Spooky Secret Pal Treat Bags

 

Today I have some spooky fun treat bags that I would like to share you with you.  I created these for all of my co-workers who are playing along in our secret pal swap.  This way to get to have some crafty fun and MY secret pal is none the wiser.

 

For these treat bags I used the Cute Costume Kids file from Too Cute by Jessica.  I only used four of the six cuties and found that these guys were all easy to put together.  After piecing the cuties together I took some shipping tags that I picked up at Office Depot and embossed them using different Cuttlebug and Sizzix folders.  I then inked them with my Tim Holtz Distressed Ink and used sentiments from the Cardz TV Stamps set "Frankly Frightful" and Craftin Desert Divas stamp set "Ghostly Greetings".  On two of my cuties I decided to break out my Peachy Keen stamps and stamp their faces using the PK-490 Everyday Faces set.

 

Inside the treat bags is either a pouch of Zombie Juice or Blood Energy drinks.  After being inspired by a member of the Jaded Blossom design team I found these at Harcos Labs and was able to pick them up at half price.  For these I used Happy Hauntings for the potion bottles which were then stamped using sentiments from the Jaded Blossom set "Spooky Labels".  Other than the pouches there is also a small amount of candy - some of which was stamped using the Halloween Candies 2 set from Jaded Blossom.

 

I then put it all together and added a mini plastic skull that I found at Michaels to add a bit of spooky to the packaging.  I gave these out yesterday and the reviews were very favorable.

 

And now I am going to go enter this into the following challenge:

 

Halloween - Craftin Desert Divas - Ends October 26th

 

Anything Halloween - Jaded Blossom - Ends October 25th

 

Pun Fun - Fantabulous Cricut Challenge (Happy Owl-oween!) - Ends October 19th

Thirsty?

After being inspired by this project at Scrappin with my Bug I knew I had to scraplift and try some myself to use as 'gifts' this Halloween season.  My first I gave yesterday to a co-worker who hosts a blood drive at our office every 4 to 6 months. 

 

I wanted it all to be a surprise so rather than handing the gift to her I placed it in her mail cubicle to find at some point during the day. (We also have a secret pal gift exchange going on at work so I kinda played on that too - even though she's not my secret pal)  She told me that when she first looked at it she wondered what in the world because it looked so real.  But once she realized what it was and read the card she loved it.

 

Now Michelle over at Scrapping with my Bug used a new set of dies that were recently released by Jaded Blossom.  Since I don't own those I used other things that I do have......like my MS drippy goo punch and my Happy Hauntings cartridge from Cricut for the potion bottle.  I ungrouped the cuts and used the bottom and top layers hiding the necessary contours for the look I wanted.  I then used my stamp from the Jaded Blossom Spooky Labels stamp set.

 

My card was made using the vampire squaredy cat from SVG Cutting Files.  They have a whole line of these guys and take about easy to put together.  For the stamped sentiment on my card I used the PKSC-32 August 2014 Halloween set.

 

And finally the gift box.  Believe it or not this was an SVG cut file as well.  This one I found over at Pretty Paper Pretty Ribbon.  It's the gift box with window file.  I cut it out of chipboard and then came back and cut it out of cardstock so I could cover up the chipboard.  For the window I used one of the old mat covers from a used cricut cutting mat.

 

Put it all together and you have one unique gift.

 

 

Boolicious Treat Purse

It was a lazy day here in our house today as I am recuperating from a cold quickly turned to infection.  My wonderful husband let me chill out and play in my craft room all day.  Yep, no chores - no nothing unless I wanted to.  Not even cooking......

 

I have to admit though that for a while I sat at my computer in a fog.  I kept trying to decide what I was in the mood to create and I'd start something then quickly trash it when I didn't like the way it looked.  After a couple hours of that I finally got in to a groove and was able to complete a couple of projects.....this being one of them.

 

For this treat holder I used the purse invitation from Girls Makeup Party. 

 

 

On the inside that cute little ghost is from a cut file I got over at Too Cute By Jessica.  The pumpkin on the candy is from Designer's Calendar and the bat is from Happy Hauntings.

 

The stamped sentiments are from Peachy Keen Stamps (outside) and Jaded Blossom (inside).

 

And now with that I am going to enter this in to the purse challenge over at Bitten by the Bug 2.  Nothing like a last minute entry huh?

Cauldron Treats

I haven't been able to get much paper crafting done the past few days as I've been busy with my loom knitting in preparation for my first craft show in a couple of weeks.  However, I did take some time today to put together this cauldron treat holder from SVG Cuts. 

 

I was amazed at how big this cauldron was once it was completed and it's sturdier than I expected too.  I love the way it all came together.  It was easy to do and I enjoyed trying to decide what folders to use for the embossing on my panels.  In all I used four different ones.

 

For my candies I admit I didn't wrap and pretty up all of them - nor did I have enough to actually fill my cauldron.  (Remember, I said it was larger than I expected.)  But I did decorate up a couple handfuls of various candies.  For this I used scraps of paper from one of my Recollections Halloween mat stacks.  I love this particular pack of paper and I am going to be very sad when it's all gone.  I love the prints and colors - not too cutesy but not too creepy either. 

 

On my wrappers you'll notice a couple of bats and pumpkins.  The bats are from the Cricut cartridge Happy Hauntings and the pumpkins are from Designer's Calendar.  The stamped sentiments are from three different sets by Jaded Blossom:  Halloween Candies 2 and Spooky Labels.

 

The label on the front of my cauldron is a mini tag from yet another mat stack - Recollections Journal Tags.  The sentiment on my tag is also from Jaded Blossom - this time using the Pick Your Poison set.  And those black 'dots' on each side of my tag.  Those are skittles from the Back to School set by DoubleClick Connections.

 

And now I'm off to enter this project in to the following challenges:

 

Jaded Blossom - Any Treat - Ends September 21

 

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge - Mix and Match 3 patterned paper (used for my candy wrappers/decorations) - Ends September 14

 

Hiding in My Craft Room - Think Fall, use Fall Colors - Ends September 13

Halloween 3D Centerpiece

I made my first one of these back in 2010 for my husband whose favorite holiday is Halloween, but with the recent Movable Monsters free cut of the week last week I wanted to create another one with an updated look. And what perfect timing with this week's Just A Scrappin challenge directive being to create a 3D halloween project.

 

Now since I already had this project laid out from a couple of years ago I started with those cuts and then added in the new ones from Movable Monsters. That said, here are all the deets......

 

Using Happy Hauntings I cut:

 

The tree at 10" out of chipboard. I then used the chipboard as a "stencil" and traced it onto foam core board and then cut it out using a craft razor knife. I then painted the tree with brown acrylic paint and shaded it using black and a lighter brown. Once the paint was dry I came back and added a coat of clear rock candy distress crackle paint.

 

The four tombstones were cut at 3" with a piece of foam core board wedged between the front and back stones to add depth.

 

 

The two vaults were created by cutting the tombstones at 4". For the depth on this I used foam tape placed between the front and back headstones (foamcore was too difficult to cut around the cross). The foot stone was created by using the bottom portion of the tombstone only. For the center of the vault I cut a piece of cardstock 3" x 2 1/2", scored at 1" and 2" - turn a quarter turn and then score at 1/4" along both ends. I then embossed the cuts using my Sizzix faded brick texture and inked with brick red distressed ink. This was then formed to fit the head and foot stones to create the vault.

 

The skeletons were cut at 4". For the backside of the skeletons flip the cuts and hide all facial contours. To make them moveable/poseable I adhered the front and back pieces together with a piece of off white quilt thread between the bones.

 

Using Movable Monsters I cut:

 

The top half of two mummy and one zombie bodies at 2". Cut one zombie body in full length. When putting the pieces together use the quilt thread (instead of brads) to make the pieces posable.

 

At the bottom half of the bodies cut a toothpick in half and glue between papers. This will enable you to insert the pieces into the foam core board.

 

Now to put it all together. I found the moss landscape mat at AC Moore in the Halloween section. For the base of my graveyard I adhered a section of the mat to a piece of foamcore board using a hot glue. The tree was glued to the center of the square. To create the graves I cut four pieces of the moss landscape, folded it in thirds gluing all edges and then hot glued them in place. I then placed my skeltons as desired, gluing the necessary sections to keep them in place. Since I did not have any of the spider webbing stuff I used fiber fill to create the webs from the tree to the vaults.

The Haunting Hours

Today I'd like to share with you another project that I had created for the Create a Critter 2 sneak peek contest.  I just love these cutesy halloween cuts and could not resist cutting several of them while they were available this past week.

For this card I cut the house at 6" and the ghosts at 1 1/2" and 1 1/4".  I also used Happy Hauntings for the bat (cut at .75") and the tree (cut at 3 3/4"). 

As I was laying my cuts out for the card the tree didn't really go as tall as I wanted for the overlapping of the branches so I hand cut a piece of the brown cardstock that I could use to add height and yet hide behind the house cut so you wouldn't know what I had done.  The end result was just as I wanted.

I've been having so much fun with this cartridge and can't wait to see it hit the shelves in my area.  Stay tuned because I have more to share with you later........

Halloween Envelope Album

I purchased this wonderful little Halloween envelope album kit from Scrapbook.com a few weeks ago and finally had the opportunity to sit down and put it all together this weekend. I had a lot of fun with this one and even broke out some old and new cartridges as well as some Martha Stewart punches that had not been used in a while - if at all.

So let's break it down..........For the cover of the album I use Happy Hauntings for my cuts.  When adhering my headless horseman I wanted the pumpkin raised so I cut it away from the die cut and then pop dotted for a better effect.

For this page I used Happy Hauntings once again along with some papers from Tim Holtz and DCWV and then used my MS cracks punch around the page set.

Happy Hauntings and Accent Essentials were used for this page along with some stickers from the Booville collection from My Little Yellow Bicycle.  Oh and I used my MS Drippy Goo punch.

On this page I used a cut from the October 31st cartridge and this is one that I just purchased this summer but had not yet found an opportunity to use - until now.

For this page I broke out one of the 'oldies' - Paper Dolls Dress Up for the spider web.  After cutting, I ran it through my Xyron and then sprinkled on some glitter fibers.  The spiders are from a Recollections pack in my stash.

The eyes have it......or so they say.....lol.....these eyes are cut from October 31st.....gotta love that sinister, don't mess with me look they give.

And last, but not least, my ending pages.....nothing fancy - just a couple of rectangles punched and distressed.

Boo Jar Lids & Tags

So today I've combined two crafts that I enjoy - scrapping with my Cricut and plastic canvas.  Not too long ago I got my hands on the fairly new Tim Holtz Halloween embossing folders and thought this would be a perfect project to break them out for.

My tags were made using the Happy Hauntings cartidge with the skeleton cuts at 2 1/2" and the ghost at 1 1/2".  On the back of the tags I printed a copy of the Boo Poem that I found on the Papercrafts blog last year.

Halloween Ornaments

After I posted my Christmas glitter ornaments last night it dawned on me that I never posted the ones I did for Halloween.  My husband loves Halloween but it's never been a big deal for me.  After nine years of marriage and never having 'decorated' I decided to surprise him by making some things for him this year.  So along with the graveyard centerpiece I made weeks ago I made these ornaments.

Unfortunately, the fact that I used glow in the dark glitter does not come through in the picture.  But I still like the way they turned out and my husband enjoyed them as well.

Witch's Parking - Cricut Cardz Challenge #44

This week's challenge over at Cricut Cardz Challenge was to create an S or Z fold card with a Halloween theme using and colors and cartridge/s of our choosing. 

The inspiration for this card came from a sign I saw at Michael's a couple weeks ago that said, "witch's parking only - all others will be toad".  To create this Halloween scene I used a variety of cartridges including:

A Child's Year - witches cut at 1 1/2"
Camp Out - sign scaled to 1/2" high
George - moon cut at 1 1/4"
Happy Hauntings - fence and ravens cut at 1"
Mini Monsters -  tree cut at 3" and toad scaled to .40" tall

PPDU - brooms scaled to .83" tall

Together all cuts were laid out on a 3" by 4 1/2" rectangle to create the scene.

And now it's your turn to play along.  Create your own Halloween themed S or Z fold card and upload it to Cricut Cardz Challenge for your chance to be entered into the grand prize drawing for October.

Glad We Wound Up Together

My poor hubby needed some cheering up the other day so I decided to make a card for him.  His favorite holiday is Halloween and I thought why not use that as a theme for my card?  Especially since I've been wanting to use this sentiment for quite some time now.

For this card I used:

Happy Hauntings for the mummies - many thanks to Kateroo over on the Cricut MB for sharing with my on how to make their frowns into smiles

Sweethearts for the hearts

And the font is the spooky font from Happy Hauntings welded together to create my words.

Boo House

This week's challenge for Cricut Cardz Challenge was to create a halloween card using the card feature from any cartridge we desired along with any color scheme we choose.  Of course there was always the card features on the Mini Monsters cartridge, but that's too easy.  So I pulled several other carts off my shelf - looked at the options offered and when I saw the house on Wild Card I knew I had to use that one.  And after I made the house cut I was ecstatic because I didn't realize that the door would cut so that it could open and close.  Yippee!!!

So for this card, I made the following cuts:

House from Wild Card cut at 5 1/4"

Spider web from Wild Card cut at 1"

Ghosts, Cat and Boo! from Happy Hauntings cut at 1"
Spider from Designer's Calendar cut at 1"

My ghosts were cut from velum and then inked lightly with a blue ink to help them stand out on the card while remaining "translucent".  Of course the one on the rooftop shows up better in the photos than the one on the inside....Oh well.

The cat and the spider were flocked to add a little texture to the card. 

A Witch's Work....

....is never done.  Especially at Halloween.  That's the sentiment inside this card I created to play along in this week's Apron challenge over at bittenbythebug2.

For this one I used:

Mini Monsters for the witch cut at 5"
Happy Hauntings for the cauldron cut at 3 1/2" and embossed the kettle with one of the folders from my Sizzix Halloween set.  The bubbling over 'goo' was created with my Snow Writers pen which I painted over with two coats of Shimmerz paint in Evergreen.
And of course there's the apron cut from the From My Kitchen cart.  For this cut I worked with skewing the width to height ratio on my Gypsy so that it would fit my witch.

My background papers are from My Mind's Eye Halloween {Scary Sparkles} mat stack.  The top (orange) paper was inked using Distressed inks and then punched with the Martha Stewart Drippy Goo punch.

Beware - All Hallows Night

I was inspired to try my hand at using a zipper in my card by one that I saw on another site quite some time ago.  (sorry I don't remember where) And while I've thought about creating this card often I'd never done so - until yesterday.  Now that it's complete though I'm still undecided as to whether or not I even like it because it looked SOOOOO much better in my head than it does on paper.  Nonetheless, it's complete and that's all there is to that. 

For this card I used the Happy Hauntings cartridge for all my cuts.  I don't know if you can see it or not but there's a fence at the bottom of the zipper and then of course the ghosts flying around above that.  To add a little texture to the card I flocked my ghosts and embossed the fence.  However since the fence is at the bottom of the zipper you can't see it all that well and I love how it turned out so I'll have to make another card that I can use the fence on where it's visible.

Boo Poem Tags

After watching one of Tim Holtz's videos on using distress inks I had to get a blending tool so that I could try it out on the boo poem tags that I was in process of creating.  Then after the first tag I was hooked and decided to create more.  When all was said and done I created two dozen tags in all even though my original intent was to do six. 

For all sets of tags I used the Happy Hauntings cartridge.  The embossing folders used were a combination of Cuttlebug (skulls and swiss dots) and Sizzix (haunted house scene - embossed using a different section of the folder for each tag).

The poem reads:

The air is cool, the season fall,

Soon Halloween will come to all.
Ghosts and goblins, spooks galore...
Tricky witches at your door.
The spooks are after things to do,
In fact a spook brought this "Boo" to you!
The excitement comes when friends like you, copy this note and make it two.
We'll all have smiles upon our faces,
No one will know who "BOO"ed who's places!
Just two short days to work your spell,
Keep it secret, hide it well.
Please join the fun, the seasons here.
Just spread these "BOO's" and Halloween cheer.

Secret Agent Birthday Card

This week was anything goes week for Cricut Cardz Challenge #38 and since I had a close friend who is celebrating a birthday this week I chose to use her card as my DT challenge.  I wanted to create something that was fun and humorous to try to match my girlfriend's personality.  Hopefully when she receives her card in the mail she'll love it. 

Late last week I received my new Happy Hauntings cartridge in the mail and when I started looking at the various cuts I was drawn to this little mouse in his cape.  My first thought was that he looked like a Sherlock Holmes wanna be and thus my card was born.  The little spy glass in his hands was created using the butterfly net outline from Pooh and Friends to which I adhered a piece of acetate to make it look a little more realistic. 

The shape of the card and the "shhh" are from Graphically Speaking.  I haven't used this cartridge much lately but was glad to be able to dig it back out because I almost forgot how much I like it.

Not shown in the pics is that there is a second page to the "file" that includes our birthday greetings.  Both of the file pages were cut using one of the shapes from George and were then stapled to the file.