Is it the chill in the air sending goosebumps racing up your arms? Or could it be all the fabulously spooky layout ideas in the October 2011 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine? No doubt you’re as excited as we are to scrapbook fall memories—both spooky and sweet. Well, the ten products in this month’s Latest & Greatest column (page 43) are perfect for creating looks you’ll love in your album this season. And we have even more scrapbooking product picks to add lively color and design to your fall layouts!
Scrapbook the mischievous adventures of your “li’l spooks” with the darling scarecrow inspired designs in My Mind’s Eye’s Mischievous collection. The delightful doodled jack o’ lanterns, owls, and trick-or-treating scarecrows are sure to draw a smile. And your layouts will be right on trend with the banners and font mixes you’ll find on the chipboard sheets. But not to worry! While your layouts will be trendy, the classic pattterns will ensure your layouts look beautiful through the years.
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Capture the feeling you get when you smell your favorite pie baking in the oven when you scrapbook with Lily Bee Design’s Harvest Market collection. Featuring warm autumn colors and timelessly beautiful designs, this collection will carry you from the first day of school through Halloween to Thanksgiving Day. Give it a try on your next autumn layout!
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Add a pretty touch to your spooky layouts with the gothic-inspired paper and stickers in the Haunted Hallows collection from Teresa Collins Designs. You’ll love creating a mysterious air around your trick-or-treating stories with ravens and chandeliers, candelabras and skulls, and haunting silhouettes and ornate frames. Or add a pretty spooky element to your everyday October happenings with the beautifully designed calendar paper—not only is this paper gorgeous, it makes scrapbooking your entire month a breeze.
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Win It!
Trick or Treat? This month’s Latest & Greatest goodies are our treat to you—if you leave us a comment telling us about your favorite scrapbooking trick! Just leave your comment here on this post, and we’ll select 4 winners on or around October 12 and post the names of the winners on our Giveaways page. What’s included in this fantastic scrapbooking treat, you ask? It’s no trick! You could win a selection of the products shown here, in addition to those featured in the October 2011 issue of Creating Keepsakes, including products from Crate Paper, Letraset, Melissa Frances, Vintage Street Market, Webster’s Pages, Glitz Design, and Bella Blvd.
– Kim Jackson, senior editor
Awesome Halloween goodies that you shared with us. I would love to win some. HOw fun they look to play with. Thanks.
My wife would certainly enjoy this collection of Halloween of goodies to use. She loves using scrapbook paper printed double-sided to make boxes for treats.
My favorite trick lately is Close To My Heart’s Flip-Flaps. They allow me to sneak more pictures onto my page. Love them!
LOVE all these awesome goodies!! My trick lately has been a new die from Quik Cutz that I just looooveee using on basically everything!
I like to use my scraps to make die cut shapes that I use for masking on my layouts.
A few techniques, use scrap circles to use behind your flowers you are creating & The Cricut! :]
I love to include postcards, parts of brochures and maps to enhance my travel pages besides using my pictures and other embellishments.
My favorite trick is to use pop dots behind stickers that are mounted on paper…it makes the pages so much more interesting!
Hmm, my favorite trick lately is arrows – it tells your eye exactly where you want it to go.
My favorite trick is to make up page kits and just set them aside for later use so that when I have a few moments to scrap, I can feel really productive!
Wow! That’s some fabulous Halloween papers!!!
My favorite scrapbooking trick is to use “perfect ink refresher” when my ink pads get a little to dry. It makes them them last so much longer.
Thanks for the chance to win some awesome papers!!!
My favorite scrapooking trick is to make a card with the leftovers – and mess! – on my desk after making a layout. Great giveaway. I love Halloween!
Love these Halloween goodies! My favorite trick is to make a card with the leftover scraps – and mess! – on my desk after my layout is completed.
What a great prize package! My favorite trick is to use coordinating tags and sticker sheets. It is a guaranteed fantastic page or mini album.
One of my organizing tricks…I store paper by color in vertical files. Each folder has a page protector where I store small scraps. That way it’s easy to find the piece I need for a small journaling spot or tag or whatever!
My favorite scrapbook trick really isn’t a trick at all – but I love scrap booking with my 10 yr. old Granddaughter Alissa. She has her own style and her pages are always unique. She always has an idea for my pages – and I usually listen.
Boo~tiful products, thanks for the opportunity! My not so tricky trick is to do my layout on my magnetic mat, using my magnetic posts to hold things in place until I’ve got everything just the way I want it, then I start adhering things permanently.
My trick is to join a scrapbook swap. That way you can make several of the same page and in return you will receive many unique pages.
My fav trick is turning all my scraps into something neat. Paper weaves are my fav, great embellisment back drops!
Embossing powder to add dimension to my stamps and sentiments!
I know I saw it posted already, but it is using embellishments to cover up mistakes! Thanks so much for the chance to win this wonderful giveaway!
When things just don’t seem to be working the way you want them-walk away.I can go to be at night thinking of all the ways I could make a page better but when I look at in the morning with fresh eyes-frequently it looks just right.
My favorite tricks for treats: (1) don’t use the whole sheet of paper. If large areas are to be covered trim out that section & use on same page to coordinate or for later (2) instead of a scrap drawer, which I (we) never look in, I started keeping a scrap basket. Whether at my feet or on the table you’ll end up using your scraps more if they are in sight & easy to shuffle around in (3) keep paper sets as a set. Don’t break them apart it’s easier to coordinate. (4) When you have little pieces of paper left, get out your punches! (5) When you have only some stickers or rub-ons left on a sheet & punches from scraps, start a card! Keep all neutral color blank cards on hand. Now you have started a little project with something you may never look at again or worse throw away. Clip the card up on corkboard or project rod & add to it as you go. Viola…before you know it the card is done! Then file it in a card box for future use. Thanks for a peek & sneek give away! The collections are amazing!!!
If I’m using a large piece of Patterned paper or cardstock that will covered with photos—I’ll cut out that part that will be covered up and that way I don’t feel like I’m wasting
My favorite trick for printing on journaling cards or whatever is to print it on paper on my computer than lightly glue the card over the printing and run it through the printer again.
My favorite scrapbooking trick is to use one line of products for a scrapbook on one subject (such as Kioshi from Basic Gray for my scrapbook about our vacation to Washington, D.C. during the Cherry Blossom festival.) It gives the scrapbook a kind of continuity that would be hard to get any other way!
Marking my paper placement with a pencil is a little trick I learned by trial and error. I found that I would plan my layout and then accidently adhere the papers in the wrong place. A simple mark helps eliminate this problem!
My favorite trick to add dazzle is Stickles. Can’t have enough of them! They are great!
My favorite trick is a timesaving one. I have three scrapbooks (one per child) going at any given time. When I get to common events like 4th of July, Christmas, Halloween, etc I’ll use the same basic layout for all three children but switch it up with different papers/embellishments. The pages look totally different but it’s a quick way to get a lot of pages done in one sitting. Hopefully this trick will win a treat!
I’m not a chronological scrapper. I’m a 2am-wake-up-and-can’t-sleep kind of gal. It’s at those wee hours of the morning that I get ideas in my head for pages, so I keep a small notebook and pen next to my bed and write down my thoughts because after falling back to sleep and waking up the next morning, I can’t remember what my ideas were. You’d be surprised at what pops into my “pea sized brain”! lol Not your ordinary ideas for pages.
I use my handwriting in my scrapbooks a lot since I loved looking through my great grandmothers pics and reading the writing she wrote on the back of them. But I usually write it in pencil and let it sit for a day to make sure it’s what I want to say and then I write over it with ink.
My trick is to go away with my girlfriends for great memories and lots of time to scrap.
When I see something I like about a layout I quickly write or sketch in a sketch pad so I can be inspired when I am in a rut.
My favorite trick right now is to use the left over sheet from the foam pop dots. I just cut it into rows and then down to the size I need. Gives you more than twice as much than if you only used the dots.
my favorite trick is to use the leftover strip of self adhesive anything….I take that piece and put glitter in it, sometimes i take the shape of a sticker and glitter up the adhesive side, then stick it down on my project.for instance, if I don’t like the color of a flower sticker, I will turn it over, pour glitter on it and then lay it down on my project. I get a solid glitter shape! It helps me to use up those stickers that I have laying around. =) Thanks for a chance to win!
My favorite trick is to just go search through my stickers, fonts, borders, papers, and let them inspire me. Fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors and textures. I have been experimenting with leaves as stencil masks for spray inks. It’s all fun when I just get started.
My favorite trick is to organize. I find the more organized I am the more creative I can be. Om my word – love the latest and greatest coming out.
My trick is to lay out the pictures I think I want to use in order before I even begin.
My favorite trick is to cut out the patterned paper that will be covered by photos or other paper or embellishments so that you can get more bang for your buck out of patterned paper. THanks for the chance to win! Lovely Halloween things!
I love a thin black cardstock frame around everything on the page to give it a pop
I love grabbing my Creating Keepsake Magazines and searching through them in my down time. I have to take rest breaks because of back problems. It gives me inspiration for my next day projects. There are so many bright and talented scrappers. I enjoy reading and hearing their perspective on new ideas. Plus, seeing the beautiful seasonal layouts and cards.
I know its too late for the contest, but my favorite trick is to scraplift. It helps get the creative juices flowing. I have made some great pages using designs that I find even in the advertisements of my favorite scrapbooking magazines.
I am an inker! I love defining the edges of paper with ink!
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