Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!!! What are your big plans for the day? Mine are work all day with some very excited third graders, then go home and tag along on my niece's second Trick or Treat! I'm really looking forward to it.

Last year, in addition to Trick or Treating, we took the Musher to Boo At the Zoo at the Fort Worth Zoo.  As this was her first Halloween where she really  had any inkling as to what was going on, I took pictures.  And then I took some more.  And some more after that.  So the end result is having about 503204823490858234908 pictures of Halloween-related Ellie from 2011.  And they're all too cute to throw by the wayside, so I'm sure I will scrapping them all up. 

So Cute It's Scary

 

I'll take any excuse to use ridiculous quantities of October Afternoon products on a layout!  Super exciting to get to use even more Witch Hazel!  I'm going through a phase where I'm REALLY enjoying using very bold backgrounds on my layouts.

 

 

 

A little cluster of embellishments, including one of the cutey postcards from the Witch Hazel collection.  I turned it into a tag for journaling and added some of the ribbon from the miscellany pack.

 

 

 

I liked how these skulls came in a range of colors, so used them in a row along the side.

 

Here's a closer look at the postcard.  I punched a hole in the top, added the ribbon and tucked it behind my photos.

 On the other side, I added my journaling and in keeping with the postcard concept, added Ellie's information address-style.  I LOVE how these postcards are actual postcards and not just labeled as such.  Super cute!

 

 

Supplies:  patterned paper, die cuts, postcard, ribbon, brads, button, stickers - October Afternoon; letter stickers - October Afternoon, American Crafts

Thanks for looking and have a Spooktacular Halloween!

UNHalloween Pumpkins

I have a Halloweenish (but actually, not Halloween related at all) layout to share with you today....

 

Mickey's Punkin' Patch

 

I had these cute photos of the big fake Mickey Mouse pumpkins in his garden at his house in Toontwon from a few years ago.  I totally had to break out some October Afternoon Witch Hazel for this one.  I threw in a few other papers...some Studio G (which I bought at Wal-Mart over a year ago for 97 cents), some Jillibean Soup, a little Studio Calico, My Mind's Eye, and some Fancy Pants. 

 

 

 

I used a Studio Calico paper (from the Classic Calico Volume 2 Collection) as my background and threw some mist up on that baby: Mister Huey's Pumpkin Spice, I believe.

This little pumpkin sticker from OA's Witch Hazel was perfect for the layout.  The letter stickers and the lable behind the pumpkin come from this collection, as well.

 

More Witch Hazel with the vintagey pumpkin card and the flags.  The button is from My Mind's Eye and came in my Studio Calico kit last month.

 

A few more My Mind's Eye embellies and some twine for a rustic feel.  These are layered over some Witch Hazel washi tape.

 

Supplies:  patterned paper - October Afternoon, Studio Calico, Jillibean Soup, Fancy Pants, My Mind's Eye; chipboard - My Mind's Eye; flags, letter stickers, stickers, and card - October Afternoon; spray ink - Mister Huey's (Studio Calico); stamp ink - Jenni Bowlin (Ranger) in Fountain Pen; other - twine

 

Thanks so much for reading!

Halloween...a One Year Old...a Zoo Trip...and PANCAKES!

Hey everybody out there in the blogosphere.  I have been a horrible, horrible, horrible blogger as of late.  I'm going to try very hard to get my proverbial crappola back together and blog my little heart out this week.

Just so you know what I've been up to:  work....work....work...and more work.  We're only in the second six weeks, but I'm having the kind of year where it feels like it should be May already!  But only five (?) more weeks til a much needed and MUCH anticipated Thanksgiving break!

Well next week is my third favorite holiday:  Halloween.  I have tons of pictures from the past couple of Halloweens to scrapbook, but have only done three.  That's right:  three.  I really need to get a move on, because I have no doubt I'll be adding to my collection when Elle Belle goes trick or treating on that fateful night!  Though, really, I shouldn't feel even slightly bad about that, because her mom hasn't even decided on her costume yet, so.....

Enough chit chat...I actually have the one and only Halloween layout I've done waiting to be shown to you all.  I used Echo Park's new Chillingsworth Manor collection here.  The only addition is some strips of washi tape.

Frighteningly Good Pancakes

In Fort Worth, at the city zoo, they host an event annually around this time called "Boo At the Zoo".  Since Ellie is the one and only child in our entire family, we tend to jump the gun on doing fun "kid" stuff.  So, my mom, my sister (Ellie's mom), Ellie, and I headed out to Boo last October.  We decided to make a day of it and nab some pancakes beforehand at a favorite Fort Worth landmark: Ol' South Pancake House. 

 

I don't own Photoshop or PS Elements or anything fancy.  I use a lot of Instagrammed photos, but these were just SOOC images that I edited a bit in, of all thing, Microsoft Word.  I brightened them up a bit to give them a more filtered look. 

 

Layer upon layer of Halloween yumminess!

 

The sticker behind the journaling card is actually from Basic Grey's Black Dress collection.

 

Supplies:  patterned paper, letter stickers, journaling card - Echo Park; stickers - Echo Park, Basic Grey; tapes - Bazzill, American Crafts, Love My Tapes; ink - Jenni Bowlin

 

Thanks so much for reading!!