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Spooky Ghosts on a Halloween Card

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This Spooky Ghosts Halloween Card winds up the Halloween season here on my blog! Are you taking kids out for trick-or-treating tonight or are you staying home and handing out candy to the trick-or-treaters? I love being home and giving out candy, especially to the itty bitty trick-or-treaters. We used to have a LOT of kids come to our house after the little neighborhood carnival down the street years ago, but now we have half or less that we used to have as our neighborhood has gotten older.

This card has a Pumpkin Pie cardstock card base with a layer of the orange dotted patterned paper in the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper. I cut a strip of the striped pattern in the package to make sort of a wall on the left side of the card. And at the bottom, I cut out some of the Potions & Spells books, also printed in the Halloween Spells DSP.

Then came my favorite part….making ghosts! I learned this from a Demonstrator group meeting I attended with my friend who would become my upline when I signed up. I thought it was so creative! Use a heart punch, heart die, or simply cut out a heart by hand. Then cut it in half! You have two ghosts! Of course, with the flat edge, you have to put them so they are peeking out from somewhere. I put some faces on mine with a Basic Black Stampin’ Write Marker. For the third ghost, I just cut off part of the bottom of the heart so it looks like just his head is poking out from behind the stack of books! The little sentiments are stickers from the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. They fit in there perfectly.

I’m sorry that Halloween will be over after today. I think the decorations I have for the house, cards, and Halloween things I can make are so much fun. The Halloween colors are great, too, to work with! But now it’s on to the next holiday!

Have a safe and fun Halloween today and tonight!

Halloween Triangle Treat Boxes

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Halloween Triangle Treat Boxes

Here are two fun and easy Halloween Triangle Treat Boxes. I have to admit, I didn’t put too much thought into them, just using up some scraps I had around, but I think they still turned out kind of cute! A couple of trick-or-treaters on Halloween night might get a kick out of them!

I always like making these triangle treat boxes for many different occasions! They are easy and can be made almost any size you need. Just decorate, put treats or a small gift inside and tie with a ribbon at the top. I have made lots of them! Here is a similar Halloween one made with a skeleton and designer series paper.

Both of these triangle treat boxes are made with Granny Apple Green cardstock. Each piece is cut at 4″ x 8″. Then it is scored at 4″ in the middle of the 8″ length. Measure the midpoint at each end, which would be at 2″. Put a light pencil mark at each end. Then score diagonally from the 2″ point to the middle of the strip at 4″ Do this four times, two sides on each end.

Here is a diagram:

This is how you score on a diagonal using the Paper Trimmer:

Triangle Treat Box Scoring

After you get the box all scored, crease on all the score lines and see how it will come together. Punch holes in the two flaps on each side so you can put a ribbon through after you add the treat inside. I used my old Crop-a- Dile but you can use any hole punch. Just so you can get the ribbon through.

To decorate my boxes, on the one on the left, I cut out a pumpkin and ghost image I had already stamped from the set Playful Ghosts. After adhering that, I added a few diecut “bubbles” from the Potions & Spells Dies, plus a greeting on the sticker sheet in the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit online.

For the box on the right, I added a piece of designer paper to the top from the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper first. I had an extra stamped gray cat from the Potions & Spells Stamp Set which was diecut with the dies of the same name. I added some bubbles to this box also and a greeting that was already stamped from the stamp set. Sometimes it is handy having those scraps around and it’s great to use them up!

Both boxes are tied with some Pretty Peacock retired ribbon that just happened to be nearby. You could chose something that matched better than this one, but wonky is okay for Halloween!

Keep these triangle treat boxes in mind because they are fun and easy to make and don’t usually take much time. They can be dressed up for any occasion!

Halloween Ideas From the Past!

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Here is an assortment of Halloween Ideas From the Past! Maybe you don’t have the newest products to use or just want more fun Halloween ideas here at the last minute! Here are some of my favorites! Click the title to go to the blog post for directions and information.

Frankenstein Halloween Card

Quick and Easy Frankenstein Halloween Card

Frankenstein’s face is always a fun and easy card to make. Once you have the idea, you can use it on lots of other projects.

Fun Spider on Halloween Card

A Fun Spider Card for Halloween

This is an oldie, but just punch out or diecut a circle and add some legs you can cut yourself!

Halloween Witch's Boot Candy Treat

Halloween Witch’s Boot Candy Treat

Save a paper towel roll or create your own, then decorate to look like a witch’s boot! I’ve made several variations through the years! So cute! Put a bag of candy inside!

Triangle Treat Box For Halloween

Triangle Treat Box For Halloween

Learn to make this easy triangle treat box and you can make one for any occasion! What is easier than decorating with a black cat and harvest moon or any Halloween image, stamped, punched, or diecut!

Cute Halloween Treats

Cute Halloween Treats To Make

This treat holder couldn’t be simpler! Just decorate the front however you like for Halloween! Use stamping, designer paper, diecuts, anything!

Halloween Gift Bag

Ghosts Halloween Gift Bag

If you need a gift bag for a Halloween treat or a bag for trick-or-treating, just take a kraft gift bag and decorate the front with designer series paper, stamping, or whatever you like. It’s like making a card on the front of the bag!

Them Bones Halloween Treat Bag

Them Bones Halloween Treat Bag

We’ve all made these bags a million times! Just decorate for the season!

I hope these Halloween papercrafting ideas from the past give you some new ideas for the present!

Halloween Memories Stickers Candy Bars

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Halloween Memories Decorated Candy Bars

Decorating these candy bars for Halloween was one of the easiest projects to do! When I came across these chocolate bars with a Harry Potter wrapper, I knew I had to get them for my niece and nephew and their families who love Harry Potter. When I went to decorate them, it was so easy with the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. In the kit, you get designer series paper, cardstock, and stickers! And obviously, you don’t have to only use it for scrapbooking, although it would sure make scrapbooking Halloween memories easy!

For these candy bars, I wrapped each one in a different Halloween color of cardstock. You could use designer series paper which is a little thinner and easier to fold around. I secured the two ends on the back to each other with Stampin’ Seal+ which is a little stronger. I happened to have some scraps of the Dotted Circles Embossing Folder so I cut those down into strips and adhered around the candy bar. On the third bar at the top I used a piece of the Halloween Spells DSP to wrap around. The rest are stickers in the kit except for a few Daffodil Delight stars I punched out with a retired small star punch. The ghost is my favorite technique of all time, cutting a heart in half and making it into a ghost!

Halloween Memories Stickers Candy Bars

Here is another group of decorated candy bars using cardstock and stickers in the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. I did add some eyes on the bats with a white gel pen. And on the top purple bar is the other half of the heart ghost and some punched out stars.

These were so fun and easy it was incredible! I had no plan, no design idea, just played with what I had in front of me. Using chocolate candy in your stamping projects is always one of the most fun things you can do! Even if you had little candy bars you could wrap around small pieces of paper and decorate a little bit. Designer Series Paper probably would work best.

Have fun jazzing up some of your Halloween treats!

Halloween Spells Cauldron Halloween Card

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Halloween Spells Cauldron Halloween Card

I hate that Halloween is sneaking up so fast because there are so many fun Halloween cards and projects to make! There’s just not enough time! But this Halloween Spells Cauldron Halloween Card was fun to make with the special Halloween designer series paper and the glimmer paper, stamp set, and dies.

The card base is Basic Black cardstock but you could choose other colors as well to match the paper. For the background, I chose the spooky striped paper from the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper.

The cauldron and its handles are cut out of Silver Foil. I even colored with one of the gray Stampin’ Blends markers for a little shading along the edges of the pot but I don’t think it was worth the effort really. There is also a cauldron you can stamp in the Potions & Spells Stamp Set and color in or stamp on colored cardstock and then diecut with the Potion & Spells Dies as I did on THIS CARD.

The little stack of books on potions and spells is stamped from the Potions & Spells Set, colored with Stampin’ Blends and die cut. You can also get books on another sheet of the Halloween Spells paper but they are larger. The black cat is stamped on gray (I can’t remember ever which gray is which!) cardstock, shaded in a tiny bit with a light gray Stampin’ Blend and diecut. If you want to get the stamps and dies together they do come in a Bundle and you’ll save 10%. (The dies are due back in stock next week so then the Bundle will be available again!)

The fun part of the card is making all the bubbles coming out of the potion in the cauldron! These are all diecut little bubbles of various sizes and I used the Festive Glimmer Paper and the Three-Color Glimmer Paper. I also used some Pumpkin Pie cardstock bubbles and a few Lemon Lime Twist cardstock bubbles. Just play and do it however you like! And then there is the diecut of the potion running over the edge of the cauldron!

The little greeting at the bottom of the cauldron is one of the words on the scrapbooking sheet of stickers in the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit that you can find online. In this pack you get Two-Tone cardstock, the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper and some other sheets for scrapbook layouts plus the sticker sheet with all kinds of fun things on it! Check it out because it might inspire you to make those Halloween scrapbook pages of your kids when they were little (or big!) or you can use the materials to make cards and other fun projects or treats!

It’s time to make those Halloween greetings, treats, party favors, scrapbook pages ready for photos, whatever you like!

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Halloween Memories Spooky Ghost Card

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Halloween Memories Spooky Ghost Card

For a fun Halloween card, try this Halloween Memories Spooky Ghost Card! I love how this card turned out! Just get out some supplies and play until everything falls into place!

This card is made mostly with the new Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. (That’s a mouthful, but it’s quite the package!) You will find this package, and others, online only in the September Scrapbooking Brochure. This scrapbooking kit is designed to make three 2-page scrapbook page spreads, which is great! There are very good instructions on how to make the samples they provided if you like…or do your own thing. However, if you aren’t doing scrapbooking, you can use the products to make cards and any other projects. And since I love Halloween, I had to have this kit!

This kit comes with the new Two-Tone cardstock Stampin’ Up! is going to eventually carry in all our SU colors. Two-Tone means the two sides of the paper have slightly different shades. Think of it like Stampin’ Blends Dark and Light Markers….very close, but slightly different. This cardstock also has a white core which you can try out in different ways. In the kit also is the very cute Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper and a wonderful sticker sheet with fun images and words you can use for your projects! If you don’t want the two-tone paper and extra scrapbooking supplies, you can purchase just the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper & Sticker Sheet.

To make this card, I also used the Playful Ghosts Stamp Set to make my ghost in the pumpkin. He is stamped in Memento Ink on Basic White cardstock and fussy-cut with Paper Snips. Fussy cut just means to cut out by hand. It’s not that difficult really! Before or after cutting his out, you can color in with Stampin’ Blends Markers or Watercolor Pencils or whatever you like. I adhered him to a piece of the designer paper. My piece is 1 5/8″ x 3″. The layer underneath the orange DSP is Granny Apple Green Festive Glimmer Paper. It is cut at 1 7/8″ x 3 1/4″. You can vary those measurements.

The card base is Pumpkin Pie, but you could choose another color. I adhered a layer of the green designer paper with all the little bubbles on it and then put a strip of the Potions & Spells books along the left side. You can cut a stack of books leaving off the starry black space in between depending on how wide you want the strip to be. Mine is just a tad under 2 1/4″ and 5 1/4″ long.

After you have the stack of books adhered to the card, you can adhere the ghost piece. I also added two black stars on the sticker sheet in the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Kit right by the ghost. The greeting is a sticker from the sheet. There are a whole bunch of small words on the sticker sheet so I just chose this one and stuck it on for a greeting. The ghost and pumpkin are cute on their own, but I like the added sparkle of the glimmer paper as a border.

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Button Pumpkin Board

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Button Pumpkin Board

If you ever wondered what to do with any retired Stampin’ Up! buttons and others you may have, here is a fun Button Pumpkin Board you can easily make! All of us crafty people certainly have a stash of buttons somewhere, and if you don’t, you know you can buy some online or at the craft store. Years ago Stampin’ Up! sold buttons for embellishments and I had lots of them. Maybe they went along with the period of time when Stampin’ Up! sold fabric, which I also still have!

My friend’s friend sent her a picture of this idea, so my friend bought a board like this one and got out her buttons. If you want a cute decorating tip, she put her buttons by color into glass jars and then set them on a metal tiered tray! She used mostly brownish buttons for her pumpkin.

Of course when I see a cute idea like that, I have to make it too! If you saw my Facebook post the other day about the pickles, this is what I ordered from Walmart….this board! And when my order was delivered the next day, I got a heavy package on my porch. When I opened it, it was a giant gallon jar of the biggest dill pickles I have ever seen!

Walmart pickles

Luckily, I got a refund through the Chat online for the board, my friend took the pickles to the food pantry at her church, and I picked up the board at an actual store in the afternoon! I’ll never forget this funny story!!

I just dug around in the closet, where fortunately my daughter a few years ago had organized a lot of my craft stuff so I just found the boxes that she had labeled “Buttons”. As I said, I had a lot of Stampin’ Up! buttons plus a bunch of other buttons, some from the Quilt Show I used to go to every year downtown from projects I never made, and just random other buttons. A long time ago my mother-in-law had bought a tin of buttons at a garage sale she gave me for crafting. I sorted through all the buttons and set aside the containers or loose buttons I thought I might use.

You can lightly sketch a pumpkin shape on the board if you like or not draw anything. If you are sure your pumpkin outline drawing skills are not up to par you can google “pumpkin coloring pages” and print out one. Cut it out and trace around it. Easy peasy. Then just start glueing on buttons inside that shape!

My friend told me to use E3000 glue, which I did, but I hated the “fumes” and smell. She thought hot glue would not stick to the wooden board but I don’t know. The next day when I added more buttons, I used hot glue although not many were glued directly onto the board. But it seemed to work, so far!

Think in terms of layering the buttons. There’s no rhyme or reason, no way to do it wrong. If you don’t have many buttons, make a smaller version. Use any color(s) you want. After I mostly had my pumpkin “finished” I decided to stop and come back to it later. I needed to get away from it and see if I liked it as is or work on it some more.

The next day I got out more buttons and added more orange buttons and made the stem with green buttons. You can see I used all sizes of buttons. If you aren’t sure about this, lay out the larger buttons and then start filling in with medium and smaller buttons. Then glue buttons on top, overlapping, to cover up any spaces or maybe put small buttons in the center of large buttons. Just play around with it!

I would have put raffia on my pumpkin but I didn’t have any so I used some old Stampin’ Up! ribbon and frayed the ends. When I was making the stem, I didn’t have enough green buttons so I colored some plain white ones with a Stampin’ Blend marker. It dried almost instantly so easy to use. You could probably use a Stampin’ Write marker, too.

Overall, this was a fun and easy project, and I’m happy with how it turned out. I hung it up on the wall behind my baker’s rack when I was putting out my Halloween decorations yesterday. I think I’ll be able to leave it out over Thanksgiving because it’s not a Halloween jack-o-lantern. Another idea if you have some picture frames, you could cover the background with cardstock, designer paper, or fabric and use that for a background for the button pumpkin. For me, it was easier to order something new than to plow through a pile of old picture frames to see what I had. You could make very small pumpkins with maybe just one color of small buttons. So many possibilities! If you make one, leave a comment or email me and let me know how it turned out!

Potions & Spells Hocus Pocus Halloween Card

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Potions & Spells Hocus Pocus Halloween Card

It’s October so Halloween is getting close! All the holidays are getting close! This Potions & Spells Hocus Pocus Halloween Card uses a combination of products but it was fun to make. You don’t always need the perfect idea in your head when you make a card! Just pick “something” to start with…a stamp set, a set of designer papers, a set of dies…and start playing with different ideas. You might use different colors of cardstock than you thought. You might use the other side of the designer paper you planned to use. Maybe some other image in the stamp set works better. You never know!

The main thing I started with for this card was the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper with the potions and spells books. You can buy this paper by itself in the Online Exclusives, but I got mine in the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. I also got a sticker sheet, two-tone cardstock sheets, and more. You can make three 2-page scrapbook page spreads with this kit or use the supplies to make cards or other projects, which is what I am doing.

Once I had the idea of using a certain designer paper, I chose another one of the papers for the background and Pumpkin Pie cardstock for the card base. I also wanted to use the little Dracula guy in the Playful Ghosts Stamp Set on my card, even though he was a little small. I planned to stack the potions and spells books and maybe have the ghost standing on top. After cutting out a strip of the books, I decided to trim around the edges of the books to make them smaller. Then I decided to use a strip of the black and white strip in between the books along the edge of my card. After that, I tried placing the books on end along the bottom of the card and that was the key! I liked that look! Sometimes you just know! Then I placed the Dracula ghost, colored with Black and Highland Heather Stampin’ Blend Markers and cut out by hand, on top and added a greeting and all was well with the world!

The greeting is in the Potions & Spells Stamp Set. I thought it was perfect for this card. I already had this diecut banner in my package of Basic White cardstock, so I stamped on it for the greeting. This die is in the Nested Essentials Dies. I also stamped some little starry stamps in the same stamp set in Highland Heather ink on the banner and tied a little bow with double strands of Linen Thread. It is adhered in the top corner of the banner with a Mini Glue Dot. For some sparkle, to enhance the potions & spells theme, I added some Shiny Sequins in two different colors.

Here’s another card I made with the Playful Ghosts Stamp Set.

Time to make those Halloween cards to send!

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Flying Ghost and Pumpkins Halloween Card

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Flying Ghost and Pumpkins Halloween Card

I’m beginning to realize how close we are getting to all the fun holidays coming up! This Flying Ghost and Pumpkins Halloween Card is a card I made by creating a little spooky scene using stamps. You can be playful with your stamps and tell a little story!

This card starts with a regular-size card base of Basic Black. Then I used other colors I like against the black for Halloween – Pumpkin Pie and Highland Heather. These are cut at different size layers that I normally use. The Pumpkin Pie cardstock is cut at 3 1/2″ x 5 1/4″ and the Highland Heather cardstock is cut at 3 1/4″ x 5″. The front panel is Basic White, or used to be before I colored it! It is cut at 3″ x 4 3/4″.

For this card, I used the Playful Ghosts Stamp Set and tried to create a spooky scene for Halloween night. To begin, I colored the Basic White cardstock using the Small Blending Brushes and several different colors of ink. I simply colored different overlapping areas of the background. You can use whatever colors you like or make it darker than I did. Some colors I used were Misty Moonlight, Pool Party, Pumpkin Pie. and Gorgeous Grape. The clouds are inked with Night of Navy.

The ghost on the broomstick is stamped with Stazon ink in black, colored in, and cut out by hand. Yes, it’s a little tricky but you can do it! For a change, I used both sets of Watercolor Pencils to color in everything. Then very lightly, I smoothed out the colors using a Blender Pen. This technique is one that I used a LOT when I first discovered stamping and Stampin’ Up! I loved the texture of the Watercolor Pencils and I loved using the Blender Pen over the pencil to make it look a little neater and smoother.

At the bottom of the card, the line of pumpkins is stamped using the stamp of two pumpkins also in the Playful Ghosts Stamp Set. If you create a mask you can stamp over the mask and make the pumpkins look side by side or one behind the other. Then I cut around the tops of the pumpkins to leave a bottom edge that I could color in with grass with a Watercolor Pencil. The pumpkins are colored with Watercolor Pencils also.

The ghost and the strip of pumpkins are adhered to the Basic White background. You could also pop these up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. I added a few stamped bats and stars in the background also.

The greeting from the stamp set is stamped in Black Stazon ink on Highland Heather cardstock and then diecut with the Perennial Postage small die. I wanted a smallish greeting so as not to take up much space in my little Halloween scene! For some embellishment, I added some Adhesive-Backed Shiny Sequins in Lemon Lolly. There are four colors of sequins you can use.

Halloween is fast-approaching! If you like making Halloween cards and decorations as I do, this is our season coming up!

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New Scrapbooking Products at Stampin’ Up!

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Scrapbooking Brochure Sept. 2024

Wow! I go on vacation for a week and Stampin’ Up! comes out with all kinds of new fun products! I’m still trying to catch up! We all knew that the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini Catalog was coming out September 4th, but we got lots of extra treats, too! Due to the timing of getting new products into catalogs, Stampin’ Up! put out this digital Scrapbooking Brochure with new scrapbooking products for all of us to try! And if you aren’t into scrapbooking, you can use the same products for cardmaking and other fun projects.

Click on the photo of the brochure above to page through the brochure online. You can enlarge the pages and zoom in.

You’ll find two-tone cardstock and scrapbooking Workshop Kits for the holidays and for Halloween. New white cardstock that was a favorite of Close To My Heart scrapbookers, a couple of stamp sets. All fun stuff! Check it out!

The easiest way to see the new products is to CLICK HERE for the Online Store under the What’s New category, September Scrapbooking Brochure.

Watch the video below to learn about the new Scrapbooking Workshop Kits!

Potions & Spells Halloween Card

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Potions & Spells Halloween Card

This Potions & Spells Halloween Card was a fun card to make, even though Halloween is a little ways off yet! It was my first time to use this stamp set and dies and the background paper is from an unlikely package of designer paper! Do you know which one?

I thought maybe I had a purple designer paper pattern in my packages that I could use for a background on a Halloween card, but I quickly came across this pattern in the Flowering Zinnias Designer Series Paper. The Pumpkin Pie color and the nondescript pattern make it look like spooky Halloween paper to me! On the other side are giant zinnias, which anyone would be amazed to see if they turned this orange paper over! But that’s why our Stampin’ Up! designer series paper is so useful. One side is usually a specific theme but the other side of the papers is usually a generic pattern that you can use any time. If you were making a floral card, these little yellow designs on the orange paper would remind you of flowers. But they can also look like little twinkles or sparkles for Halloween, especially with a cauldron boiling and bubbling!

The card base is Gorgeous Grape. I almost used Blackberry Bliss cardstock but decided that was darker than I liked. It would have been fine, though. For the images on the card, I used the Potions & Spells Bundle which you will find in the Stampin’ Up! Online Exclusives and colored in with Stampin’ Blends markers. Then you can cut out the cauldron, the cat, and the bird with the matching dies. I cut out the bubbles by hand.

The cauldron is stamped with Memento ink on Gray Granite cardstock. I also added some color and shading to the edges of the pot with Stampin’ Blends. The parrot and cat are stamped on Basic White, colored with various Stampin’ Blends markers and die cut. The bubbles were kind of fun! I ended up using quite a few different colors to make them look like boiling bubbles. The finishing touch was using Soft Sea Foam on them! I felt satisfied with how they looked after using Pool Party, Petal Pink, and other colors which was starting to look a little weird until I softened everything with Soft Sea Foam.

The cauldron is glued down flat with Stampin’ Seal with the bubbles adhered flat behind the top of the pot. The cat is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals as is the bird. The greeting is so fun! It is stamped in Gorgeous Grape ink and die cut with one of the Nested Essentials Dies. Then I sponged Gorgeous Grape ink around the edges. I also added some Glossy Dots in Gorgeous Grape and Daffodil Delight on the greeting and on the card.

It’s a fun card that came together pretty well using the new Potions & Spells Stamp Set and Dies (save 10% by buying both together in a Bundle). You’ll only find Halloween and fall sets in the Online Exclusives this year so you don’t have to wait for the Holiday Mini. Get them early and then you’ll have them and be ready to go!

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Haunted Home Kit in the Kits Collection!

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Kits Collection Haunted Home Kit

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If you love Halloween as I do, I would say, just order this Haunted Home Kit right away!! Just do it, as they say! You know you will want one! I hope Stampin’ Up! ordered a lot of them because I have a feeling that they may go fast. I know it’s a bit early to think about Halloween and haunted houses, but you know how fast the holidays come up. In August, we start thinking about them a little bit, while we are sweltering in the heat, but by September we start to get serious!

We know the Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection is always easy enough for anyone to make, whether cards or crafts. You don’t already have to be a stamper or crafter. Just follow the directions, watch the video, or do your own thing. This kit has more pieces than normal, but we can all make it, no problem. This looks like a spectacular kit to me!

Here are the contents of the kit. Everything you need is already scored for easy folding or diecut already. All we have to do is glue things together. You will need a glue gun to assemble the house for best results.

Kits Collection Haunted Home Kit

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Kit includes:
*Cardboard Home Pieces
* Predesigned projects
* Step-by-step instructions
* Precut vellum and die cut paper pieces
* Enough adhesive to complete projects
*A 10-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ x 1-1/4″ (26.7 x 21.6 x 3.2 cm) printed designer box for storage or crafting on the go.

Product colors: Basic Black, Crushed Curry, Gray Granite, Moody Mauve, Pumpkin Pie

Watch Sara Douglass put together the house! If you were watching the video at home assembling your house, you can just stop it when you want to if you are following each step along the way. Sometimes I watch a video all the way through and then go back for the individual steps.

Doesn’t that look fun?!! Be sure to order yours soon, maybe a couple extras to make with grandkids or friends or one for every room in your house! 🙂

Check out all the kits in the Kits Collection!

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Playful Ghosts Halloween Card

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Playful Ghosts Halloween Card

Yes, here it is! My first Halloween card of the season! And it’s barely August! This is the Playful Ghosts Halloween Card and I purposely kept it simple. I had planned to put some bling on the card, but I forgot before I took the photo. But that’s okay because we’re keeping it simple!

I just got this Playful Ghosts Stamp Set. You will find it in the Online Exclusives. I held off on ordering it because I wanted to see what Halloween and fall stamp sets would be in the Holiday Mini Catalog. But I didn’t see any when Demonstrators got to see the mini catalog online the other day. Stampin’ Up! announced that they put the majority of Halloween products in the Online Exclusives so they would be available earlier and Stampin’ Up! would have time to reorder anything if necessary. So if you are planning on Halloween, look in the Online Exclusives now! There will be some sort of Halloween scrapbooking release later on with stickers, a designer paper pack, and a scrapbook pages kit.

The card base is Basic Black with a layer of Gorgeous Grape cardstock. I stamped the Gorgeous Grape cardstock with Gorgeous Grape in using the little bat stamp and “Boo!” stamp in the Playful Ghosts Stamp Set. I love to do stamping like this, just stamping randomly all over a paper. You’re actually making your own designer paper when you do this!

The ghost is stamped in Memento Ink on Basic White. I colored the pumpkin and ghost with Stampin’ Blends – Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, and a tiny bit of gray (I forget which color I used) and softened that gray around the edges of the ghost with the Color Lifter. And his mouth is colored with Light Cherry Cobbler.

The Basic White and Pumpkin Pie pieces are cut out with Deckled Rectangles Dies. They were just the right size! Before adhering the ghost to the Pumpkin Pie piece, I sponged a little Gorgeous Grape ink around the edge of the rectangle. I did it the old-fashioned way with a piece of sponge. We used to sell these large round sponges and then I would cut it into smaller pieces. Now you could use Sponge Daubers or maybe even the Blending Brushes.

As you can see, this is a very simple, easy, quick card to make for Halloween! You can jazz it up a little more if you wish, maybe with some splattering, ribbon, gems, or other ways. But sometimes just simple is just fine!

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If you are still looking for last-minute Halloween ideas, here are a few from past years! You can update with our newer products or maybe you still have some of these older products from years past! Whatever you like! Click the title above the photo to go to that blog post for directions. Don’t miss the last idea at the bottom of the post – a new one I had to stick in because it’s so fun! I usually make one of these every year! Save that paper towel roll!

Make a Cute Halloween Votive Candle Holder

Make Easy Sour Cream Containers for Halloween Treats

Make Easy Sour Cream Containers for Halloween Treats

Halloween Chocolate Candy Treat Bag

Halloween Chocolate Candy Treat Bag

Triangle Treat Box For Halloween

Triangle Treat Box For Halloween

Halloween Night Candy Bars

Halloween Night Candy Bars

Witch’s Boots

Here’s an updated idea I made this year but I’ve made lots of these in the past!

I didn’t stuff any candy in there yet but I will! The Witch’s Boots are made with a paper towel roll cut in half. Wrap the roll in designer paper or cardstock. I used the Merry Bold & Bright Designer Paper, the pattern with the stripes that look like socks! Yes, you can use Christmas paper for a Halloween project!

Take a piece of Basic Black Cardstock however high you would like it to be to wrap around the bottom of the roll to start making the “boot”. Cut it so the ends meet in the center of the front of the boot and then you can fold back the top corners. Make it tall enough to add the buckle, especially if you want a big one.

Cut a piece of Basic Black in a long triangle to make the bottom of the boot. You want it to be as wide as the roll but you can trim around it to make it rounded in the back. You can cut it longer than you want and then curl up the toe with just a pencil or something however you like it.

You can make a cheater buckle by just adhering a square of black in the center of a square of Gold Foil. Then put some candy in a cello bag or add it to the “boot” as is. Just have fun with this idea

I hope these ideas are helpful and fun for you! Each one of these is my favorite thing that I love to make! (Maybe, especially, decorating these large candy bars??!!!)

Have fun and be safe on Halloween Night!