Sunday, March 27, 2011

Hogwart's Halloween

I've never claimed to be up-to-date on my scrapbooks so it will not come as too much of a shock that today I'm sharing a 2-page layout of photos from last Halloween.

My eldest son decided he wanted to be Harry Potter (we're reading the books to him at bedtime) so off we went to our local Value Village where we purchased a Gryffindor robe, glasses, wand and broomstick. My younger son ended up selecting a Slytherin robe for his costume but he insisted on having glasses just like his brother. The result was a very frustrated little boy because everyone kept commenting on the two cute Harry Potters. "I'm Draco Malfoy" he would insist. We finally determined an explanation for the glasses - he was Draco Malfoy but drank some polyjuice potion to turn into Harry Potter and he was only part way through the transformation.

Regardless of the costume confusion, both boys had a lot of fun running around casting "expelliarmus" and "riddikulus" spells at everything that moved.

 
I found some Harry Potter specific paper and embellishments for the layout - Creative Imaginations has an entire line of papers, stickers and die cuts to choose from! I also searched out a free Harry Potter font online and used it to make the title which I printed off on the paper prior to adding all the photos.

The final step was journalling but you really can't make it out well in the pictures. I used a fine black pen and wrote in many of the blank areas of the pages but the fineness of the ink makes the words blend into the background pattern ... not sure if I like that or not. Hmmm.

 
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4 comments:

  1. Adorable and what a clever way of thinking outside the box...polypotion juice!!

    Thanks for playing along at Amber's Crafts and Stuff.

    Natasha
    Crafting Pal - www.amberscraftsandstuff.com

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  2. Fantastic layouts Shelley, Love the frames you have around the papers, love the cute story and your cute boys. Thanks for joining us at Amber's Crafts and Stuff's Die cut challenge this week, hope you see you back again. Hugs lin

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  3. Great layout and such a cute story!

    Thanks for participating in Challenge # 2 at Amber's Crafts and Stuff! I hope you will join us again next Wednesday for Challenge #3!

    ~*~Amber~*~
    www.amberscraftsandstuff.com

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  4. got to love harry potter lol I just recently went to harry potter world and it was awesome! TFS your layout great job!

    Thanks for participating in Challenge # 2 at Amber's Crafts and Stuff! I hope you will join us again next Wednesday for Challenge #3!

    ~*~Linette~*~
    www.amberscraftsandstuff.com

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