Hello and thanks for stopping by for Albums Made Easy Monday. It's October and We R Memory Keepers is featuring the Bewitched collection all month long. I don't know about you, but Halloween is my favorite month next to Christmas. It's not about the scary stuff, but rather planning what my daughter and son are going to dress up as, decorating our house and spending time as a family going out to the annual Halloween Frolic and trick or treating. 

This week's tip is for the 4x6 Journal cards. I told you how I love to trick them up and I found a great way to help me design some fun ones.

I love the inspiration I find at the Reverse Confetti blog and I especially love their monthly sketch for you to try feature.

So I took this week's sketch and used it as the inspiration for my journal card.

Here's how I used it in this week's 2 page Albums Made Easy spread

Halloween 2012

For my process, I like to choose my photos first. For a 2 page spread I print 4 4x6 photos and 4 3x4 photos. Then I choose my journal cards and let my creativity go. I didn't copy the sketch exactly but rather adapted it for my design. For the circles I used a 1" pointed circle punch by Martha Stewart (one of my most faves) and some fun Punky Sprouts lil seeds buttons with twine bows.

I hope you'll find this tip useful and will give it a try! I'd love to see what you come up with so please link up your Albums Made Easy or Project Life pages so I can stop by and take a look.

Here's this week's video

Have a creative day!

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My Little Shoebox March Sketch Challenge

Hello friends! I'm excited to share that My Little Shoebox is kicking off a March sketch challenge over on our blog today! Our design team member Aphra Bolyer has created another fabulous sketch for us to create with. So get out your My Little Shoebox stash and read the deets below...

 Here's how you can play along:

• Create a layout based on this sketch using My Little Shoebox products
• Post your layout to your blog or favorite gallery and link back to this post
• upload your layout to our My Little Shoebox gallery titled March sketch at our Facebook page
• Leave us a comment below with the link to your layout

You have until midnight Pacific time on April 10th to post your link to this post


How about a fabulous prize package of My Little Shoebox goodies and your layout featured along with your blog link right here on our blog!!
We can't wait to see what you create!

Here's a sneak peek of my take on the sketch

Be sure to visit the My Little Shoebox blog on Thursday March 17th and the 24th to see the Design Team's takes on this fabulous sketch! Thanks for coming by!