Halloween Treats for School Part 1

I have been busy this week getting all the Halloween treats for school ready.  For every holiday, I alwasy have good intentions of planning and starting early, but it is always busy that last week before treats are to go out!  Here are a few pictures of the treats we prepared for everyone.

Cooper has 2 sets of classmates at his preschool, so we decided to make 2 separate bags for his treats.  He has food allergies, so I always include things in his bag that he can have.  His bags contained Smarties, Skittles, A Scooby Doo Fruit-by-the-Foot, and Halloween stickers.  I used my Build-A-Bear dies and Big Shot for the paper sack, along with the Bingo Bits stamp set for the  "CANDY" stamp -- all from SU!  The paper topper is from a set I picked up in the $1 section at Target. I used the Top Note die on the toppers of the cello bags and the same Target paper.  The pumpkin stamps are from Bingo Bits as well.

These are the treats we made for the teachers.  We covered Hershey nuggets (YUM!) in 1"x 3" Halloween paper (SU!).  The toppers were made using my Big Shot and the Top Note die.  The two ribbon colors are Lucky Limeade and Basic Black -- both SU!  I cut the spider from my Doodlecharms cartridge and the pumpkin from Pumpkin Carvings.

We were in such a hurry this morning, that I forgot to take pics of the older two kids' treats!!  I always send more, so I hope they make it home with them so I can make pics and post them as well.  I had a lovely display already set for one of the treats, and I am so disappointed I forgot to photograph.  I'll have to make up for that at Christmas!

I did get the most important picture this morning though, my babies.  Emilee is Beth Chapman, Dog the Bounty Hunter's wife, and Brody is Big Al, Alabama's mascot.  Cooper is just himself this morning, until (see below)...

Here is one more photo from the fun activities at school this morning.  I think Cooper, who was "taking off from school today", had as much fun as the grade-school children!  He loves this picture because he is allergic to milk, and I don't let him get near the real stuff.

Have a nice Halloween!

Halloween Home Decor

Finally got around to using my Word Collage cartridge and chose the Halloween sayings.  I cut this out of orange vinyl, and put on a 5x7 piece of black cardstock.  This was very easy using transfer tape.  Then, I put the cardstock in a black picture frame.  Sorry for such a bad picture!  Still working on that.

Also used the Pumpkin Carvings cartridge for a vinyl wall decor element.  I loved the owl sitting on a branch, so that is what I went with.  I set it to cut as large as it would on a 12x12 piece of black vinyl.  Then, again using transfer tape (a must here!), I put it on the wall above one of our Halloween displays.



I plan to do more holiday wall pieces this next year.  The kids love to see what new item is displayed!  A few more Halloween treats to show you later!  Thanks for looking!

Halloween Slider Cards

Being the first Sunday of the month, the stamp club that I am a member of met today.  We did 3 great card projects, and I will try to get those posted later this week.  They are so cute, especially a Thanksgiving turkey one!

As I said the other day, we have been doing alot of Halloween crafting around here.  The other day, www.splitcoaststampers.com had the cutest Halloween slider card using the SU sweet treat cups.  I have used these cups with several projects for the kids' classmates in the past, but I just loved how they used the slider (similar look as a bookmark) to keep the recepient from having to tear up the card to get to the candy.  This first picture is my copy-cat version.  The splitcoaststampers version used a different stamp set that had witch's boots, and it was really cute.  I don't have that set, so I had to make do.

The paper and ribbon are from SU.  I used a brad on the slider, but opted for ribbon on the other two.

I love making owls, so I wanted to try one on this card type.  I used the brown M&M's, but I think orange would have still been cute.  Again, the paper, stamp, and ribbon are from SU, but the owl is from the Pumpkin Carvings cartridge.  I used my Gypsy to only cut out the owl (the entire image is an owl on a tree limb in an oval).  I will show you how I used this owl for wall decor later this week.

I think this last one is my favorite of the three.  I just love pumpkins.  The pumpkin was cut from the Pumpkin Carving cartridge and DCWV paper.  The other paper, ribbon, and stamp are from SU.  This sweet treat cup contains orange Skittles for my allergy boy!  Then I remembered that he doesn't like the orange ones!  Too bad, because they look good for the card, so that's what we have to use.

More Halloween crafts to show you later.  Have a great week!