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Spooky Ghosts on a Halloween Card

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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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:

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.

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.

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

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

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 To Make

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

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

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 So Spooky Sticker Card

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Halloween is really getting close now! Here’s a quick and easy card to make, the Halloween Memories So Spooky Sticker Card. Even if you don’t have these exact materials, you can make something similar with whatever you have!

This card is made with the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. It is great for scrapbooking and even comes with layouts and detailed instructions if you want to follow their design. But you can also use the paper and stickers for making cards, treats, and other projects. If you don’t have this kit with the sticker sheet, you can substitute other paper or stamping. The kit includes the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper that you can order online but is not in a catalog.

This card starts with a Basic Black card base but you could use any other Halloween color. The background is a pattern in the Halloween Spells DSP that has little bubbles from the potion. The three stripes at the bottom of the card are stickers in the Workshop Kit but you could use the striped paper pattern in the Halloween Spells to put across there or just some other coordinating designer paper or stamped strip.

The So Spooky on the card is a large sticker in the kit. That sure makes it easy! Even the two black stars are stickers. If you don’t have the kit, just stamp some Halloween greeting on cardstock and adhere it, maybe add some spooky, glittery gems….which could be anything! Maybe some Googly Eyes if you have some.

This is one of those cards that I liked a lot when I finished it even though it took barely any planning or time at all! It was super simple!

Halloween Memories Stickers Candy Bars

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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!

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 Memories Spooky Ghost Card

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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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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!

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!

Flying Ghost and Pumpkins Halloween Card

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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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Last Minute Past Halloween Ideas!

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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

Halloween Chocolate Candy Treat Bag

Triangle Treat Box For Halloween

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!

Them Bones Halloween Treat Bag

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Here is a quick and easy candy or treat holder you can make! It’s the Them Bones Halloween Treat Bag and you can copy this exactly or make it and decorate it however you like! It only took a few minutes to make!

Start with a piece of cardstock or designer paper that is 12″ x 6″. Keep in mind that 2″ of that will be the bottom flaps, so if you want your treat bag taller, you need to add more height so maybe you would want to cut the paper 12″ x 8″. I used the batty pattern in the Them Bones Designer Series Paper in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog.

Using the Paper Trimmer or Scoring Tool you will score the paper so it can be folded into the bag shape. Pay attention if your paper has a pattern so you don’t end up with it upside down! Place the paper vertically so you can score the bottom flaps at 2″. Then turn the paper so the 12″ length goes across the top, horizontally. Score at 1″ 3 3/4″, 6 1/2″, and 9 1/4″.

Crease and fold all the score lines and use a Bone Folder to get a sharp crease. Cut out the small section at the bottom as you see in the diagram above (the light blue area). Cut up on all the bottom score lines for the flaps just up to the 2″ score line.

You can pretty well see from my paper above how it is scored, creased, and the bottom flaps cut apart. If you flipped the designer paper over, you would put adhesive on that narrow strip on one side and it adheres to the straight side on the other end of the paper.

Fold everything to form into the treat bag. Make sure you see how it all goes together before you start glueing! Add some strong Seal+ or Tear n Tape on that narrow section above the cut off piece. Then just fold the other end over flat on the table so it all lines up. This is easier than trying to hold it in your hands! Next, glue the bottom flaps together. Push your Bone Folder or something down inside the bag so you can push those bottom flaps together after they have been adhered to get a strong bond.

Before you decorate the bag, look and see where the paper is adhered together to form the bag shape so that you can put that in the back so it’s not so visible. Then decorate the front of the bag however you like. I cut out a rectangle with a skeleton on it that fit perfectly on the front of the bag. You could add a greeting or some jewels. I decided I liked it as is.

With this pattern, you can leave the top of the bag open if you like. Before adhering anything, you could even fold the top edge of the bag down if you wanted to show the inside design of the paper. I didn’t want my bag to be much shorter than it is so I didn’t do that. But if you want to put your treat inside and then close it up, you can add some kind of clip or punch two holes in the top with a punch and put a ribbon through. I used this Black Glittered Organdy Ribbon (retired) but the gingham ribbons we sell now would be cute also. To close the top of this bag, just push in the sides and work with it until you get the top edges even and the sides and bottom how you want them.

As I said before, you could use any paper and decorations to make these little bags for any occasions to hold treats or a small gift! Once you get the hang of making these little bags and boxes with your stamping supplies, you will open up another way to be creative!

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Them Bones Skeleton Happy Halloween Card

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Here’s a fun Halloween card, the Them Bones Skeleton Happy Halloween Card, that I came up with playing around with the Them Bones Designer Series Paper. This paper has cute skeletons to use one way or another on Halloween projects. There is even the paper I used that has a design made of bones!

The card base is made with Cajun Craze cardstock. I cut it at 4 1/4″ x 11″ and scored at 5 1/2″ with the fold at the top. Then I added a layer of the Them Bones Paper with a bunch of little skeletons dancing around!

I cut a 1 3/4″ x 5 1/4″ strip of designer paper with the bones pattern to use somewhere on the card, likely on the side. But I tried it down the center of the card, and I liked that. By chance, there was already a black cardstock scalloped rectangle just the right size, cut with the Scalloped Contours Dies, in my package of cardstock so I just used it!

Since I don’t own the Bag of Bones Dies in the Them Bones Suite, I simply cut out the skeleton from another piece of the Them Bones Designer Paper with my Paper Snips. If you hate fussy cutting, then you need the dies and there are lots of fun dies to use in this set!

The greeting is stamped on Smoky Slate cardstock with Memento Black ink. The greeting is from the Paper Pumpkin Kit from September 2022 that happened to be lying on my table. I liked the one line that I could stamp on a narrow strip with flagged ends to pop up over the bottom of the skeleton’s legs. There is also a “Happy Halloween” greeting in the Pick of the Patch Stamp Set.

I added some Adhesive-Backed Glitter Sequins in white around the skeleton and on the ends of the greeting banner. You’ll find these in the Beary Christmas Suite but you can use them in lots of places, not just Christmas.

This card design could also be used on the front of a treat bag for Halloween or even as part of a scrapbook page. There are so many options with this Them Bones Designer Series Paper in the Holiday Mini Catalog! I think it was backordered recently but it is back in stock as I write this so grab it soon if you would like it!

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Them Bones Easy Halloween Card

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If it is September, then we who love Halloween start thinking ahead! If you want to send out a Halloween card or two you probably want some easy ideas, like this Them Bones Easy Halloween Card.

Two of the sheets in the pack of Them Bones Designer Series Paper (162215) have different Halloween scenes printed on smaller panels. You can cut these apart and use them for cards or other projects. My card today is one of those panels. You can see the paper below. You can see that this card came from the panel on the bottom row.

When you cut these panels apart, as you can probably tell by looking at the paper, they aren’t all a standard size. You will have to work with the panel a little if you put it on a card to maybe add a layer underneath or add a little something to the side. This panel that I cut off the big sheet of paper measures 3″ x 4 7/8″ so I had to work with that a little.

The card base is Cajun Craze with a layer of Basic Black. Then I cut a strip of paper from another pattern in the Them Bones Designer Paper. One side has all these bones in a herringbone pattern and the other side is orange with small skeletons and bats. I cut a strip 5 1/4″ x 3/4″ to fill up that space since the main image is narrow.

I wanted some ribbon or twine to tie around the bones paper and I ended up pulling out some retired Halloween Night Baker’s Twine, maybe from quite a few years ago! It was perfect! It was black and gray. If you have this twine, the other roll is orange and black. Plain black twine would be fine, too. If you need some twine, you can purchase the Baker’s Twine Essentials Pack with five colors – black, white, Gray Granite, Crumb Cake, and Very Vanilla. That will cover you for most anything! I just chose to use something I already had that went well with the card.

For a little embellishing, I added three Adhesive-Backed Glitter Sequins (162029) on page 23 in the Holiday Mini Catalog. You want to get these for sure! Even though they are on a Christmas page, you can see you can even use them for Halloween! I thought they looked like little stars in the sky or even something spooky!

If you like Halloween, you will enjoy the Them Bones Suite Collection in the Holiday Mini! Be sure to notice the Glow-in-the-Dark Bats & Ghosts and the Glow-In-the-Dark 6″ x 6″ Specialty Paper if you want to make some diecuts of skeletons of anything!

The September-December 2023 Mini Catalog, or Holiday Mini, goes live on Wednesday, September 6th! Be sure to get some of the things you really, really want as soon as you can because no telling what will be super popular early on when the catalog comes out!

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Them Bones Halloween Card

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It may be the middle of August, but here is my first Halloween card for the season, Them Bones Halloween Card. It was so fun to make a Halloween card, especially with this paper! It’s the Them Bones Designer Series Paper and is coming in the Holiday Mini Catalog on September 6th!

This designer series paper has all sorts of Halloween patterns and colors in it! You can choose from skeletons, bats, gravestones/mausoleums?, Halloween words, and all sorts of other generic patterns you can use on non-Halloween projects.

For this card, I used this sheet of paper that has all the different patterns on this one paper! The Fresh As a Daisy Designer Series Paper had the same thing, which was fun to use. Here is a photo of the whole sheet of paper.

You can see this sheet has all kinds of interesting designs to use on your card or another project. I chose the top right corner image. It has to be trimmed a little to fit on the Pumpkin Pie card base. Then I cut out one of the many skeletons on another sheet of paper plus one of the skeleton dogs to decorate my card.

There is a Bundle of the Bag of Bones Stamp Set and Bag of Bones Dies. If you have the dies, you can diecut some of the skeletons and animals and other images, stamped and printed on the paper. But I just used my Paper Snips for a little detailed cutting to cut out this skeleton from the designer paper and the dog skeleton. I used tiny bits of Multipurpose Liquid Glue to adhere them to the card front to create a little scene.

For the greeting, after looking through my current stamp sets, I got the idea to use the Alphabest Stamp Set and Best Label Punch. I stamped the little outline in black ink and then the letters in Pumpkin Pie ink to spell “boo!” Then I punched out those letters with the Best Label Punch. They are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

For a finishing touch, I tried to splatter some Wink of Stella around on the card. I used Gold (retired) but I don’t think it showed up well enough.

When you are ready to order some products for Halloween, if you like whimsical and spooky, try the Them Bones Designer Series Paper and maybe the Bag of Bones Bundle with the stamp set and dies. You can also purchase Glow in the Dark 6″ x 6″ Specialty Paper or Glow in the Dark adhesive bats and ghosts to decorate your cards and projects!

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Last Minute Halloween Treat Ideas!

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These Halloween treat ideas may be from years past, but they still work! Use your current paper and things or use your old retired things you are hoarding! 🙂 The trick or treaters won’t care!

This is one of my favorite ideas and simple enough to do. Just wrap a chocolate bar in designer paper! Maybe add some ribbon or a tag if you are making it for someone special. You can use any size of candy bar!

Triangle Halloween Treat Box WIth Ghosts

These triangle boxes are so easy to make and I have made them for lots of occasions! Read my blog post HERE with directions.

I always love making treats with chocolate nuggets! Just cut a strip of cardstock at 1 3/4″ x 5 1/2″. Score the paper at 2 1/4″ and 3 1/4″. This makes a little space so it will sit flat and so it will hold a nugget inside. OR just cover nuggets with strips of designer paper and put in a bag or box! A 1″ x 3″ strip should do it!

This witch’s book has been quite a favorite! Save a toilet paper roll or a paper towel roll and cut it down, wrap with designer paper, and add the triangular boot bottom! It’s easier than it looks. Directions on this blog post HERE.

Halloween Witch Trick or Treat Candy Treat Box

Nothing wrong with just making a little box or bag out of designer paper or cardstock and decorating it for Halloween! This one is from five years ago but you can update it easily! Read the blog post HERE.

Those are just a few ideas to spark your creativity for parties or trick or treaters Monday night! Have fun!

Witch’s Boot Halloween Treat Holder

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One easy and fun treat holder to make for Halloween, or even just for a decoration is this Witch’s Boot Halloween Treat Holder. I have made different ones other years, but this year, with Halloween pumpkins appearing in “trendy” colors other than the usual orange, I thought maybe this year’s witch’s boot could also be in non-traditional colors.

Is it okay to use Christmas paper to make a witch’s boot treat??! Why not? Really, you can use lots of different paper patterns. You don’t have to have “Halloween” paper! Look through your paper and see what appeals to you. I used the Whimsy & Wonder Specialty Designer Series Paper, the striped pattern, for the witch’s sock! Why not have something colorful?! Just measure your toilet paper roll or paper towel roll to see what size to cut your paper to wrap around the tube. Then see how much you need to wrap around the tube adding on about 1/2″ or so overlap to adhesive. My paper was about 4″ wide and about 6 1/2″ around the paper tube.

For the actual “boot”, I used a piece of Black Glitter Paper but you can also just use Basic Black Cardstock. Just cut a strip of black that will be wide enough at the back for the paper roll to fit on and then the front will angle to a point. You can make it as long as you would like. You can use the Paper Trimmer or just cut it by eyeballing. You will need to cut around the edges of the back where the paper roll is so it curves with the paper roll. On the front, you can roll the tip of the boot around a pencil or other stick if you want it to roll up.

Also, cut a strip of Black Glitter Paper as narrow or tall as you would like for the top part of the shoe. This will adhere around the bottom of the paper roll. If you want, you can fold back the ends of the strip in the front for the opening of the shoe. I also tied around a piece of the Metallic Mesh Ribbon and tied it in a bow.

When you have the witch’s boot make how you like it, grab some candy or treats and fill up the boot or put the candy in a small cello bag and insert in the boot, tied at the top with a coordinating ribbon, maybe even a tag. Here is one I made a few years ago, maybe the first one, and here is another one more recently.

It’s Halloween and it’s all fun! Make a Witch’s Boot Halloween Treat Holder for yourself, a gift, or maybe a bunch for the kids when they come trick-or-treating this year!

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