Fall home décor and party decorations often includes pumpkins, especially for Halloween and Thanksgiving. Decorations and party ideas for the season can include hand lettering, and pumpkins are a fun way to use your calligraphy skills. I designed 4 pumpkins… 3 real and one black plastic pumpkin…. and wrote on them with a variety of […] Read more…
Halloween is so much fun when it comes to decorating! When my kids were younger, I filled the house with “cute” style Halloween decor, but now that they are older and do not go trick or treating anymore, I have transitioned into more adult, elegant decor items. I used my Brother ScanNCut to design the […] Read more…
As a scrapbooker, I do love designing pages for special occasions and Halloween is one of them. Mostly, I want to keep records of all the kids’ costumes over the years, but sometimes I also take photos of the jack o’lanterns they carve too. With so many Halloween layouts collected, I decided it’s time to […] Read more…
Today, I have a Halloween layout being featured on the Canadian Scrapbooker magazine blog. The design is from Sue Sykes’ October Sketchy Challenge. The photo is BabyOfTheFamily posing in her very first ONLINE purchased costume. ha ha. I believe in making costumes, but when she was 11, she was determined to buy a costume by shopping […] Read more…
I have waited awhile to post this Halloween Mini album on my blog after teaching it at the Canadian Scrapbooker Carnival in September and then another version of it at The Urban Scrapbook last weekend. A big thank you and shout out to Graphic 45 for sponsoring my class at the Carnival! Everyone really enjoyed […] Read more…
Here’s a shocking announcement: I designed 2 Halloween mini albums! The first album I made was for the Canadian Scrapbooker Carnival in September, using the Happy Haunting Graphic 45 collection. I will post this album on my blog at the end of the month after I teach a similar mini album class at The Urban […] Read more…
GULP! It’s October!! I quickly figured that out because BabyOfTheFamily started asking about her Halloween costume. Honestly…it will be VERY difficult to top last year’s costume. Take a look…. The Mad Hatter! This year she’s in Grade 6….and wants a costume with MAKE-UP that will make her look beautiful. Don’t we all?? Another reason I […] Read more…