A Bootiful Thing

Now that the little ones are back in school it won't be long until they are knocking at your door looking for treats. Yes, next month those little ghosts and goblins will be everywhere as Halloween somehow creeps up on us. Where did summer go? I'm not ready for fall yet! But wait - bring on the apple and pumpkin pies!!!!!
I have always loved Halloween. Except for Christmas it is the bestest holiday ever!
We always dressed up with the kids, had adult costume parties and decorated the house with cobwebs, skeletons and tombstones.
With our kids grown we no longer celebrate Halloween as much anymore but I did finally finish a couple of Halloween scrapbook albums I've been working on. Creating them  brought back some of those memories for me and these books are perfect for preserving Halloween memories.
The first album uses the Happy Haunting line of papers from Graphic 45.

 

I used an 8x8 cover-all by Zutter for the book itself. I sprayed the kraft cover with charcoal mist then added a light mist of silver and bronze. I added lots of layers starting with a strip of black tulle to the centre which I cinched. On top of that I added some cheesecloth that I also misted to take away the stark white colour. Then the fun began! I added a large purple handmade and dyed paper flower to the centre with Prima halloween vines,  a handmade accordian flower, a hand dyed butterfly and matching ribbon, a G45 chipboard ticket and a beautiful handmade halloween stickpin. (stickpin accordian flower, hand dyed flower, butterfly and ribbon made by Angelica Franssen - see her blog under 'inspiring blogs').

 

For the closure I added metal halloween charms and strips of black tulle to a chain where I attached a black Prima bat to an alligator clip.

It has a total of 12 pages and has lots of pockets, envelopes, flaps and tags to hold a ton of photos and journalling and a ton of embellies.  I will just share a few of my fave pages here.

 

I love this page and G45 makes it so easy with it's awesome paper. I made a large flap with black cardstock and threaded corduroy buttons with black twine to fasten it. It opens to reveal a halloween scene with a pocket and tags on the inside cover. It was all edged with a lattice edge punch. The outside of the flap contains a small envelope also made of black cardstock and fastened with black velcro dots.

 

 

 On this page I used a Tim Holtz Alterations Die to add a bird and branch to the front

of a flap. It opens to reveal a pocket and tag.

 

 

This is one of the envelope pages. It's again made with black cardstock and covered with G45 paper. It fastens with a velcro dot and holds a tag inside for journalling or photos.

This album is for sale in my Etsy shop - www.sapphirenoteables.etsy.com
along with a Theresa Collins Halloween album. Here's a peak but I will share more of  this album with you tomorrow.

In the meantime happy haunting!