SPOOKTACULAR NIGHT:
Create a graveyard scene running the length of the bottom of the page. Start with a dark blue or starry night sky paper as a background. For the ground, you can use a tan or brown strip of cardstock as wide as your paper. Use your scissors to cut into the top edge in a jagged, random way to resemble bushy grassy. Use die cuts or hand-cut elements for the graveyard, such as tombstones, pumpkins and the moon. You can do your journaling on the “tombstones,” or write funny names on them. Across the top of the page, using orange die cuts or Halloween letter stickers, write, “Spooktacular Night,” or the title of your choice.
To matte your photos, make two mattes in the same size, approximately 1/4 to 1/2 inch larger than your photo on all sides. The top matte should be the same dark blue as the sky, the hidden one underneath should be a bright orange or some kind of autumn leaf color. Mount your photo on the top matte, then, using one or more small, leaf-shaped paper punches, punch leaf-shapes into the border of the matte. Mount the top matte on the orange (autumn colored) matte so that the color shows through the punched leaves.
Mount your matted photos on the background sky, under the title but above the graveyard scene. For embellishments, cut a few small (approximately 2 inch tall) ghosts out of solid white vellum paper. Draw two big, black eyes and a wide, open mouth on them. Adhere them to the page with invisible adhesive so the glue will not show through the vellum, or simply put the adhesive behind the eyes and mouth.
OUR LIL’ PUMPKIN:
Surround your “Lil Pumpkin” with a pumpkin patch wreath. This layout is best to do with a single, large photo layout of a small child or baby.
Begin with a black cardstock background. Using a plate or circle template, crop your photo into a large circle. Then, using a piece of orange cardstock, cut out another circle of the same size. Using a slightly smaller plate or circle template (about 1/4 to ½ inch smaller), cut a center hole out of the orange circle. The orange ring you just created will be for your pumpkin wreath.
To make the pumpkins, you can purchase some small pumpkin die cuts, or you can simply use oval and circle templates to cut them from cardstock. They can be different sizes and shapes, but should be no more than 2" in diameter. You will need enough to slightly overlap them on the orange ring so that they will go all the way around. Decorate their faces using tiny hole-punch designs for eyes (stars, circles, or more traditional triangles) and a half-circle punch for smiling mouths. I like to punch the eyes and mouths out of yellow scrap paper and glue them on, so that they resemble lit-up jack-o-lanterns.
When you have finished creating your pumkins, begin adhering them to the orange ring. Add some brown raffia clips to resemble stems and vines, and some punched-out green leaves to embellish.
Mount your photo on the center of the black paper, then mount your pumpkin ring right onto it. Across the top, using yellow or orange die cut letters, or Halloween theme stickers, write “Our Lil’ Pumpkin,” or your preferred title.
HAUNTED HOUSE:
This layout can get as simple or as elaborate as you would like to make it. The basic elements you will need for this is a dark background paper (I used a patterned paper that depicted a starry night sky), and one sheet of brown or gray cardstock. Out of the cardstock, cut a basic house shape. This can be as simple as a squared-off bottom and triangular shaped roof.
Get a square or rectangular template, or use a ruler and pencil to mark off the shapes. Cut out a door by cutting up from the bottom of the paper house on one side, and across the top. Then fold it back so that it opens and closes. Cut out windows by cutting a vertical line up the center of the square, then across the top and bottom. Fold back the flaps, which will resemble shutters.
Now you can decorate your house. Make roof shingles, either with a pen or by layering small squares of paper. Make little shutters by using a black pen to draw lines across the window flaps. Decorate the door as well, adding a punched circle for a doorknob, or two small, brown, rectangular strips to place across the door saying, “Do Not Enter.” Use a ruler if you like, and make lines down the house to resemble boards. If you really want to get creative, draw some knot holes or wood grain on the boards.
Lay your photos on the table and lay the house on top of them Open the windows and the doors and arrange your photos on the inside so they can be seen through the openings. Use double-sided mounting tape or glue a glue stick to adhere the back of the house to the photos. Be careful to make sure when you open a door or a window that the subject is visible.
Lay the house on your background paper. If you like, use strips of brown (for a dried fall look) or green paper cut jaggedly to resemble grass. Lay the strips across the bottom, making sure they are not in the way of the opening door or windows. If you like, add bushes, a spooky-looking tree, a moon, or any Halloween die cuts or stickers that enhance the look (a hooting owl, a black cat, a witch on a broomstick flying over the house).
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