Halloween Layouts

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Designer: Helen McCain

I'm Helen, an Australian currently living in Texas with my husband and two girls Erin and Caitlyn.  I am thrilled to be part of Fiskars for this project.  These products are great to work with, probably some of the cutest Halloween stuff I've seen this season.  The transparency borders are one of my favourites!  Versatility is always an important thing for me too, and you can see that these Poloson items work just as well for halloween projects. The square scallop punch was the coolest punch I have ever used, completely different from the usual push down type you get, and you can punch anywhere, no specific surface needed!  Great for photo or page corners, or to use for journaling blocks, but I also used it simply for decorative squares to highlight an element.

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Instructions (Print version)

Late for the Prom
Photo size 4x5"
1. Brew a cup of black tea.  Then use it to tea stain your paper.
2. Tear a strip of flocked cardstock a few inches wide, and adhere to cardstock. 
3. Mat photos and adhere
4. Add die cut leaves and flowers, and adhere another square of flocked cardstock behind right corner of photo.
5. Cut a skull transparency border in half and adhere over the torn strip.
6. Stamp headstone onto flocked cardstock, tear in half, and adhere to top left and bottom left of first photo
7. add title, web rub on, lace and journaling in strips along top.

Supplies:
Kimberly Poloson flocked cardstock "letters home, Stamps and Leaves"; Shape punchouts
Lil Davis Designs "Spooky" acrylic stamps, Invisible Borders and Rub-Ons; Die cut spider web
Cloud Nine Sparkle "Halloween Fun" letter and number stickers
Other: Lace, black stamping ink, acrylic paint.

Trick or Treat
Photo sizes 2.5x4" and 4x5"
1. Emboss top right corner of patterned paper with black glitter embossing powder.  Add crackle acrylic paint, heat to dry
2. Rub on title to flocked cardstock
3. Mat photos to flocked cardstock and ink edges of mat and title. Adhere to layout.
4. Punch a scallop square, cut in half diagonally to form to page corners, and adhere under mat corners
5. Cut large square of dotted patterned paper, adhere behind photo mat, distress edges
6. Cut invisible border in half and adhere to mat
7. Add book plate and flourish.
8. Add journaling

Supplies:
Heidi Grace "Halloween" shimmer foil patterned paper; Add Ons Punchboard
Lil Davis "Boneyard" patterned paper; "Spooky" Invisible Borders and Rub-Ons
Fiskars Large Scallop Square Punch.
Other: Ribbon, Embossing powder, acrylic paint.

 

Halloween (snapshot)
1. Cut paisley patterns, and black cat from patterned paper
2. Cut paper mat 5" wide x 12" long and adhere photo about 1" from bottom, adhere to layout.
3. Cut 1/2" strip of light cardstock and adhere to left side of mat
4. Punch 2 decorative edge strips and adhere to both edges of photo mat
5. Punch 3 scallop squares and adhere to left of mat.  Adhere black cat over squares.
6. Adhere fabric bats, title, journaling and paisley pieces.
Supplies:
Heidi Grace: "Halloween" shimmer foil patterned paper; Glitter Fabric Accents; 
Lil Davis Designs "Spooky" patterned paper
Cloud Nine "Halloween Fun" Rain Dots adhesive title.