Sunday, September 4, 2011

Halloween Scrapbook {spell book part 2}



First Step: Find an old distressed leather book (when I opened the first page of the red book, 1944 was hand written in the top right corner). I took an exacto knife to the leather to make it look like claw marks.


Step 2: Use black spray paint to cover the majority of the leather ( I left some of the natural leather exposed to give it more dimension)


Step 3: I applied acrylic paint in brick and terra cotta with a sponge making sure not to fully cover the black base coat (I rubbed cinnamon into the book because I thought it might help with the antique look but it made more of a mess then anything).








Step 4: I cut a piece of burlap or (heavy cloth) into a rectangular shape and rubbed cinnamon into various sections of the cloth. Then let the cloth sit in a tea bath for a few minutes to give it a more aged look.

  • After the cloth dried, the edges frayed naturally which was a pleasant surprise!
  • Use a stamp to spell out the title of your book.
  • On the book on the left, I took a miniature picture frame found in the doll house aisle of Hobby Lobby and sprayed it black (sponged the same book colors over top the black frame). Inside the frame I placed my sister's family vampire picture from last Halloween.
  • On the right book, I used the same foil embossed stickers (sprayed black then sponged the book colors on top) from the Dollar Store that I used on the last Halloween Spell Books. Place a googly eye in the middle of the sticker.


Orange Puffy Pant was used to draw the titles on the spine.
I used more foil embossed stickers and googly eyes on the back of one of the books.



Step 5: Open your "Book of Shadows" and let the scrap-booking begin. Volume 1 and Volume 2 of my Book of Shadows represent my Sister's 1st and 2nd annual Halloween Party.

Each "scrap book page" consisted of first gluing 5-6 book pages together for stability. I created page tabs with masking tape to easily turn the pages.

Place pictures (& stickers) on the pages and let them tell their story.









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9 comments:

  1. Cool idea! It's never to early to start thinking of Halloween decorations. And since we're finally having some cooler weather I was just thinking of fall decorating ideas! Have a great weekend!

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  2. This is such a cute idea for a scrapbook. I'm sharing this with my daughter who loves everything Halloween.

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  3. how fun. What a great way to remember past halloweens

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  4. fun!!! i love scrapbook ideas, i would love for you to link up to Tell me Tuesday!!

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  6. I like the way you distressed the books!! It's a fun scrapbook idea!!

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  7. super clever.
    i'll be making one for us this halloween season.

    pure awesomeness.
    thanks for sharing!
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  8. How fun! Thanks again! Hope to see more from you this upcoming Wednesday!

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