What Characters!

It's hard to believe that Halloween is coming around again.  My boys are already talking about what they want to be this year.  As I begin to search for costumes I thought that I would post my layout for last year's Halloween.

I found my layout inspiration in Scrapbooks Etc.  I loved the circles and thought it would work perfectly for my Halloween layout.

I was totally enthralled with the idea of backing black cardstock with patterned circles.  Since my layout needed to be two pages and I had a lot of photos I used this page as a base, but sketched it out to make it work for me.

I kept the number of photos even between my two boys. I left spots to feature 3D stickers of each of the characters they portrayed.

As I often do I made one photo larger and matted it to make it stand out.  For the circles I used patterned paper with tone on tone colors so that they wouldn't compete with the colorful photos.

I used pop dots to make the circles stand off the cardstock.  The depth is visible when you look at the layout, but is hard to see in these photos.

I wanted some visual division between the series of photos and the rest of the layout.  I found this sheer ribbon that fades from yellow to orange.  It was the perfect addition to the layout.  So that you wouldn't see any adhesive I ran the ribbon through my Xyron.  It worked perfectly.

Not only did my boys dress as favorite characters, they were quite the characters themselves that evening.  I loved the play on words for my title.  I can't wait to see what characters they will decide to be this year!