Every year I make a Halloween mini album. It becomes a bit of a challenge to make it look different every year. This year I decided to use the Printed Bags from Pebbles Thirty-one collection to build the base of my album and the papers, stickers and photo overlays from Thirty-one to embellish it.
I used baker's twine to create a book style binding for the pages.
I have a really hard time pairing down my photos for a mini album, so the added bonus to using bags, is that you have built in pockets to slip extra photos and memorabilia.
A few weeks before Halloween, I have my kids try on their costumes to make sure we have everything figured out from head to toe, and then we do a fun mini photo shoot. This way I can get some fun photos when they're not all hopped up on sugar and too antsy to let me take their pictures.
I used those photos to start my album, and left a few blank pages at the end to add some picture from the actual day of trick-or-treating.
I usually keep my pages a bit basic, and go back in and add a few more embellishments when I'm adding my final photos.
You can see here, where my photo shoot photos ended, and my trick-or-treating photos will begin (don't you just love that cool photo overlay!?!).
Every year I have my husband take a photo of me with my boys dressed up in their costumes. Since I know we'll be taking that picture, I created a page ahead of time for it. I thought the "under your spell" chalkboard sticker was a perfect compliment to that yet to be taken photo.
So that's my album for this year. I'm pretty happy that I've got most of it done ahead of time!
Your creativity never ceases to AMAZE me!
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