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.
I’m running out of time to post Halloween Projects. These are some that I have made over the past couple of months.
You might recognize this card since I copied the one out of the holiday catalog! It’s the Among the Branches stamp set bundle with the Woodlands embossing folder. Plus the spider web doily.
This one probably looks familiar too – it’s also an idea from the Holiday catalog. I did change it just a bit. My wrap is around a Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkin. And I used the witches hat rather than the skull.
And one more
This idea came from Erica Cerwin and I basically made mine just like hers. This is the Berry Box die but it is a half sized box! It is so cute. I filled a cello bag with chex mix and tied the top with some Washi Tape and Baker’s Twine. They turned out super cute and I can’t wait to make some more for a different holiday.
Enjoy your Halloween weekend. Be safe! Make good choices (that’s what I tell my boys).
It’s almost time for Halloween and trick or treating! I finished up my September Paper Pumpkin kit and mailed those sweet treats off to my boys – well to the two that are out of state and have the other one here to be picked up. I included enough for them to give treats to their roommates too. Did you see these?
Last night was my Paper Pumpkin Craft night – a couple of the girls worked on the September kits and a couple of us worked on the new October Kits. I have everything stamped and was working on assembling the cards – I need to finish that up. If you are local to me and want to join us for a fun night out be sure to look for the next date on my calendar. I’ll be posting on my website and on Facebook.
Now here is a fun Halloween card for you –
This style card is fun to make – I’m not sure what to call it. I was calling it a window card but maybe it should be a peek-a-boo card since the inside peeks through to the front. Can you see the front of the card has a section cut out and that has been replaced with a piece of window sheet.
On the inside is the Designer Paper that peeks out. I added the BOO! cut from the Black Glimmer paper to the front of the window sheet. I used the Among the Branches bundle for this card. Embossing with the Woodlands Textured Embossing Folder – it is VERY POPULAR!!! And adding the little eyes peeking out among the branches. Yes I will admit when I first saw the stamp set and read the name it didn’t make much sense to me. About a day later I had that AHA! moment and realized why it was called that. The little elements from the stamp set go among the branches of the embossing folder.
Are you gearing up for Halloween? My boys are grown now so I don’t have anyone to dress up in a costume – except perhaps my dogs. But they would not like that at all. I’ll have to go on the search for some old Halloween photos that I haven’t scrapped yet and add them to this fun scrapbook layout. I was a vendor at a scrapbook crop earlier this month and designed this layout as a mini-class for the croppers. All my seats were full!
I used the Howl-o-ween Treat stamp set and the coordinating Boo to You Framelits. I also used the Happy Haunting Designer Series Paper, the Spider Web Doilies and Black Glimmer Paper. A couple of little details that I included –
The BOO! and the Witches Hat are both cut from the Black Glimmer Paper
The eyes on the owl are punched from the Star print designer paper – same as the strip used on the page.
I used the Very Vanilla Thick Baker’s Twine – took a piece and untwisted the 3 main strands. Then I used one on the little Pumpkin Bucket Handle and the other two around the witches hat.
A layout all ready to add fun photos from Halloween – if not from this year then from a previous year.
Here is a full list of supplies – click on any item and it will take you right to my store:
In September I had my Fall Stamp, Scrap & Create Retreat. I love to hold these retreats and spoil those that come with fun little surprises throughout the weekend. To start the event I like to have some type of container that serves a couple of purposes. One it has their name on it so they know where their crafting spot is when they arrive – and it’s a fun little welcome. Plus since its a container it can hold some basic supplies that they need to carry around when we do our make&takes. And it’s cute and fun! For this years Fall retreat I found some fun containers at a local store – black little cauldrons! I decorated them up by adding a cute little tag.
I used the Howl-o-ween Treat Stamp set and the Boo To You Framelits to make this cute tag. The owl is stamped in Rich Razzleberry and the little pumpkin in Bermuda Bay. I had wrote everyone’s name on their little pumpkin. I also added the “hello” from the Greetings Thinlits which I stapled across the owl. The tag is tied on with Bermuda Bay Thick Baker’s Twine. And the eyes – I added some wiggle eyes – these are old ones from Stampin’ Up! that are self-adhesive – but you could use the new FIne-Tip Glue Pen to add some regular ones from the craft store.
Inside each cauldron I added a Pen that I lined with some of the Happy Haunting Designer Series Paper, a bottle of the new fine-tip glue (we used that for our make&takes), a piece of Stampin’ Sponge, and a floss threader. As they moved around through the weekend they could stick in their paper snips and snail or anything else they needed to carry around to the make&take tables.
These little cauldrons would be fun filled with treats for the kiddos this Halloween too – or for a teacher’s treat or party favor. See what other little containers you can find and add a fun tag too.
It was a fun weekend! Here is a picture of our little fall group.
Thanks for visiting today!
Here is a Stampin’ Up! supply list of what I used on my cauldron:
Yes I wrote this whole blog post was at the very end and apparently pushed something that made the whole thing disappeared! I couldn’t even find it saved as a draft. GRRR! So I’m writing again. Which means I will probably not give as much detail as I did the first time. Anyway the project I wanted to share was this cute Witches Broom Treat. It is really easy to make using our Fringe Scissors!
I used individually wrapped twizzlers – the red ones because those are the ones I like to eat. You just need a strip of the Happy Haunting Designer Paper. I put a score line across it where the “bend” is between the top fringe and the bottom fringe of the broom. Along that score line on the back of the paper put a piece of Tear & Tape. Then use the fringe scissors to fringe both sides – but DON”T cut through the tape – just up to it. Then take of the backing on the tape and wrap it around the twizzler sticking it to itself as you go around – wrap as tight as you can. Fluff out the fringe. For me these actually stand up!
I finished with a tag made from the Project Life Seasonal Snapshot 2015 stamp set and the Tags & Labels Framelits. I tied my tag on with a strand from the thick Baker’s Twine – the whole thing was too thick for my liking so I pulled it apart – just untwist it.
Here is a full list of Stampin’ Up! Supplies that I used:
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