When you are taking photos of an event that you want to scrapbook later, don’t forget the details. To a five year old, the most important detail of Halloween would most likely be the candy. Take an extra second or two and snap a photo that can serve as a focal point for one of your pages about Halloween.

I had a lot of pictures of my daughter this past Halloween and wanted to document the cute way she’d hold up her princess bucket and say, “trick – o – treat” at every door. Yes, you read that right…she’d say trick “o” treat, not trick or treat. Personally, I thought it was one of the cutest things ever. When we got back home, after about an hour of “trick – o – treating” her bucket was overflowing with candy. I asked her to stop at the door and show me how she asked for her treats. Being the scrapbooking, paparazzi mom that I am, I just snapped away of course. Blinding her temporarily from my camera flash, I’m sure. As she went to her room to change out of her costume, I snapped a quick photo of her stash…after I snuck a few chocolates out for myself.
What? You don’t do that too?

I wanted this layout to be quick and simple. Actually, I’d like all of my layouts to be quick and simple, but that is beside the point here. After trimming just a little bit off of each photo, I was able to fit five photos onto a single page. Score! I love it when I can fit lots of photos on to a page. The focus of this layout was the candy, of course, and I wanted to mat that photo with a separate patterned paper. The problem – I didn’t have a separate paper that looked good with my background paper. What is a girl to do? Well, I’ll tell you what I did. I trimmed the background sheet of my stickers and used that. Oh yes, I used the packaging. Why not? We mostly throw it all in the trash anyway and it was the perfect compliment to the busy background paper I was using. I added a few stickers to help tell the story, journaled about how cute she was; and then I was done. Easy, easy!

Supplies used:
Patterned paper: Basic Grey (background), Making Memories stickers packaging (spider webs)
Stickers: Making Memories, Deja Views (candy)
Pen: Staedtler

Submitted by Julie Jones