Category Archives: Halloween

Wooden Pumpkin Door Hanger

This week I’m joining my creative friends for the Creative Crafts Halloween Edition and my craft is this adorable little wooden pumpkin door hanger with a “B” in the middle. I am one of those crazy pumpkin lovers! I love the way they look, I love the way they taste and I love the way they smell!

As most of you may know, I love to work with wood. My Glowforge laser is like one of my best friends! So, my craft was created using the Glowforge.

Materials:

Plywood (This is 1/8″ Baltic Birch)
Glowforge or other laser machine. (If you cut thinner wood, you could possibly do this on the Cricut Maker)
Computer with software to add letter and weld it (I use Illustrator)
Pumpkin SVG file (I got this one from Etsy, and the file comes with 6 different pumpkins!)
Paint
Paint Brushes
Strong gripping glue (I used Beacon Multi-Grip)
Twine, Ribbon or String

Here is how I made it:

I downloaded the pumpkin svg file that I purchased from Etsy. I added the letter that I wanted in the middle and made sure to weld it to the center circle. I wanted this pumpkin to look layered so I created an offset path (set to 0) the same size as the original pumpkin. That gave me an extra pumpkin to use as a backing. I removed all of the extra pieces from the extra one. I then welded the stem and vines in place. I also added two circles to the solid pumpkin backing.

Next, I uploaded the file into the Glowforge Software, resized it to the biggest size that I could make it and hit the magic button to cut.

Don’t mind the silly mask. It keeps me from inhaling the fumes from the Glowforge! And well, mask are a thing now!

Once everything was cut out , it was time to paint it. I painted each piece individually.

Once the paint was dry, I used Beacon Multi-Grip glue to glue it all together.

Next was my favorite part…..adding the twine and hanging it up!

Oh my goodness, I love it so much!!!!! It’s definitely going to be hanging on my door for the next couple of months!

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A special thanks to my crafty friends Laura Kelly Designs, Makeable Crafts, Ann Butler Designs and Creatively Beth for hosting another addition of Creative Crafts!

Until next time……

Pumpkin Squishy Party Activity

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It’s Craft Lightning time again and this month is party crafts, so I made this adorable Pumpkin Squishy for a fun Halloween party activity!

Materials:

Poly-fil Squishy Foam (available at Walmart too)
Die Cutting Machine with pumpkin die and cutting pads
Black and Orange Paint
Paint Brushes
A place to paint (ie. paper plate, paper towels, newspaper)

How I made it:

Remove the Squishy Foam from it’s packaging. Place the foam on the pumpkin die making sure to completely cover the pumpkin outline of the die. Place the die and foam between two cutting pads.

Squishing the cutting pads together, run the die, foam and pads through the die cutting machine.

Remove the foam from between the pads, throwing away the excess.

Now you are ready to paint. Using a any kind of paint brush, depending on how much time you want spent on the activity, paint the foam.

Allow the paint to dry.

Now you are ready to squish away on your very own homemade pumpkin squishy.

TIP: You can also just cut your own design with scissors. I suggest drawing it out on the top of the foam and then cutting along the lines.

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Until next time……

Happy Halloween Banner featuring Cricut

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Halloween in near and it’s also Craft Lightning time! This Craft Lightning features Cricut! So, I made a Happy Halloween Banner with pumpkins and letters cut with my Cricut Explore. It was quick, easy and fun. Even the kids could get in on helping making this adorable Happy Halloween Banner! And this banner is perfect for a kids party!

Materials needed:
Cricut Explore, Air or Maker
Cricut Cutting Mat
Cricut Tools for removing yardstick from mats
Computer with Cricut Design Space installed
Cardstock (orange and black)
Yarn
Small Clothespins
Glue

How I made it:

I chose a pumpkin from the Images category. This pumpkin was free with Cricut Access. I also chose a font for my letters. This particular font is from my font book via my computer. I picked one that looked a little spooky. I laid everything out in Design Space and then cut it all out, the pumpkins first and then the letters. I hid the letters while I cut out the pumpkins. And then I hid the pumpkins while I cut the letters. I cut out two sheets of pumpkins.

2. Once everything was cut out, I glued the letters to the pumpkins using Aleene’s Fast Grab Tacky Glue.

3. I let the glue dry and then it was time to hang it up using the yarn and the small clothespins.

I love a good banner, so I keep Command Hooks in my dinning area where we have gatherings and such. It’s super easy to throw up a cute banner for whatever the occasion is. This Happy Halloween Banner is perfect for a Halloween Party for the kids. I hope you like it!

Side note: The pumpkins can be decorated. That may take a little longer than the fifteen minutes allowed for Craft Lightning! 🙂

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Until next time…….

Accordion Circle Pumpkin Banner

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It’s time for Craft Lightning again and I had the chance to join in the fun! For the Halloween 2016 Craft Lightning, I made this quick Accordion Circle Pumpkin Banner! I love making Accordion circles! They are so fun, easy and are perfect for decorating!

Using scrapbook paper that I got at A.C.Moore, I cut my paper down to 3 inch strips. Then, using my paper scoring kit, I scored both sides, alternating every half inch. After the scoring was done, I created the accordion fold.

Because you need a way to hold the accordion fold down and together, I cut circles from the same paper. I also cut my pumpkin face pieces from black paper. To put together the accordion circle, I first glued the ends of paper together, creating a circle. A hot glue gun works best for this. Once the ends were glued together, I laid it on its side and pressed down, causing the middle opening to close and the paper to lay flat. Using my hot glue gun, I glued a circle in the center of the front and the back of my accordion circle. Then I glued the eyes, nose and mouth to each accordion circle!

Once all of my pumpkins were created, I added a piece of green paper for the stem and clipped it to a piece of burlap string using little black clothespins! It’s perfect for my mantel. You could create different faces for each one or you could make more accordion circles and add letters. You could make them bigger or smaller, depending on what you want to do with them!

I hope you like my Accordion Circle Pumpkin Banner!

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Scotch Tape Pumpkin Banner

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Halloween is right around the corner! It’s one of my favorite times of year. I made this super cute Scotch Tape Pumpkin Banner to hang in my house! The good thing is…..it can stay up until Thanksgiving!
Materials used:
Scrap pieces of paper (at least 6″x6″)
Scotch Expressions Masking Tape and Washi Tape
Laura Kelly’s Pumpkin die from Ellison/Sizzix
Sizzix Big Shot
Placing my 6″x6″ pieces of paper, I put them on top of the pumpkin die to gauge where the stem of the pumpkin was and how much tape I needed to place on the paper. Once I got the tape down, I used the Sizzix Big Shot and the pumpkin die to cut out my pumpkins.

Using small clothes pins, I added them to a piece of ribbon to make this cute little pumpkin banner!

Hope you like my adorable Scotch Tape Pumpkin Banner! It was super easy and super fun!

Until next time……

Washi Tape Pumpkin Popcorn Box

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For the last couple of years, my friend Laura Kelly has put together an awesome Popcorn Box Blog Party with a selection of great craft items to help decorate the popcorn box! She has done it again, and with the help of some great companies! These awesome Popcorn Boxes came from World Market!
This year, Scotch donated their Expressions Washi Tape! I thought to myself, why not make a Washi Tape Pumpkin!

Using Krylon spray paint that I had, I spray painted the box to cover up most of the red designs on the popcorn box. The color was not quite orange, but it did the trick.

Once the spray paint was dry, I covered the box in orange wash tape. I didn’t want the lines to be perfect, so I made the tape go in all different ways! It kind of made it look like an orange mummy! Once it was covered, I used an Exacto knife to trim around the scalloped top of the box.

Next, I just tore pieces of black washi tape to make the pumpkin face!

And it was done! Super easy and perfect for a Halloween movie night with some popcorn!

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Candy Corn Fun with a Laura Kelly Printable!

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It’s Candy Corn Time!!!!

It’s that time of year again! It’s now Fall and the weather is changing. And if you go to your local stores, Halloween displays are out! With the Halloween displays, comes the Candy Corn! Yum!
My friend Laura Kelly created a cute little Candy Corn Printable. You can download it for free! And if you make something with it, she’d love to see it!

I love to color by hand, but I also love using the Live Paint Bucket in Adobe Illustrator to color! That’s what I did here with Laura’s printable! I also added a few words on one of the pieces of Candy Corn that I planned to cut out and use for my Candy Corn guessing game!
Once the sheet was all colored, I created a “Guesses!” sheet, leaving room at the top to add some of the colored pieces from the sheet. I printed out my colored Candy Corn Printable, cut some pieces out and glued them to my “Guesses!” sheet!
Now it’s time for everyone to make their guesses as to how many pieces of Candy Corn are in my mason jar! I can’t wait to find out who gets the closest! I did not count them yet, as I wanted to make a guess too! Hope you like my quick and fun idea of using Laura’s cute Candy Corn Printable!!!

Until next time………

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Craft Lightning Paint Chip Pumpkin Card and Party Bag

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I’m so excited to be joining 15 minute Craft Lightning again! The theme for this Craft Lightning by The Country Chic Cottage, 30 Minute Crafts and 100 Directions is Halloween! My 15 minute craft was inspired by my awesome friend Laura Kelly!

If you are like me, you probably have paint chips lying around in your house! These orange, black and brown ones were perfect for these quick and super easy Paint Chip Pumpkins!
All you have to do is create your little pumpkin with the paint chips, goggly eyes, ribbon and glue (I used Aleene’s!) and stick it right on to your blank card! And then write you a spooky little note inside!

The same was done here using a cute little brown paper party bag! Perfect for Halloween Party Goody Bags! Inside this little party bag are a few little Halloween Lollipops from Lollipics!
Hope you liked these cute little Paint Chip Pumpkin Card and Bag decorations! These are quick and easy and perfect for the little ones to do!

Until next time……..

Happy Halloween Pumpkin Cut Out Art

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Halloween will be here before we know it! And I am super excited. I love to pull out the Halloween decorations!

While I was at Target one day, I saw a popup heart piece in the framed art section and I thought it was so cute. I had not seen anything like it with Halloween designs and I don’t think the heart one had any words. I thought I’d make a Halloween one with cute little pumpkins and a font that was a little ghoulish!
Materials needed:
A shadowbox frame
cardstock (I used four pieces….black, white, green, orange)
Aleene’s glue and a adhesive runner,
Electronic Cutting Machine (I used the Sizzix Eclips2)
Halloween .svg file that I created. (comment if you’d like the file)
Once my file was cut and removed from the cutting mat, I lightly folded the cut parts upwards. I also saved the inside pieces of the letters.
Once all of my pieces were folded up, I cut strips of orange and green just big enough to fit across the back of my 12×12 piece. I used green for the stems and orange for the pumpkins. Using an Aleene’s adhesive runner, I attached the strips to the back, being careful not the squash my folded up pieces flat.
Because the insides of the letters were small, I used Aleene’s Tacky Glue to glue those to the green.

After all of my pieces were put together, I placed them into 12×12 shadowbox frames.
This photo is just to show them from each side, so that you can see that the orange and green can be seen from under the folded upward pieces of pumpkin.
I love them both, but truth be told, the black one is my favorite. It looks more Halloween-ish!

I hope you liked my Happy Halloween Pumpkin Cut Art. If you’d like the .svg file, just let me know in a comment and I will be sure to get that to you!

Until next time……

Halloween Popcorn Box Blog Hop

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A year ago, my friend Laura Kelly started this Halloween Popcorn Box Blog Hop and then decided to do it again this year. I was so excited to get my box of goodies to do this project! It’s so much fun and exciting to see what everyone comes up with! This year, I decided to make a Cat!

Items I used:
Popcorn Box
Black Felt from Kunin
Phoomph for Fabric from Coats & Clark
Tulip Soft Black Fabric Paint
Scribbles 3D Fabric Paint
Laura Kelly Buttons from Buttons Galore & More
Floral Wire
Paint Brush
Aleene’s Turbo Tacky Glue

First, I painted my box using the Tulip Soft Black Fabric Paint. Yes, I know it’s fabric paint, but it still worked great on my box! I let it dry and then painted on another coat.

Next, I made my cats tail. I thought about this for a little while! I took a piece of floral wire and folded it in half and manipulated it to look a little like how a real cats tail would look. I placed black Phoomph onto some felt, placed the wire onto the Phoomph and then folded my felt in half. Then, I cut around the wire making the felt the same shape as the wire. Then i manipulated the wire with the felt again to make the tail curved.

Next was my cats ears. Again, I used black felt and Phoomph. I placed the Phoomph onto a black piece of felt. When I folded the felt over, I made sure that it didn’t completely cover the Phoomph because I knew that I wanted to use the exposed part of the Phoomph to attach the ears to the popcorn box. I used the orange Scribbles Fabric Paint to make the inside of the cats ears.

Using Laura Kelly’s buttons, I fold some orange, yellow and black beads to use for the eye and then an orange one to use for the nose. Using Aleene’s Turbo Tacky Glue, I attached them to the box.

Using the end of the wire from the tail, I inserted it into the back of the box and bent it upward helping it stay in place. I then used the Aleene’s tacky glue to glue the tail in place, to give it an extra hold.

Once everything was dry, I used White Scribbles Fabric Paint to create the mouth and the whiskers of my cat!

And then he was complete!

I hope you liked my Halloween Cat Popcorn Box!
Until next time…….

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