Tag Archives: Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit

Spooky Ghosts on a Halloween Card

Leave a reply

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 Memories So Spooky Sticker Card

Leave a reply
Halloween Memories So Spooky Sticker Card

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

Leave a reply
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 Memories Spooky Ghost Card

Leave a reply
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.

SHOP STAMPIN’ UP! HERE!

Potions & Spells Hocus Pocus Halloween Card

Leave a reply
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!

SHOP STAMPIN’ UP! ONLINE HERE!