Two More Trick or Treat Holders for Halloween!

Continuing this week's theme of sharing different Trick or Treat holders, I have made two more easy and cute candy treats for neighborhood kids. 

The first was made with Tonic Studio's Delicate Gesture Box die set which is normally used for fancy wedding favor boxes. But I used the outside die only for a super quick and easy little treat box.

 I die cut and attached a bat, spider, spider web and "trick or treat" made with Tonic Studios dies and tied with a black and orange ribbon after adding the candy. 

 My second style of easy and quick treat holder was made with Taylored Expressions Under Wraps Vampire Die Set and an older Halloween stamp. I made a bunch of these for my grandson to hand out to friends for Halloween and it took me very little time to get them done.

I am entering the second treat holder in the Anything But a Card challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday.

Two More Treat Holders for the Stampendous 31 Days of October!

Stampendous is celebrating 31 Days of Halloween on their blog and all month long there will be Halloween inspiration there as well as prizes to be won, so be sure to check it out! I love Stampendous stamps and had so much fun designing trick or treat candy boxes for my newest YouTube video here.

The two boxes I am sharing today both feature tags and are super simple to make as I show in the video. As you can see from both pictures, I attached a stitched square (Lil' Inker die) with a super cute monster and sentiment from the Stampendous Little Monster Stamp Set  on both sides of the tag box. Then I added some googly eyes to one of the monsters and filled up the tag box with candy.

This tag treat holder is even easier to make. I simply cut a Halloween two sided cardstock 10" x 3 1/2", scored at 3 1/2" and folded the bottom up. I secured the sides with strong scor-tape and tucked in a candy  bar. The front piece was cut with a My Favorite Things stitched square and decorated with a Stampendous Spider Web stencil, another cute monster from the Little Monsters stamp set and Stampendous sentiments from that set and the Spooky Wishes Stamp Set. I stapled on a cute Halloween ribbon from my stash.

I hope you enjoyed my treat boxes yesterday and today made with Stampendous products and will watch the video here to see how easy and fun they are to make and consider subscribing there. You can possibly win prizes from Stampendous just by commenting here, on the Stampendous blog and at the other stops on the month long blog hop! You can also possibly win by entering a family friendly Halloween project in the Linky at their blog! All winners on this blog and at Stampendous must have a USA mailing address. Good luck and thanks for stopping by! 

31 Days of Halloween with Stampendous and a New Trick or Treat Video!

I am so happy to be participating in the 31 Days of Halloween celebration at Stampendous! I love Stampendous stamps and I had so much fun designing with their cute Halloween stamps and stencils to make the four Trick or Treat boxes and bags for my newest video here. For more details on the 31 day blog hop and how you can win, be sure to visit the Stampendous blog here!

The first trick or treat bag I show in the video is this cute bag-a-lope made with an A2 kraft envelope, and I learned how to make it here on this blogpost. It is very easy to make and I show how I made this one in my video. I stamped a cute sentiment from the Stampendous Spooky Wishes stamp set and sponged a spider web using the Spider Web brass stencil from Stampendous and Dreamweaver. I stamped a cute bat from the Batty Cat stamp set and attached him with pop dots. Inside the bag-a-lope is room for a bunch of candy for your favorite trick or treater.

It is even easier to make this "fang-tastic" treat holder. I simply die cut a stitched square with rounded corners using a die from My Favorite Things and cut two 2" lines with a kraft knife for the candy bar to slide in. The batty cat and sentiment are from the same Stampendous sets I linked above. I did a little coloring on both animals with Nuvo Glitter Markers. 

If you live in the United States and link a Halloween project to the Stampendous blog, you can win some great prizes! There are also prizes to be won just for commenting here and on the Stampendous blog, as well as the other stops along this 31 day Halloween celebration! You must have a USA mailing address to be a winner here or at Stampendous. Thanks for visiting, commenting and watching my newest video!

Celebrations or Anything Goes 4 Kids at Send a Smile 4 Kids!

It’s Saturday and time for another fun challenge at Send a Smile 4 Kids! This year, all challenges at SAS4Kids are Anything Goes 4 Kids! We will often have an alternative theme that you can choose to follow, but are not required to. Create and link any card that is appropriate for a child and your card could be chosen as one of our top three cards and you could join us as a guest dt member on a future challenge.

The theme for this challenge is: Celebrations 4 Kids OR Anything Goes 4 Kids. 

I created a celebration card using some super cute dies from Neat and Tangled. It was so easy to make this card but I love how it turned out! Be sure to check out the rest of the cards from TEAM SAS here and we would love it if you entered our challenge.

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at Dies R Us and Scrapy Land.

Happy Birthday Explosion Pop-up Card from My Newest YouTube Video

My DH is turning the big 70 this year and I created this special card for his birthday celebration. All the dies I used on this colorful card front are from Karen Burniston. But the real fun is in the inside of the card:

The card explodes with color and celebration and is easy to make with the new Karen Burniston Explosion Pop-Up Die Set. I show this card and two others I created with this new die set in my latest video here. The shaped balloons on the front and inside of this card are also included in the Explosion Pop-Up Die Set. My DH loves the colors orange, red and yellow so I also attached some punched fall leaves and the layered "Love You" sentiment was cut with a die set from Honey Bee Stamps. 

I sure had fun playing with all the new die sets from the recent Karen Burniston release and hope you watch the video here to see how easy it is to create an explosion card.

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at Dies R Us and Scrapy Land.

Spooky Halloween Card with Karen Burniston Dies

I am featuring Karen Burniston's dies all week on my blog as I share the cards I made while playing with her new Explosion Pop-up Die. I think this Halloween card may be my favorite of the three I show in my newest video here. 

Here is another view of the front so you can see the hands reaching up out of the cemetery scene. I used Karen's Halloween Charms, Halloween Elements and Halloween Scene dies to create this spooky scene. But as always, the best part is when the card is opened: 

The sides pop out exploding with Halloween striped color and the spooky tree, ghost and bat pop up in the center of the card - so fun! To really appreciate what it looks like when this card is opened and to see how to make the explosion sides, watch my new video here.

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday and in the Dies R Us Challenge.

Video- Holiday and Birthday Explosion Pop-Up Cards with New Karen Burniston Dies

I had so much fun designing with the new Explosion Pop-Up Die from Karen Burniston that I couldn't stop at just one card so I made three! I share all three cards and demo how to make today's Christmas card in my newest video here. 

The front of the card is pretty with an embossed Christmas tree on a snowflake background cut out with Karen's Rectangles Crosshatch die. I embossed all the trees on this card with a Tim Holtz Sizzix snowflake embossing folder and the sentiment on the front is from Memory Box.

But the best part of all cards made with Karen Burniston's dies is when the recipient opens the card:

The sides explode with the snowflake patterned paper and the Christmas tree (cut with the new KB Christmas Trees Pop-Up die) pops up. The Merry Christmas sentiment is also a new KB die and I am loving the font and size of that die! 

To see what this card looks like when opened and how to create the explosion sides and the pop-up tree, you are going to want to take a few minutes and watch the video here. 

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday and at Dies R Us.