Belated Banner

I put this little Boo Banner together using a Little Yellow Bicycle kit. It was easy peasy to put together and took basically no time at all. I had it done weeks before Halloween and knew exactly where I was going to put it. I set it aside in a safe place, planning on putting it up a few days before Halloween.

Well, it has now been a week since Halloween and I'm sad to say that I only rediscovered this safe place about twenty minutes ago. Needless to say, I forgot to hang up my banner :( So I'm sharing it here and putting it safely away with the decorations for next year. LOL

Have a Safe and Happy Halloween

Halloween Layout Challenge

This is my week for posting a challenge on the Scrapping Turtle forum. I had to do a layout challenge and since it is almost Halloween I thought what better than a Halloween inspired layout challenge.

I found this fabulous Halloween image from B.J. WebArt to use as inspiration for my challenge. The layout doesn't have to be of Halloween, but it does have to include the colour orange and at least one photo turn. The photo turn is for my friend Wendy who won a fabulous American Crafts giveaway at the Scrapping Turtle, which including 416 photo turns LOL.

Here is the layout I created for my challenge:

I used Bazzill cardstock, American Crafts Thickers, Ranger Stickles, photo turns from the bulk wall at the store, an owl cut from a paper in the Dream Street Sam line, and Quickutz dies (Tree border, Tombstone and Cat, Haunted House, and two different Pumpkin dies).

I hope you will give my challenge a try and let me know where I can see your layouts.

Halloween Layout Class

My Mom and I took a Halloween layout class at Simply Scrapping on November 2nd. I finally got around to adding my photos to the layouts. These layouts were done with the Spooktastic layout class kit from Bo Bunny.

The Scrapping Bug Layout Tag Reveal

I joined a group of very talented ladies for a fun game of layout tag. The end results are fantastic. This is mine - Boo-Tiful. Love that pic of Sara. I enjoyed putting this layout together. The layouts have now been revealed on The Scrapping Bug Forum. If you want to see the rest of my team's layouts you can see them here.

Another Kit Layout

I put together another kit from Two Scrapbook Friends. This one is all about picking pumpkins. I love the paper pumpkins on this layout. Photos are of Sara and Samuel at Strom's just outside of Guelph.

Two Scrapbook Friends Layouts

These layouts are from kits designed by  Two Scrapbook Friends. 

This layout was the perfect one for scrapbooking these pictures of Sara at Kim Glo Farm. The pictures are from September 2007 - Sam wasn't even born yet. I love the corn stalks created on the Cricut.

Our neighbours across the street go all out for Halloween. Not only do they have an amazingly decorated front yard, they have awesome costumes. Sara wouldn't get close enough to have pictures taken this year --- she was scared of the monsters!!!! Sam however wasn't given much of a choice. He wasn't sure what to think of them at first, but quickly made up his mind -- they were scary!!!!! This layout kit was perfect for scrapping the photos of Sam with our spooky neighbours!!!! Love those Fancy Pants Glitter Cuts!!!!!

Halloween

Sara is so excited about Halloween!!! All she wants to do is go trick or treating!!! We took her to Southworks Outlet Mall on Sunday for some trick or treating -- well, Gary did -- and she loved it!!!! Everybody thought her and Sam were super cute (of course)!!! The photos are all from Sunday --- meeting the clown, the blurry one (sorry) of her meeting Snow White, walking through the puddles in the parking lot, and the grape lady.

Today we took them to the Cambridge Centre for the Mommy-a-Go-Go Halloween parade. They had a great time!!!! Every time someone put a treat in Sara's treat bag she begged us to take it out and let her eat it :) It was amazing how many people were there with children in costumes -- and so many adorable costumes!!!!! It was a lot of fun, but I was really tired by the time it was over. Thank goodness Gary was there too.

Tomorrow should be exciting!!!!

Layouts for WeScrap's Wicked Halloween Online Crop

My friend Patty and I have been enjoying the challenges and games at the WeScrap Wicked Halloween Online Crop. We played an amazing bingo game that had everyone on the edge of their seats it was sooooo close. I would have loved it if I could have completed all of the challenges posted, but this was a busy weekend for me. These are the ones I did get completed.

"Fear" is a layout for two challenges actually: the Scared Yet challenge at WeScrap and  Tara's blog challenge (see previous post for the journaling and a link to Tara's blog) -- it is all about the journaling, with some doodling to support it.

"Happy 1st Birthday" was for the Wing of Bat, Eye of Newt challenge. We were given instructions on how to create the layout (i.e. 3 photos, piece of ephemera, double mat one photo, etcetera) and then were told to put it all together. It was fun and very interesting to see how all the different layouts turned out even though the instructions were the same.

"Talk About Spooky" was for the Let's Face It challenge. I had to create a face to use on the layout. Gary was a very good sport about this one :) He actually loved what I did with his face lol.

"My Guys" was completed for the Wicked Layout Sketch challenge. I turned the sketch on it's side and made a few slight changes. Love my guys!!!!

"Wild Thing" was for the Batty Layout Bingo challenge. I chose the following three things: 1) use something Halloween related (paper and photo), 2) add some stitching (mine is doodled, around the photos), and 3) use two types of ribbon. Isn't Sara adorable in her giraffe costume? Oh, guess now you know what she is going to be for Halloween LOL!!!!

"Little Lion King" was for the really cool Haunted Halloword challege. I had to select some words from a Halloween list (I chose nine) and then each of those words was assigned a layout requirement that I had to use on my layout. I chose All Hallows Eve (brown and yellow), ghost (white), magic (doodle), ogre (one photo), pointed hat (handwritten journaling), raven (3 circles), web (bling), witch (black cardstock) and wizard (tear paper). And now you know what Sammy is dressing as for Halloween too!!!!

Thanks for looking and thanks to all the folks at WeScrap for a great online crop!!!!!

Sneak Peek

We celebrated Sam's birthday with his little friends on Saturday. As part of the party we had the children put on their Halloween costumes and get their pictures taken. What a cute group they were!!!!! Of course, I can't give away what Sara and Sam dressed as -- must keep it a big secret until Halloween -- but I thought I'd give you a sneak peek!!!! Enjoy!!!

More Scrapping Nook Challenge Layouts

The Scrapping Nook held a mini online crop in honour of Margo's birthday on October 7th. I was excited to play along, especially since Margo and I share the same birthdate (although different years). I won a RAK for getting the correct answer in a game they played -- the RAK is courtesy of another person named Heather -- isn't that funny? I did three layouts for the challenges they posted - and all three ended up being Halloween layouts.

"First Halloween" was for the Halloween challenge - Margo loves Halloween!!! The layout is of Sara's first Halloween along with her friend Jadyn (he's Tigger). Aren't they cute?

"She's Grreat" was for the Margo challenge - I had to use things that used the letters in Margo's name. For this layout I used Making Memories papers, American Crafts Thickers, Ribbon, Glitter letters and Orange. That's my sweet girl in her lion costume on her first Halloween!!! Isn't she adorable?

"The Good Witch" was for the Use Your "Old" Stash challenge. The papers were the oldest ones I could find -- they were at the bottom of my stack of papers that I thought I would never use so they must be older. Amazingly, now that I see them together on this layout I actually like them :) This is Sara modeling a witch costume we picked up for her at the used store for her to play dress up with. She really loved it, although the netting wasn't well sewn so my Mom had to do some fixing on it. Isn't my girl beautiful?

Thanks for looking at my layouts :) I hope you enjoyed them :)