Fall is the beginning of a busy time of year and keeping up on your scrapping can be difficult. Let designer Susan Cobb help! This month she shares ideas on making a spooky Halloween page, recording the first day of school memories and using those priceless fall photos.

Halloween Rodeo Princess
By Susan Cobb

	Here Susan cut areas of the spider web with an X-acto® knife and lifted them to overlap the photo a bit. Suede paper spiders add the finishing touches to the spooky page.
		Supplies: patterned Paper Pizazz®: 12” x 12” Halloween spiders, black with white dots (available by the sheet) specialty Paper Pizazz®: black suede (available by the sheet) solid Paper Pizazz®: white: Solid Pastel Papers X-acto® knife, cutting mat Mounting Squares: Therm O Web Macintosh computer font: Lefty Casual

Instructions:

1. Trim the Halloween spiders paper to 10 1/8” x 10 1/2” and mat on white, trimming the edges to a 1/8” border. Glue to the center of the black with white dots background paper. Mat photo on black suede paper, trimming the edges to a 1/8” border.
2. Place the page on your cutting surface, then place the matted photo on top. Angle the photo near the center of the page, then trace around the outside edges of the photo onto the Halloween spiders paper with a pencil. Remove the photo, then use your knife to cut around the areas of the spider webs in the design of the paper that overlap the inside only of the outline. Carefully erase pencil lines.
3. Lift the cut areas and slip the corners of the photo beneath them. Computer print or hand journal on white paper then trim to rectangles. Mat on black suede paper then place so photo overlaps the corners of the journaling pieces. Glue all pieces in place.
4. Use the bodies of the spiders that are showing on the Halloween spiders background paper as patterns, and cut out black suede to fit over them. Glue in place.

Parker & Tawnee Back To School
By Susan Cobb

	Susan Says: “A unique journaling idea is to write down quotes from your children and include them on the page. This page uses a variety of fonts for a fun look.”
		Supplies: patterned Paper Pizazz®: yellow stars and swirls on blue, buttons and stars on yellow: Mixing Bright Papers solid Paper Pizazz®: blue, yellow: Teresa’s Handpicked Solid Muted Papers blue buttons: Tutti-Frutti Button Collection by Magic Scraps™ Scrappy Glue (for gluing buttons): Magic Scraps™ yellow floss: DMC® 1/8” circle punch: McGill, Inc. pen: black Zig® Millennium™ by EK Success Macintosh Fonts: Uncle Stinky, Biffo MT, Barnhard Fashion BT, Café Mimi, Birdlegs MD SG

Instructions:

1. Cut a 5” x 12” rectangle and a 6” x 3” rectangle from the buttons and stars on yellow paper. Cut two 1” x 12” strips from solid blue paper and glue to the long edges of the large rectangle so a 1/4” border extends from the back on each side. Repeat with the small rectangle.
2. Place the large rectangle vertically on the left side of the yellow stars and swirls on blue paper, about 5/8” from the left edge. Place the smaller piece horizontally on the right side, with one edge beneath the large rectangle and the other edge flush with the right side of the page, about 1 5/8” from the top. Glue pieces in place.
3. Mat photo on yellow paper trimming edges to a 1/8” border. Then glue to the left side of an 8 1/2” x 6” piece of solid blue paper, leaving a 1/8” border. Computer print or hand write quotes on yellow paper, then trim around quotes. Glue on the blue paper, to the right side of the photo. Tie yellow floss in 8 blue buttons securing at the back. Glue the buttons to the page as shown.
4. Use the template to cut out a yellow star and mat on solid blue paper. Write “Back To School” on the star with the black pen, and punch a hole at the top. Tie tag with yellow floss and “hang” on button as shown.

Natalie Fall Leaves Page
By Susan Cobb

	Susan Says: “Using a cut-away frame is a great way to draw attention to your photo. Here, mounting the frame with foam adhesive tape also adds dimension to the page.”
		Supplies: patterned Paper Pizazz®: peach/brown/tan fall leaves, peach/brown/tan string plaid: Jacie’s Watercolor Naturals specialty Paper Pizazz®: metallic gold: Metallic Gold Papers (also available by the sheet); pastel tan vellum: 12 x 12 Pastel Vellum Papers (also available by the sheet) Paper Flair™ Tags Template metallic gold medium braid: Kreinik Metallics foam adhesive tape: Scotch® Brand by 3M Mounting Squares: Therm O Web 1/8” circle punch: McGill, Inc. pen: gold Sakura Gelly Roll X-acto® knife, cutting mat, ruler Macintosh computer font: Berthold Script

Instructions:

1. Cut a 8 1/4” square from the tan vellum. Turn as a diamond and glue to the center of the plaid background paper. Mat photo on gold paper, trimming the edges to a 1/8” border.
2. Cut an 8 1/4” x 9 1/2” piece of the leaves paper. Place the matted photo over the center. Use your ruler and pencil to draw a line onto the leaf paper that is 1/8” larger than your photo on all sides. Decide which leaves overlap the inside of the outline that you would like to overlap your photo, and mark around them with the pencil. Remove the photo and place the leaf paper on your cutting mat. Use your knife to carefully cut around the chosen leaves, only to the inside of your pencil rectangle. Then use your ruler to cut along the straight pencil line between the leaves.
3. Center the matted photo over the vellum on the page. Apply foam tape to the back of the leaves frame and adhere over the photo so the photo is centered in the frame. Use the template to cut two tags from the tan vellum. Journal on the tags. Cut out a single leaf from the remaining paper and adhere to the large tag with foam tape. Outline the tags with the gold pen.
4. Punch a hole in the end of each tag and string together with gold braid. Glue in place. Add a date at the bottom corner of the vellum with the gold pen.