Halloween Scrapbooks

Here's a Halloween item to get you in the mood for ghosts, witches, and black cats.... the Haunted House Shaped Scrapbook and the Pumpkin Patch Shaped Scrapbook from Wilton Industries, makers of baking and specialty party products.

Each book came with 20 patterned pages for kids to use as a scrapbook base (candy corn shapes, bats, etc...) and were roughly 6" x 8", although, I did see some smaller versions as well. The books were bound with heavy metal posts that could be unscrewed for more pages to be added. Originally intended to have low-tech battery light-up LEDs, that feature was dropped, but the die cuts and window openings remained.

I designed four concepts — a black cat, a witch, a skeleton graveyard, and a haunted house. Of these, only the haunted house was chosen to go into production. I was then asked to redesign the skeleton graveyard into a pumpkin patch, which became the second book in the series. There were also two Christmas themed scrapbooks I designed. I'll post those later.

Wilton Halloween Scrapbook Black Cat pencil sketch by illustrator Joe Lacey

Wilton Halloween Scrapbook Witch and Cauldron pencil sketch by illustrator Joe Lacey

Wilton Halloween Scrapbook Skeleton Graveyard pencil sketch by illustrator Joe Lacey

Wilton Halloween Scrapbook Haunted House pencil sketch by illustrator Joe Lacey