I made these quick treats for my little niece and nephew for Halloween. I found a box of bones candy at the store and covered them with card stock and added a tag.
I found the candy at the grocery store and just measured the box and cut and scored my card stock to go around it. I used a Sahara Sand Stampin’ Write Marker to draw some faint lines across the white card stock to resemble strips of gauze – and then used an aqua painter with a little more Sahara Sand ink to add some faint shadows. I tied an actual piece of gauze around the box and added the little Cookie Cutter Mummy with some white baker’s twine for a tag. The mummy is also watercolored a little bit to give it shadows – I used Watercolor paper for them.
If just took a few minutes to put these together! Happy Halloween!
Last month I received this cute little mummy treat from my friend Linda. I loved it so much that I decided I wanted to use the idea for treats at the crop I did earlier this month. I decided to make little scarecrows for fall and each one has a butterscotch candy in it. I made probably 60-70 of them. But it was hard to stop and I had some left over lifesaver candies sitting around too. So I took the rest of the Cookie Cutter images and made one from each character. These are quick and easy little treats/thank yous that you could make for a group of people.
My scarecrow is on Very Vanilla card stock and stamped with the Archival Black ink pad and then I watercolored with my aqua painter – Dapper Denim for his clothes, and Sahara Sand on his face. I used my Stampin’ Write Markers for his patches and hat – Delightful Dijon and Pumpkin Pie. I punched out a plain Delightful Dijon cookie cutter and stapled the butterscotch candy between the two. These will actually stand up.
One tip I’ll share if you want to make a bunch of these is to create a template for your stamping. Since this is a builder punch you can’t just stamp a row and punch them out – you have to leave space in between for the builder pieces in the punch. Here are a couple of pictures to show you what I mean. I hope that is helpful.
And if you want to see the rest of the gang that I made (except the mummy that Linda gave me) her you go….
This is a really fun bundle of products and becomes a bit addictive if you aren’t careful!
Have you seen the Cookie Cutter Halloween and Christmas sets in the Holiday Catalog? They are so much fun! I’ve been using them a bunch for all different cards. I created one layout and used it for a bunch of different cards just switching out the designer paper and the cookie cutter image. I matched up various greetings and used a variety of coordinating twines to finish each card.
Each card has a strip of card stock on the right side of the front white panel. Then I punched different sized circles from the designer paper. For the Halloween/Fall cards I used the Halloween Night Specialty Designer Series Paper and Halloween Night Baker’s Twine. For the Christmas cards I used the Candy Cane Lane Designer Series Paper (it’s part of this months Designer Paper sale!) and the Candy Cane Lane Baker’s Twine.
Here is a closer look at the skeleton card.
It’s a fun easy layout and can be adapted to use all the different cookie cutter images (or other punched images). Try it out and let me know what you create.
Halloween is quickly approaching. Do you decorate and create fun treats for Halloween? I think it varies from year to year what I do. When the kids were little we made costumes and decorations and lots of treats. Now the kids are older and I don’t do as much for Halloween. But I do love a lot of our stamps and accessories for Halloween – so making cards and treats are still on my list. I’ll be mailing things out to my boys and their friends.
Today I’m sharing a fun card I created for my stamp club. It’s one that kind of grew as I worked on it. I started and then kept adding little elements to it.
I started with the Halloween Scenes Edgelits and Spooky Fun stamp sets – they even come together as a bundle in the Holiday catalog! One question that I get asked is about these dies – note that they are called Edgelits (not thinlits or framelits). The difference is these are designed to cut an edge – so you start with a piece of card stock the width of the die and then the height can vary based on what you want – it will only cut the edge of however tall your piece is. This is the tree and the fence in this set – both just cut the edge – so the bottom is not cut. The rest of the dies are little framelits meant to go around the stamped images in the stamp set. They “frame” the image. And while we are on the subject – Thinlits are detailed dies that coordinate with stamps and other dies but don’t necessarily “frame” or outline anything – they are meant to compliment other dies and stamps not cut them out.
I used the Ghoulish Grunge stamp set for the brick wall image in the back ground. The bottom is the Halloween Night Specialty Designer Paper and the Halloween Night Baker’s Twine – I love that twine.
In the corner I stamped the moon image and then sponged it with a little bit of Pumpkin Pie ink. Then the little die cut witch is on a dimensional in front of it.
It turned out to be a fun Halloween card – now who should I mail it too?
The Stampin’ Up! Holiday catalog will be starting soon. On September 1st to be exact. Yes it is time to prepare for the holidays but before we start looking at Christmas I wanted to take a quick peek at some of the Halloween products in the Holiday Catalog.
I am trying to start making some videos so that is what I have done for my peeks at this Holiday Catalog. I think I made 4 videos and I’ll share them over the next few days. The Holiday catalogs that were mailed out are starting to arrive in mailboxes now and I’ll be handing them out at my classes starting this week. Ordering won’t begin until Sept. 1st – so for now you just have to make a wish list!
I’m not totally comfortable doing the video thing so hopefully I’m not too boring. This one is just to give you a better look at some of the products – looking at the pages of the catalog doesn’t always give you the best impression.
I can’t show you the pages of the catalog yet – there are some more Halloween items – the ones in the video are the ones that I have purchased during the pre-order for demonstrators.
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