Sweetest Halloween Wishes

I've got another SP and Company design team post for you. It's Halloween week over at the blog so here's what I created!

 

I used the notebook paper and lollipops from Winter Pocket Fillers along with the sentiments "Christmas Wish List" and "Sweetest Holiday Wishes" (with selective stamping) to create this little kid's candy wish list.

I colored 3 little pumpkins from the Vintage October: Falling for Autumn set and added a little Twinery twine in Peapod and some washi and that was it for the embellies.

Thanks for stopping by today!

 

A pretty little treat box

This week over at SP and Company stamps it is Halloween projects week!

 I made a little Halloween treat box that is not necessarily "Halloween-ish".

Now, I love Halloween! Love, love, love it! And everything else fall-ish that occurs from the time school starts until Christmas.

But I know many people are not fans of the scary stuff so I made my treat box on the cute side. I made sure to keep the orange and black color though.

Here is my box that can hold 4 fun-size candy bars:

Top view:

To make this I started with a 6x6 piece of orange paper. I scored every 2 inches in each direction so that it looks like a tic tac toe board:

Then I flipped the paper over and scored the corners on the diagonal from the corner to the center square:

Then just fold your score lines like this:

I punched a hole in each corner and ran twine through and tied it all together.

But luckily before I tied it I realized I hadn't stamped yet (as you can tell in the photo)! I just opened it up and stamped one of the poppies from Poppy Field Summer onto the center of each square with black ink. THEN I tied it and filled with some fun-sized candy bars.

Another option to the box is to fold in the corners so you get a simple box. For this one I used ribbon as the handle instead of twine. You could fill this with candy corn or some other yummy thing.

So there you have one more way to use your SP and Company stamps and some 6x6 papers! Thanks for stopping by today!

 

 



Happy Halloween

Project #34

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For Just Us Girls Challenge #106 to use the colors orange, green, purple, and black.
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #134 which is to choose your own theme (I chose  Halloween)
Here Come the Boys Challenge #7 which is Halloween!
and Unity's monthly challenge Autumn Harvest which is taken from a poem (I took from the Halloween bit)!

I used the Unity Cuter than Most and Glowing Hours stamp sets. I stampped, colored, and fussy cut those cute little goblins and added the antennae with some wire.

One goblin for each of my little goblins. I don't know if it was the full moon or what. But seriously, my three little guys have been monsters lately!

Supplies:

SU black cardstock

orange paper: MME Ooh La La

striped sticker is EP Happy Halloween

Little Leaves Sizzlet die

SU punches (frame and circle)

Stamps: Unity - Glowing Hours (bats), Cuter than Most (monsters), sentiment (grab bag)

Some random layouts

Here are a couple layouts I did last weekend for ScrapbookSteals.com's online crop challenges.

 The first was called 4 is the magic number.

It had to include 4 patterned papers, 4 brads, 4 stickers or rubons, 4 ribbons, and 4 of anything else of your choosing (I chose photos).

 I decided to scrap Wyatt's first Halloween for this one. He was such a cute little scarecrow!

The second challenge was to scrap something you are thankful for. I picked these photos because 1) I am thankful for my husband and 2) I didn't really have any others to scrap!

I LOVE this paper line from Imaginisce called To Love and Cherish. It was just meant to go with my love pictures! I cut out the swirls so that they could go over the photos instead of being covered. Even though I added 6 rhinestones and 3 flowers I still don't think it's finished. It needs a little something else. I have some black diamond stickles that want to play. And I need to do something with the title to make it pop more. But in general I really like the way the vivid photos look on the black and white!

Happy Halloween!

Since I haven't crafted in over a week I've been itcing to post something. So here are some baked crafts we made for my son's preschool Halloween party:

These spiders are covered in dark chocolate frosting and then rolled in a mix of black sprinkles and black edible glitter. We stuck in black twizzler legs and m&m eyes.

For the pumpkins we piped on orange frosting and added pieces of green twizzlers for the stem. The tendrils were made using the same twizzler cut into then strips, coiled and stuck into the frosting.

Mummies! Cupcakes were smoothed in white frosting. We added m&m eyes, piped on black pupils, and added a candy fruit slice for the mouth. Then with a straight tip pipe on the bandages.

Nothing fancy or too much work because they are preschoolers and wouldn't appreciate anything more intricate!

 

And I wanted to share the costume I made for the baby. He was Jack-Jack from The Incredibles!

I took a red sleeper (which is his brother's old one and still way too big for him!). I covered the blue collar and cuffs with black felt that I stitched on. For the logo I drew it out onto paper and cut it out to make a template. I cut out the pieces of yellow felt and glued them onto a black oval. I pulled out my scrapbooking supplies and used chalk to add some orange to fade into the outer yellow pieces, which now that I look at it you can't see it too well in this photo. I sewed on a couple pieces of velcro to attach over the zipper and still be able to get it off. I even made a super cute little black mask. He let me measure it by holding it up to his face several times to make sure it was the right size. But then when it came time to actually wear it he wanted NOTHING to do with it. The little monster. It would have been SOOOO cute. But I was able to spike his hair like Jack-Jack at least. : )

Boo!

So I started this card with Mojo Monday's sketch 153:

The four squares reminded me of a window. So I thought I would create a window as though I was looking out and there would be blue skies and clouds and trees and pretty stuff. But when I cut the squares, they weren't quite square with each other and I thought they looked like a haunted house. Soooo, I thought I'd turn it into a Halloween card since I needed one anyway for Erin Lee Creative's Halloween challenge. Score! Another twofer card!

So I then tried  to cut the other squares crooked and they kinda came out straight. Go figure. I punched them with SU's 1 3'8" square punch on cardstock that I texturized with a Sizzix Distressed Texturz plate on my Big Shot to make it look like wood. The green grass is cut from the Cricut cartridge Plantin Schoolbook. The pumpkins, web, spider, cat and inside skull paper are cut from My Mind's Eye The Spider's Web collection. I made the broom and witch hat and stamped the word "boo!". You can't really tell in the photos but there is a clear sheet over the squares to make it look like a glass window. The one time I want to get a glare off a photo and I can't. : (

On the inside I tore the skull paper with a tearing edge:

I'm so excited to have made my first Autummn/Halloween craft! This is one of my favorite times of the year!!