Category Archives: Halloween

A Week of Halloween–Halloween Fancy Favor Bag

Halloween Fancy Favor Bag

 

The Bigz Fancy Favor Die for the Big Shot is so useful for all sorts of projects.  Here I have a made a cute little Halloween Fancy Favor Bag (or box). Just fill it with some crinkled paper and a Halloween treat and decorate the outside how you like.

Supplies I used:

Stamps:  Wicked Cool, Sooky Bingo Bits

Ink:  Stazon Black, Wisteria Wonder, More Mustard, Pumpkin Pie, Garden Green

Paper:  Pear Pizzazz, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, First Edition Specialty Designer Series Paper

Accessories:  Fancy Favor Die, Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine, 1 3/4" Circle Punch, Large Oval Punch, Sponge, Paper Snips, Paper Piercer

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I crumbled and sponged the First Edition DSP with several colors of ink. For the pumpkin I punched the 1 3/4" circle and the placed the punched oval over the center.  For the pumpkin vines, I cut slivers of card stock and curled around my paper piercer.  Just stamp and cut out the witch's feet!

Just have fun with it!  For stamping supplies, order here.

A Week of Halloween–Trick or Treat Card

I got the idea for this Halloween card from a sample in a magazine.  The Stampin' Up! set Spooky Bingo Bits is just perfect for this card design. I used Glossy White card stock  #102599 for the card base and for the tag. The greeting is from Grateful Greetings.   Love that set!

Trick or Treat Halloween Card

And here is the inside of the card, the greeting also from Grateful Greetings.

Trick or Treat Halloween Card inside

If you need to order either of these stamp sets or maybe some Glossy White card stock, just go to my website and place your order.  Or email me at Karen@Karenstamps.com and I can help you. You will have so much fun with Spooky Bingo Bits!

A Week of Halloween–Petite Pocket Halloween Treat

The Petite Pocket Bigz Die is a new one this year, and now that I have finally played with it, I think I am loving it!  You can make cute little gift card holders, cards, candy holders, treats for any occasion with it!  Here is a Petite Pocket Halloween Treat that I just made.

Petite Pocket Halloween Treat

I started by die-cutting a piece of Pick Your Poison Designer Series Paper #124001.  It's about 10 inches long.

Petite Pocket Pick Your Poison

Folded up and decorated, with a little pull-out card inside, this is what it looks like.

Petite Pocket Halloween Treat card

 

Do you know how I made the ghosts?  I punched a heart and then cut it in half!  The features are just colored in with a black marker. The Scallop Oval Punch #119856 is placed and glued so that it holds the flap shut behind it.  Only put glue at the bottom of the oval.  The letters are die cut with the Naturally Serif Decorative Strip Die #113453.

The little pull-out card you can either cut with the die cut and trim down a hair or just cut something narrow that will fit inside.  It is stamped with images from Spooky Bingo Bits and the greeting from Grateful Greetings.  For a little tab to pull out, I punched a 1" circle, folded in half and stapled on with a little bit of ribbon.

 

Petite Pocket Halloween Treat Card open

Try this Petite Pocket Die!  It really holds lots of possibilities!


An Alternate Way to Trick or Treat This Halloween

Happy Halloween Door

Looking for a different, safer way to have your children trick or treat this Halloween with the neighbors and their friends? Here is an older post I did in 2009 explaining something we did for a few years with our kids. It takes a little bit of planning so you need to get started….really just contacting your friends and/or neighbors and planning the route you will take! Parents and children all go together so it is fun for the whole family….and a chance to visit with your neighbors!

Here is the link to my previous post: https://www.karenstamps.com/2009/10/a-different-way-to-trickortreat.html

It sounds crazy and confusing, but it really works….and most of all, it is FUN!!  Let me know if you try it!

Spooky Halloween Tree Card

Spooky Halloween Tree Card

This Spooky Halloween Tree card was so much fun to make!  I used Glossy White card stock #102599 so that I could do lots of sponging of color. I wanted a big moon in the sky so the silhouette of the tree would show.

The way you make the moon is with the 2 1/2" Circle Punch #120906 and post-it notes….or at least some sort of circle stencil. I punched a hole in a post-it note with some sticky on the back.  First I placed the punched-out piece down like a stencil to color in the moon.  I used a sponge and several colors of yellow classic ink with a touch of Pumpkin Pie.  Then I removed the stencil piece and stuck on the circle I had punched as a mask to cover the moon I had just sponged.  That way I could sponge the background sky without getting ink on the moon. I just used different blues…I think Pacific Point, Not Quite Navy and Night of Navy…with a little Pumpkin Pie thrown in and maybe some yellow.

Next I stamped the tree from Season of Friendship #111776, the bats and the word "spooky" from Wicked Cool #120600 (clear).  The owl I stamped in Chocolate Chip from Spooky Bingo Bits #123946 (clear) and cut him out with my Paper Snips. The Halloween greeting is from Teeny Tiny Wishes.

It was really fun to play with all those colors and doing the sponging.  So if you need some Halloween stamping supplies, be sure to go to my Online Store HERE and place your order!

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Spooky Ghost Gift Bag For Halloween

Grab one of those paper gift bags you have and let's make a spooky ghost gift bag for Halloween! You might want to take a hostess gift to a Halloween party or maybe someone has a Halloween birthday. There are so many fun Halloween ideas out there you should use them whenever you can!

Spooky Ghost Halloween Gift Bag

Here's how I made the Halloween gift bag.  It was a total accident!! My plan was to make one of those medallions or lollies out of Halloween paper, perhaps sticking it on a bag.  I wanted to try scoring the Halloween paper and folding up part of it to get a two-toned medallion. I was doing that and after glueing the two scored strips together and flattening it, trying to push it together in the center, I got this oval shape and thought why not do something with that?!

Here is the scored Frightful Sight Designer Series Paper #122351. I made two strips, each 12" x 2 1/2" and scored at every 1/2". ( I should have cut ONE strip 12" x 5" and cut in half later!) Then I turned the paper in my Simply Scored #122334 and scored at 3/4" to get the edge I would fold over. Love the Simply Scored!!!

Frightful Sight DSP Scored

Frightful Sight DSP close up

After I got the two strips glued together and played around with the shape I wanted, I turned it over and used Sticky Strip #104294 to hold it in shape on the back side.  The scissors is just holding it down in place. It is not glued to the bag yet, I'm just fitting it around the ghost to get the proper shape.  The ghost I made with the Owl Punch #118074….punch out the owl, cut off its feet and turn it upside down! Make his face with punched pieces or draw them in.

Sticky Strip on Medallion Back

Take off all the Sticky Strip red covering and stick to the bag centering the ghost, which is already glued down on a black piece of card stock.

Ghost Bag front

There's still plenty of time to order paper and stamping supplies for Halloween projects!  Just go to my website at www.karenfontinelle.stampinup.net and click the "Shop Now" button!

 



Halloween Craft: Crazy Halloween Monster Face Card

Crazy Halloween Monster card

If you are looking for ideas for a Halloween craft or Halloween crafts for kids, I think something like this Halloween card would be fun! Basically just use some paper scraps and punches or scissors and make a monster face!

I was planning to make some simple Halloween card and opened a magazine to get some ideas.  The magazine had glass jars filled with candy and then some monster face features pasted on the glass jar.  I got the idea to make a card instead and came up with this!  I guess it is a form of "punch art" since I grabbed a variety of my Stampin' Up! punches and just had a creative moment!

See if you can figure out what punches I used!

If you need some Stampin' Up! punches to make your Halloween crafting fun, just go to my Online Store.  Don't forget to check the Clearance Rack for the latest and greatest deals!

World Card Making Day…..Make a Card for Someone!

Halloween Doily Card

Today, October 1 is World Card Making Day!  This is the day to celebrate card makers from around the world as we begin the busy crafting season of fall and leading into the holidays.  Why not grab some of your stamping supplies and make a card for someone?  Now if you would hate to actually send a card you went to the trouble to make, maybe you should make two…..keep one, send one!  But as long as you have all your stuff out, why not make three cards, and then you'll have an extra…after you send one and keep one!  We can never have too many cards!

Here is a card I sort of challenged myself to make.  I sat looking at the doilies poking out of the Flirtacious Specialty Paper #122360….yes, you get a whole page of doilies….you can cut them apart or use them how you want. I wondered if I could make a Halloween card with a Melon Mambo doily!  Well, yes, I could!  I got out my Color Coach to see what colors would coordinate with Melon Mambo and there they were….Elegant Eggplant and Old Olive!

If you don't feel you have any creative ideas, just find a picture in a magazine or a design on your clothes or in the store and use those colors or shape to make your card.  It really works!

Happy Card Making Day!  

Need supplies? Just order online HERE!

 


Halloween Coaster Treat Cup Ornament

Halloween Coaster Treat Cup Ornament

Halloween Ornament Treat Cup

I told you I had fun making the Halloween ornament the other day out of the coaster and that I would make more!  Here is another one I made today with a coaster covered with Frightful Sight Designer Series Paper.  I added a Circle Treat Cup to the front, covering a piece of the designer paper with a spider web on it, and filled with my own handmade confetti, glitter and the new Mica Flakes.

Here's how I made my Halloween confetti.  I simply punched pieces from the Frightful Sight Designer Series Paper with the little circle punch in the Itty Bitty Punch Pack (you get three Itty Bitty punches!). If you look at the designer paper, you'll see some pages are filled with little ghosts, spiders, bats, etc. and they just about fit in the itty bitty punch.  I also just punched some colors from the paper, added the new Mica Flakes and some Silver Glass Glitter.

Have fun making some Halloween decorations for your family!  If you need some supplies, Stampin' Up! has plenty of them!  Just click HERE to do Online Ordering or email me at Karen@KarenStamps.com.

Make a Fall Paper Pumpkin Ornament!

Paper Pumpkin Ornament

Do you want to make an easy paper pumpkin for a fall decoration? You can easily make a pumpkin ornament to hang on your fall or Halloween tree perhaps or anywhere.

This pumpkin is about four inches in diameter and is made with a coaster! Just take a coaster you might get at a restaurant or buy at a craft store and cover with paper.  I cut a square of Pumpkin Pie card stock and adhered the paper to the coaster using a Stampin' Up! Anywhere Glue Stick (I put the glue on both the paper and the coaster). Then I just cut off the excess card stock with my Paper Snips….not that you can't use any scissors, but the Stampin' Up! Paper Snips are really the best for certain cutting jobs.  If you need to smooth the edge, just use a Designer Sanding Block.  Before adhering paper to the back of the coaster, I used a Pumpkin Pie Stampin' Write Marker on the side of the brush end to color the side of the coaster….not absolutely necessary, but it covers the color of the coaster. Then, if you want, cover the back side of the coaster.

I decided to add extra layers to make my pumpkin more lifelike.  If you make a small one, you can punch oval shapes for this part, but of course this coaster is too large.  So I just folded a piece of paper in half and drew freehand the smaller pumpkin layers….much like you would draw half a heart on a folded piece of paper to make valentines that were equal on both sides.  I didn't worry about the top and bottom….they extended past the coaster, but I just cut those off later with my Paper Snips.  Before adhering, I sponged the edges with some Cajun Craze ink.

For the top of the pumpkin, I used the Round Tab Punch to punch a piece of Lucky Limeade card stock and folded in half.  You can just run your string or ribbon underneath the folded tab or you can punch a hole with a Crop-A-Dile.  I even inserted an old retired green eyelet.

For the pumpkin vines, I used my Big Shot and the Swirls Scribbles Sizzlit Die.  You could add leaves if you wanted or omit the vines.

This is an easy project to add to your fall decor.  It's time to be decorating for fall and then decorating for Halloween!  Start making some new decorations right now to add a little seasonal pizzazz to your home! I think I'll go make another one!

For paper and supplies, you can conveniently order from Stampin' Up! online HERE.

Spooky Bingo Bits Halloween Card

Spooky Bingo Bits Halloween Card

Using the Spooky Bingo Bits stamp set from Stampin' Up! is so much fun I might have to go make another Halloween card like this one!  I also used two kinds of designer series paper….Pick Your Poison in the Holiday Mini Catalog and Frightful Sight in the Stampin' Up! 2011-2012 Idea Book & Catalog.  The greeting is from Wicked Cool, another very popular and fun Halloween stamp set!

Here is the inside I stamped!

Spooky Bingo Bits Halloween Card Inside

Do you have your Halloween stamp sets and paper to make your Halloween cards and projects yet?  If not, you better go order some! Please visit my Online Store and check out all the great Stampin' Up! products you can use!

Halloween Medallion

As I mentioned last time, after the fun kitchen remodeling, I was in need of some stamping therapy!  No better way to relax than getting out your stamping supplies and creating something!

First thing I did was pull out my new Simply Scored Scoring Tool #122334 from Stampin' Up!  This was introduced at the Stampin' Up! Convention and is available in the Holiday Mini Catalog.  Even though I had tried it at Convention, to actually use it now on my own was just a fabulous experience! It is so easy to use and makes doing this much scoring such an easy experience.  It comes with the stylus and also some "markers" to place at the top so you don't have to guess every time at what measurement you want to score.  You can even buy extras.  

But for this medallion I used a strip 12" x 1 1/2" and scored at every 1/4". This is our new Pick Your Poison Designer Series Paper #124001 in the Holiday Mini. (Since I made this, I've read a tip about scoring for example only every 1/2" and then turning the paper over and scoring the 1/4"….I'll have to try that and see if that makes for better folds.)

Simply Scored

Do an accordion fold of the strip along each scored line.  I added Sticky Strip to each end for extra staying power! And punch a circle of any size for the backing of the medallion.  I used Tombow Multi-Purpose Adhesive.  I let that glue sit while I did the folding so it would get a little tacky.

Accordion folded strip


A little blurry but just adhere the ends of the strip together.

Sticky Stripped Together

Press it down flat (easy to do) and adhere to your gluey circle on the back.  I even added a bit of glue to the center of the medallion since it would eventually be covered.

Flat Medallion

Medallion Back

Here you can see my stamping mess where I tried out various punched circles of different colors.  The skull comes from the Pick Your Poison DSP….although I hated to cut into that new paper, it had to be done! The paper is great, as is, by the way for scrapbooking Halloween pages…just add a mat to your photo and adhere….the paper is already printed to suit!  No designing necessary!

Stamping Mess

And the finished product!

Halloween Medallion on a Stick

 Silver Glass Stampin' Glitter #120995 around the edges.

Rhinestone Jewels #119246 bling for the skeleton eyes.

Sponged the medallion with a little Early Espresso Classic Ink.

Always Artichoke Seam Binding Ribbon #121000 ruffled around the center.

Sentiment from part of a stamp in Grateful Greetings #116511 cut by hand into a small banner and sponged on the edges with Early Espresso and a little Pumpkin Pie ink in the middle.

Adhered to a wooden skewer with lots of Stampin' Dimensionals #104430 and tied with some 1 1/4" Striped Grosgrain Ribbon in Basic Black #115615.

 

You can shop anytime so you'll be ready when you need stamping therapy!

Go to my Online Store HERE.
 




Some Kitchen Remodeling…and Stamping Therapy!

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Rusting sink, broken-since-Christmas dishwasher, cruddy cooktop.


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I forgot I had a Salad Shooter!!


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Our new kitchen… green formica and white painted cabinets….oh, that was 15 years ago!


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Where are the scissors??


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Cheated on this one….didn't empty the cabinet.


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Lucky we got the dishwasher out without tearing up the floor!

 
Kitchen Remodeling plastic

They're trying, but that dust gets everywhere! I hope they can breathe in there!


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Where's Waldo??  What if I "need" to use my Big Shot???

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First beautiful piece in perfectly!

 

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Second beautiful piece in place!

 

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Uh oh!!! The other pieces weren't cut the in the right direction and it's the wrong slab!  Oh no!  They'll fix it!  Whew!  (and I get an extra night to eat out!!)

 

I think I need some Stampin' Up! stamping therapy!!!

Stamping Mess

Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini Starts Today!

Holiday Mini Catalog 2011

The beautiful, gorgeous, gotta-have-it-all Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini starts today! You’ll have all you need for your Halloween, fall, and Christmas projects….or any time! And those holiday times are really sneaking up on us!

We were able to preview this mini and all the products at the Stampin’ Up! Convention this summer! It was fabulous!  All of us demonstrators have been waiting and waiting for our customers to be able to enjoy the products as we have been during the preorder period!

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One of the many highlights of this new mini, is the Simply Scored Tool! I know you’ll want to take a peek at that!

 

 

Happy Halloween! Halloween Treat Bags!

I hope you have a fun Halloween planned with your family!  I expect to have some trick-or-treaters at my door tonight and I always enjoy giving out the candy!  The little neighborhood carnival is just down the street, so we always do get a lot of kids at our house as they come and go from the carnival.

Here are a couple of treat bags I made for my "big" kids so easily out of the Mini Lunch Sacks #121031 in the Holiday Mini Catalog.  Just a few scraps of Wicked Fun Designer Series Paper #117400, some card stock and maybe a little stamping from Wicked Cool.  Use your punches!  Really fun!  I think I might make a couple more bags today for some special trick-or-treaters!

Ghosts Halloween Treat Bag

Did you know you can make ghosts out of the Owl Punch #118074?

Just punch out the owl in white, cut off his feet, and turn him upside down! Put some eyes on him and you've got a ghost!  Love it!

Spider Web Halloween Treat Bag

I finally caught up with myself and found out I DID order the Spider Web Textured Impressions Embossing Folder #120889!  Just run this through your Big Shot and you have a great spider web!  To make it show up, I just rubbed my Craft White Ink Pad lightly over the spider web.  On another one I sprinkled on some Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder #101930 and set it with my Heat Tool #100005!  Nice and sparkly!

Have a Happy Halloween!!!