Hello SCT friends! It’s Meghann Andrew, and I am so excited to be with you on Halloween week—my favorite week of the year! Halloween is my all-time favorite holiday, and I think that will show with the project I’m sharing with you today! We go all out for Halloween, and I wanted to document 10 years’ worth of Halloween memories in one place by creating a mini album! I started this project with an up-cycled magnetic-closure perfume box to house my album, and I could not love it more. Let’s take a look!

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This box created the perfect house for my fun accordion mini album, created using the Hey Pumpkin collection from Crate Paper! I made the box look spooky on the outside with just a few easy steps:

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I started by painting the floral edges of the box, using washi to mask the sides that I wanted to remain yellow.

 

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While waiting for my paint to dry, I chose a piece of patterned paper to cover the outside, scoring it twice according to the dimensions of the box’s front cover and side spine width.

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I used American Crafts’ Sticky Thumb Express Glue to adhere the paper to the box, then inked the edges before putting it aside.

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To create my interior pages, I cut two pieces of the same patterned paper to 4.5″ x 6.5″ and adhered them front to back (because my paper was single-sided.) To attach the pages of my accordion mini together, I simply covered both sides of the pages where they met with the Hey Pumpkin wide washi tape. Simple and easy!

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Each of my pages features the year in big, bold, black numbers. I cut ten year’s worth of numbers using the Elle’s Studio Large Jane number dies from black cardstock. Now that my base was done, I was ready to get started documenting those Halloween memories!

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Embellishing the front of the box around the circular window was so fun using fussy-cut illustrations, sparkly chipboard pieces and stickers to draw attention to my mini album title, found in the clear window.

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Upon opening the album, you find the title page, created simply with patterned paper, a label topped with the adorable candy corn alphabet stickers from Elle’s Studio, some washi a few sticker embellishments, and some sequins, enamel dots and puffy stickers for added textures. I added the dates here using the Elle’s Studio Mini Dated stamp, too. You’ll notice washi at the top—that’s another hinge that opens this page upward. Let’s see what’s underneath!

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Page one of my album is from my daughter’s first Halloween! Her little pumpkin outfit fit perfectly with the “you’re the pumpkin to my spice” tag that I cut from patterned paper. I also added all of my journaling simply and easily by using digital labels. I simply added the ones I wanted to a page, typed my journaling and printed the entire album’s worth at once!

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Flipping through the rest of my album, it’s easy to see how much fun it was to put together, and I cherish having all of these fun, Halloween memories in one place!

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You can take a look at the entire finished album in this walk-through video that I created. You’ll see all of the pages, as well as how the album is easily pulled out of the box to view.

 

Supplies | Patterned paper, chipboard, cardstock, clear and puffy stickers, tassel, washi tape: Crate Paper Hey Pumpkin collection; Stamps, alphabet stickers, metal number dies, digital labels: Elle’s Studio; Sequins: Close to My Heart; Tape & dimensional adhesive: Scrapbook Adhesive by 3L; Liquid adhesive: American Crafts; Other: enamel dots, acrylic paint, paintbrush, scoring board

Thanks so much for joining me today, and I hope you and yours have a spooky, candy-filled, Happy Halloween!

Meghann Andrew