Howl-o-ween

Sorry its been a while since my last post! My life hit overdrive for a few weeks there. I was swamped with finals. I'm taking quite a few 400 level courses at University so they were pretty intense. I actually only had two exams, but the kicker was the other 3 term papers plus 2 class presentations.

The days leading up to Chirstmas are the busiest time of year for me as a dog groomer too. I worked a week straight right up to Christmas trying to cram everyone in before the 25th. I literally didn't get any scrapbooking done for weeks. This is bad. Scrapping is my stress release.

Well now that Christmas is past I have some time to let my creative juices flow again and get some of those Halloween photos scrapbooked! I decided to go with two similar lines for my Halloween photots. The first was by Bo Bunny of course. Everything they come out with is genius. Their line is called Whoo-ligans. The second line is by We R Memory Keepers and its called Heebie Jeebies.

I had lots of fun coming up with creative layouts to use the awesome die cuts and I was particularly challenged because I had so few embellishments. I didn't buy them close to Halloween so they are all gone for the most part by now. I did pick up one pack from Micheals that had some ghosts, candy corn and a few bats but thats about it. I had one sheet of stickers left over from last year that I got at the dollar store as well. I was able to find 2 different ribbons, one pumpkins and one bats so I used those as well. For the most part though, I relied on paper to set the Hallo-weenie mood.  Here are some photos of the pages I have done so far.

For the record, these were SO much fun to do.


I am way behind on posting some of the other stuff ive been working on as well. Just before my crazy busy Christmas I was able to finish up my 2011 calendar that I scrapbooked by BasicGrey. It was Uber simple to complete. It was good for days when I had very little creative genius. BasicGrey pretty much tells you how to lay out your calendar pages so it was really straight forward. Here are a few of my favorite months:

I found that the key with this calendar was to lay on thick the glossy accents and stickles. I went kind of crazy with them but they really make the embellishments stand out and add interest to the pages that would otherwise appear a little bland.

Lastly, I competed yet another contest page from Scrapbookers Bliss. This month was actually pretty easy for "the sisters" and I because Bliss chose to make the kit from Bo Bunny's Olivia and we all have the paper and embellishments for Olivia (and probable every Bo Bunny line ever created!) I didn't take a picture of what we were provided with but its pretty easy to tell.

We were provided with the blue paper, the salmon colored back paper, one of those brads and the ticket stubs. I flipped the stubs over because on the other side they said "place" "date" and "time" or something of the sort. I used glitter mist on them and cheated and used the coordinating letters for Olivia plus some other paper from that line. My Fiance complained that its too girly to feature him. I think its cute though!

Well thats all I have for now. I will most likely update soon as I am planning to scrap my little buns off these next couple days.