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Cutest Halloween Ghosts Card

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Cutest Halloween Ghosts Card

This Cutest Halloween Ghosts Card is one that I like to make with some basic stamping, a bit of designer paper, and some ribbon for embellishment. Sometimes we make such fancy cards that we miss out on just stamping randomly to design a card. To celebrate October 1st, I thought a Halloween card was in order! I can’t believe it is October! What happened to August and September? I feel like September just started.

The card base is, of course, Pumpkin Pie Cardstock with a layer of Basic Black. I knew I would use Basic White Cardstock for the card front on which to stamp ghosts, but I also added a striped piece of the Cute Halloween 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper, which has the cutest Halloween papers in it!

Before I assembled the card, I stamped some ghosts on the Basic White Cardstock. The ghosts are in the Cutest Halloween Stamp Set. They are stamped with Memento Ink. There is the ghost outline stamp and then a little face and arms. To make some of the ghosts look different, I stamped two eyes with one little round stamp in the set on three of the ghosts! You could just draw in some dots for eyes or draw another kind of face if you wanted.

Luckily, there was just the right space and the right place to stamp the “Hey, Boo!” greeting, also in the Cutest Halloween Stamp Set. Otherwise, I would have made a little label to stamp it on and place possibly covering up part of a ghost or making it more like a tag up by the bow. I wrapped some Black 3/8″ Glittered Organdy Ribbon around the strip of designer paper and then tied a separate bow, which I then adhered with two Mini Glue Dots.

Here’s another Halloween card with randomly stamped ghosts on the front that I made four years ago!

You could even modify this idea to make an invitation to a Halloween party! Or decorate a little bag for a gift or party favor with these cute stamped ghosts!

It’s time to start making some Halloween cards to send for fun! Tomorrow the post office is supposed to slow down the mail (what??!) so make your cards soon and mail them extra early! With a little bit of luck, maybe they will arrive by Halloween! You’ll have fun making a Cutest Halloween Ghosts Card like this one!

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Ghosts Halloween Gift Bag

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Recently I told you about how fun I thought it was to decorate a plain kraft gift bag for a special occasion or just to have on hand and then last week I wanted a Halloween bag for a gift for a friend! This Ghosts Halloween Gift Bag was fun to make for a little gift!

All you need is a gift bag like this one with the handles in kraft or white or whatever color you can find at the craft store. Or often I use bags that I get at certain small shops or special places. Even if they have printing on the front, you can usually cover the store name and all that with your personalization. If they have printing on both sides, then do a good job on the front side and do something plain and simple on the backside just to cover the printing.

There is an infinite number of ways you can decorate these bags! Think of it as making a card front, but probably bigger. This design is not very complicated at all. I just used one 6″ x 6″ sheet of the Cute Halloween Designer Series Paper, my favorite one with all the little trick-or-treating ghosts! I layered it on a larger piece of Pumpkin Pie and then a layer of Basic Black.

On the front of the bag, I have various die cuts layered. These are the Tasteful Labels Dies and the scalloped rectangle in the Stitched So Sweetly The greeting is stamped from the Cutest Halloween Stamp Set and seemed perfect for this gift bag! Once I added the Black Glittered Organdy Ribbon tied in a bow I was happy with my project! Plus I added a few Cute Stars Adhesive-Backed Sequins.

You could use smaller bags to decorate or even lunch sacks! It’s so much fun to decorate bags for a birthday gift, congratulations, a holiday season, or whatever you need! Here is the bag I made just a few weeks ago. There are lots of ideas out there!

Start looking through your collection of bags and put the good ones you could use for decorated gift bags into your stash so you’ll have them handy or go ahead and decorate now for the holidays! You will be glad you did at the last minute when you need something gift-wrapped and you’re all out of wrapping paper and store-bought gift bags!

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Don’t forget Sale-A-Bration ends Thursday, September 30! Don’t miss out on the free products you can earn!

Be Dazzling Pretty Pumpkins Halloween Card

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Be Dazzling Pretty Pumpkins Halloween Card

Here’s a fun Halloween card, the Be Dazzling Pretty Pumpkins Halloween Card, that came about simply because I found a square Pumpkin Pie card base already in my Pumpkin Pie cardstock. I immediately got the idea that I would make a quick card out of it right away. I don’t know if this one was quick in my fiddling with the words in the greeting, but it would be an easy one for you to copy since I already did the design!

Beyond the 4 1/4″ x 4 1/4″ Pumpkin Pie card base and putting a pumpkin on the front, I didn’t know exactly how it would all come together. Just to start, I looked through the Blackberry Beauty Specialty Designer Series Paper simply because it was laying out on my desk. Right away I saw the backside of one of the gold foil accented papers, probably one of the prettiest papers. We often don’t use the “other side” of the fancy or themed paper but sometimes we have to sacrifice the pretty side in order to use the “other” side! I immediately liked the herringbone design of this paper for a background. It is cut at 4″ x 4″.

The pumpkin is die-cut from the Sale-A-Bration Be Dazzling Paper using the Detailed Pumpkins Dies. As I write this, this paper is not coming up in the Online Store so it may not be available any longer. However, if you can’t get it, you can use a Gold Foil Sheet or any other metallic papers which will look just as pretty! This particular die is SO pretty and detailed! If you think ahead, it would be best to use an Adhesive Sheet on the back of the paper before you die cut it so that you don’t have to put teeny tiny drops of glue on the back to adhere it.

The greeting is in the Cutest Halloween Stamp Set and is quite lengthy in size. Just for fun, I decided to cut up the individual words and see if I liked that on the card. With the pumpkin taking up a lot of room on the card, front and center, it was a little difficult to arrange the words to my liking. Finally, I decided to go with a placement I liked and stamped and cut out a ghost as well from the same stamp set.

Sometimes, even when you are not totally pleased with a card, it is the addition of some little embellishment that just makes the card satisfactory! In this case, since I had struggled with the word placement and the ghost, it wasn’t like this was my favorite card of all time, but when I added the Cute Stars Adhesive-Backed Sequins, that was the final touch! I think the stars added so much and I loved the card then!

Sale-A-Bration ends on September 30, a Thursday, two weeks from yesterday! That’s all the time you have to get your free products with every $50 or more purchase! It always seems like we have lots of time in the beginning but now the end is coming up fast! Don’t disappoint yourself by forgetting or not getting free products during this favorite promotion!

Be sure to shop soon and hopefully get something FREE during Sale-A-Bration!

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Harvest Meadow Pretty Pumpkins Card

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Harvest Meadow Pretty Pumpkins

This year it seems to be trendy to have pumpkins of non-traditional colors so I thought I would try that with this Harvest Meadow Pretty Pumpkins Card. I’m not even sure how I came up with this particular idea but I pulled out the Harvest Meadow Designer Series Paper and played around with the various papers to see how these would work as pumpkins. I also was very interested in using the die in the Detailed Pumpkins Dies.

The card base is Old Olive mainly because I had already cut out the leaves in the Detailed Pumpkins Dies from an Old Olive scrap on the table while I was cutting out the pumpkins. I cut out the pumpkins and played around with their placement and combinations just on the table before I tried to put them on a card.

The background layer is the striped pattern in the Cute Halloween 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. I just was looking through various papers to see if there was something I wanted to use for the background layer or if maybe I would use cardstock and emboss it in a folder to add some texture. At first, I didn’t think there would be anything in the Cute Halloween Paper but found this striped paper that was pretty subtle but had Old Olive in it, one of the colors I was already using. I think it provides some interest in the background without clashing with the prints on the pumpkins.

The pumpkins are cut out with the outline die in the Detailed Pumpkins Dies. I chose some patterns from the Harvest Meadow DSP that I thought could look okay as pumpkins, even the blue! The one pumpkin is die-cut from Calypso Coral Cardstock with the die with the slits. I wanted another color behind those slits, so I traced the die cut on a scrap of Bumblebee Cardstock and then cut it out with Paper Snips just inside the pencil lines so it wouldn’t stick out from the Calypso Coral cardstock. A couple of the pumpkins are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals® as are a couple of the leaves.

The greeting is in the Pretty Pumpkins Stamp Set. I stamped it in Old Olive ink on a scrap of Basic White Cardstock. I kept it simple by just leaving it as a rectangle. I didn’t want to take up too much more room on the card or take away from the pumpkins.

Here is another card on my blog that I made recently using non-traditional colors (but now trendy!) for the pumpkins. This was a fun card to make and I liked how it turned out with the different colors. When you make a fall card with pumpkins, take some artistic license and see what new colors you can use for the pumpkins! Just have fun with it! Experiment, like I did on this Harvest Meadow Pretty Pumpkins Card, until you are happy with your result!

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Cute Halloween Trick or Treat Ghosts Card

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Cute Halloween Trick or Treat Ghosts Card

I just had to make another fun Halloween card, this Cute Halloween Trick or Treat Ghosts Card. I started by picking out the designer paper and played around from there! I have a trick for how I made one ghost go in a different direction from the one stamp!

This card base is Old Olive Cardstock with a layer of basic black. I chose the designer paper with the little houses and tiny moons and ghosts! This is the Cute Halloween 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. So many cute patterns to choose from! I decided to make the designer paper narrower than the card front and have the ghosts floating along the edge. Then I decided to cut a decorative edge with a scallop die in the Penned Flowers Dies. Next, I selected another designer paper, the one with black dots, to go along the edge, after considering several options. This card opens from the top but it would be the same if it opened from the side.

The greeting is stamped from the Cutest Halloween Stamp Set on Basic White and then die cut with a die that fits inside the Basic Black die-cut, both of which are in the Ornate Frames Dies. I popped up the greeting on Stampin’ Dimensionals® and added two Elegant Faceted Gems.

For the ghosts, I stamped two ghost shapes in the Cutest Halloween Stamp Set on Basic White and then turned over the cardstock and stamped one ghost on the back where it didn’t overlap the ghosts stamped on the front. I also added the faces and little arms just on the ones on the front of the cardstock! So cute!! I cute out the ghosts by hand with my Paper Snips. Now you can purchase the Halloween Punch and get both the stamp set and punch in the Cutest Halloween Bundle and save 10%. So I cut out the two ghosts on the front of the white cardstock who were both facing the same direction. I cut them out with a bit of the black ink outline showing as it would if I had used the punch. Then I turned the paper over and cut out the ghost outline. But here’s the trick… after cutting out the ghost shape, I turned it over so it would be facing the opposite direction from the other two ghosts and stamped the face on it. Now, this ghost doesn’t have the black ink outline on it since I am using the unstamped side. But if you want that black ink outline, just take a black marker and run it around the ghost along the edge to get some black marking along the outline. Or, maybe it doesn’t really matter to you and you can skip that step! Out of the three ghosts, I wanted one facing the other direction.

I originally planned to adhere the ghosts right along the edge of the green designer paper, but in the end, I liked the placement you see better. I also turned the Ornate Frame die in portrait position and stamped the greeting in that direction which I think fits better than landscape position. Either way would be fine, though! Just play and see what looks good to your eye! Here is another Halloween card using the Cute Halloween DSP except with the sheet with ghosts! Order the Cute Halloween Paper on your next order so you have plenty of time to create “cute” Halloween cards and projects to send out, like this Cute Halloween Trick or Treat Ghosts Card.

Cute Halloween Happy Haunting Card

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Cute Halloween Happy Haunting Card

Make this easy Cute Halloween Happy Haunting Card and send to a spooky friend for Halloween! It’s a basic card design, but as usual, the designer paper makes it extra special! If you are a Halloween lover, be sure to get this paper and make some fun cards to send for Halloween!

This cute designer paper is the Cute Halloween 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. I just love all the whimsical Halloween characters plus the more generic designs to pair with them. This Cute Halloween Paper is really CUTE! I could have used just the piece of paper with the black cats and pumpkins, but then the black and orange striped paper I knew would look so cute with it, too!

The card base is Pumpkin Pie with a layer of Basic Black under the designer paper. I cut the designer paper with the cats and pumpkins at 5″ x 3″ and the striped piece at 5″ x 2″. This way there was room for the two papers to overlap so I could glue them together before adding the ribbon. If you cut them exactly to the space, then you likely should glue the designer papers to another piece of cardstock the same total side so you can tie a ribbon around the seam.

Look at your designer paper with designs like this one carefully before you cut. Look at the images on the paper and see how you can maximize those and maybe not cut through too many of them. For example, instead of cutting off 1/4″ on one side and really cutting into an image you like, maybe you can cut 1/8″ off each side instead of 1/4″ of one side. That might help you preserve more of the images on the paper. Just look and see how you can place your cuts to get the best images on your paper where you want them! Maybe cut a piece off the top of the designer paper before you cut anything else to position the images on the paper.

I used the Black & White Gingham Ribbon to tie around the seam in between the two papers. I love this ribbon! I tied the bow separately and adhered it with Mini Glue Dots.

The greeting is found in the Banner Year Stamp Set. I looked at several greetings in a couple different sets and decided on this one for size and appropriateness. I stamped this in Memento Black ink on Smokey Slate Cardstock. It is die cut with one in the Stitched So Sweetly Dies. I tried layering this greeting on various colors but decided it was fine just by itself.

I love fun and whimsical Halloween things and this Cute Halloween Paper is perfect for me! Put it on your next order so you can make a few Halloween cards or projects in plenty of time!

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Pretty Pumpkins Thankful Pale Papaya Card

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Pretty Pumpkins Thankful Pale Papaya Card

Many times you never exactly know what you are going to end up with when you begin stamping, as I didn’t with this Pretty Pumpkins Thankful Pale Payaya Card. I knew I wanted to stamp these Pretty Pumpkins and color them with these different colors. What I didn’t know was that I would end up using this designer paper as a background layer on the card and that I would love the way it looked. The colors might not be an exact match, but I just liked it regardless!

I love the Pretty Pumpkins Stamp Set and the Detailed Pumpkin Dies! You can purchase both together in the Pretty Pumpkins Bundle and save 10%! Just add another $5.00 to your order and you will earn a FREE Sale-A-Bration product with your $50.00 purchase! Sometimes I feel I don’t need the extra expense of the die set, but in this case, there are two dies, especially the one die, that will make for really fancy and pretty pumpkins that you can’t stamp!

This card has a Pale Papaya card base. The designer paper I found in the Harvest Meadow Designer Series Paper. I hadn’t opened that package yet, but I was surprised to find this particular design in there! When I tried it out on the card, I really liked the look!

The pumpkins are stamped from the Pretty Pumpkins Stamp Set with Memento Ink and colored with Stampin’ Blends Markers. You have lots of choices of colors for your pumpkins these days, not just basic orange! I liked some of these pumpkin colors I was seeing online so I tried it out! My pumpkins are Mint Macaron, Pool Party, and Pale Papaya, using both the Light and Dark markers. The pumpkin leaves are colored with Granny Apple Green markers. Then I used the Detailed Pumpkins Die to cut out the trio.

For the background for the pumpkins, I used a scalloped rectangle die cut from the Scalloped Contours Dies. If you don’t have these dies, I highly recommend them! This die-cut is Basic White with the greeting stamped in Pale Papaya Ink It just fits on there with the pumpkins. You could stamp another color if you wanted to. This die-cut is layered on a rectangle of Pale Papaya. The pumpkins are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals®. For some bling, I added some In Color Jewels.

Check out THIS CARD I made previously with the Pretty Pumpkins Stamp Set and the fancy die I mentioned in the Detailed Pumpkin Dies.

This card today is actually a pretty basic card, but I think the color of the pumpkins and the designer paper in the background make it look much more than a basic designed card. This Pretty Pumpkins Bundle can be used now for fall, for Halloween, and for Thanksgiving cards and projects that you may want to make! I hope this Pretty Pumpkins Thankful Pale Payaya Card gives you some inspiration to use some different colors on a traditional card.

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Cute Halloween Ghost Boo Card

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Cute Halloween Ghost Boo Card

My first Halloween card of the season! I love this cute pack of 6″ x 6″ paper with Halloween designs! I love the cute and whimsical Halloween styles, not the scary, dark ones. I’m hoping we can have normal trick-or-treating this year because I love handing out candy to the little ones, especially. Last year I had to block off my front door and put out a sign saying “See you next year!”

This card uses the Cute Halloween Designer Series Paper which is the 6″ x 6″ size. I just picked out the top sheet in the pack with these cute flying ghosts with their trick-or-treat bags! Isn’t that cute??!!! When I turned the paper over, I saw the design was the tiny printed “Boos”. I just had to use that on the front of the card along with the ghosts! That section started out being wider but I didn’t want to cover up much of the ghost paper.

The card base is Highland Heather with a layer of Basic Black. I played around with those two colors and Pumpkin Pie to see which ones I wanted to use and in which order. I think any other combination would also look good. I ended up with a very thin strip of the Boo paper on the left side of the card. To cover the seam and to add another color, I cut a very thin strip of Pumpkin Pie cardstock in between the two designs.

For a greeting, I got the idea to cut out the letters to spell “Boo” with the Playful Alphabet Dies. I haven’t used these dies much, but I love how they turned out on this card! I cut the letters and exclamation point out of Pumpkin Pie cardstock and layered them on one of the Tailor Made Tags Dies. You would think I shouldn’t use Highland Heather as a color for the tag because it blends into the background color of the designer paper too much, but I kind of liked that because it helped the letters stand out without detracting too much from the ghosts. I popped up the tag on Stampin’ Dimensionals® and tied on a piece of the Black & White 1/4″ Gingham Ribbon.

Sometimes you make a card and it’s just fine and you like it, and sometimes you make a card and LOVE how it turned out! That is how I feel about this Cute Halloween Ghost Boo Card and I hope it will inspire you to make some fun Halloween cards with this cute Cute Halloween paper!

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Here’s the September 2021 Paper Pumpkin Kit!

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If you are new, this is how Stampin’ Up! describes Paper Pumpkin! Think about trying it, especially this month if you like fall!

“What is Paper Pumpkin? Paper Pumpkin is our monthly One-Stop Box™ that offers a unique variety of paper projects for subscribers of any skill level to enjoy! These thoughtfully themed and all-inclusive craft kits encourage Stampin’ Up! customers to explore their creativity, try new techniques, and discover their potential in papercrafting.”

This kit features three different designs for every treat box. That means whether you want to celebrate the Fall harvest or feel like getting in the Halloween mood (or a mix of both!), you can choose how you want to create your adorable treat boxes! Take your pick from crisp red apples, seasonal pumpkins, spooky jack-o-lanterns, or get creative and customize them into whatever you can imagine! 

The Haunts & Harvest Paper Pumpkin Kit contains enough supplies to create 12 treat packages which means you get to share the a-maize-ing treats with your friends and family! These treat package designs are perfect for Halloween party favors or place setting favors at a fall feast. These treat packages are the perfect way to tell your family and friends to eat, drink, and be scary!

The Haunts & Harvest Paper Pumpkin Kit not only offers the cutest giftable treat packages, it is also intended as home décor with the included wheelbarrow crafting opportunity! This month’s Paper Pumpkin box is designed with pre-traced lines and instructions to create a vintage-inspired wheelbarrow as a place to display your too-cute-to-spook treat packages.

ABOUT THE KIT

Haunts & Harvest 

  • Kit contains enough supplies to create 12 treat packages—4 each of 3 designs. The all-inclusive kit includes printed die-cut boxes, die-cut sheets, adhesive, and more!
  • Finished treat box size: 2-1/2″ x 2″
  • Includes an exclusive stamp set and a Classic Stampin’ Spot
  •  Coordinating colors: Basic Black, Pale Papaya, Poppy Parade, Pumpkin Pie, Soft Succulent

Remember, this is YOUR kit when it arrives in your mailbox mid-September! You will be ready to start thinking about fall and fall decorating! You can make everything exactly as designed in the kit or use the supplies to make your own designs and variations! If you don’t want treat boxes, make cards out of the supplies. Change it up however you like, but I have to say, it is a treat sometimes to just open the box and not have to think about “what to make”. The plan is already there for you! There’s even a video you can watch plus the directions. It’s easy enough for everyone! If you want more than 12 treat packages, order two kits! You may be able to get a “Refill Kit” later on but those are never guaranteed. Once you are signed up as a Paper Pumpkin subscriber, you can go in the Stamin’ Up! Online Store and order any past kits or refills that are available!

I always say Paper Pumpkin is a gift you give yourself! Once a month you can count on getting a package in the mail and what is better than a box of a new stamping project and supplies!

The deadline seems like a long way off, but go ahead and sign up now and then you are all set!

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It’s Sale-A-Bration (Again!) at Stampin’ Up!

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Sale-A-Bration Aug Sept 2021

In case you are new to Stampin’ Up!, you might not know what Sale-A-Bration is! Sale-A-Bration has been around since the beginning or near the beginning of Stampin’ Up, except back then it was called “Sell-A-Bration”. I believe I heard it was an idea to save the company back in the beginning when things got rough, as they often do in many companies, especially small ones. It really took off and has been an annual promotion ever since, one that everyone loves! Except for THIS year, we are having TWO Sale-A-Brations!! We only had it starting in January before, but right now we are having the second one in 2021! And at a perfect time when we are purchasing new products anyway in the Holiday Catalog!

The concept of Sale-A-Bration is that when you spend $50 or more, you get to choose a FREE product in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure! And we all love FREE stamping supplies! If you spend $100 or more, you have a choice of one $100 Level product in the brochure or two $50 Level products. You will see those designations in the brochure. No limits to what you can spend and get for FREE!

TAKE A LOOK AT THE SALE-A-BRATION BROCHURE HERE!

Watch this video to learn about the Sale-A-Bration products!

If you have a large order yourself or go in together with friends, you can choose a FREE Host stamp set, In Your Words, with a $300 order! It’s on page 17 in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure.

In Your Words SAB Host Set 2021

Sale-A-Bration is a fun time at Stampin’ Up! This year, it is double the fun of having a second Sale-A-Bration going on now! But it won’t last forever! Sale-A-Bration ends on September 30 and you know how time flies! Get what you want before things sell out! Enjoy the Sale-A-Bration video!

Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog Videos!

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Enjoy these videos and get a better view of these new products in the July-December 2021 Mini Catalog, otherwise known as the Holiday Mini!

View the Holiday Mini Catalog HERE!

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All the Halloween Things

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All the Halloween Things

Happy Halloween!

Today is the day! It’s Halloween! I pulled out a bunch of Halloween projects I have saved from past years. Some I use for decorations in my house! Some I keep for future ideas!

If you are going trick-or-treating tonight or having them come to your house, be safe and be careful.

Don’t forget to change your clocks back to Standard Time tonight before you go to bed (or in the morning!). It’s Fall Back time! We get an extra hour of sleep!

Also, don’t forget today is the LAST DAY for the Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper Sale! Pick up some papers you will want to use for your Christmas cards or holiday projects! Save 15%!

See you in November!!

Trick or Treat Card For Halloween

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Trick or Treat Card For Halloween

This Trick or Treat Card For Halloween, as I named it, from my friend I think is one of the prettiest Halloween cards I have ever gotten! I just love Halloween and making cards and projects so I really appreciate this one my friend made. She has such a great simple but lovely style in her cardmaking, even for Halloween as you can see!

I imagine she made a mask with a punched circle to cover up the background which would look like the moon in the sky after she lightly sponged on some color for the sky and ground and stamped the trees. After all that she could removed the circle which protected the Whisper White paper underneath. I usually use a sticky note so that it already has some temporary adhesive to hold it in place.

The trees are from the White Christmas Stamp Set (retired). The greeting is from the Spooky Cat Stamp Set (retired). You can see what a cute little scene she made that really could just be for fall, but with the greeting, the pumpkin, and the bats it looks like Halloween! And she added a few sequins for some bling! The thin layer of Basic Black behind the stamped piece really helps it stand out.

Halloween is only a day away so if you want to make anything else for someone today is the day to do it!

Remember the last day for the Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper Sale is Halloween, October 31! If you want your last shot at select papers on sale for 15% off, don’t get too caught up in Halloween and forget about the sale!

Coming Home Haunted House Halloween Card

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Coming Home Haunted House Halloween Card

This Coming Home Haunted House Halloween Card was so fun to create! I didn’t know what it was going to be until I made it! I had seen the idea online of making Halloween houses out of what we are mostly using as Christmas houses and I thought that was so clever that I had to use that idea.

To get this card started I stamped one house in the Coming Home Stamp Set on Whisper White and then colored it in with various colors of Stampin’ Blends markers. You can use whatever colors you like. I wanted my house to look haunted so I chose some light and dark gray colors for the house with a couple different yellows for the windows. I wanted to roof to look a little spooky so I used a purple on it along with grays and black. The chimney is part Cherry Cobbler. Then to make it look even more run-down, I drew lines with the pointy end of the Basic Black Blends marker to resemble shingles or bricks on the house. That’s not what the stamp looks like.

The card base is Basic Black with a layer of Gorgeous Grape. As I looked through my embossing folders, I found this Woodland Embossing Folder and used that. Originally I thought just any kind of small background folder for some texture would be fine, but when I found this one with the trees, thought it was perfect for Halloween spookiness.

After I had stamped the haunted house, I cut it out with Paper Snips and originally thought I would adhere it to a die-cut circle or rectangle to be the focal point of the card, but then I decided I could just place it at the bottom of the card and it could look like it was out in the woods. I also carefully stamped some trees in Memento Black in the Coming Home Stamp Set in between the embossed trees. I got lucky that I didn’t mess up the embossing!

The greeting is from the Banner Year Stamp Set. I have gotten a lot of use out of this stamp set even though it is one you might overlook. I like the variety of greetings and small images. I stamped it on Crushed Curry Cardstock and then used a die-cut in the Tasteful Labels Dies. I love the look of that circle die with the fancy edge. I popped that up with Stampin’ Dimensionals® and placed some ghosts behind it.

To make all my ghosts, I die cut the smallest plain hearts in the Be Mine Stitched Dies and cut them in half. You can read about why I make ghosts like that HERE in this recent post. The haunted house had to have some ghosts, too! I colored on some eyes on the ghosts with a marker.

And that’s it for my Coming Home Haunted House Halloween Card which was so fun to make! Halloween is Saturday so time is running out to enjoy creating for this fun holiday!

Fun Halloween Projects From the Past!

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Halloween Night Candy Bars

Halloween Decorated Candy Bars

I think one fun treat project is to cover candy bars with designer paper or cardstock and then decorate. It doesn’t matter if you have Halloween paper or not, you probably have something that will work. If not, stamp some cardstock.

Mini Curvy Keepsake Halloween Boxes

Mini Curvy Keepsake Halloween Character Boxes

It’s so fun to use the Mini Curvy Keepsakes Box Die to make all kinds of treat box characters, like this Jack-o-Lantern and Frankenstein. You’ll find all kinds of examples on the internet for ideas!

Monster Bash Halloween Clear Tiny Treat Box

Monster Bash Halloween Clear Tiny Treat Box

I continue to say having these Clear Tiny Treat Boxes on hand makes it so easy when you want to make a little treat, gift box, or party favor. Just decorate in any number of ways, with designer paper, ribbon, stamping, whatever you like for the occasion.

Easy Halloween Trick or Tweet Candy Treats

Easy Halloween Trick or Tweet Candy Treats

If you want to make a special, but easy, treat wrapper for Halloween, just cut a strip of cardstock and score for the bottom to fit the candy and decorate the front with a funny Halloween character or design!

Black Cat Halloween Cards

Black Cat Halloween Cards

If you want to make Halloween cards but don’t have Halloween paper, make your own “designer paper” by stamping all over. Start with the largest stamp as you stamp randomly around on your paper, then progress through the smaller stamps you are using to fill in the space. It’s really fun! The Cat Punch makes this card so easy!

Triangle Treat Box For Halloween

Triangle Treat Box For Halloween

I’ve always thought these Triangle Treat Boxes were so easy to make and turn into a great treat box. You can vary the size easily. Just follow the directions in this post, linked in the title. Once you make one, you will have it down!

Halloween Card With Ghosts

A Quick and Easy Halloween Card With Ghosts

One of my favorite things of all in stamping is making ghosts out of hearts cut in half! You’ve got to try it!! Here’s an easy card with ghosts and some fun Halloween paper in the background. But you could also just use Basic Black maybe with a few “Boos” written in the background or embossed.

I hope these past Halloween ideas have gotten your creativity going if you are making some last-minute Halloween projects! I hate to see Halloween come to an end because it’s so much fun to make Halloween projects and cards!

Happy Halloween!