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I’m trying to show a bit more detail on the Halloween scrap pages. 

• Ghost:  2 punches with the Key Tag Punch.  Clip bottoms to make jagged sleeves/hem with Word Window Punch. Form ghost by putting in + shape.  Eyes/mouth done with Black Sharpie and Mat Pack.
• Pumpkins:  Each pumpkin is 5 punches with the oval punch.  Sponge edges and with sticky tape assemble into pumpkin shape.  Cut stem from brown scrap. Cut just a sliver of green for vine, twirling it around knitting  needle to get curls.
• Fence:  Posts are Word Window Punch, cut straight on bottom with scissors and on the diagonal on top to form pointed post shape.  Fence rail is 1/8″ strips of paper.  Fence has more interest if it has some to movement to it, as opposed to a straight fence.  Also, the fence runs into the second page.  When doing 2 page spreads, I think it always looks a bit more interesting if some element from the first page runs into the second page, tying them together.
• Cat:  First stamped directly onto the DP - he was not dark enough, in comparison to the fence.  So I then stamped him on white and cut out.  Although I love the look of this little cat — he probably wasn’t the best choice for this page.  Those white artsy lines in him don’t really go with the style of this page — but he was my only cat — and I do love him — so he made the page!!!
• Spider: Legs are 4 punches from the side of the Round Tab Punch — can you see them — topped off with a 1 1/4″ circle punch for the body and a 1/2″ punch for the head.  Eyes done with white gel pen.
• Tombstones:  Office Max gray was stamped with Weathered in Sahara Sand and Going Gray (one or the other to get different colored stones).  Cut into strips (about 1 1/2″ wide x 2+ long), tops clipped with Tag Corner Punch.  Sponge edges fairly heavily with black and sponge centers with Creamy Caramel.  Write with marker.  The tops of the two tombstones that extend above the green grass are not taped down above the grass — by leaving them loose it leaves a bit more room if someone wants to put the corner of a photo behind the tombstones.
• Moon:  Eggplant Envy 2.5″ circle sponged in same ink.  Bats are the same as the spiders legs above.

I’m still learning this program — I wanted text by each photo, and couldn’t get it to work — be patient with me, I’m still learning!!!  Hope these photos help to see the pages posted yesterday.  Thanks for looking.

This is a 2-page, 12 x 12, Halloween spread I designed for a class next week.  Oh, talk about fun to make!!!  I hope the girls like it!!!  A ton of punches were used to make these pages, and I must thank memory_lane for the fabulous Punch Display Sheets she has loaded into her gallery at SCS.  Several of the punched characters I used were taken from her sheets.  If you haven’t seen them, you really MUST — just click here.

The triple frames at the top of each page are for photos.  Wouldn’t close-ups of precious little dressed up children be adorable in there?  I was totally inspired to make these triple frames by Sharon Harnist (StamperSharon).  She did an adorable page using a similar idea, but making the frames into film strip using the Spiral Punch.  That was my original intent for these pages, but as I worked on them, the film strip idea just didn’t seem to mesh with Halloween, so I’ll save that idea for another page!!!  You can check out Sharon’s fabulous film strip page here.  My frame is cut 10 x 3.5 and then punched with a 2 1/8″ Marvy square punch.

The bottom border of Fall Flowers DP is 2″‘ high.   Photos to go on the pages will be matted.  The little ghosts are not glued down — they can float around and be on photo corners, or wherever, once photos are added.

• Stamps:  Autumn Apparitions, Weathered
• Paper:  Bashful Blue, Basic Black, Whisper White, Office Max Gray, retired Eggplant Envy, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Always Artichoke, Fall Flowers Designer Paper.
• Ink:  Black Stazon, retired Eggplant Envy, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Gray, Creamy Caramel, Sahara Sand.  Black SU Marker (tombstones).  Black Sharpie (ghosts).  Signo White Gel Pen (spider).
• Accessories:  Ribbon, Mat Pack (to draw ghosts eyes and mouth), Glue Pen, Knitting Needle (to curl pumpkin vines), Stapler, Sponges, Cuttlebug and Olivia Alphabet Die.
• Marvy Punches:  2 1/8″ square and 2 1/2″ circle
• SU Punches:  Ticket Corner, Tag Corner, Word Window, Large and Small Circle, Large and Small Oval, 1/2″ Circle, Round Tab, Key Tag.

Oh gee, now that I see this photo here, I guess you can’t really tell very well what I did.  I always like to photo the 2 pages together because that is how they belong, but I can never get very good photos.  Sorry!  Please check back on Sunday (later in the day) for closeups of all the little features.

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