Category Archives: Halloween

Halloween Candy Bars

Halloween Candy Bars

Candy is a huge part of Halloween, so I thought it was time to play with some! These are just the "snack size" Hershey bars, but of course if you had the regular size or even the giant size bars you could do the same thing.  I just took small pieces of card stock and Wicked Fun Specialty Paper #117400 and wrapped it around the candy bars.  Then I decorated with my Bitty Bat Punch #119279 and some stamps from Wicked Cool #120600.  Doing these was so much fun!  I may even make some more!  One of my favorites is the bottom candy bar where I punched out the bat and wrapped the black paper over the Pumpkin Pie card stock.  Well, I like them all!  Get out your punches, some scraps of card stock and some Halloween or fun stamps and see what you can come up with!  Wouldn't a bowl full of those be cute to hand out on Halloween?!

More Halloween Spooky Things Decor Elements!

Spooky Things Halloween Decor Elements Frame

Now that I've found my Spooky Things Decor Elements #122296 that I ordered from the Holiday Mini Catalog, I had to make another project!  Of course I forgot to measure before going to the craft store so the frame I bought was a little larger than I needed.  But it still fit using the mat since the frame opening was larger than 12 inches across, and that would have been more difficult to fill.  Anyway, the vinyl Decor Elements….the "happy halloween 31" is placed on the front of the glass of the frame.  Directions come with the vinyl so you will know exactly how to apply or you can read my post from yesterday and watch a video from Stampin' Up! on working with Decor Elements.  I taped a piece of Wicked Fun Specialty Paper #117400 behind the mat for the background.  And then I went wild stamping on the mat!  I used stamps from Extreme Elements #115181 and Wicked Cool #120600 to decorate the mat!  Of course I wanted to use my Bitty Bat Large Punch #119279, so you see three bats flying around, eyes are dots with the white Signo Gel Pen #105021.  Don't worry that just because Halloween will be over you won't be able to use the Bat Punch because clever people have already figured out ways to use the punch for other cute things.

Sometimes it is fun to think of using your stamping supplies for some home decor instead of a card or scrapbook page!

If you need some supplies for holiday decorations, just go to my website and online store HERE and click the Shop Now button!  Easy as pie!

Halloween Pumpkins

Halloween is sneaking up on me faster than I know, and I LOVE Halloween!  I was ready to post a Christmas project yesterday when I realized I should be doing Halloween! FINALLY I was able to find all my supplies I knew I had purchased to decorate these pumpkins.  At the Stampin' Up! Convention this summer Brent Steele demonstrated this project with white pumpkins, so I wanted to try it!  I bought these pumpkins at a craft store so I could save them to use next year.

For this project you need the Spooky Things Decor Elements #120909 in the Holiday Mini Catalog.  You get a whole set of ten vinyl images, so you will have plenty of decorations left over!  Decor Elements are pretty much like big rub ons, so don't be afraid of them!

Spooky Things Decor Elements

I cut out the word I wanted to use and used my handy dandy Decor Elements Applicator #114285 rub the Decor Element from its backing onto the transfer paper.

Transferring Decor Element

When you carefully peel away the grid paper, the vinyl will be attached to the transfer paper.  If any bit is still stuck to the backing, just rub some more and then peel again.

Applying Decor Element

I stuck the word onto my pumpkin, touching only the white paper outside the word in case I needed to move it.  It's a little difficult to transfer the vinyl onto the uneven pumpkin but it wasn't too hard at all.

Pumpkin with Decor Element

Just use the applicator again to rub from the center out, making sure everything is attached before completely pulling off the paper.

If you would like to watch a video about using the Decor Elements vinyl, just click HERE to watch Shannon West from Stampin' Up! demonstrate.

Black Flourish Designer Jewels

Now we'll do a little more transferring and applying of the beautiful Black Flourish Designer Jewels #120987 in the Holiday Mini Catalog. You get a beautiful full flourish in the package, but you can cut it smaller and use the various parts where you want.  In the package, you receive this piece of sticky transfer paper which you rub over the jewels and then peel off the backing so that you can apply and stick the jewels to your project.  Directions are included, so don't worry!

Black Flourish Jewels

Transferring Black Flourish Jewels

You're working with "stickiness" so sometimes a little tricky but not bad!

Black Flourish Designer Jewels

Apply to your project where you want it and then remove the sticky transfer paper.

Decorated Halloween Pumpkins

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

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Simply Adorned Halloween

Now that I am beginning to get a little bit caught up, I realized I should have a Halloween design in my Simply Adorned necklace!  This is what I made very quickly, with little thought or planning.  It would be fun to make some more!

Simply Adorned Halloween Front

Simply Adorned Halloween Back

 

Here are the inserts alone.  I used some Wicked Fun Specialty Paper #117400, stamped a sentiment in the stamp set Wicked Cool #120600(clear) and cut it apart, punched a strip with the Scallop Trim Border Punch #118402, added a little Rhinestone #119246 and also a snippet of the Raven 1/2" Lace Trim #120988.  The tiny pumpkin is made from three circles punched from the cute little punch in the Itty bitty Shapes Punch Pack #118309.  (You've gotta have these punches!  They are so itty bitty and cute!!)  The tiny green stem doesn't show up against the DSP in the background.  You can see I also tied on some bits of the Raven Lace Trim right onto the necklace chain.

Here are just the inserts, front and back, alone so you can see them better. They are just 1" x 1  1/4".

Simply Adorned Halloween Insert

Simply Adorned Halloween Insert

Think about what a great gift these Simply Adorned Charms and Chains would make for someone!  If you are the creative one, you can make them some inserts and give as part of the gift.  If you think they would enjoy the creative side, just give them the jewelry.  Maybe they just want to add a photo for now.  And of course, anything YOU like when you purchase a gift for someone, I think you should get one for yourself too!

Right now you can save $10 on this specially discounted Simply Adorned Bundle of charm and chain!  Check out the Perfect Handmade Bundles at my Online Store and click to find the details of each bundle!

 

October Projects

It's a new month and Stampin' Up! always provides us with Projects of the Month.  They are always over in the left side bar on my blog.  Last month, two of the projects were for Halloween, so I have chosen to leave those up for October, and I just added the new projects!  Be sure to check them out!  Just click on the photo!

I'm sure the Halloween House will be a favorite!


Halloween Bucket

Favor Tin Bucket

Here is one of the many things I have been doing lately to get ready for the wedding.  These are the favor tins partially decorated and being shipped off to the bride to fill and finish.  When I was left with the plastic buckets the tins came in I thought, THROW THESE OUT SO THEY DON"T ADD TO THE MESS!  But then the craft devil said, "But you might be able to use these to wrap Christmas presents!"  Isn't that always the way it happens and then we wind up with all kinds of stuff saved "in case we need it"!  And then I got the idea to take out the paper lining the clear plastic container and decorate it for Halloween!

I used the Wicked Fun Specialty Paper #117400 in the Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalog and the stamp set Wicked Cool, also in the Idea Book & Catalog.  It was REALLY time for me to stop and stamp a little bit. When I get a little more time I think a cute punch spider on top would be cute! Hope you will be inspired to make something fun out of something you have sitting around!

Wicked Cool Stamp Set

Favor Tin Bucket

Spider Web Lid

  Halloween Favor Tin Bucket

If you need some Halloween stamp sets, paper, or accessories, be sure to check out my Online Store soon!!

 
 

More Halloween from Convention!

Here are a few more photos from Halloween projects presented on stage at the Stampin' Up! Convention this summer!  Hover your mouse over the photo to see the main materials used.  Click on the photo to enlarge! Enjoy!

Design-a-House for Halloween  

Spray paint the house and sprinkle on glitter! Also, notice the tablerunner under the house made with the Wicked Fun Designer Series Paper….stitch together on your sewing machine or just glue!

Halloween Tree Ornaments  

Assorted Halloween decorations!  Purchase a tree to display or make your own with a tree branch!

Skeleton Garland

These skeletons are outlined with Crystal Effects and sprinkled with Silver Glass Glitter.  You can also put a black skeleton behind for a shadow effect.

Spooky Things Decor Elements and Designer Jewels

Use the Spooky Things Decor Elements to decorate pumpkins and add some of the new Black Flourish Designer Jewels!  So cute!

Design-a-House & Bat Punch wired garland

The house even comes with the door knob!  Use the Bat Punch and some Wicked Cool Designer Series Paper to make a wire garland of bats!

Spooky Things Decor Elements Luminaries

On the inside edge of the luminary, you can see some black waffle paper peeking out!

Spooky Things Halloween Luminaries

You can make six luminaries with the package of Decor Elements.

You can find these supplies in the new Holiday Mini Catalog!  Do your online shopping this weekend and you'll be all decorated in time for Halloween!

 

Halloween Products on Display at Convention

Here are some more photos from the fabulous display at the Stampin' Up! Convention!  You'll find most of these new products in the Holiday Mini Hold your mouse over the photos to find the names of some of the products.  Click on the photos to enlarge.  Enjoy!

Spider Web Embossing Folder and Black Flourish Jewels Boxes

Halloween Decorations

Spooky Bats Decor Elements

Nite Owl Designer Series Paper

Dark & Dreary on Candy Wrapper Die Cut

Wicked Cool IB&C

Perfect Setting Die Cut IB&C

Halloween Test Tubes

Mini Milk Carton and Bitty Bat Large Punch

Nite Owl DSP

Spooky Things Decor Elements

Do these fantastic projects put you in a Halloween mood yet??  Be sure to check out the Stampin' Up! Holiday Mini Catalog for some great  products and projects for not only Halloween, but the fall season as well as Thanksgiving!

 



Wicked Cool Treat Sack

My Stampin' Up! Holiday Mini order arrived, and it just happened that the first thing I decided to try was a Halloween bag.  I love the Wicked Cool stamp set in the Stampin' Up! 2010-2011 Idea Book & Catalog.  You can order the Mini Lunch Sacks #121031 from the Holiday Mini.  Let me tell you, when I opened the package of ten mini lunch sacks, I was amazed! Right away you could tell these weren't your ordinary flimsy thin little paper sacks!  As with everything Stampin' Up!, these little bags are a nice quality and come already scalloped on top!  They measure 3 1/2" x 6 5/8" so they are a very good size.

Sack

I just began stamping the little bats on the bag with Black Stazon ink and as an afterthought stamped the "have a Wicked halloween" on there with Concord Crush….but on this bag, the dark purple looks more like black.  I added a strip of Pumpkin Pie (3 1/2" x 1") and Wild Wasabi card stock (3 1/2" x 3/4") across the front.  I also stamped the witches hat in Stazon Black on Whisper White and punched it out with the 1 3/8" Circle Punch, sponged it a little with Concord Crush ink, then adhered to a Concord Crush Scallop Circle Punch #119854.  I colored in the band on the witches hat with Stampin' Write Markers and added some White Gel Pen dots to the scallops.  It still needed something, and once I added a strip of the 1/2" Raven Lace Trim #120988 in the Holiday Mini I loved it!  Adhere the scallop circle with a couple of Stampin' Dimensionals.

SackTreatBag

After filling your bag with treats, you can just punch two holes in the top with the Crop-a-Dile and thread some grosgrain ribbon through.  For a little more pizzazz, I added the "Spooky" sentiment from the Wicked Cool stamp set (page 23 IB&C), stamped in Black Stazon and sponged with some Concord Crush and Pumpkin Pie ink.  I loved adding the orange with the purple!  I also loved the shape of the rubber image, so I just put that back down over the stamped word and traced around it and then cut out with my scissors!  All you need then is to punch a little hole and use some linen thread to make a little hanging tag to tie onto the grosgrain ribbon.  I even added a dimensional under the tag just to hold it where I wanted it.

So there you have it!  An easy little Halloween treat bag with the great new Mini Lunch Sacks!  

If you need a copy of the Holiday Mini and you don't have your own demonstrator, please contact me and I can send you one!

Haunted House Milk Carton

I started off in a Halloween mood today, but my official Halloween stamping supplies won't be delivered until tomorrow night from Stampin' Up!….the new ones, from the Holiday Mini Catalog!  I saw this orangish designer series paper nearby, Sunny Garden #119831, and wondered if I could do something with that.  I distressed it by sponging on Early Espresso Classic Ink #119670.  Now you wouldn't think you could use this pretty, bright paper to make a Halloween house, would you?!  I had no plan, but just played around.  

Here is my Bigz Mini Milk Carton die #117310 that I scored and sponged.

Sponging the Mini Milk Carton

Mini Milk Carton House

For the roof I just cut pieces of Basic Black card stock to fit over the top and for the rows and punched the edges with the Scallop Edge Border Punch #119882 and then sponged with Whisper White Craft Ink #101731.  The door and windows are just scraps, and I used my white Signo Gel Pen #105021 to draw in window panes, spider webs, cracked glass and a couple ghosts!  The door has a little brad for the door knob.

I know the ghost is a little out of scale probably for the size of the house (unless it is a really big bad ghost!), but I couldn't resist making this that I saw online one day!  Can you guess what the ghost is made out of??  It is punched from the Two-Step Owl Extra-Large Punch #118074.  The ghost is actually the owl upside down with his feet cut off!  Then I just colored in his eyes with a black marker and sponged a little with gray ink.

Milk Carton Haunted House

Just a fun little project to get in some stamping today!  I decided to stop while I was ahead, although I could have added some more details probably!

Now if you have seen the Holiday Mini Catalog, you may have noticed that there is an actual house you can purchase and decorate however you like!  It is called Design-a-House #120911.  I thought the decorated ones I saw at Convention were fabulous and can't wait to play with that!

If you want to see the Holiday Mini, just click on any of the links.  To purchase any stamping supplies, please go to my Online Store and click the Shop Now button!

The Holiday Mini Catalog Is Still Here!

I know Christmas is over but the Holiday Mini Catalog is NOT!  You have a few more days to order from the Holiday Mini in case there is anything you still want.    Please take one more look through the Holiday Mini and see if there is anything else you want, maybe for a head start on the holidays for next year!  The "Charming" stamp set (#116519) will still be available into January as will the Shimmer Paints (as a write-in).  Exciting new products are coming Jan. 5th in the new Occasions Mini and Sale-a-Bration but I wanted to remind you your days are numbered for ordering from the Holiday Mini, one of the greatest minis Stampin' Up! has ever put out!

Please contact me if you want to make another Holiday Mini order by Jan. 4th or you can order online yourself at my website HERE.

Click on the catalog below to take one more look!



A Different Way to Trick-or-Treat

Happy Halloween!!

The other day I remembered a slightly different way we used to trick-or-treat in our neighborhood that we thought was fun.  It sounds confusing, but trust me, it works!  One year a friend invited my kids and me to come do this "special trick-or-treating" over on her side of the neighborhood.  After that, another friend and I started organizing it over on our side of the neighborhood.  The point was as a parent you knew whose houses you were going to so it was safe and if you wanted to you could give out maybe a little better candy treat to the kids since you knew how many to expect.  We would do this on the Sunday night before Halloween, so it really was kind of an extra trick-or-treating event!  But some people were going to parties on Halloween night so their kids would normally not get to go door-to-door for candy.

This has to be organized ahead of time.  You find out what neighbors want to participate and it has to be in a reasonable walking distance.  If somebody from way out of the walking range wants to participate, they just have to start from someone's house who is "on the route".  The organizer plans the route to take to hit everyone's houses and approximately what time the group would arrive.

This is how it works:  My kids and I leave our house at the appointed time, say 6:30 pm.  We go next door.  That neighbor gives my kids candy, locks her house, and she and her child come with us.  We all go across the street to that neighbor….she gives candy to my kids and my next door neighbor's child, they join us, and we all go to the next house down the street.  That neighbor gives out candy to all of us, and comes along with all of us as we go to the next house.  (I know it sounds like somebody isn't going to get candy, but keep following me!)  Let's say there are 10 families on the list.  We get to the tenth house.  That mom gives out candy to all the kids who are now in the group, locks her house and joins us.  NOW since we have finished picking everybody up, we all go back to MY house which was the starting point.  Now I haven't given out candy to anybody since we were the first family.  So when we get to my house, I go inside, get the candy and give it out to all the kids in the group (which at that point is everybody).  Now my kids and I stay home…we're done.  The group continues on to my next door neighbor (second on the list).  She has only given candy to my kids when we started, but now my kids have stayed home and when the groups goes to her house, she gives out candy to everybody and she stays home.  Then the whole group goes across the street and that neighbor gives out candy to everybody and she stays home with her kids.  It continues on that way until the last family gets home (who had already given out candy to everybody when we first arrived). So all the kids do get the same amount of candy, from everybody, and it is a fun night out!  Just a little difficult perhaps to keep the kids from running ahead of the leader!  One year we had a police helicopter hovering above probably trying to figure out what this big group of kids and adults were doing….or maybe they were just enjoying the Halloween sight!

Just a slightly different way to trick-or-treat in an organized fashion if that works for you!

And now here is a Halloween card I made on the new My Digital Studio!!  I just used one of the templates and then changed it up a little! What fun!

Halloweencard-001 Halloweencard-003 

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Packaging is Everything!

While I thought the Halloween candle I made yesterday was very cute and Halloweeny, I was giving it to someone for a little gift and I thought just handing it to her made it look a little blah.  I just stuck it in a Stampin' Up! Cellophane Bag, tied some beautiful 1 1/4" Striped  Old Olive Grosgrain Ribbon around and made a little tag with the stamp set Eat, Drink & Be Scary.  I punched a hole in the tag with my Crop-a-Dile and attached the tag with some Natural Hemp Twine.  Probably took just 5 minutes and the gift went from good to great!

You can find all these Stampin' Up! supplies in my online store HERE

Candlewrapped

Halloween Stamped Candle

After getting out my Halloween decorations yesterday and some candles, I remembered this old technique from several years ago of how to stamp on candles!  Actually you stamp on tissue paper and then heat and melt it into the candle.  Pretty easy, really.  Here I have taken you through the steps.

Stamp on tissue paper that will fit on the candle….best to cut your tissue paper as close to the stamped image as possible. (I forgot that part!)

Candlestart 

"Stick" the tissue paper onto your candle….I used a bit of glue stick to hold it for these photos.

Candle2 

Wrap a piece of wax paper around the stamped tissue paper, best to have extra in the back to grab and hold to keep your hand away from the heat gun.

Candle3waxp 

Heat with your Stampin' Up! Heat Tool (a very good quality product…others will konk out sooner) until the wax melts a bit…..you'll be able to see it.

Candle4 

Candle5 

I did the sentiment on the back with a separate piece.

CandleBack 

What a fun project and great gift!  Just think what you could do for the holidays!!

Stamp sets used:  Pumpkin Patch (in the Holiday Mini) and Holiday Best, Level 1 Hostess set

Medallion Halloween Card

Here are the Stampin' Up! Deals of the Week, good until Monday, Oct. 26 at 9:50 am MT!  In looking at this list, I think you would enjoy any and all of these embellishments to use on your cards, scrapbook pages, or any projects. 

 Week 3 Deals of the Week

Item

Description

Special Price

114348

Basic Jumbo grommets

$4.49

109857

Mini Library clips

$8.99

112571

Circle Designer brads

$3.99

 112581

 1/2" Library clips

 $3.99


 I decided to make a card showing the Basic Jumbo grommets.  Since I had played around with the "Medallion" stamp this weekend, I was in the mood to use it on this card somehow.  The other stamp set is "Eat, Drink & Be Scary".  The little strip of designer series paper is called "Cast-A-Spell" in the Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalog.

HalloweenGrommetCard 

Here's a close-up of the grommet….very easy to use…..just poke it through the paper and fold down the tabs on the other side.  Stick a bow in the center just using some mini glue dots.

Grommet

When you have an order ready to place, be sure to check the Deals of the Week  during the month of October!