It's "Spread It Out" day over on the Bella Blvd blog today, and that means I have another new two page layout to share with you. I had it in my head that I wanted to make a Halloween layout this month, as I had come across these super old photos a few weeks back on a half done layout from years ago.
These are from back in October 2004, so a full eleven years ago. Just like THIS LAYOUT, I simply removed the photos from the previously started layout and did the best I could with them as is (since these are film photos, and not something that I can easily edit/reprint).
It's not often that I actually use typical Halloween colors when it comes to scrapping Halloween photos of the girls. And that's because it was never typical of my girls to choose costumes in typical Halloween colors. But this was one costume, a Spider Countess, that definitely worked with orange and black.
I was able to pull patterned papers and stickers from three different Bella Halloween collections - Too Cute To Spook, Trick or Treat, and Halloween Magic. I started out by die cutting a diamond background from one of the orange patterned papers, and used a piece of it on each page of the spread. I am a huge fan of using die cut backgrounds to break up the "heaviness" of too much patterned paper on the page.
I thought the "too cute to spook" text patterned paper would make a good background for the top of the pages, where I planned on putting my title and some other embellishments.
I came across the "frightfully adorable" sticker, which was the perfect size to fit across my die cut background piece. It ended up working out great, as I needed something to help organize that side of the spread. I fussy cut the spider from the Cute Cuts patterned paper and added a piece of string to the page for him to hang from.
I also fussy cut a few words from another patterned paper to add to the layout, like the "beware" seen above.
The one thing that I do miss about film photos is that you could simply have the camera set to add the date to each photo. I mean, looking at these photos now, it's extremely distracting. Lol. But it takes the thinking out of trying to remember (or having to look up) when the photos were taken.
For the title, I die cut the word "BOO" from the same orange patterned paper that I used for the diamond die cut background. I then added letter stickers to finish off my "boo-tiful" title.
I added some chipboard clouds, all taken from one of the Halloween chipboard sets, to embellish the page, along with a few other chipboard pieces and some enamel dots.
Hope everyone has a safe, and fun, and candy-filled Halloween this weekend!
YEAH!!! You pulled through for me again! A Halloween layout and a double paged layout-EXACTLY what I was looking for when I got on my computer:) I have a million and one things to do today but it snowed over night and has been snowing all day (boo that) so it just seemed like a good day to scrapbook. And, seeing as how it's Halloween tomorrow, I thought I'd better finish up last years pictures before I took any more...because that's how I roll. Haha. Thanks again for all of your great double paged layouts!
Posted by: staci | October 30, 2015 at 12:14 PM
oh this is ADORABLE, love it!
Posted by: Diana | October 30, 2015 at 02:42 PM
What a beautiful layout!!! Love the paper and embellishment.
Posted by: Denise Coulter | October 31, 2015 at 03:02 PM
Fantastic layouts and great costumes.
Posted by: Michelle | November 01, 2015 at 11:15 AM