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Halloween Mini Silver Gable Box

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

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!

Spooky Sweet Haunted Street Halloween Card

Spooky Sweet Haunted Street Halloween Card

You know Halloween is really going to sneak up on us! And if you want to mail cards to people, you have to think ahead (note to self!). This Spooky Sweet Haunted Street Halloween Card is an easy card to make if you have the Spooky Sweet Specialty Designer Series Paper. This paper even comes with some diecut images that you just pop out and adhere to your card or project.

The designer paper in this package is so fun and interesting. Two of the sheets feature different Halloween scenes, such as a street of haunted houses that can be cut apart and used however you like. For this card, I cut just this single house and cut it to fit on this card front. I cut the bottom edge and also along the roof lines on the top. The card base is Petunia Pop cardstock with a layer of Basic Gray cardstock. When you trim down this image on the designer paper it will fit on the card.

After getting the basic card made, I looked at the diecut images on two of the sheets that come in the package and chose the two pumpkins with the crow on top and a couple of bats. The pumpkins are popped up. The greeting is stamped with the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set. I stamped the words with Memento Ink on Pumpkin Pie cardstock, then trimmed it down as narrow as I could and separated the words. I popped up the greeting on Dimensionals. I really like this technique of cutting the words apart or making them very narrow to make them fit better on the card. I also added several Shimmer Star Foam Stickers in purple and black. Love these things!

Just get out your designer papers, look through them, and see what ideas you come up with. You might even find a good paper to use for Halloween in a package of birthday paper or who knows what! Have fun with creating!

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Spooky Sweet Slimline Halloween Card

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