Late last month I had a class I called the "Spook-tacular Boutique" and those who signed up could select the Wicked Cool or Fang-tastic to use with their projects. The next few posts will share what we completed in class.

One of the favorites, and the most time-consuming, was a mini bag book created from two of the 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 x 6 5/8" Mini Lunch Sacks available on p. 13 of the Holiday Mini catalog (121031  $4.95 for 10). It’s the perfect size to highlight Halloween photos, don’t you think?

This project was loaded with some of the new products in the mini including the Basic Black Waffle paper, Black Flourish Jewels, 1/2" Raven Lace trim and Glimmer Brads.

I also through in the Wicked Fun Designer paper, Bitty Bat punchy, Thick Window Sheets, Brights and Neutrals Designer Buttons and Black 1 1/4" Striped ribbon from the current catalog/idea book to give it the fun look I was aiming at.

As you can see, Cajun Craze was my card stock color of choice for the pages and the waffle paper was used for photo mats and side borders to give it a spooky touch!

What’s pretty evident here is the black lace tucked under the Designer Paper but what isn’t is the coolest effect of the whole book. I took a piece of our thick window sheet and ran it through the Big Shot with our Spider Web Textured Impressions Embossing folder. WOW! Quite an effect and everyone loved it. It kinda had the effect of an acrylic book and it can be used to mount a photo on as long as they are the same size front and back and overlapped each other.

The book was pretty thick with the extra thicknesses of the bag bottom and the window sheet added in but the crop-a-dile cut through it like butter!

To bind the book, I "finished" the front and back card stock pieces of the book with Jumbo Eyelets and then thread the 1 1/4" thick black striped ribbon through each end to tie in the front. Some added lace to make the finished book frilly but fun! Of course, I didn’t like the striped ribbon all fancified so I started shredding it with my fingers until it was more fringe then ribbon and I was finally satisfied!

Kinda cool when you think it all started with two mini lunch sacks! Stay tuned tomorrow for some more projects from last month’s Spooktacular Boo-tique!