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Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween!  Donna Jannuzzi here, and I'm going to be your host for this week.  Starting tomorrow we'll take a look at scrapbooking projects which span an entire year and I am really looking forward to sharing some great projects and ideas with you all.  But before we get to that, I thought we'd have a fun day!  After all, Halloween is all about fun, right?  I've asked the team to gather their favorite Halloween projects to share with you and here is what they sent me: 

Aly Dosdall made this cute card using punched circles and machine stitching

She also sent this adorable and creative Halloween Countdown

For a complete supply list as well as instructions for how to make one for yourself, please visit the Scrapbook & Cards Today blog.

Amy Sorensen made an amazing Halloween quilt this year

You can see more details of the quilt, as well as read all about her creative process, at Amy's blog.

Celeste Smith showcases her fabulous, simple style with this layout

Cheryl Overton has several projects to share, first this Halloween house which doubles as a treat box

a set of cards

and last, but certainly not least, Cheryl sent along this banner

If you need an easy and quick Halloween decor project, you can download the images for this banner and make one tonight!

Christa Paustenbaugh made creative use of non-Halloween themed papers to make this cute layout

I recently created a couple of Halloween cards

and a Halloween gift tag

Here is my favorite Halloween layout from last year

Lisa Kisch had several projects to share as well.  This layout,

a card made using a classic grid design,

and this treat bag

Monika Wright shared a download with you for these treat toppers

Bonus:  the toppers are sized to fit the sandwich and snack-size baggies that most everyone already has at home, no need to go out and purchase special cello bags for this project!

Rounding-up our post for today, Vivian Masket shared this layout

which happens to be a recent favorite of mine.  I love it so much that when I first saw it I pinned it to our WCS Pages we love board.

She also shared this Halloween Bouquet

Each flower of the bouquet is made from three punched stars, two big and one small, angled and layered with pop dots and then adhered to a skewer.

 

I hope you've enjoyed all of the projects the team has shared with you today.  Lots of great ideas for last minute Halloween projects, and for scrapbooking tonight's photos of trick or treating.

Tomorrow we'll start our look at scrapbooking your year.  See you then!!

Sunday Photo + Words

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap

but by the seeds that you plant."

                                                                                         Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspired by Saturday Challenges: Flickr Highlights

Welcome to Flickr Saturday, where we'll be highlighting reader & team layouts and other projects from our WCS Flickr gallery that correspond to the blog themes each month.

Be sure to load your layout when you create something inspired by one of our team members. One of these months you might just find yourself featured on the fourth Saturday!

Click Saturday: Design

Lisa O took her own photography challenge and uploaded these beauties to Flickr.

 

Week 3: My Three Senses

Monika inspired Monica to create this mini album from a children's board book purchased from the Target Dollar Spot.

Scrapbook Saturday sketch

Donna's sketch was the basis of Tara's digital layout of her family all dressed up for Halloween.

Marnie also created two layouts with Donna's sketch. One sticks to the sketch pretty closely, one, well, she started there!

Thank you for sharing your creations with us, ladies! We hope you will please join in again next month!

Hipstamatic Photos - cards and a Mini-Book

Hello Dear Friends! This is alexandra and today we're looking at cards and a mini book all showcasing Hipstamatic shots.

 

 

 

 

Here is a first card I made using two Hipstamatic pictures:

and this one with an off-centered glittered frame...

and to finish off this week of posts on the magic of Hipstamatic shots, here is a crazy mini. The idea behind it is a portrait of each member of the family (minus DD#1 who is away at University) coupled with a manuscript journaling of their favorite things in life! I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Avital for providing the journaling cards used in this mini-album.

Thank you for your visits and comments! I've enjoyed being your host this week. Happy Scrapping everyone!

and the giveaways go to . . .

Holy moly, 15 of you?? So much fun. Please email us to claim your number if you see your name below! We didn't list out the identifying comments. If you have questions, please ask!!

Don't forget to email us! (writeclickscrapbook at gmail dot com) The lovely Alexandra will be up shortly!!

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Do you ever see something on our site and then wish that you had everything necessary to complete the project? Ah! We understand. Alexandra has enticed us with her Hipstamatic love this week, so we thought it might be fun to play along.This week we are offering fifteen, yes fifteen, of you the chance to buy the Hipstamatic app. If you have an iPhone, you need it, and we are here to help. If you would like to be considered for today's giveaway, please leave us a comment telling us your favorite Halloween costume! We can't wait to read about them!

Comments will remain open though this evening. Fifteen lucky numbers will be selected at random and posted tomorrow. Be sure to check back as it is your responsibility to claim your lucky number via email (writeclickscrapbook at gmail dot com) before midnight Saturday. Merci et bonne chance!

Hipstamatic Photos - lay-outs

Hello Dear Friends! This is alexandra again and today we're going to take a look at the Hipstamatic pictures on lay-outs.

These pictures are a lot easier to use than one might think. Depending on the effect chosen, they can convey a dream-like state, a sense of innocence or create a bold contrast and really catching the attention...

 

 

This page is about the joy of winter. The saturated blues accentuate the idea of cold weather and make a nice contrast with the whimsical banner.

On this page, what would have been common pictures had they been taken with a regular camera actually appear to be magical with that white glare in the middle.

I often feel that Hipstamatic shots are a truer translation of how we remember a moment. For instance, that moment in Paris when we sat at the Jardin du Palais Royal to enjoy an esquisite pastry from Ladurée actually looks like that in my memory!

For the project "2011 in 52 pages" that my co-host Pascale and Virginie are helping me conduct at Scrap Rendez-Vous, I have often mixed Hipstamatic photos with regular pictures...

or even used a photo collage of Hipstamatic shots as the base for my page...

here is another page with a majority of hipstamatic shots...

On this page, I layered several shots on top of each other and attached them with a brad...

I hope this has given you some ideas on how to mix and match hipstamatic shots on your pages. In my next post, we'll see how one can make fun cards using Hipstamatic pictures and I'll also have a very fun new mini to share.

Hipstamatic Photos - TUTORIAL for a Mini-Book

Hello Dear Friends! This is alexandra again.Today, I'd like to show you how a simple walk through the neighborhood can take a unique dimension thanks to a series of Hipstamatic pictures.

 

I made this mini-album which is 3 3/4 x 7 inches using Hipstamatic pictures, Pink Paislee's 365 Degres Collection, a few stamps and the Bind-It-All:

 

 

STEP-BY-STEP:

1. I chose my pictures ( 3 x 3" ) and adhered one on each side of each page. I used gaffer tape ( 7 Gypsies ) on the side of each page.

2. Once that was done, I trimmed each page flush.

3. The structure of the inner pages being done, I started working on the covers. I really like combining different textures so I opted for heavy corrugated card box for the covers.

4. I stamped on the tag ( Kési'art ) and used double-sided adhesive for the ribbon.

5. Then came the fun part: the decoration of each page. I stamped on almost every page, using either a sentiment stamp ( Ali Edwards / Kesi'art ) or Tim Holtz's.

I stamped on the edges of the pages because I knew my journaling would go right next to the pictures.

I mixed two inks there to imitate the effect of the picture

 

6. After the stamping came the journaling and adding a few embellies. Then I used the Bind-It-All to finish the album. And here is a look at all the pages:

Of course this mini could have been made using regular pictures and if you have photoshop it's not too difficult to obtain similar effects through a few manipulations such as using a vignette and increasing the level of contrast.

Hipstamatic Photos - a Mini-Book

Hello Friends! This is alexandra sirugue-macleod and I'm honored to be your host this week. I love my iPhone and it has nothing to do with the phone itself. No, what I'm crazy about is the Hipstamatic application, you know, the app. that allows you to make tiny square pictures with all kinds of cool effects. These pictures are so easy and fun to scrap, I thought we could explore a few different ways to do just that this week...

And how about starting the week with a mini-book I made with hipstamatic pictures taken during the course of January.

With this mini, I wanted to highlight things that our family enjoyed doing during that cold month. All pictures were taken with my iPhone and measure 2 x 2 inches. The cover of this mini is a kraft envelope folded in two and the collection of patterned papers is mostly Webster's Pages.

This inside page showcases things I enjoyed creating in January.

Can you see now why I love these photos? They are a perfect size. I hope you enjoy this album. Tomorrow we will build one together!

Sunday Photo + Words

 

"Today give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be

the only sunshine he sees all day." H Jackson Brown Jr