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!

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!

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

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.

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

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!

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

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!

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!

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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!