Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Halloween Treats & Sweets

Hello all! Welcome to Day 2 of the Papertrey Ink Countdown and this months first Papertrey Ink Design Team group post. In preparation for the fall holidays, Nichole has asked the Design Team to create Halloween Treat & Sweets using Heather Nichols new stamp set... Halloween Treats & Sweets. Two versions, a large scale and a mini application of this adorable set and it's coordinating dies.

For my large scale project, I chose to work with the pumpkin...The coordinating Favor It Box #6 is perfect for assembling adorable Halloween treats & sweets. This sweet pumpkin goody box, with it's Clearly Creative Jack O' Lantern windows, gives you just a peek at what's inside. More instruction on how to create this special treat box below. I loved the way this goody box turned out and I couldn't stop at just one. I used a couple sheets of Halloween Prints pattern paper to create a coordinating trio.Stamped the first goody box with Background Basics: Houndstooth and then embellished all three with a Orange Zest button and a coordinating tiny tag. Die cut the Tiny Tags from white cardstock, stamped with a Jack O' Lantern smile and a sentiment and then attached. Topped them off with a black satin ribbon bow. And now... a miniature version of these adorable Halloween Treats & Sweets! I dangled this spooky but "oh so cute" spider bucket from an embroidery floss web.I started by stamping the spider bucket and sentiment directly onto the card base. Pierced a hole at the top of the card base and the bucket, threaded with black embroidery floss and tied ends together inside. Die cut the bucket from True Black and Orange Zest cardstock, trimmed off the top of the orange bucket and attached it over the black one. Stamped the face, attached to the card base and embellished with a bow.

Now, onto how I assembled the pumpkin Halloween Treats & Sweets boxes... Here's How: I started with three Favor Box #6 die cuts. Two for the box and one for the front.Trimmed off the bottom portion of the third Favor It Box #6 die cut. Stamped the pumpkin face. At this point, if you choose, this is when you would stamp a pattern onto the pumpkin front.Trimmed off the top with scissors. With a craft blade, I carefully cut around the stamped pumpkin face.Stamped and cut a scrap pumpkin face, to use as a template. Using a pencil, I traced the template onto the front of the Favor It Box #6 die cut.I then cut along the pencil lines. Also note.... To ensure that the side flap of the box was not visible, once assembled, I trimmed a tiny bit of the flap off. You will also need to do the same to the other die cut side of the favor box as well.I die cut the Favor It Box #6 front from Clearly Creative Cardstock and trimmed off the excess.I now had three pieces (the box, pumpkin front and the die cut clear cardstock) to assemble the box front.Using Scor-Tape, I attached the clear cardstock to the box and then the pumpkin to the clear cardstock.Once the layers were attached, I assembled and embellished the box.

I loved creating todays projects and I hope you enjoyed! That's it from me, but for even more Halloween Treats & Sweets goodness, be sure to see what the rest of the Design Team has been up to...

Thanks for stopping by, have a great one!

Maile

Trick Or Treat Pumpkin Favor It Boxes:

Boo! Card:

  • Stamps: Halloween Treats & Sweets
  • Ink: True Black
  • Cardstock: White, Orange Zest & True Black
  • Accessories: Black Embroidery Floss, May Arts Black 1/4" Silk Ribbon & Halloween Treats & Sweets Die Collection

17 comments:

  1. So cute, Maile! Love those pumpkin treat containers! Your card pairs so well with it too! :) The houndstooth pattern you design is so pretty!

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  2. Adorable! Great idea, Maile! Thanks for the tutorial!

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  3. Let me just say, I'm VERY impressed and appreciate your detailed tutorial. These treat bags are adorable!

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  4. These are so cool, Maile!! Love the cut out eyes and teeth on that pumpkin! and your card is true halloween perfection! Scary and funny! Love it!!
    Hugs, Wendy

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  5. love the pumpkin treat bags. The black handles really set them off. And your spider card is too cute!

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  6. How CUTE!! LOVE the treat containers and the black bow on that sweet pumpkin (card) is adorable!!

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  7. The houndstooth really adds to your orange pumpkin! like your card too!

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  8. Making the little treat box a "see-thru" version is just genius! Thanks for the clearly detailed tutorial! All of the other details really make it extra special. Thanks, Maile!!

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  9. I love your "see through" treats. So clever.

    **June K.**

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  10. Absolutely adorable jack-o-lanterns! I really appreciate the way you created the box with black and gave it an orange front -- it's a great touch.

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  11. Maile, your creations always make me smile! Great idea using the clear cardstock behind the face...makes it bright and smiley :)

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  12. Oh I *adore* these, Maile! Thanks for the quick tutorial, too! :)Fab!!!

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  13. Love the tutorial! So helpful to know how you did it step by step!
    Gorgeous card! :)

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  14. The cutout faces are a super idea!

    Noreen

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  16. Love your little pumpkin baskets! Thanks for the tutorial, as well. The little spider with a bow on the boo card is adorable! That houndstooth bg is gonna be a best seller for sure! :)

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