Scrapbooking is a way to create a photographic diary of your family’s life. You will want to capture all of the big events like graduations, anniversaries and birthdays. Of course, you will also want to have photographic memories of all of the major holidays like Christmas, Thanksgiving, the 4th of July and Halloween. Halloween is one of the most fun holidays since it gives both children and adults alike a chance to dress up and escape into a new persona for a night. Whether you had a full-blown Halloween monster bash or simply went trick-or-treating, here are some tips for your Halloween scrapbook layout.
There are several different ways to create your Halloween scrapbook layout. If your family goes all out every year for Halloween, you may want to have one specific book devoted to Halloween and Halloween alone. Or maybe you already have a family scrapbook that you fill in with your yearly activities that you will be devoting one or two pages to for your Halloween activities. Whichever your method may be, try using black pages for your Halloween layout for that extra spooky effect. Invest in some white or silver gel pens to use for your journal entries on these black pages.
Gather your Halloween photos together and crop them. You will more than likely have several photos that were taken outside at night, so crop off the unnecessary black backgrounds. Because you will have your layout on black paper and you will have several photos that have a black background, you will need to create some Halloween-inspired borders for your photos. This is your time to be totally creative. What kinds of things do you associate with Halloween? Candy corns, ghosts and broomsticks are just a few things people think about when they think of Halloween. Why not cut out some white and orange colored card stock and create mini candy corns (about half an inch or an inch tall) out of them and create a border with that? You can also make your border theme based on whatever you or your children dressed up as. For example, if your son dressed up as an alien, why not give your Halloween borders a space theme? You can cut out little rocket shapes from the cardstock and make borders out of that.
If you have only a few small pictures, why not cut out the word “Boo” from some white cardstock. Make each letter about three inches tall and two to three inches wide (depending on what size scrapbook pages you have). Cut out the two circles from within the letter “B” and the circles within the two “O’s.” That will give you four “frames,” so to speak for you to put some Halloween photos in.
You will have an abundance of candy after Halloween and, thus, candy wrappers laying around on all corners of the house. Instead of throwing them away, why not incorporate them into the Halloween scrapbook pages? For an entire page effect, flatten the most colorful wrappers out and completely cover the page with them for a candy background effect. You can also fold or roll the wrappers up into thin borders for the entire page or for the pictures. Maybe, instead of investing in some pricey stickers, cut out cool Halloween shapes (like ghosts or witch hats) from the candy wrappers and use them as enhancements for your pages. Don’t forget to journal your night below and around your photos.
