Hello spooky friends, Monika here with you today.
My goal in creating this mini book was to have some of my favorite Halloween photos all in one place, especially since we try to make costumes last for more than one year and then do the hand-me-down routine. Fun to see the same costume year after year, sometimes on the same child, sometimes on a different one!
The opening spread has the Fairy Godmother greeting her precious babies on Halloween afternoon. Cute right? I added the journaling, "cuteness lurks within" to the spooky skeleton head layered sticker.
You'll notice that the Costume Crazy page above has a foldover. After adhering the paper to my chipboard, I noticed that the leftover would make a perfect little flap.
I scored it, folded it over, rounded the corners and punched a shape into the flap so that I could add a chipboard element in that negative space and added the date banner, which is adhered to the flap.
I actually snapped a photo of the original photo of my little buckaroo {taken before the digital age} with my iPhone and printed it instead of scanning. And, because I printed it as a small photo, it's not a bad alternative.
As memory keepers, we all know how important it is to include the perspective of people other than ourselves.
I embellished some 4x6 index cards with decorative tape and goodies from the layered stickers, which will serve as pull tabs, so that the girls can draw or write their impressions in their own handwriting and there's still room to add more goodies inside the bag if we want to.
I have a photo of my husband applying make-up to my son's {Dracula} face that I'll be adding to the back of the kraft bag.
Here, I mitered the edges of the decorative tape to serve as a frame for the patterned paper. The right side waits for photos of future Halloween memories.
By adding twine to the BOO layered stickers, I created a pennant banner {left side} and using my Mom's old Singer, I sewed a pocket page and added some shipping tags with more twine and die cuts from the accessory sheet so the girls could write or draw here as well.
To form the pocket page, just fold over your cardstock and stitch around the three sides. If you don't own a machine, you can either hand stitch by punching holes first and then hand sewing... or merely use your favorite adhesive to form the pocket.
Here we have scary Uncle Chad and our cute little superheroes.
Yes, we recycle costumes and keep our fingers crossed that they fit for more than one year. Bonus of having two girls? One costume gets triple usage!
Eldest Cinderella daughter was so not wanting her photo taken with her baby Cinderella sister, so I added the witch chipboard element. When she gets older, I'll explain why...you should just see the photos I haven't included here. And the right side has more space for me to add another Halloween memory.
If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them in the comments! So, have you ever made a Halloween mini book?
DESIGN NOTE | When creating a mini book, I don't discard scraps until the absolute end. It's with scraps that I created the cover of my mini book, adhering the strips to chipboard and then die cutting the scallop shaped page before adding my chipboard elements. Most of the pages in this mini book have cardstock adhered to chipboard because I knew that the weight of the chipboard and photos might be a bit bulky, especially when the kids start flipping the pages.
