Last year I made a Hallowen Minibook based on the Ali Edwards project. I used her book as a guideline for doing mine. I really liked her format. 5x7 photos in a bare binder album that I could paint on, put paper on, or embellish any way I wanted and it was small. Something that wouldn't take a lot of my time. She started with a plan, some pictures and some embellishments and went from there. That's what I did. Grabbed some of the product she suggested and grabbed some of my own then went to town (figuratively not literally).
Here is a link to her Halloween Minibook Project. It is a project you have to purchase. You don't get supplies but you do get step by step instructions via a pdf. document and several videos you can watch. I found it very instructive and learned some new techniques and I didn't think it was too expensive.
This is a silver rub-on.
Try it yourself you might like it. She had a list of supplies that she used which I mostly utilized because they looked pretty darn cool. My two favorite products were The Girls Paperie Halloween sticker pack (a great combination of 3 different letter stickers, word stickers, sticker charms and sticker trim) and the Maya Road 5x7 album (the perfect size for 5x7's and not too big that the pages took a long time to make).
I didn't spend a whole lot on those supplies. You only really need a binder, 3 sheets of overlays, a sheet of rub-ons, 3 sheets of paper, some ribbon trim, a silver paint pen, the halloween sticker pack and some paper embellishments. She used other items that I didn't use (charms and bingo cards). Also she did sewing to bind the pictures together which I did not but found I wished I had. The glue stick I used was perfectly fine but the stitching would have given the book a bit more texture.
Here are the pictures from my album.
The front page. The inner cover is black flocked paper that I glued onto the chipboard. I used hambly screen prints for the overlay pages. I know you can see the picture behind it but I kind of like that. You can place your embellishments to cover or enhance the image behind it.
The page behind the cover overlay. Just a pic of a jack o' lantern I carved with a border I drew on with a silver paint pen. This is glued directly on the chipboard tab page.
I started with a journalling page on the left to describe carving pumpkins. Then I do several pictures in a row related to carving pumpkins. This is the pattern of the book. The first page is a journalling area that describes the subsequent pictures. There are three sections. 1. Carving 2. Costumes 3. Trick-or-Treating.
Each journalling page has some silver rub-ons for decoration, a title using either word stickers or letter stickers, it's edges are inked with Staz-On Black ink and there is a border around the journalling hand-drawn with a silver paint pen.
All of the tools we used. Ice cream scoops, knives, scoops, small tools, large tools, saws, etc.
Next set of pages. The left is a picture of me carving a pumpkin and Jayde is on the right digging out the guts of a pumpkin. Between the two pages is a transparency.
For the border I used a combination of patterned paper, a sticker border and actual ribbon with some black rub-on stitching on the edge and a word sticker.
This is patterned paper on the top with a journalling embellishment which I just put some words related to the project.. The top and bottom of the overlay have a sticker border.
The other side of the overlay describes the next picture and you can't see any of the other side because I mirrored the paper and embellishments. This wasn't too difficult being that had a nice round journalling embellishment I could place on this side to cover the back side of the other page's embellishment.
You can use the paint pen to frame and describe your picture. I like that because you give the picture a little bit more description without having to do a whole lot of journalling.
This is one of the pumpkins I carved. I loved it. It was so evil looking and perfect for Halloween. Kimmie said I was taking it easy because I didn't do something harder but this pumpkin is perfect.
Patterned paper with a black lace border and some word stickers and a star embellishment.
Jayde's pumpkin. Gene Simmons. Initially he was pretty reluctant to carve pumpkins. I think he thought it was a kids thing but once I showed him his pattern and the tools we got to play with he dug in and was excited to carve a pumpkin. He even did two.
I used a Halloween overlay and positioned the title "Trick" in the middle so I could add "or treat" underneath it. The edge has a glued down piece of decorative ribbon. To glue this down you can either use double-sided tape or staples or you could even sew it on there if you wish.
Jayde and I did the Ghostbusters pumpkin.
Here's the start of the next section which I marked as Costumes. It shows our costume, my brother's and sister's costumes, my niece and nephew's costumes as well as my friends.
Start of the next section.
My favorite costume of the night. Kimmie went as her husband Thomas. Thomas always wears a white t-shirt when he goes out and everyone asks Kimmie, "Where's Thomas?" and she always replies, "He's at home sleeping." LOL So she went as Thomas. It was funny especially because she had a pregnant belly that rivaled Thomas's. LOL
This embellishment is a black picket fence sticker with a papaper circle with some journalling lines covered by a haunted house sticker and a "party" word sticker.
Traci on the left. Party girl tag on the right. I tried to somewhat match the phrase or the stickers to the pictures if I could.
I used a large black patterned journalling sticker with some word stickers and I outlined the box with a black pen.
This is a large sticker with a word sticker on the top and a green star sticker on the bottom. I tried to make sure that the embellishment from the other side of the page didn't interfere with this side. So I used two larger rectangle embellishments that were similar in size.
The next section is "trick or treat" which was actually on a Sunday this year. So there are pictures of my family and some friends trick-or-treating.
Detail of this page.
One of my favorite pages of this album. My niece and nephew getting ready to trick-or-treat.
I made a mistake on this one. She is Cinderella not Princess Aurora. These two lined up like this for me. It was so cute. It looked like a police line-up...or what I like to call American Halloween Gothic. LOL minus the pitchfork.
I loved making this embellishment. It was fun to mix and match different letters, stickers and colors. Also, I didn't really mind that you can see the whites of the stickers on the otherside of the overlay. I think that just helps you see this embellisment better.
I love Gracie's look of shock opening up her bag of Halloween goodies from me. I just basically threw a bunch of candy in there and some stickers, pencils and a pad of paper. She loved it.
The backside of the American Halloween Gothic is a combination of border stickers, word stickers and a postage stamp sticker.
Jayde's cousin Maddie and her friend from school came to visit Jayde's mom's house. I went there first to pass out some candy to the neighbor kids and give Maddie her bag of goodies.
I used a piece of patterned paper that I chopped up to get this piece, added some stitching rub-ons and a date sticker.
Just a picture of my candy dish. I like to load it with different types of candies. I believe I had snickers, 3 musketeers, twix, kit kats, milky way, reese's peanut butter cups, butterfingers and m&m's. ah, I don't skimp. LOL
One of my other favorite pictures...probably because it's so not posed. I just took it while Dad was walking, jack was trying to run and Gracie was trying to not trip over her dress en route to the first trick-or-treating house for Hallowen. I love it.
A piece of ruler ribbon with a journalling sticker covered with letter stickers and word stickers
Jayde's neighbor kids. They were pretty cute. Michelle borrowed them the Flower Skunk costume and the Piglet costume.
Monsters...that's what my friend Beth calls her kids. LOL. This is a piece of patterned paper with a circle journalling sticker with a word sticker on top.
The three kids. They were cute. Left to right is Haley, Evalyn and Brayden.
The last set of pages is the end of the day after trick-or-treating when me and Jayde lined up our pumpkins and took a picture of them.
Just kind of a summary page of the costumes.
Last page.
Trick or Treat instead of The End.
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