Hallowe'en Mini Album

Hi everyone! Practical Scrapper Alison here with a project that's been sitting in my "to do" basket for a couple years now. I'm sure none of you know what I'm talking about, right? Unfinished projects... products purchased for a project and never used... I can't be the only one out there with this problem!! :)

I first got the idea from Big Picture Classes. It was a self-paced workshop called The Boo! Book. I thought it would be a great way to document our kids Hallowe'en costumes over the years so I bought the products for it, printed off the instructions, and then got side tracked with raising said kids! Well, this year (a full two years later!!) I cracked open the supplies and got busy. It will be a book that I can add to every year so I have extra pages ready to go and have kept the supplies I used in one place to keep the album looking contiguous.

The front cover. 

Each double page spread is one year starting with 2004 and Marley's 1st Hallowe'en.

2005.

2006 was my second daughter Paige's 1st Hallowe'en and her turn to be a Lady bug!

2007 - we moved to a new house that Fall. One in a large neighbourhood with lots of children so the haul was the biggest yet!

2008 - the pictures on the left were taken when we went to see the Great Big Boo! and my only deviation from Hallowe'en night only photos.

2009 was Christine's 1st Hallowe'en and since the Ladybug costume had given up the ghost a few years prior, she got to be a Panda Bear instead.

2010 - the girls' cousins came back for the second year in a row. My nephew's birthday is on October 28th so in 2009 we held a birthday party for him on Hallowe'en night (must have been a weekend!) and let all the kids go out trick-or-treating together. Neither of the other families lived in very kid friendly neighbourhoods so coming out to us was like touring Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory! Everyone liked it so much we did it again this year. The following year both families had moved into much more candy rich environments so we did our own thing again!

2011 

Here's another shot of the album. It's just waiting for pictures of my Devil, Pirate Princess and Cowgirl!

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a wonderful weekend and Happy Hallowe'en!!

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Home Decor Halloween Wreath

Hi Everyone,
Practical Scrapper Mary Pat here with you today and I have a home decor Halloween wreath to share with you.  This is a wonderful and very easy way to used up all your Halloween scraps that you might have.  I made a Bat Wreath.

To make this fun wreath I bought a grapevine wreath at a local hobby store and some fun ribbon.  I then used my Silhouette and found a very cute and easy bat die cut image. I am sure if you have a Cricut you will be able to find a similar image.    I then cut  out close to 50 bats in different pattern paper.  I used the All Hallow's Eve collection from Moxxie  Using my glue gun I randomly glued my bats to the wreath. Yes, I went through 3 glue sticks on this baby!  I wanted to make sure that the bats weren't going to fly away! LOL!!  I totally don't want bats in my house!   I then added a large bow at the bottom of the wreath.  This wreath is on my mantle for the holiday.

As a side project, you can cut out the extra Bats and a give them to your kids and they can make a little crafty project as it gets closer to Halloween.  I don't know about you but my kids LOVE to craft with me!

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you enjoyed my wreath.  Have a wonderful and crafty day!
mp


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Halloween Altered Projects

We've had a spooky week so far with Halloween cards and layouts.  Today we share some more frightful fun with some Halloween altered projects.  This is my favorite type of crafting to do, and like a kid going from house to house for that one more piece of candy, I couldn't have just 10 projects and had to have that one more.  From home decor to treat containers there are some spellbinding projects sure to get a scare out of everyone...bwa ha ha ha (*in my deepest darkest evil laugh*)

Practical Scrapper Brenda

Practical Scrapper Caroline

Tina Phillips

*click the read more to see more "Boo-tiful" Halloween altered items

Cards, tags, buckets....Blog Hopping

As you are getting ready to put the final touches on those Halloween projects to send to school, work, or for your hauntingly fabulous Halloween party, I thought today would be a great day to share some recent spooktactular finds to add to your inspiration.  I found these while I was out blog hopping.  Keep your eyes out and we may just feature something from your blog too!

This little tin lunch box is created by Angi. She has a tutorial here on how to put this incredible little gift together. Now who wouldn't love to get a box like this just filled with chocolates!!!