursion to Michael's only to be caught off guard by all of the "spooky" sounds and goulish display of halloween stuff.

I couldn't believe that summer has barely ended - and yet Halloween is in full effect. Its not like I didn't expect it - it just made me wonder "where all the time had gone" to?

So....now that I have accepted that Halloween is just around the corner - I guess its time to get the planning started.

This year I intend to scrapbook more!

I created my tombstone scrapbook album covers last year - but still have all of the paper and supplies left to do the pages.

I even started gathering all of the photo's I wanted to throw in there - until I had realized that I didn't really have that many photo's after all.

I wanted to plan a "costume" night with the kids - and have them dress up in every costume they ever had so that I could take photo's with them in them...but then the time subsided.

Now, my son's birthday is close to Halloween so naturally every year I do create at least a Halloween themed party invitation and possibly even Halloween themed goody bags. But somehow along the way the idea of getting the kids attending the party in full costume gets shuffled aside in order to give them room to play like boys like to play (free of restriction).

But this year - I think I am going to go all out. I would love to build a haunted house and have a whole gang of kids in costume playing spooky games.

In fact I have a whole book of spooky halloween party games on my Halloween site - that the kids always play at school - but NEVER yet at the birthday party.

I can just imagine the great photo's I would get from such an event. And how great that Halloween Scrapbook would be.

Are you planning any Halloween Scrapbooking Activies this year? I would love some ideas if you have any....I want to go all out this year.

Tombstone Scrapbook Album

So, we are now days away from Halloween and we will have ton's of great Scrapbooking opportunities to play with.

We can photograph any of the following:

• The candy we buy (makes for a great edge to edge photo)
• The spooky decorations we put up
• The costumes our children put on
• The trick or treaters that come to the door (only the masked ones - unless you get their parents conscent - and are willing to email them the finished pages)
• The fireworks displays we see
• The fairs and festivals around town
• The haunted houses we visit
• The halloween dances we attend
• etc.

But then what? Is a pretty fabric Scrapbook Album going to do the job we want as a cover piece? Probably not....so here is a suggestion.

Halloween Tombstone Scrapbook
Project Details:

Why not get at least 2 large pieces of chipboard and trim them into tombstones?

A simple one with rounded corners would be best, since it would then make it easier to trim and decorate the internal pages the same shape as well.

1. Then you can punch holes along the top or the sides (and do the same, at the same place for the inside pages) and enclose them with standard office O' Rings - and tie black or even Halloween Printed Ribbon through the rings.
2. Next use a grey background paper, or gray acrylic paint, decorate the covers.
3. Print, stamp or stencil the R.I.P and "In Memory of Halloween, 2007" on the front cover - with spooky lettering
4. And then using black distressing ink - distress the edges.
5. And complete the internal pages with the same "spooky" theme.

You could also get really creative with red embossing pens and powder OR red glitter glue OR red pen and glossy accents - to create shiny red blood drops on the front cover and inside pages.

You can even glue black silk flowers to the bottom of the front cover or internal pages.

OR if you have some...decoupage glue would be an awesome finish for the covers - giving it that textured look and feel that a "spooky" tombstone might have.

Gotta love it!

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Happy Haunted Scrapping!

How to Make a Halloween Wreath

This Great video on making a Halloween Wreath - spiked a brain cell somewhere deep in the hollows of my mind today on how we can adopt this as a scrapbooking idea.

I love the use of pretzels - and would love to glue one of these finished Halloween Wreath's to the front of my Scrapbook Album.

But if I really wanted to use it on a scrapbook page, I might have to revise it slightly.

So, what if in the revision, we made our own ring out of chipboard (or something less bulky), and then embellished it with ribbons and halloween treats (wooden notions, beads, brads, stickers, 3D accents etc.) and used the finished masterpiece as a frame over our children's Halloween Photos? Or over our journaling? Wouldn't that be unique?

*Of course you can still create the wreath anyhow and post it on your door! Or if you are a teacher - use it as an in class project for kids to take home.

It looks like a lot of fun to make!

Don't you think?