If you want to fancy up your candy bowl a little, try this Halloween Candy Bowl Decoration!  Get yourself some kind of small bowl, dish, or container and make something like a tag or miniature card, essentially, to decorate the bowl for the holiday!

I just took the 5/8″ Burlap Ribbon and wrapped around the candy bowl. Actually, I used some velcro to hold the ribbon together thinking that I could maybe make a Christmas decoration and change it out on the same bowl.  But you could also just use some Mini Glue Dots or something to hold the ribbon on to the bowl if you wanted to.

For the Halloween decoration, I stamped the dog from the Trick or Tweet Stamp Set in the Holiday Catalog on Whisper White Cardstock and colored him in with Stampin’ Blends. I love those Stampin’ Blends Markers!  So relaxing to color with these alcohol markers.  I also stamped and colored the tiny little jack-o-lantern. Then I cut these both out by hand.  I also cut out a pumpkin from the Toil & Trouble Designer Paper as well as the little bat.

The greeting is stamped with the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set and ultimately I decided to just cut all the words apart to fit them onto the decoration easier.  The full moon is cut with the 1″ Circle Punch out of Crushed Curry Cardstock.  I just glued all these pieces onto a piece of Granny Apple Green Cardstock, punched with the 2″ Circle Punch. This is then layered on a piece of Gold Glimmer Paper die cut with one of the Layering Circles Dies.  I adhered this decoration to the burlap ribbon with a couple of Stampin’ Dimensionals.

For a finishing touch, I couldn’t resist tying on a piece of the beautiful, sparkly Black 5/8″ Glittered Organdy Ribbon.  You’ve got to have this lovely ribbon to use on projects!  It’s for more than Halloween, too!

Find a candy bowl in your stash or at the craft store or even the dollar store and decorate it for Halloween! I bet it will make the candy even more enticing (not that we need that!).

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Make a Witch’s Boot Candy Holder Halloween Treat if you want to make something different and fun!  It just takes a toilet paper roll or part of a paper towel roll! (I think I prefer a paper towel roll myself!)

To make it look like a witch’s boot just wrap the roll in a designer paper or cardstock.  I used the Toil & Trouble Designer Paper.  Then 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 what will be the front and then you can fold back the top corners.  Make it tall enough so you can add the buckle, especially if you want a big one.

Next just 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 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 Glimmer or Gold Foil.  Then put some candy in a cello bag or add it to the “boot” as is.  Just have fun with this idea and don’t worry about perfect measurements.  It all depends on the size of the roll you use!  Here’s another Witch’s Boot I made a couple years ago!

Don’t forget the Paper Pumpkin Flash Sale if it is still going on today!  New subscribers can get the October Paper Pumpkin Kit for only $5.00!  It certainly is worth a try for that price! Check out yesterday’s post for more info!

Have fun trying the Witch’s Boot Candy Holder Halloween Treat for the fun people in your life!

I just love using the Toil & Trouble Designer Series Paper to make Halloween cards and other projects, like this simple little Toil & Trouble Halloween Treat Bag Topper.  If you have children or neighbors or office workers to whom you want to give a little candy treat, just make a simple little topper with cardstock and some decoration to close a bag of Halloween candy or treats!

Start with the 3″ x 6″ Gusseted Cellophane Bags that will hold some Halloween candies. If you don’t want to be quite so generous with the candy, partially fill the bag with some “shred” like in gift bags or crumple a piece of colored tissue paper….or cut the bag down from the top to make it a little smaller.  Put the treat inside and fold the top over once or twice.  Adhere with some Snail Adhesive or Fast Fuse (some refills still left on the Clearance Rack!).

Make the bag topper just a bit wider than the bag.  Mine is 2″ x 3 1/4″ folded in half, so 4″ x 3 1/4″ to start with.  I cut out some of the images from the Toil & Trouble Designer Paper in the Holiday Catalog and adhered them to the topper.  The greeting is stamped in Granny Apple Green from the Trick or Tweet Stamp Set and punched with the Classic Label Punch.  I thought I needed something besides just the Basic Black Cardstock in the background so I put a piece of the polka-dot pattern on the topper. I think it sets off the cutout images better. Just adhere the topper to the bag.

Be sure to check out the Clearance Rack and don’t forget to spend your Bonus Coupon Codes from August if you earned some!

If you want the September Paper Pumpkin Kit,  the Frights & Delights Kit, you will need to subscribe first so then you can purchase the “past kit” in the Online Store.  If you are already a subscriber and want more of the treats, buy just the refill.  Subscribe to Paper Pumpkin HERE and get the October Kit in mid-October.  You must join by October 10th.

If you would like another Halloween treat idea, click HERE to see my Clear Tiny Treat Boxes decorated with the Cat Punch.

And if you want to make your own Halloween treat bags, try something like my Toil & Trouble Halloween Treat Bag Topper and have fun making up some treats!

One of the easiest things to make is this Triangle Treat Box For Halloween.  Triangle Boxes are so easy and the size can be varied. It just involves a strip of cardstock scored a certain way and folded up.  Decorate the outside according to the occasion, put your treat inside, punch some holes in the side and tie shut with ribbon.  Easy peasy!

For this triangle box start with a strip of 4″ x 8″ cardstock, in this case, Granny Apple Green.  It is scored in half, like a card, at 4″.  Then on each end, put a pencil mark at the center point. Next, score on a diagonal from that center point on the end of the paper to the center score line on each side.  Essentially you are making a point at each end.  See the diagram below.  Just angle the paper on your Stampin’ Trimmer so that both the center score line and the center point on the end are on the track on the Trimmer and then score.

To decorate the box, I sponged a little Granny Apple Green ink around the edges of the front of the box.  I was going to use some cut-out image from the Toil & Trouble DSP, but changed my mind and punched out the black cat with the Cat Punch.  I thought the cat could use a moon so I punched a circle of Crushed Curry Cardstock with the 1″ Circle Punch and even sponged it with some Crushed Curry ink.

The greeting is stamped from the wonderful Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set.  I think this stamp set is a must-have.  You can always find some sort of greeting you can use in this stamp set. It replaces Teeny Tiny Wishes, my previous favorite and highly used stamp set.  I stamped it in Granny Apple Green Ink and punched out with the Classic Label Punch.

I thought the box still needed a little something, like some shiny little stars. I added some small Rhinestone Jewels to the front of the box or I could have used some sequins.

If you want another idea, here is a Halloween triangle box I made to look like a Witch’s Hat.  It shows how the paper gets folded into the triangle if you need more information.

These Triangle Boxes can be made for Christmas gifts or birthdays or any other when you want to place a small gift or treat inside! Try it!  So easy! It’s just a little over five weeks until Halloween! Oh my!!  Make a Halloween Treat Box for Halloween and give to someone for a surprise!

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