Savvy Saturday ~ Happy Halloween!
Trick or Treat! No tricks, just treats for you here! The first treat is a double on the Tattered Angels Blog Hop! Design Team Member Lisa Rapp and our very own Eli Harlan are both showcasing some Tattered Angels love today, be sure to visit both of their blogs. And don’t forget to see what Tattered Angel’s Blog has in store too.
Now on to Halloween. Halloween is for kids, and kids of all ages dress in costumes!  Super Heros, Princesses, Monsters, Celebrities, Politicians, Ninjas, Ghosts and just about anything else goes when it comes to Halloween. Some people even wear costumes to work! This picture is the Spellbindersâ„¢ crew in Phoenix! I’m sure they had a lot of fun, and plenty of candy too!
For today’s post I put together a cute Halloween mini book. I had a sheet of vintage images waiting for the perfefct project, and this is it! I didn’t take a lot of step shots, but you will see it is a pretty straight forward book.
I started with the largest of the S4-227 Pumpkins and cut 4 chipboard pumpkin shapes as bases for the pages. In my Wizard™ I cut/embossed 8 more from patterned paper, Fancy Pants Trick or Treat Collection and an orange piece from Daydreams, these covered both sides of the chipboard. I spritzed the pumpkin die cuts with Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels, and when they were dry I sanded the edges. I have several colors of Glimmer Mist and tried to match them with the colors of the papers. Look at the results!
I cut a piece of Core’dinations Black Magic Cardstock with the S4-227 Pumpkins Nestabilities, to make pumpkin shaped frames by nesting the die templates.  See how I set them on my Magnetic Spacer Plate. This gave me 2 frames and 3 full pumpkins. I cut/embossed then sanded the black side to reveal the orange color underneath.
The rest of the book is just stacking, layering, inking, sanding and having fun.
The book includes a variety of Spellbinders™ die templates, including the following:
S4-227 Pumpkins; S7-014 Classic Lace Border Grand, S5-014 Deckled Mega Rectangles SM; S4-131 Classic Scalloped Rectangles SM; S4-235 Fancy Tags; S4-169 Small Labels; S4-200 Flower Bouquet; S4-161 Labels One; S4-190 Labels Four; S5-019 Labels Eight; S4-233 Labels Nine, S4-134 Classic Paisley.
Other supplies include: Fancy Pants, paper; Tattered Angels, Glimmer Mists; Crafty Secrets, Heartwarming Vintage images; Creative Impressions, Ribbons; Clearsnap, Colorbox Charcoal Fluid Chalk Ink; Copic, Atyou Spica Pitch Black; Cardstock; Alpha rub-ons; adhesives; hole punch; book ring.
Happy Halloween!
Beth
Tags: Beth Pingry, Clearsnap, Copic, Crafty Secrets, Creative Impressions, Eli Harlan, Fancy Pants, Halloween, Lesa Rapp, S4-131 Classic Scalloped Rectangles SM, S4-134 Classic Paisley, S4-161 Labels One, S4-169 Small Labels, S4-190 Labels Four, S4-200 Flower Bouquet, S4-227 Pumpkin Nestabilities®, S4-233 Labels Nine, S4-235 Fancy Tags, S5-019 Labels Eight, S5-Deckled Mega Rectangles SM, S7-014 Classic Lace Border Grand, Tattered Angels










October 31st, 2009 at 8:02 am
This is just so cute!! Love all the different die templates used too.
Just a wonderful project, Beth!!
October 31st, 2009 at 10:28 am
Love the idea of using the pumpkin for a mini book! Darling. Great photo of the Pheonix crew! Spellbinders always has fun!
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:21 am
Supah cute girl! I love this!
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:21 am
Too cute, Beth!!
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:23 am
Love the mini album Beth, you Rocked It!!!!!
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Wow Beth I love your pumpkin book
November 4th, 2009 at 3:33 am
great mini album.