Halloween - A Pumpkin And A Princess

10 Last Minute Halloween Ideas

October 30, 2012 3 Comments

I feel like Halloween came really fast this year. I still have a list full of Halloween ideas I never had the chance to share with you. I’ll save some of them for next year but in case you’re still in need of any last minute Halloween ideas here are a few of my projects.

I shared these adorable vampire bat treat bags over at Crafts Unleashed earlier this month.

Bat Treat Bags

I also shared the Frankenstein juice boxes made out of duct tape…

Frankenstein Juice Boxes

and the hanging cheesecloth ghosts.

cheesecloth ghost

Halloween Subway Art

I shared this quick and easy Halloween Treat Bag over at my sweet friend, Amanda’s blog Every Creative Endeavor. I used a stamp and small kraft bags from the Target dollar section to create them.

Lifestyle Crafts Dies

Spider Pumpkin

Halloween Candy Tubes

Halloween Popcorn Recipe

Halloween Popcorn

Easy Halloween Food Ideas

Halloween Food Ideas

If you’re looking to spruce up those store bought Halloween treat bags check out what I did with my Silhouette Cameo.

Silhouette Heat Transfer Vinyl

Pumpkin Bean Bag Toss Game

Looking for a last minute Halloween game to play? Try this pumpkin toss game and enter to win a $50 Jo-Ann gift card!

Tomorrow is also the last day for the Silhouette promotion. You can read all about it here and go here to take advantage of the Halloween specials using the code “PUMPKIN” at checkout. There are 4 deals to choose from!

Silhouette Cameo Discount

Thanks for stopping by! I’ll be back soon with a special treat. :)

Filed Under: Halloween, Holidays Tagged With: Halloween, Halloween Ideas, Halloween Treats

Halloween Food Ideas

October 24, 2012 27 Comments

My favorite thing about holidays is creating themed food for the kids. It makes the upcoming holidays that much more fun! Halloween is probably the best holiday to create treats for. I mean who wouldn’t want a spooky Halloween meal filled with mummy dogs, ghost bananas, and monster eyes?

Easy Halloween Food Ideas

I’ve been making mummy dogs since my oldest was little, it’s become tradition that we have them every year. This was the first time my younger two had them and let’s just say there were in complete in awe. My daughter, who’s three, thinks food that look like characters or things are the best thing ever.

Hot Dog Mummies

It was raining here on Monday and we didn’t have much going on, making a Halloween lunch was a fun way to get the kids excited that day.

Before I get to the mummy hot dog recipe I have to share this picture with you. On our way to the grocery store we picked up a pumpkin spice latte and I told my husband that all we needed now is for the leaves to finally start changing colors for it to feel like Fall. As soon as I stepped out of the car at Save Mart this pretty little leaf fell right by my feet. It had started to ever so slightly turn yellow.

Fall Boots and Leaves

It’s little moments like this that bring a smile to my face. Whether it’s taking a step back to enjoy Fall’s beauty or watching my kids get excited about mummy dogs, I know it’s more time like this that I need to focus on in my life. :)

Mummy Hot Dog Recipe:

To make the mummy dogs you will need crescent rolls, hot dogs, and mustard for the eyes. Begin by cutting a crescent roll in half then pull on it gently to make it longer. Wrap the crescent roll around the hot dog then bake for 13-15 minutes in a 375 degree preheated oven. Add small dots of mustard for the eyes.

Mummy Dogs

The banana ghosts were inspired by Family Fun. To make them I cut bananas in half, inserted a paper straw, dipped them in white chocolate, then added edible eyes and a raisin for the mouth.

Banana Ghost

They may have just made it to our yearly traditions list, I can’t get over how cute they are!

Banana Ghost

The broccoli monster eyes are simply circles of cheese and a raisin on top.

Creative Vegetable Ideas

Halloween Food Ideas

What are some of your Halloween traditions? Do you have any Halloween food ideas for kids to share?

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Filed Under: Family Activities, Halloween, Holidays, Kids, Recipes Tagged With: Creative Food Ideas for Kids, Halloween, Halloween Food Ideas

Trick or Treat Bags

October 22, 2012 18 Comments

Happy Monday, my friends! Did you have a great weekend? We had a very lazy weekend which happens to be my favorite. I had a few projects planned but didn’t get as much done as I thought I would. Instead I spent my days pretending to fly like an airplane around the living room and playing duck duck goose with a 15 month old and 3 year old who don’t quite understand that you go around in a circle instead of running into another room to avoid being tagged. HA! However, I did finish the kids trick or treat bags. Today I’m sharing with you our customized Halloween treat bags using Silhouette heat transfer vinyl. I’m also excited to tell you about a few new Silhouette promotions that you can take advantage of by using the code PUMPKIN.

Silhouette Heat Transfer Vinyl

I picked up the black bag at Hobby Lobby and the orange spiderweb bag at Target. The orange drawstring bag was cute but I thought it could be even cuter with a little black fuzzy vinyl. I’m so happy with the way it turned out! I simply cut the shapes from the Silhouette store, placed a piece of fabric on top and ironed it on. For the black bag I hot glued the white trim just for fun. :)

Silhouette Heat Transfer Vinyl

Want to make your own customized trick or treat bags? Or how about a million other projects you can do with a Silhouette cameo? Check out the promotions Silhouette is currently offering. You can purchase them at the discounted price by using the code PUMPKIN at checkout. This offer isn’t available on the website you’ll need to click here to access the special offers.

Halloween vinyl/CAMEO bundle

· 1 roll 9-inch x 10 feet black premium vinyl

· 1 roll 9-inch x 10 feet orange premium vinyl

· 1 roll transfer paper

· 1 Silhouette hook

· 1 Silhouette CAMEO®

· All for $269.99 (MSRP of $351.95)

Halloween vinyl bundle

· 1 roll 9-inch x 10 feet black premium vinyl

· 1 roll 9-inch x 10 feet orange premium vinyl

· 1 roll transfer paper

· 1 Silhouette hook

· All for $24.99 (MSRP of $51.96)

Autumn cardstock/sketch pens bundle

· 1 package of Autumn adhesive-backed cardstock. (Contains two sheets of eight fall colors shown on the packaging–16 total sheets).

· 1 metallic sketch pen pack

Halloween heat transfer bundle

· 1 roll flocked black heat transfer material (9”x36”)

· 1 roll flocked orange heat transfer material (9”x36”)

· 1 Silhouette hook tool

· All for $24.99 (MSRP of $36.97)

Silhouette Flocked Vinyl

Thanks for stopping by! I have a week full of Halloween ideas to share with you and a few giveaways too!

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Filed Under: Crafts, Fall, Halloween, Holidays, Kids Tagged With: Halloween, Halloween Bags, Trick Or Treat Bags

Halloween Popcorn

October 19, 2012 14 Comments

After looking through my posts I’ve realized that I often forget to share guest posts that I write for other sites. I probably have a good 15 posts from this year that I’ve never shared. On top of that there’s an ever-growing list of things I never got around to blogging about. I’ve either shared sneak peeks or told you about them then never had a chance to write the post. Umm…yeah I’m going to be better about that! Let’s start with a Halloween guest post I wrote for my sweet friend Vanessa from See Vanessa Craft. So today I’m going to share with you an easy Halloween treat that’s perfect for Halloween parties or an everyday treat to enjoy with the kids. This Halloween Popcorn Recipe is quick to make and can be a great way to use up leftover Halloween candy.

Halloween Popcorn Recipe:

I began by popping 1/2 cup of popcorn kernels with 3 tablespoons of oil. Once my popcorn was ready I threw a quick dash of salt on top to help balance out the sweetness.

You could really add any toppings you’d like, for this particular recipe I used Wilton Candy Melts, candy corn, and various sprinkles. I melted the candy melts in separate bowls over a double broiler. Using a fork for each one I drizzled the candy melts on top of the popcorn. You could use a piping bag but this works just as well.

After I drizzled the candy melts I quickly added the candy corn and sprinkles on top. I had a little bit of melted candy leftover so I drizzled the remaining on top of everything. The candy melts will harden and then you’re ready to enjoy a tasty Halloween treat! My kids love this stuff and I like how easy it is to make.

Thanks for stopping by! I have some fun things planned for next week like a Scentsy giveaway, Jo-Ann’s Halloween craft and giveaway, my Halloween vignette, and more!

Filed Under: Fall, Halloween, Holidays, Recipes Tagged With: Halloween, Halloween Popcorn Recipe, Halloween Treats

Halloween Tags and Coffin Treats

October 3, 2012 18 Comments

I’m back today with another Halloween project, hopefully you’re not getting tired of them because I have plenty of ideas to share with you this month! Today I’m sharing with you how to make Halloween tags and coffin treats using RIT Dye.

Rit Dye

These Halloween tags are perfect for Halloween gifts and the coffin is a great not-so-spooky teachers gift idea.

Rit Dye
I’ll admit I was a little nervous using RIT Dye for the first time. I wasn’t sure what to expect and didn’t want my project to turn into a craft fail. Unfortunately my original idea did turn into a fail. I’m going to try to revamp it and show you the before/after pictures later. Once I switched gears I was pleasantly surprised at how easy RIT dye is to use.

For this project I used unfinished wood found at Michaels. I simply mixed each dye color with HOT water in a bowl for the coffin and cups for the tags. I used about 4 tablespoons of dye for the coffin and 2 tablespoons for the tags. I allowed them to soak in the dye for about 5 minutes, the longer you leave them in the darker the color will be. Oh and don’t forget to use gloves!

Once I was happy with the color I used a paper plate for them to dry on. Then using my Silhouette I added vinyl, bakers twine, and ribbon.

Rit Dye

I’m happy with the way the Halloween Tags and coffin turned out! I’m telling, you my previous project was a major fail, you’ll probably laugh when I show it to you. :)

Rit Dye

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Filed Under: Gift Ideas, Halloween, Holidays Tagged With: Halloween, Halloween Tags, Halloween Treats, Rit Dye

Halloween Spider Pumpkin

September 25, 2012 38 Comments

I can’t stop making black & white Halloween decorations this year..I just love the combo! I also can’t get over these cute little white pumpkins I found at Target recently. With some new Lifestyle Crafts cutting dies I was able to transform a plain white pumpkin into a spooky spider pumpkin to add to my Halloween decor.

Lifestyle Crafts Tricks 'N Treats

From the new Tricks ‘N Treats collection I used the Spiderweb Punches die to embellish this itty bitty pumpkin. I simply cut the dies out then ran them through my Xyron machine. Off topic but I purchase this at Michaels about 6 years ago and recently found it in my garage with the original cartridge. What was I thinking!?! I love this thing! Have you used one? You can create stickers out of anything that will fit. I purchased it for my scrapbooking but as you can see I’m way behind on my scrapbooking if I just recently discovered it again. My only complaint about using it with such small dies is that a lot of the stickiness got on top of the spiders. But overall I like my new Halloween spider pumpkin, it’s different and the colors work perfectly with my decor.

Lifestyle Crafts Dies

Have YOU pulled out the Halloween decorations? What are your favorite Halloween colors?

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Thanks for stopping by!

Disclosure: I was not compensated to write this post but did receive dies to review. All opinions are my own.

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Filed Under: Halloween, Lifestyle Crafts, Paper Crafts Tagged With: Halloween, Lifestyle Crafts, Spider Pumpkin

Trick Or Treat Frame

September 21, 2012 18 Comments

I’ve been playing with some fun new crafting products lately, they’re the new Silhouette printable foils and paper. I knew the Silhouette CAMEO could do some amazing thing but this? This is pretty awesome. I used the new printable sticker paper to create a Trick or Treat frame to match my 3D bat frame.

Trick or Treat Frame

The new printable foils and paper are perfect for gifts, labels, even home decor projects. Think of all creative gift tags you can make, especially with the holidays coming up. I’m thinking about making Christmas tags, cookie labels for mason jars, and customized charger plates. They’re very easy to use too! You simply find or create a design, print it, and cut it out with your Silhouette. I used this video tutorial as a reference. The Trick Or Treat and label shapes are both from the Silhouette store. Details on the glittered pumpkin coming soon! :)

Trick or Treat Frame

If you’ve been thinking about getting a Silhouette CAMEO now’s the perfect time because I have a sweet discount for all of you! From now until September 30th you can get 1 Silhouette CAMEO, 1 silver printable foil, 1 gold printable foil, and 1 white sticker paper for only $269.99 {a $57 savings}.

What’s that, you already own a Silhouette? Well we still have a great deal for you, get all three printable specialty medias for $19.99. The new printable products are HOT right now! You won’t want to miss out on these new products, Silhouette sold out after debuting them at CHA this Summer so you’ll want to get them before they’re out again.

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Filed Under: Fall, Halloween, Paper Crafts Tagged With: Halloween, Printable Foil and Paper, Silhouette, Trick or Treat Frame

Halloween Treats: Candy Tubes

September 18, 2012 13 Comments

Halloween is right around the corner and you may not be thinking about Halloween treats just yet but I’m excited to share a few ideas with you over the next month. Today I’m sharing with you my Halloween Candy Tubes.

Halloween Treats: Candy Tubes

The Lifestyle Crafts second Fall core collection was just released and I was excited to try out a few new dies. But of course I’m always excited about the Lifestyle Crafts releases. In fact my son dropped my entire collection of dies on the floor this past weekend, which meant I had to reorganize them. Going through them made me remember about some cute dies I haven’t used in awhile. I have to say this is the first time that a huge mess actually turned into a crafting session (which of course almost always ends in a big mess..but that’s another story). As I was saying Lifestyle Crafts released their second shipment of the Fall Core Collection and the dies are adorable. Take a look…

Besides the Doily Rosette die my favorites are the Lattice Doily and Flower Pinwheel dies.

Lifestyle Crafts Rosette Die

I was excited to try out the Doily Rosette die because we all know how I love paper rosettes. The rosette die has a cute flare that’s perfect for party decor, cupcake toppers, or in this case for Halloween favors. I used the Doily Rosette die, Martha Stewart stickers, candy test tubes found at Michaels, and bakers twine from The Twinery to create these Halloween treats.

Halloween Candy Tubes

To make the candy tubes I cut the die out, glued it together and added a sticker to the center. I glued the paper rosette onto the tube, making it easy to remove and reuse if needed. To finish it off I tied a black and green bakers twine bow on top. Very simple and the possibilities are endless! Think about the party banners and favors you could customize with this die!

Halloween Party Favors

You can receive 20% off all Lifestyle Crafts products by using the code PUMPKIN. If you make anything using the die, send me a picture I’d love to see it!

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