Tutorial | How to Make Stenciled Notecards

This darling witch page uses just orange and black and notice how Conny used cream instead of white for a softer background. There’s lots of pattern papers with tearing and stenciled spiders for texture and depth. She also added candy stickers and a mix of letters and a banner for the title. Learn more at The Cherry on Top blog.

I know Halloween is for everyone but as much fun as us adults have let’s face it, it can’t compete with the joy it brings to the little ones. Helping decorate the house, dressing up in costumes, carving pumpkins, going trick or treating, getting all the candy, the kids have such a blast doing all things Halloween. So today let’s take a look at some Halloween scrapbook layouts focusing on kids.

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These cuties are ready to scare up some fun dressed as skeletons. This page has wide rows of Halloween pattern papers with thin strips for journaling, a grid of four photos and a thin pumpkin border along the bottom and a sticker title. Find directions on the Creative Memories blog.

Softer colors like pinks and pastels work perfectly for the little ones at Halloween like on this design from Amy. She used pink spider web paper and pumpkins in pastel pink and orange for her background, adding a row of 6 photos and an extra one in the top corner, leaving room for journaling too. I spotted her idea on her AmyKamy gallery at Scrapbook.com.

Instead of Halloween supplies Giselle used academic and herbology inspired printed papers and die cuts by 49th and Market for this Harry Potter layout. She pulled the design together using dies and rub-ons to fill in spaces. Pop over to the Hey Little Magpie blog for a spell to learn more.

This adorable layout from Brianna uses bright, bold colors and super cute images with lots of striped, polka dots and stars. She scattered candy and created clusters with pumpkins and black cats using stickers and dies. The solid white background helps the colors to really pop. Visit the Doodlebug Designs blog for more info.

Audrey added so much depth to her spooky haunted house layout by cutting and stitching waves of paper for the background, tucking in embellishments like pumpkins and fences. But the main stand out is that faBOOlous large house die backed with coordinating pattern papers. Visit the Paige Taylor Evans blog for more info if you dare.

These kiddos are having a blast decorating there pumpkins for Halloween. This clean and simple design uses pattern paper backgrounds with faux stitching and stickers for decoration, the title and faux ribbon. This is part of a kit from Stampin’ Up.

This wonderful pocket page from Jess counts down her children’s costumes through out the years. The pockets hold either photos, printed journaling cards, the title and the costume list for an simple but effective design. Learn more at the Scrapbook and Cards Today blog.

Sam created lots of fish tails cut from pattern papers for this cute layout. For dimension and texture they also added staples, domed dots, thick embellishments and die cut spider webs. Head over to the Hey Little Magpie blog for a closer look.

This fun and festive Halloween layout uses products from Echo Park like strips of stitched down pattern papers and lots of adorable stickers of little kids dressed up, houses and trees to create small scenes around the page. There’s also a thick acrylic title, wooden owl shapes and stenciled background too. Sit for a spell at the Creative Scrapbooker blog to check it out.

This sweet layout has lots of rustic elements like woodgrain pattern paper, tags with twine and distressed edges, spider web doilies and lots of label style sentiments. The pops of purple add a nice touch of color among all the black and grey. I spotted this on the Paper Issues Instagram page.

This simple design from Christi focuses on the darling photos with some wonderful detailed die cuts of a spider and web and a cute witch on a broom. Lots of different colored cardstock add layers and dimensions to the dies. Take a closer look at the Printable, Cutable, Creatables blog.

I hope you’ve been spellbound by these wonderful Scrapbook layouts for the little ones!

-Heather

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