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More Halloween Treat Boxes

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Halloween Treat Character Boxes

I’m going to show you the last of my Halloween Treat Boxes I have made for the trick-or-treaters this year! Hopefully we will get a decent number of kids, but we don’t get as many as we had years ago.

These darling character boxes you see in the top photo I found online at www.stampingamore.com. This lady has made quite a few of these style boxes for different seasons and every one is cute! She has videos so you can watch and make at the same time.These boxes are super easy to make and then you just make whatever face or design you like on the front.

The first one I made, watching the video, was Dracula, the purple box. It turned out so cute I wanted to make more. The next one of hers that I copied is the black cat with a witch’s hat. I think I added some extra glimmer stars that I punched out. I did pull out some retired punches for all of these projects.

Next I made the green Frankenstein box. It is her design but by then I could whip up a box pretty easily and I’ve made lots of Frankenstein boxes and cards through the years.

By then I was ready to strike out on my own with the pumpkin box. I copied a face I saw on Pinterest but I think it was an ad and didn’t give a name. I wanted something to make it look more like a pumpkin so I simply cut a piece of cardstock in a curve and then sponged on Pumpkin Pie ink along that curve to give the pumpkin it’s curves! I dug out a retired stamp set with leaves the sizes wanted and stamped and fussy-cut some fall leaves in various colors of green and orange. The stem of the pumpkin is just a piece of Pecan Pie cardstock I cut by hand, with no thought! I tied a bow with some orange and black baker’s twine. I really liked my pumpkin treat box!

Halloween Pumpkin Treat Box

I also wanted to make a ghost. I just drew the ghost freehand because a ghost can look like almost any shape! The box is black but I sponged on some white kraft ink to look spooky. I also edged the ghost with a Smoky Slate Stampin’ Blend marker. To make the ghost even cuter, I die cut the letters for “Boo” in the Alphabet A La Mode Dies.

Halloween Pumpkin Treat Box

Here are all the treat boxes with cello bags of candy!

Halloween Treat Boxes with Candy

At the last minute I found some Square Pillow Boxes in my stash so I thought why not decorate those and fill with candy for Halloween! I pulled out my retired Cat Punch and also used the Spooky Sweet Designer Series Paper.

Halloween Square Pillow Boxes

I wanted this pillow boxes to be quick and easy so I just sponged on some Gorgeous Grape ink only on the front and on the top flap. I cut some circles in the Stylish Shapes Dies for backgrounds. And for embellishment, I added some little black adhesive stars that I had from “somewhere”, maybe a Paper Pumpkin Kit, and the fun Shimmer Foam Star Stickers and some rhinestones and sequins for a collar on the black cats.

And finally, one more Book Treat Box treat! This one has a stamped character from the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set, colored with Stampin’ Blends. It was so fun decorating these Book Treat Boxes!

Happy Halloween Book Treat Box

Happy Halloween!

Halloween Mini Silver Gable Box

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Halloween Mini Silver Gable Box

This Halloween Mini Silver Gable Box is a mix of old and new! When you look in your stash, you never know what you might find! I found this package of Mini Silver Gable Boxes and I thought they would make good Halloween treat boxes with the proper decoration. Whether or not you have these exact gable boxes, this shows you how you can transform any small box into a Halloween treat box!

I don’t remember when we had these silver gable boxes. When I first joined Stampin’ Up! there were large gable boxes. My first customer bought some and tried stamping on them, but with the coating on the outside the ink would never dry! It’s better to wrap paper around them!

This was super simple to decorate! I looked in my Spooky Sweet Designer Series Paper and saw that this pattern with all the little candies, my favorite pattern in this package, would do with the silver box! I cut two pieces of that paper (out of scraps) to fit around the box and adhered it with Stampin’ Seal. The little Halloween guy is stamped with the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set in Memento ink, colored with Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers, and fussy-cut. He is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals on the front of the gable box.

The greeting is stamped from the same Spooky Halloween Stamp Set and cut apart in two strips in order to fit on the box. I used another piece of designer paper in the package for the layer for the greeting. Because I had the small star punch in the A Little Cheer Mini Punch Pack right there on my table, I punched out five stars from the Three Color Glimmer Paper (retired). You could use something else, like gold foil. They are adhered to the box lid and the front panel. With the retired Gingham ribbon, I tied a little bow on the box handle. Cute little box for the trick-or-treaters or just a little Halloween treat for someone in your family, a neighbor, or a friend.

Check your older stash once in a while and see what you have that you can use!

Spooky Sweet Pumpkins and Ghosts Card

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Spooky Sweet Pumpkins and Ghosts Card

Make another fun Halloween card using the Spooky Sweet Specialty Designer Series Paper by using one of the scenes on the papers plus the spooky characters on the paper and cut-outs. There is so much you can do with this paper! For this card, the Spooky Sweet Pumpkins and Ghosts Card, I even added a few little ghosts floating over the field of pumpkins!

The card base is Basic Black cardstock. It goes with the nightime scene out in the pumpkin field. All I did was add some Halloween characters out on the sidewalk from the designer paper. The rhinoceros is a diecut and is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. His little friend, the bird carrying a pumpkin bucket, is standing on the brick wall in the background. The little bat dressed up like a ghost is fussy-cut from the designer series paper. He is also popped up on a few Dimensionals and the bird on the wall is adhered flat to the card.

Just to make the card spookier, I cut out three little ghosts by hand. You can sketch a little ghost by just drawing an arch and then a wiggly bottom of some kind. Add a face for your ghost and cut out. I popped up all the ghosts with one Dimensional each!

The greeting is stamped with the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set on Basic White with Memento ink. To fit them on the card better, I cut all the words apart and made them as narrow as possible. To make them spooky, I sponged them each with a little bit Gorgeous Grape ink. While I thought the card was busy enough, there was no way I could skip adding some Shimmer Star Foam Stickers for a little sparkle.

You still have time to make some Halloween cards for friends and family and get them in the mail! Have fun with whatever supplies you have to make some fun or spooky cards!

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Spooky Sweet Candy Corn Tree Halloween Card

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Spooky Sweet Candy Corn Tree Halloween Card

This Spooky Sweet Candy Corn Tree Halloween Card was a quick and fun card to make at the last minute with no plan! With no card idea in mind except that I wanted to make a Halloween card, I pulled out the Spooky Sweet Specialty Designer Series Paper pack and took it from there!

This Spooky Sweet designer paper is called “Specialty” because it comes with a couple sheets of diecut images. All you have to do is punch them out and adhere them somewhere on your card, project, or scrapbook page. It also comes with “cut-apart” images that could be tags for a candy treat bag or background Halloween scenes of haunted houses or city streets. What got this card started was the strip of paper above the houses that is a Petunia Pop background and an iron fence. That is what I placed on the bottom of my card! My card has a Basic Black card base with a layer of Petunia Pop cardstock, one of the In Colors from last year and now in its second year.

After I had the fence, I just built a scene! I hadn’t used the diecut trees yet so I adhered one with Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop it up. With the little candy corns being individual diecuts, I thought, why not make a candy corn tree?! Haven’t we all wondered where candy corn comes from? Well, it certainly must come from spooky Halloween trees! You can see them growing right on this tree! I also added the pumpkins with a crow on top and the little Halloween fairy. She is popped up on Dimensionals.

The greeting is stamped in Petunia Pop ink from the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set. I love the greetings in this stamp set. There is also a die set that is very cute that you can add to the stamp set and purchase in the Spooky Halloween Bundle. There still is time to order these Halloween sets and designer paper and be able to make and send Halloween card and treats and certainly to make scrapbook pages to record fun Halloween memories. To help the greeting fit and to look a little more interesting, I cut the words apart and even cut around the shapes of some of the letters in order to fit in the space beside the candy corn tree. For a little sparkle on the card, I also added some Shimmer Star Foam Stickers in all three colors – black, white, and purple. I love these foam stickers! I love that they come in three colors and in different sizes so you can really mix and match depending on your project.

It’s time to make some Halloween cards to give and send so copy some of my ideas and have fun making your special Halloween creations! Remember, the Halloween products are in the Online Exclusives, not in the Holiday Mini Catalog.

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Spooky Sweet Slimline Halloween Card

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Spooky Sweet Slimline Halloween Card

I thought it would be fun to make a Halloween card again so I pages through the Spooky Sweet Specialty Designer Series Paper. I hadn’t used this paper with the building fronts on it, and I wondered how I would use that on a card. After seeing it in my mind as looking like a spooky high-rise apartment building, I decided on this Spooky Sweet Slimline Halloween Card. A slimline card would look like a tall building with multiple spooky windows!

The Basic Black card base is cut at 6″ x 6″ so I could score and fold it in half at 3″. That makes the card 3″ x 6″ which fits in some regular office-style envelopes I usually have on hand. You can make a slimline card taller and wider if you want.

For the designer paper layer, the Spooky Sweet Specialty Designer Series Paper, I cut it just “a smidge” smaller than the 3″ x 6″ card base. That’s technically 2 7/8″ x 5 7/8″. Or you could cover the entire front, or make the margin the normal size. For the inside of the card, I used “the other side” of this pattern with all the spooky windows which just has some light orange lines across it. Since it was fairly light, I was able to stamp “Happy Halloween” inside, from the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set. I also stamped some bats for fun!

Back to the front of the card! I stamped the word “Spooky” from the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set in Pumpkin Pie on Basic White cardstock, then just cut around each stamped word. I think the words fit better on the card this way. It’s a great technique to use when you need to save space. I popped up all the words with Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals.

For a little bit of embellishment, I added a few of the purple stars in the new Shimmer Star Foam Stickers. These little things are so fun to use! They really are foam so they feel very funny when you slide them off the sheet! The are sparkly and fun and come in three sizes and three colors – white, purple, and black.

This Spooky Sweet Paper is called “Specialty” because also included in the package are cut-apart images and diecut images you can use for extra fun on cards, Halloween projects, and scrapbook pages! Check out all the Halloween products in the Stampin’ Up! Online Exclusives!

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Spooky Sweet Slimline Halloween Card inside

Spooky Sweet Trick or Treaters Halloween Card

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Spooky Sweet Trick or Treaters Halloween Card

I was so tickled with the Halloween card I made in my previous post that I had to make another one right away! Halloween decorations and things just make me happy! I won’t be decorating my house for at least another month, but I’m happy to start making Halloween cards and other projects to provide some inspiration for you.

I really wanted to use this Spooky Sweet Specialty Designer Series Paper with the little drawings of candies on the gray background. So cute! The card base is Granny Apple Green which goes with the paper, but I felt like the paper stood out more with a layer of black behind it. I made the margins very narrow so the Basic Black is 5 3/8″ x 4 1/8″ and the candies designer paper is the usual 5 1/4″ x 4″. I diecut a Pumpkin Pie circle from the Spotlight On Nature Dies. I could have used Stylish Shapes Dies or a large circle punch. It’s just meant to be a background to help show off the three trick or treaters, however, it also looks like a moon out on Halloween night. I could have tucked it behind the bottom strip of paper and made it look more like a moon. Either way, I think it works.

The three trick or treaters are fussy-cut from the sheet of costumed characters in the package of DSP. It wasn’t as difficult or “fussy” as you might think! It helps to leave a tiny bit of white margin around the image and that makes it easier to cut out. The first and third costumed characters are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and the middle guy is glued flat on the card front. I did add that strip at the bottom of the candy designer paper. It is the opposite side of the candy pattern! I made it 5 1/4″ x 1 1/4″. You could make it whatever width you like. The characters just needed something to “stand” on.

The greeting is in the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set along with some cute character stamps and greetings. I stamped it with Memento ink on the opposite side of the character paper. To make it smaller to fit better and to look more interesting, I cut the greeting into narrow pieces and then popped each one up on Dimensionals. When I stamped the greeting, I noticed the little bats stamp in the set so I stamped some bats on the orange circle (before adhering the words!). There were also small blackbirds on the designer sheet so I cut two of those out and placed them on the card. Finally, because once you have them you can’t resist, I added some purple and white Shimmer Star Foam Stickers. These are so fun to use, you really should order some and I’m sure you can use them on other cards for other occasions, not just Halloween!

You’ll find this Spooky Sweet Suite Collection and individual products in the Stampin’ Up! Online Exclusives. If you love Halloween, too, you might like the Sweet & Spooky Kit in the Kits Collection to make some Halloween treat boxes. This is a very cute kit!

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Spooky Sweet Happy Halloween Card

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Spooky Sweet Happy Halloween Card

This is my first Halloween card for this year, and I am so excited!! I love how it turned out and I enjoy anything cute for Halloween! This Spooky Sweet Happy Halloween Card was made with the designer paper and stamp from the Spooky Sweet Suite Collection in the Stampin’ Up! Online Exclusives!

The Spooky Sweet Specialty Designer Series Paper is going to be so much fun to use on Halloween cards, scrapbook pages, or other projects! Not only do you get papers with costumed animals, spooky haunted houses, and other printed papers to coordinate, but you also get diecut pieces of all types plus patterns to cut apart for tags or maybe labels for cards and scrapbook pages plus embellishments on your project. This paper is almost like a kit with all kinds of things you can use!

For this card, I started with a base of Basic Black cardstock. Next, I started cutting apart some of the Spooky Sweet Designer Paper and looking at the animal characters and the diecuts to see what I wanted to make. There are two full sheets that have street-like scenes of spooky houses, fences, and sidewalks. I cut apart this one house, although I didn’t cut it the size I intended to and almost started over with the other sheet of paper with the row of Halloween houses. But I stuck with it and just adhered it over to the right edge of the card with a strip of the back of another paper in the pack for the orange strip along the left side of the card.

Once I had that basic card design made, I played around with the other elements in the designer paper. I chose the goofy little bird carrying a pumpkin to be popped up on Dimensionals as if he is walking along the sidewalk, plus a couple candy corns because I couldn’t resist! For the greeting, I cut apart some of the tags/banners and stamped “Happy Halloween” with a stamp in the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set in Memento ink. I trimmed down the banner a tiny bit and cut the left side on an angle so I could angle the greeting. I also flagged the right side. It’s a Halloween card so you can do anything crazy on it that you want!

Luckily I remembered that I also bought the Shimmer Star Foam Stickers in the Suite. These are really different little things! They are actually foam, so if you stick the Take Your Pick Tool underneath them to get off the sticker page and onto your project you will feel the foam! It’s kind of odd when we are used to solid gems! But they are very sparkly and come in three sizes and three colors: White, Black, and Purple. I had fun putting them on this card!

If you want to save 10%, purchase the Spooky Halloween Bundle and get the dies that go with the stamp set. I couldn’t resist the characters and sentiments in this Bundle for Halloween!

Unfortunately, Stampin’ Up! didn’t put Halloween sets in the Holiday Mini Catalog, just the Online Exclusives. The Mini, however, does have a couple of nice fall/autumn stamps, dies, and papers. There are more in the upcoming Online Exclusives coming September 3rd, plus more Christmas! So get ready for lots more new things September 3rd with the new September-December 2025 Mini (Holiday Mini), Onlines Exclusives, and two new Kits in the Kits Collection. It will be a fun day!

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Get the Haunted Home Kit While You Can!

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Kits Collection Haunted Home Kit

You may remember that this Haunted Home Kit in the Kits Collection came out last year and sold out before Halloween! Stampin’ Up! said they would make it available again this year and it is in the Online Store NOW. Due to the popularity last year, I’m thinking if you want this, although it is July, order it now in case it should sell out again! Also, “some” Kits in the Kits Collection will have a price increase July 22. I don’t know which ones, but it would be a good time to get this Kit and any others you are interested in this week!

This Kit comes with all the materials you need to make your own haunted paper house with cardboard walls, vellum, and other pieces to accessorize. Just follow the directions to assemble the house, then add your own ghostly touches to it if you like!

Kit includes:
*Cardboard Home Pieces
* Predesigned projects
* Step-by-step instructions
* Precut vellum and die cut paper pieces
* Enough adhesive to complete projects
*A 10-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ x 1-1/4″ (26.7 x 21.6 x 3.2 cm) printed designer box for storage or crafting on the go.

Product colors: Basic Black, Crushed Curry, Gray Granite, Moody Mauve, Pumpkin Pie

Kits Collection Haunted Home Kit

AND….you might want to order two Haunted Home Kits and decorate one for Christmas! Yes, some people did that last year! You can use the pieces however you like. Now you might have to use some creativity to see how to make it into a Christmas house….or any other house….but I’m sure you can do it!

Get the Haunted Home Kit before everyone else does!

Spooky Ghosts on a Halloween Card

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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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Halloween Triangle Treat Boxes

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:

Triangle Treat Box Scoring

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.

Frankenstein Halloween Card

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.

Fun Spider on Halloween Card

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

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

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

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!

Halloween Gift Bag

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

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 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

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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

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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.

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Button Pumpkin Board

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Button Pumpkin Board

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!

Walmart pickles

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!