Create with Connie and Mary--Halloween Favors!

Halloween is definitely my favourite holiday, I just love the home decor and seeing all the little kids dressed up, and making fun treats! This year we are still hosting our annual halloween party and I have been making some special treats for the MOMS to take home! Why should kids get all the fun?

I can’t wait to see what everyone creates this week as I know there will be some good ideas I can use too!

I am absolutely LOVING the mini coffee cups! The possibilities are endless with what you can create featuring these fun cups and the carrier! So I knew that I wanted to use them to create a spooky treat!

I think this project is just so fun and the cups can be filled with so many things! Candies and chocolates or for a more mature audience mini alcohol bottles :)

I used the Magic in this Night Designer Paper to decorate the coffee carrier and the cups. You can deconstruct a coffee cup and use it as a tracer to get the shape right to wrap around the cups. And we literally have a plethora of options we can use to decorate these cups Halloween style!

I used a variety of stamp sets to decorate a literal TOWER of cups! Once I got started I couldn’t stop! I used the Celebration Tidings, Festive Post and Banner Year stamp sets plus a variety of dies to decorate and embellish these cups. I used the Autumn Essentials, Playful Alphabet and Celebration Labels dies.

The black glitter spider is cut using the Little Treat Box dies and is just the perfect little touch. I also added some rhinestones from the Holiday Rhinestones beside the BOO (which is cut from Gold Foil paper and the Foam Adhesive Sheets)

You can see from my tower how much fun I was having decorating all of these cups. I used twine from the Playful Pets trim combo and coloured (with Stampin’ Blends) the Crinkled Seam Binding ribbon along with some wraps cut using the Warm Wraps dies to help dress up the cups. I even cut some bats right from the Magic in this Night DSP!

I can’t wait to share these with my friends at Halloween! I have turned the carrier option into a kids class, and I am so excited to have some kids back in my studio stamping and being creative! I hope you are inspired to see what you can create with these cups! I have some awesome ideas in mind for Christmas too!

Enjoy the rest of the Blog Hop today! Thanks for stopping by. You can head BACK to see what Melissa has created and NEXT to see what Connie has created.

Happy Wicked Creepy Spooky Halloween

I pulled out all the stops to create this fun and bright Halloween page! I included sentiments from the Word Wishes dies (from the last few posts you can tell I am really into this set of dies!), the Wicked dies and the Spooktacular Bash stamp set. I had to add a cute little monster, he is just a ‘little creepy’ from the Boo to You stamp set plus some spooky spiders and itsy bits bats! I hope you have a fun day celebrating with your families today!

Happy Wicked Halloween

Well I thought I would celebrate the fact that we can now stamp with Purple Posy ink! Yay! It is finally available! Actually truth be told, I needed to make a Halloween layout for one of my monthly groups and was running low on my 12x12 card stock options. I wish so badly that Stampin’ Up! would offer all of our amazing colors in 12x12! Alas, they do not so I was forced to be a little unconventional in creating this page. Challenge accepted! Yay! I used all of the new Halloween stamp sets at my disposal on this layout; Boo to You, Wonderfuly Wicked, Spooktacular Bash and my favourite new set To Every Season (see that bitty bat punch? It is a part of the Every Season Punch Pack! 150670) it is a MUST HAVE! I decided to design this page so you can fit a number of 4x4 photos onto it. Sometimes my group members only create one Halloween page so I like to give them an opportunity to add a lot of photos. The Basic Patten Decorative Masks were also a ‘must use’ as they are so versatile and add just the right amount of dimension and texture the card stock. I am also loving the Word Wishes dies (149629) which are in our Annual Catalogue —they are a scrapbookers best friend as they have so many holiday words in the set! Hope you and your crew have an awesome Halloween Season!

Curvy Keepsakes Cupcakes--Spooky Style!

At a recent Stampin’ event I co-hosted, Creative Day Getaway, in Calgary, a fellow demonstrator Jennifer Reynard used a cupcake stand to display some Christmas curvy keepsake boxes. I was inspired to use her idea to fill my spiderweb cupcake stand with Halloween curvy keepsake boxes! The mercury acetate boxes hold a tea light that will add a spooky glow when the lights are dimmed! I absolutely loved this idea and wanted to share it all with you. I wish I had a fancier photo but I think this gets the idea across! Happy creating!

Happy Wicked Halloween!

I absolutely LOVE to create Halloween projects every year. I have an impressive collection of things I make each year that I put in a Rubbermaid tote to save and decorate with. It is a walk down memory lane each time a new year rolls around. This year I had fun recreating a previous project—this cute curvy keepsake bat! The wings are simply a 2 inch circle cut in half that I snipped with a 1 inch circle to give the wings shape. The coffin boxes that Stampin’ Up! is offering this year will be an all time favourite of mine. I sacrificed the lid of a coffin to create a template that I can trace onto a variety of card stocks or Designer Series Paper to add to the coffin lid to give dimension. To create the ‘wicked’ I sponged Crushed Curry and Pumpkin Pie ink onto white card stock (to resemble candy corn) and then used the framelit to cut out the word. The pumpkin face came from the Harvest Hello’s stamp set (it is a keeper!) and the cutest touch is the little tiny bat. You can get the worlds cutest bat from the Every Season Punch pack. Almost all of these supplies can be found the Holiday Catalogue! I am sharing all of these in a kids class on October 21st! Sign up below if you want to bring the kids by to make these adorable Halloween treat!