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Wrap Gifts With Designer Paper

If you happen to run out of wrapping paper as you wrap your Christmas gifts, or gifts any time of year, consider this idea: Wrap Gifts With Designer Paper!

This is a gift for my son and this particular pattern of paper in the Toile Tidings Designer Series Paper I thought would be a fun one for him since he sees some of these animals when he is out hiking where he lives. This paper was in the Holiday Mini Catalog LAST year but surprisingly was carried over to this year. Right now it is discounted on the Year-End Closeout by Stampin’ Up! so it really is a good deal. There is even some “official” Toile Tidings wrapping paper discounted over 50% off on the Clearance Rack right now.

I did not make a box, I just adhered this paper on to the box the gift is packed in. He’s going to have to rip the paper off to get inside the box! I only had one full sheet of this animal paper and another partial sheet so I had to piece it together somewhat. The top is not really a lid, it is another sheet of paper with the checked design folded over the top and that is also just adhered to the box, not really a lift-off lid. I used the Stampin’ Seal+ adhesive for a good strong bond.

The reason I am posting this gift-wrapping idea is to give you a reason to use up your designer paper (maybe especially retired paper that we all hoard!), maybe look for some paper that makes the gift more personalized, and keep you from rushing out to the store for more wrapping paper! You can use some of your old ribbon (or new!) as well.

Now yesterday at the same time I was getting ready to wrap this package, Sara Douglass, Stampin’ Up! CEO was going live on Facebook showing an easy way to make designer paper gift boxes with NO CUTTING! I felt like we were both a little bit on the same wavelength! I just sort of tried her method when I made the lid of my box, although, as I said, it’s not a lid that lifts off, it is glued down. But I did the corners as she did!

Here is the link to Sara’s video on Facebook (if it works!). Don’t forget other gift-wrapping ideas you can use rather than spending a lot of money on wrapping paper or rather than running out to the store.

Use designer paper or cardstock to make small gift bags.
Use designer paper or cardstock to make small gift boxes.
Use gift bags you already have from shopping and decorate the front right over the store printing.
Stamp on plain white computer paper or cardstock to make your own designer paper to wrap a gift.
Decorate kraft or white lunch sacks you may have in your pantry to hold a gift.
Stamp on or use brown packing paper you might receive in shipped gifts and then embellish the package with Stampin’ Up! ribbon and embellishments.
Make your own gift tags with kits, punches, or die-cut squares, rectangles or circles.

Those are just a few ideas I hope you will find helpful as we all get pressed for time! I think we all have designer paper that we can spare for wrapping gifts that will make a high quality gift presentation! Keep that idea in mind of wrapping gifts with designer paper whether for Christmas now or future occasions!

Make a Yarn Tree With Stampin’ Up! Embellishments

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I had to take some time from stamping to do some other crafty things, like make these Yarn Trees With Stampin’ Up! Embellishments! I saw these late last year during the holiday season but didn’t have time to make them, but this year I at least had the styrofoam shapes to make them!

These trees are so easy and fun to make! Even if I would have stopped working on them about five steps back, they would still look great! All you need is a styrofoam shape (mine were cone shapes with flat tops) and yarn! Of course I didn’t have any interesting yarn with which to make these! If I could have just run into a craft store, I’m sure I could have picked out all kinds of fun yarn, but during the pandemic I’m only doing online shopping so it as a lot more difficult and a lot less fun! But I did find a really thick yarn, one that was really felting (maybe?) that just looked smooth, and one that was thin but knobby.

Some videos I watched used a hot glue gun to adhere the yarn, but another just used straight pins, which don’t show at all once you push them in. And if you really wanted to, with pins you could pull the yarn off later and change the tree for the next year. I don’t think I would redo it, but I did use the straight pins.

Just pick a place near the bottom to start and start winding the yarn around and around the styrofoam cone. Pin or glue as you go. When you get near the top, just play with the yarn and get it how you like it. You can curl it around and tuck the end under. It’s a little tricky, but you can do it! I might still add some “topper” to my trees.

Here is the first tree I made, the largest one. I used the smoothest yarn to wrap around first. Next I used the chenille-type yarn to wrap around but spaced a couple inches apart. Again I used the straight pins to hold it in place. Then I took the thinner, more decorative yarn and wrapped that around in between the rows. I was perfectly happy with the way the tree looked at that point, but I day or two later, when I looked for the second time in my gigantic stash of retired Stampin’ Up! products, I found things I thought I could use! I added these larger and smaller ivory roses and even added just a few snowflake sequins and large silver sequins from a container from awhile back I guess! I used tiny dabs of hot glue to adhere the roses, snowflakes and sequins.

Then I worked on the two smaller trees. This one I started with the smooth yarn all around, then wrapped around the thin yarn spaced apart. In my stash I found this off-white velvet ribbon and also this Transparent Fine Garland. In another box of embellishments. I found these silver decorations with little rhinestones and they looked pretty good, so I hot glued those to the tree

Last, but not least, I made the third tree, wrapped with every bit of leftover smooth yarn to cover the styrofoam shape. I just made it!! Then I wrapped around some rows of the thick chenille (soft!) yard and made that knot on top. I had found this skinny red trim in my Stampin’ Up! stash so I wrapped around that plus some red and white twine! I had these pom poms from Amazon, which were bigger than I’d planned, but I decided to use them anyway! I also found these silver snowflakes, only about five of them that already had red and white twine bows tied onto them! I just poked a straight pin through the tiny know and stuck them onto the tree! It’s a cozy, wintery looking tree I think with the big chenille yard and pom poms!

These yarn trees were a fun, crafty project! Easy, no directions needed! Just start with a styrofoam cone shape and wrap some fun yarn around. You don’t really need the extra embellishments I used – sometimes I think I went past the point where I should have stopped! – but I like all the trees just fine so I don’t mind if they are a bit overdone! At least I used up some of my retired extra supplies from who-knows-how-long ago! If I had more styrofoam shapes, I’d probably make some more trees with some other of my Stampin’ Up! Trims rather than yarn and just see how it would turn out!

Happy Holiday Stamping and Crafting!

Tiny Christmas Treat Box With Trees

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It’s time to be making some Christmas treats to have on hand or to gift as extra little gifts or stocking stuffers. Here is one you can make in minutes using a couple of punches, paper, and ribbon…..plus the candy!

I always have some Clear Tiny Treat Boxes on hand because you can make something like this little Christmas treat very quickly and easily. Just put whatever candy treat you have inside or even a very small gift and then decorate.

I got the idea for decorating this treat box kind of from the Christmas card I made on yesterday’s post with the Pine Tree Punch and using the same paper!

To make my little treat box really quick and easy, I just punched out a green Christmas tree from the ‘Tis The Season 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper using the Pine Tree Punch. I was only going to put that one tree on the front of the box, but I liked some of the red paper too so I thought, “Why not have two red trees also?”. I punched out two red trees and placed them on each side behind the green tree. Next, I thought it would be nice to have a piece of Gold Foil behind the trees, so I punched a circle that would fit with the 2″ Circle Punch.

For a little bling, I of course had to add a few of the Holiday Rhinestone Jewels just to the green plaid tree. The final step was to just tie a Real Red 3/8″ Stitched Satin Ribbon around the box. Not only is it decorative for the top of the box but it also keeps the lid closed! You could also add a greeting on the box or tie it on to the ribbon, perhaps from the Itty Bitty Christmas Stamp Set.

These Clear Tiny Treat Boxes keep you from having to look up measurements to make a little box! They store flat and all you have to do is unfold it, crease on the score lines, and make it into the box. Be sure to put a package on your next order!

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Paper Pumpkin Jolly Gingerbread Projects

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I knew the November 2020 Paper Pumpkin Kit was going to be cute just based on photos of the box and my expectations were met! Here are the Paper Pumpkin Jolly Gingerbread Projects that I have made “so far”! I still have lots of materials and other ideas I want to make with this kit!

The two single houses you see at the bottom of the photo above are the projects the kit has designed. They are gift card holders and I’m sure you could insert cash or a check inside for a gift as well. There are also cute matching envelopes! The kit has enough supplies to make 15 gift card holders, but if you do not need that many gift card or money holders you can use the supplies to make other cards or anything else you want! That’s why after each month’s Paper Pumpkin kit arrives are subscribers’ home, you can always find alternative ideas online for ways to use the supplies!

The two cards at the top of the photo above are ideas I got from another Demonstrator online, but I changed it up a little bit. I used two different embossing folders on Mint Macaron Cardstock, the Woodland Embossing Folder, and the Diamond Embossing Folder for the backgrounds. I added some “snow” with Whisper White Cardstock with a torn edge. To get the single house, I cut the gift card holder pieces with a front and back of a house in half to use just the front of the house and added the stamping, greeting, and embellishments to the front portion of the house. Then this house was adhered to the card front. So easy to make a card with the kit supplies!

The middle piece is simply a tag I made with the “back” of the house I said I cut off in the paragraph above. That piece didn’t have a door printed on it, so I used the “punched out” piece from the white house front and colored it with a Calypso Coral Stampin’ Blend Marker, and added a Gilded Gem for the door knob! I just punched a hole in the top for some Braided Linen Trim. We always need more gift tags!

Paper Pumpkin Jolly Gingerbread House Cards

The idea for these cards came from Debbie Henderson, if I remember correctly, that I saw online and loved. I changed the background a little bit by embossing the Balmy Blue background with the Winter Snow Embossing Folder. On the second card, I stamped snowflakes from the Snowman Season Stamp Set. They are stamped off once to be lighter. The gift card holder was cut in half again so I could just use the house front. The little candy archway is cut out from a white piece that would be stamped and adhered to the front of the house, but of course you can use the pieces however you like! What is really brilliant, is using the pieces punched out from those white pieces to make the open doorway, which are used for fence posts on these cards!! This is what I love so much about stamping….the creativity and ideas that other stampers (usually not me!) come up with!

And my favorite thing about this kit are these adhesive-backed “candies” to use as embellishments on the projects! These are some of the cutest stick-on things I have seen! They are showcased very well on this card on the fence and house!

Paper Pumpkin Jolly Gingerbread Treat Boxes

These little gingerbread treat holders are what I thought was probably coming in the kit, but it took other Demonstrators to figure out how to make a little box for the bottom and these house pieces wrapped around it. To make the box inside, a piece of cardstock is cut at 4 1/4″ x 4 3/8″, scored at 1″ on all sides and then snips made on two opposite sides on those score lines up to the 1″ score line. Then you need two of the house pieces to fold around the box, using the Tear & Tape included in the kit. I used Multipurpose Liquid Glue to adhere the box inside as I folded the gingerbread house around it. Now they are ready for treats or gifts inside wrapped up in a cello bag or tissue paper! So cute!

After a lot of online Christmas shopping yesterday, I finally had time to work on my Paper Pumpkin November 2020 kit! My kit always arrives later than most everyone else’s, I don’t know what the post office is doing with it! But patience paid off, it’s a fun kit to create with! There are more ideas than I probably have time or supplies to use! This holiday Paper Pumpkin kit is a good way to get into the Christmas spirit by making some cards and projects we will be needing for the holidays!

The next Paper Pumpkin Kit is the “Beary Comforting” Kit, a kit to make a dozen cards to send to loved ones and friends who might need some encouragement and comfort during this difficult time. I’m guessing that most people would save these cards to send in January or February after the holidays. Be sure to sign up by the deadline or make sure your account is activated by December 10th to get this kit, which will be mailed out mid-December.

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Gold Mini Pizza Box With Christmas Poinsettia

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It’s going to be time to wrap gifts sooner than we want to realize, so here is an idea – this Gold Mini Pizza Box With Christmas Poinsettia. Just put a treat inside or a small gift and decorate the box exactly how you want!

It’s a good idea to keep a package of these Gold Mini Pizza Boxes on hand. They are pretty already being gold so you can just add a little decoration and you’ll have a gorgeous gift box ready to go. These boxes are food safe so you can add a cookie or two inside, some Christmas fudge or candy, a set of 3″ x 3″ notecards or some other gift. You get 8 mini pizza boxes in a package!

I got the inspiration for this gift box after seeing a Christmas card online (not handmade) although I ended up changing it a little. The card had gold, dark blue, and red poinsettias with gold trim. It also had swirly things in the background in gold. So I thought I would try that red, blue, and gold color scheme as a gift box!

The blue I chose is Night of Navy although I started with Misty Moonlight. Really, either would be fine. I liked the slightly darker shade. The poinsettia is made with Real Red Cardstock and the Poinsettia Dies. I used two layers of the medium size flower and the smallest flower for the center. Just using the largest poinsettia flower in the center of this box would be pretty also, but I wanted room for gold trim of some kind. I ended up using Gold Foil for a few leaves and the sprigs in the die set. The flower is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. It’s a good idea to use your fingers to sort of fold up the petals and leaves a little bit to give them some dimension.

The greeting is stamped with the Itty Bitty Christmas Stamp Set and cut out with the Classic Label Punch. The greeting is popped up with Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals.

There are so many things you can do with these Gold Mini Pizza Boxes! They can be decorated for any occasion. You can use them for a birthday treat or gift or take a few cookies or candy to your neighbor. You could do some stamping on cardstock for the top and tie a ribbon around the box. Or add a belly band with a greeting.

Order some of these boxes or the plain white Mini Pizza Boxes to have on hand. You will have fun decorating them for many occasions, especially Christmas!

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Ribbon Turkey For Thanksgiving

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Time for a fun turkey for Thanksgiving and I came up with the Ribbon Turkey For Thanksgiving! I actually kind of copied myself, looking back through my blog at Thanksgiving ideas. I found an idea from 2012 for a turkey ornament I made with ribbon for feathers.

I made this but didn’t make anything out of it! You could tie a string on top and make it an ornament or decoration or attach it to a folded piece of cardstock and make it a place card! When I was a kid and we were at my grandma’s house, I always wanted to make place cards for the dinner table! I guess this year most people won’t need too many place cards! Sadly. Or you could put it on the front of a Thanksgiving card.

I used a variety of punches and whatever I came up with to make this turkey. The turkey body is the 2 1/4″ Circle Punch. The head is a small circle die in the Layering Circles Dies. I used Soft Suede Cardstock. The wattle….you won’t guess this….is a petal in Real Red punched from the Perennial Flower Punch. The beak is just cut from Crushed Curry. The eyes are punched with the retired Owl Punch. Loved that punch! The turkey feet are the stick arms from the Snowman Builder Punch.

Instead of paper turkey feathers, I just grabbed a bunch of my ribbons that I thought would work! You can use whatever you have or maybe even a mixture of paper and ribbon would be fun! I put strips of Stampin’ Seal+ on the back of the head and body and sometimes on the ribbon as I adhered it and then just cut non-measured lengths of ribbon and laid it down on the adhesive. If you are going to use it as an ornament or decoration, you might want to cover the backside of adhered ribbon. I punched out two more circles to match the body of Soft Suede and adhered them with Multipurpose Liquid Glue to the back of the turkey to make a cleaner presentation!

Just a fun little project you could even make with kids for Thanksgiving! If you don’t want to use your new ribbon, get out some older retired ribbon from your stash! Just have fun making a Ribbon Turkey For Thanksgiving!

Poinsettia Decorated Mini Coffee Carrier

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I’ve had these carriers for a while and kept forgetting to use them, but here is one for you today, my Poinsettia Decorated Mini Coffee Carrier! These will be fun to make for neighbor gifts or treats or extra presents for your family. You can use them in so many different ways for so many different treats!

Fill the cups with cocoa mix, or maybe just one cup and then on the other side put cello bags of marshmallows and maybe a peppermint stirrer. Put any kind of candy or maybe small cookies inside the cups. Fill cello bags with a treat and insert those inside the cup but leave off the lid so the recipient will see the pretty treat bag tied with a ribbon and a tag. Decorate the Mini Coffee Carrier but put in gifts of small candles or bath products or some other kind of product or container. The ideas are endless!

This is what the Mini Coffee Carrier starts out like! It is folded flat so you don’t have to worry about storage space. Just start sticking your hands in there to open it up and then when it gets loosened up, crease and fold on all the score lines to make your carrier. Play around with those tabs on the bottom and make sure you have them assembled so they are strong to hold the contents of the carrier. You get 8 kraft carriers for only $5!

The coffee cups are separate if you would like those. Order the Mini Coffee Cups and get eight cups and lids and they are food safe and can hold a beverage up to 200 degrees F.

Here I started decorating my carrier with paper in the Poinsettia Place Designer Series Paper. You can wrap a strip of paper around as far as it will go or you can do as I did, just cut paper to fit each side of the carrier. To leave a small margin of the carrier showing, I cut my designer paper at 2 1/8″ x 5 1/2″ for the front and back and 2 1/8″ x 2 5/8″ for each end. I tried to match the pattern but it wasn’t that important with this paper, but make sure you check your patterns so one isn’t upside down or completely doesn’t match and look good.

Poinsettia Decorated Mini Coffee Carrier Front Decoration

To decorate my carrier, I cut out a large poinsettia from one of the papers and die cut the leaves with the Poinsettia Dies. I used Garden Green Cardstock. For the berry sprigs, I die cut those from Whisper White Cardstock and then colored the berries with the Dark Real Red Stampin’ Blend and Dark Soft Suede for the stems. The flower and leaves are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals® and the sprigs adhered with tiny bits of Multipurpose Liquid Glue on the berries.

Poinsettia Decorated Mini Coffee Carrier Tag

I actually love this tag that I came up with! The Garden Green tag is punched with the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch. The Whisper White layer is stamped with a Happy Holidays greeting in the Poinsettia Petals Stamp Set. Then I stamped the berry sprig in Crumb Cake ink to make a lighter interesting background. The poinsettia is hand-cut from the designer paper. The tag is tied on with the Real Red Sheer Ribbon.

There are dies to order to make wrappers to go around the cups for decoration. If you don’t order these, you may have to cut up a cup for a template to make your paper fit around the cup. The dies are called Warm Wrap Dies and they will make your life easier! Since I don’t own them, I punched a strip of Real Red with the Lovely Labels Pick a Punch and adhered that to the cup, then added another hand-cut small poinsettia flower to each label.

It’s time to be thinking about making some holiday gifts! Really, you could use these any time of year! All you have to do is decorate for any occasion.

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Christmastime Is Here Designer Paper Gift Bag

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It’s so easy to make a small gift bag for the holidays like this Christmastime Is Here Designer Paper Gift Bag. You would be surprised! I didn’t realize this designer paper was still available in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store from last year! It’s so beautiful with rich colors so you might want to see if you still have some that you purchased last year and stock up with some more or pick up some for the first time.

This gift bag is made with the Christmastime Is Here Specialty Designer Series Paper. Last year it was a special release or something and I used most of my paper but I had placed it in with my retired paper. Something told me to check, and I found it still in the Online Store! It certainly is beautiful paper to use for Christmas! I’m glad it is still around!

All you need to make a gift bag like this one is a 6″ x 12″ piece of designer paper or cardstock. Score at 4″, 5 3/4″, 9 3/4″, and 11 1/2″. Turn the paper so the short edge is at the top and score at 1 3/4″. This will make the bottom flaps of the bag. Cut those short bottom tabs up to the 1 3/4″ score line. Cut off the little 1/2″ tab on the bottom. Fold on all the score lines and crease well with the Bone Folder.

Christmastime Is Here Designer Paper Gift Bag Scoring

Adhere the tab on the end to the other side to assemble the bag. The adhere the flaps on the bottom. You can use whichever adhesive you like. I used Stampin’ Seal+, but you could also use Multipurpose Liquid Glue if you like a little “wiggle room” to get things lined up. You will be able to see how the bag goes together as you start to assemble it.

After you have the bag made, you can decorate it however you like. I chose to cut out by hand the pretty roses and leaves from another sheet of the designer paper. I was going to add a greeting but I liked just the flowers on the front of the gift bag.

I added handles made with two pieces of ribbon. The ribbon is the Gold 3/8″ Metallic Edge Ribbon, one of my favorites. I just attached them with a Mini Glue Dot on the ends and adhered inside the bag.

All you need to do is add a small gift or treat and your gift is ready to go!

Check out the Christmastime Is Here Designer Paper in the Online Store and add it to your Christmas papers to use!

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Get The Last Half of My 12 Weeks of Christmas Holiday Emails!

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The “12 Weeks of Christmas” is my special Thank You gift to my Stamping With Karen Mailing List subscribers. Each Wednesday for 12 weeks leading up to Christmas I send out an email with an exclusive holiday project to give you an idea complete with supply list and instructions. You can use it exactly or use it as inspiration to come up with your own creative project.

This is absolutely FREE and I’m excited to share these project ideas with you! This is my annual gift to my mailing list subscribers, and I love sending out these weekly emails!

The 12 Weeks of Christmas is ONLY for members of my mailing list, however, and I have already sent out five weeks. But you don’t have to miss any more weeks if you sign up for my Mailing List TODAY by 1:00 pm CT to receive Week 6! We have already done 5 weeks of Christmas card ideas and starting today it will be Gift Ideas, then on to Gift Wrap, Bags, and Tags.

Just sign up in the box below or in the box in the upper-right corner of my blog. You will get a free gift just for signing up! We’d love to have you!

All the Halloween Things

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Happy Halloween!

Today is the day! It’s Halloween! I pulled out a bunch of Halloween projects I have saved from past years. Some I use for decorations in my house! Some I keep for future ideas!

If you are going trick-or-treating tonight or having them come to your house, be safe and be careful.

Don’t forget to change your clocks back to Standard Time tonight before you go to bed (or in the morning!). It’s Fall Back time! We get an extra hour of sleep!

Also, don’t forget today is the LAST DAY for the Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper Sale! Pick up some papers you will want to use for your Christmas cards or holiday projects! Save 15%!

See you in November!!

Fun Halloween Projects From the Past!

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Halloween Decorated Candy Bars

I think one fun treat project is to cover candy bars with designer paper or cardstock and then decorate. It doesn’t matter if you have Halloween paper or not, you probably have something that will work. If not, stamp some cardstock.

Mini Curvy Keepsake Halloween Character Boxes

It’s so fun to use the Mini Curvy Keepsakes Box Die to make all kinds of treat box characters, like this Jack-o-Lantern and Frankenstein. You’ll find all kinds of examples on the internet for ideas!

Monster Bash Halloween Clear Tiny Treat Box

I continue to say having these Clear Tiny Treat Boxes on hand makes it so easy when you want to make a little treat, gift box, or party favor. Just decorate in any number of ways, with designer paper, ribbon, stamping, whatever you like for the occasion.

Easy Halloween Trick or Tweet Candy Treats

If you want to make a special, but easy, treat wrapper for Halloween, just cut a strip of cardstock and score for the bottom to fit the candy and decorate the front with a funny Halloween character or design!

Black Cat Halloween Cards

If you want to make Halloween cards but don’t have Halloween paper, make your own “designer paper” by stamping all over. Start with the largest stamp as you stamp randomly around on your paper, then progress through the smaller stamps you are using to fill in the space. It’s really fun! The Cat Punch makes this card so easy!

Triangle Treat Box For Halloween

I’ve always thought these Triangle Treat Boxes were so easy to make and turn into a great treat box. You can vary the size easily. Just follow the directions in this post, linked in the title. Once you make one, you will have it down!

A Quick and Easy Halloween Card With Ghosts

One of my favorite things of all in stamping is making ghosts out of hearts cut in half! You’ve got to try it!! Here’s an easy card with ghosts and some fun Halloween paper in the background. But you could also just use Basic Black maybe with a few “Boos” written in the background or embossed.

I hope these past Halloween ideas have gotten your creativity going if you are making some last-minute Halloween projects! I hate to see Halloween come to an end because it’s so much fun to make Halloween projects and cards!

Happy Halloween!

Paper Pumpkin Halloween Card & Tag

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I still have pieces from my September Paper Pumpkin Kit so I used stamps and pieces to make this Paper Pumpkin Halloween Card & Tag. I actually started with the tag because I have this Halloween sweater tree I bought from someone on Instagram and I thought it would be fun to hang a tag on it for Halloween.

And after I made the tag, I thought I should copy myself and make a Halloween card as long as I had extra pieces I had die cut and everything still out on the table!

I used a lot of varied things! To start with, I used the Stitched So Sweetly Dies for the Pumpkin Pie and Basic Black pieces to make the tag and then the focal point on the card. The pumpkin on the tag is stamped with the stamp set in the Paper Pumpkin Kit and then colored with Stampin’ Blends. The greeting is from the Paper Pumpkin stamp set also and stamped on Granny Apple Green, then die cut with a die in the Tasteful Labels Dies. For some tiny little stems of leaves in various colors, I used the dies in the Forever Flourishing Dies. And I found some tiny little flowers in the Budding Blooms Dies. Sometimes you should just look through all your dies and see what you can use! It doesn’t always have to be in a coordinating set. I added a Gilded Gem on top of each flower on the tag. The ribbon on the tag is the beautiful Black 3/8″ Glittered Organdy Ribbon.

The Halloween card is very similar. The card base is Cajun Craze with a layer of Pumpkin Pie. To get the wood background, I used a pattern in the In Good Taste Designer Series Paper. This large pack of designer paper is on sale in the Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper Sale until October 31 so don’t miss it! Instead of the stamped pumpkin, I used one of the pumpkin diecuts in the September Paper Pumpkin Kit, as well as a couple swirly vines plus some colored stems I already die-cut like on the tag. For a couple of embellishments I used two of the Gold Glitter Enamel Dots and tied a bow with the Black Glittered Ribbon.

Here is a photo of what I did with the tag! I bought this sweater tree from @thelittlegreenbean on Instagram, also the two little embroidered mushrooms on the right. After Halloween, I could make a fall or Thanksgiving tag to hang on the tree. (If you recognize the Witches Candy Shoppe sign in the background, that was some designer paper from several years ago that was perfect for framing for home decor!

Hope you have fun stamping during the last week before Halloween and the last week of the Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper Sale!

Mini Curvy Keepsake Box Halloween Witch

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I think with all the shiny new products, which are great, we have forgotten about products we already have which are perfect for this upcoming holiday season, fall, and Halloween like this Mini Curvy Keepsake Box Halloween Witch. You can make all kinds of little gift boxes and even characters using this Mini Curvy Keepsakes Box Dies. So much opportunity for creativity!

This little Mini Curvy Keepsake Box is so easy to make, no matter what else you are going to do to it! Just die cut the one piece and fold on the score lines. Your box will come together quite well! After scoring and creasing the fold lines, it might be good to kind of press down on the sides to kind of get that curve going a little bit. Then hold the two handles together and slip the two sides with slots right over the handles. Then decorate the box however you like.

For the Halloween witch, I used a piece of Granny Apple Green Cardstock. I assembled the box and then added the witch features. I had a bag of googlie eyes so I opted to use two of those. You could just use circles of black and white cardstock. The witch’s nose is from the 1/2″ Circle Punch (retired, sadly) but if you don’t have the punch you can just cut one by hand or find a punch in your stash that will work. I had some black dots so I put one on her nose for a wart! I just drew in the mouth and freckles with the Basic Black Stampin’ Blend using the tip end, not the brush end.

For the hair, I just grabbed some twine I had, thinking it was Linen Thread but I think it was some natural colored twine I had from something. I just cut a few strands, tied them together in the middle with another piece and adhered them to the witch’s head! You could do cardstock strips, yarn, shredded paper, other ribbon or string you have.

The witch’s hat I sort of copied from one I’d seen on Pinterest or somewhere. You could use the old Tree Punch we used to have but I used the Pine Tree Punch which is current. I punched out two trees. I didn’t want the shaggy edges that make it look like a tree so I just cut along the two sides and cut those edges off so that I had a perfect triangle. I used Black Glimmer Paper because I had some scraps which the punch fit, but not the hat base. For that, I just happened to find this large scalloped circle already cut out and just went with that. Cut a slit in the center of the hat base in which you will insert the triangle top of the hat. I took the two trees and adhered them together with Glue Dots near the top. You want to keep most of the bottom open so you can slide it over the box handles. Then fold the tree trunk up facing the tree, on each side, and use Mini Glue Dots to adhere those trunks to the hat base after inserting through that slit. That way the tree is attached to the hat base but it can still be placed over the box handles.

For a little embellishment, I tied on a Terracotta Tile ribbon and stuck on a little plastic Halloween blackbird sticker I had in my stash. You can just barely see it against the black witch’s hat.

That’s all there is to it! You could make a ghost out of white paper, a scarecrow, Frankenstein, some other monster, or a pumpkin! All with this one die and that’s just for Halloween! Have fun playing with the Mini Curvy Keepsake Die and see what you can make with it!

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Paper Pumpkin Halloween Treat Holders

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These Paper Pumpkin Halloween Treat Holders aren’t finished yet, but I thought I would show you how cute they are! Actually, they ARE finished, I just would have to put treats inside and then tie a piece of twine around the other end of the treat holder and it’s done!

This is the September 2020 “Hello Pumpkin” Paper Pumpkin kit! Paper Pumpkin is a monthly subscription for a papercrafting kit to be mailed to you around the middle of each month. There is no risk or obligation and you can skip a month if you need to!

Rather than make all the treat holders I could possibly make with this kit when I don’t know if I will have any trick-or-treaters this year, I made these and I’m going to make “alternate” projects with the rest of the supplies! And that’s perfectly okay with any of the kits! Every month there are alternate ideas posted online that you can get inspired by if you prefer to make something different with your kit. I plan to make Halloween cards with these supplies Or maybe I will make cards and a few more treat holders and save them for next year when we won’t have the pandemic and kids can trick-or-treat again safely.

October 10th is the last day this month to get signed up in order to get the NEXT Paper Pumpkin kit, which will be mailed out mid-October. It is a holiday kit which you can read all about HERE.

It’s time to be making Halloween treats and cards, whatever you like! Maybe some Halloween home decor!

Check out the Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper Sale going on now in the Online Store! In there you will find the Magic In This Night Designer Paper which is perfect for Halloween! Not that you have to have official Halloween paper! If you look through your other papers you may find other patterns that you can use for fall and Halloween.

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Witch’s Boots For Halloween!

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Something fun to make for Halloween is a witch’s boot out of a toilet paper roll or a paper towel roll. You can use it for a decoration in your house or you can put candy treats inside the roll or into a narrow cello bag, tie with a ribbon at the top, and put it into the boot. These are actually easy to make – just wrap the paper around the tube and add a triangle cardstock piece at the bottom for the boot.

Since I had an empty paper towel roll, I decided to make a pair of boots this year! I cut the roll in half so I could have two boots. Then I chose the Artistry Blooms Designer Series Paper to use for the stocking. Really you could use almost any of the papers in that package, especially if you wanted your witch to have some crazy stockings! But I chose this green ombre print paper pattern which definitely looked like Halloween. Just cut a piece of paper that will it the length of your roll and long enough to go all the way around the roll.

For the boot piece, cut a piece of Basic Black Cardstock to go around the bottom of the roll that just meets and then fold back the edges to look like the collar of the top of the boot. It will be just as tall as you want the boot to look, maybe about an inch high or so. For the base of the boot, just cut a triangle-shaped piece. The wide back end should be wide enough for the paper roll to fit on it. From there it tapers down to a point that you can roll back a little for the toe of the boot. I used Multipurpose Liquid Glue on the very bottom of the paper towel roll to adhere to that triangle piece.

If you want a boot buckle, just cut a piece that will fit in the space and then cut a smaller piece of black to adhere to the center to make it look like a buckle, but you don’t have to cut out the center of the buckle. It’s a “faux buckle”! I used Gold Foil for the buckle, but you can get creative and use any color you like.

Just for fun I added three rows of lace to the top of the witch’s stocking using the Very Vanilla 3/8″ Scalloped Lace Trim. I just used Mini Glue Dots to hold the lace in the back.

Click HERE to see the witch’s boot I made last year in 2019 and HERE to see one from 2018. Here’s one from 2014! See how fun and easy they are to make!

Use your imagination when you get a toilet paper roll or paper towel roll that you can use and make up your own Witch’s Boot for Halloween!

Happy Halloween (a little early!)!