Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Halloween Chocolate Dipped Rice Krispies Lollipop Treats
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Quick Decorated Halloween Bag
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Howl-o-ween Card
Friday, October 18, 2024
Halloween Scene Card with Confetti Moon
Monday, October 14, 2024
Candy Corn Halloween Earrings
Did you love candy corn as a kid? I did and I still do! For me, it wouldn't be Halloween without candy corn so of course when I found glass candy corn beads, I had to get some. I held on to the strand of candy corn beads for awhile before I decided to use some of them to make earrings. They were simple to make requiring just gold filled ear wires, gold filled ball tipped head pins, Swarovski crystals, tiny white beads, and of course the candy corn glass beads. The tools I used to fashion these earring were two small tipped pliers and jewelry wire cutters. If you can't find glass candy corn beads, I suggest you make your own candy corn with Fimo clay (sold at HM BFC)which can be baked to look very similar to real candy corn. Also real candy corn can be painted with 1-minute UV-LED resin and hardened under a UV lamp to resemble real candy corn. I recommend not drilling the candy (it will probably crack) but rather gluing on a gold filled bell cap to hang the resin candy corn from the earring wires. I hope that you will have some safe Halloween excitement and create some fun Halloween jewelry for yourself. Have a candy corny kind of Halloween!
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Autumn Fox with Halloween Treat Boxes
As you can see the Autumn Fox and I are still busy and having fun making Halloween treat boxes. Like the last set of boxes, these were made with an i-crafter die (Valentine Gable Box). As with the i-crafter die used in the last post, this set comes with small dies to make labels and embellishments but I chose not to use them because I was making Halloween themed boxes. It was easy to use the pages in the Simple Stories 6x8 Faboolous paper pad to die cut out the boxes ( only two sheets needed per box) and hand cut the labels from pages within the pad.
Fabri-tac glue and Heiko tape were used to assemble the boxes and simple thin ribbons were tied through the die cut holes. I like the unique style of these boxes and the fact that they have adequate space for yummy treats. I had fun matching the papers to the labels contained within the Simple Stories paper pad.
For this box the ghost label was hand cut and iridescent glitter applied over the ghost image that was spread with glue.This box was probably the most successful of the three boxes because the label fit well on the box with just a little trimming and the extra part of the label was adhered to the back of the box (not shown). The basic supplies for these boxes are very minimal and many boxes can be constructed from just the paper pad and and die set. I hope you'll take the time to make some special Halloween treat boxes for the special little (or big) ones in your life. I know they'll always remember your generous handcrafted Halloween sweetness.
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Halloween Milk Carton Candy Boxes
I spied an i-crafter Milk Carton Box die at HM Ben Franklin Crafts and thought it would make great Halloween Candy Boxes. Using papers from a Doodlebug 6x6 Halloween paper pad, I was able to make each carton from just two sheets of paper. Some of the sheets in the pad had labels which I hand cut and attached to the boxes by using a tiny hole puncher and some skinny ribbon to tie the labels to the boxes. The i-crafter die set had parts to cut out a label and the word, 'candy' but I chose not to use them. I had to measure and cut out the candy image panels before attaching them to the boxes with Fabri-Tac glue. I also used Heiko double stick tape to join the sides of the boxes. At HM Ben Franklin Crafts I discovered a new extra skinny Heiko double stick tape which was useful for some of the smaller joints of the boxes. These boxes can hold quite a lot of candy for some lucky trick-o-treater. If you get started now, I'm sure you can make enough candy boxes for your neighborhood ghouls and goblins!
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Autumn Leaf Papered Box
On a recent trip to the east coast, I spied some autumn oak leaves that were just starting to change color.
They were so pretty that I had to collect and press them. I knew that I would find some use for the multi-colored autumn leaves. Once at home I decided to use them to decorate a few boxes. Beginning with a sturdy L'Occtaine box, I covered it with a fibrous beige washi paper. This was easily done by laying the top of the box onto the washi paper and cutting around it leaving a margin of paper large enough to wrap around the box top sides. Next glue (Fabri-Tac) was applied evenly to the top surface of the box and the paper was pressed onto it. The sides of the box lid were then covered with glue and the paper pressed down so that there were four wings on the corners. These wings were then trimmed closely to the box top corners. The same thing was done to cover the box bottom.