Haunted House Favor Box

Happy Monday peeps!

Today I am sharing a fun little "Haunted House" treat box I made using the Fancy Favor Box die from Stampin Up.

I was heavily inspired by THIS haunted house box on Cammie's blog. She used a Silhouette cut file for her haunted house and I cut my own using her picture as a guide. I wanted to use the Fancy Favor Box die and add the haunted house to the front so I cut a box using pumpkin pie card stock and measured the front panel to decide the width of my haunted house. 

I used basic black card stock for the base of the haunted house and the First Edititon DSP for the house front. I cut extra roofs and added them to the base with dimesionals. After that the fun begins, decorating the haunted house.

I used the scallop edge punch to add "shingles"  to the roof of the first floor of the house. The pumpkin pie colored gingerbread trim comes from the fancy favor box die, it is the piece that is left from the top of the die when it is cut out. I used the retired key tag punch to make the door and the window on the door is made with a very cut down small oval punch. I added a fence all around the box which is a MS punch. I sponged most of the black with some whisper white craft to make it show up better. 

The windows are hand cut and stamped with some images from the Stampin Up "Spooky Bingo Bits" stamp set. I  stamped and cut out a couple of ghost and a black cat. The "Happy Halloween"  is from the al a carte stamp called "Haunted Forest". The "Caution Enter If You Dare" is some K & Company adhesive strips. 

I hope you like my "Haunted House" Favor Box. I would love to offer you a template for the house that I drew but I do not know how to get it on my computer...LOL, I am computer challenged in that area. I have it here saved on a sheet of paper, for future use and would be thrilled to share, so if anyone can school me on the how to's I would be happy to share.

Well, that is all from me today, thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

SSSC139.....Spooky

Good Morning Peeps!!!

It is Sunday which means it's time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.

Here is the SWEET sketch Karen has for us this week:

What a fun sketch! I love the little banner element, you see these alot now days but I don't think I have done any, even though I do have the Stampin UP pennant punch!

 I am still on a Halloween kick and I couldn't let the month pass by without using my favorite "Greeting Card Kids" stamp set. I love to color these little kids!

I stamped the little Halloween Kid onto some white card stock with black stazon ink and used my aqua painter to color her. I knew I wanted to use the Frightful Sight DSP for this card so I used the colors in that paper for my image. The pumpkin is colored with Cajun Craze and the little witch is colored with old olive, basic gray and cherry cobbler.

The base of the card is Basic Black card stock and then some of the DSP. I made the banner using the punch a papers from the Frightful Sight paper pack. Easy Peasy. I used some bakers twine to hold my banner and add a couple of bows to the ends of the banner. The main image is matted with old olive and I added a bit of trim with basic black a border punch. The sentiment is from the Spooky Bingo Bits stamp set, but the little witch is really not very spooky at all.

I hope you can find some time to play along with us this week, I would love to see what you come up with, create a card or scrapbook page with this sketch and then go to Karen's blog and link up your project for all of us to see.

OK, let's see what the rest of the Sweet Sunday Sketch Team has in store for us this week:

Karen-the Sweetest Thing 

Jen-JenTapler Designs

Karen-Paper Playhouse-

Lynn-The Queen's Scene

Sarah-Jane-Janeybell

Dana-Dana's House of Cards

Well, thank you for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

OCC....Totally Transparent

Happy Saturday Peeps, 

It is time for another Our Creative Corner Challenge. 

This week our hostess is the fabulous Marjie Kemper  from She Who Stamps & Scraps. Her challenge for us is

Totally Transparent

Transparencies are so versatile!  You can find them in shapes small enough for journaling and large enough for full 12X12 scrapbook pages.  Whether you make cards or layouts, tags or art journals… you can easily include transparencies into your art.  They can be stamped, inked, painted, misted… the sky’s the limit. You can even run them through your printer and diecut them.   We hope you’ll join us this week showing how creative you can be using transparencies.

I haven't worked with transparencies very much and I think the only time I used them was to put behind  an opening in a box or two I have made. So I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with this challenge. I finally decided to take it easy on myself, since I have been having virtually NO mojo  lately, and decided to break out my pillow box die. I have had my die for well over a year and it was still in it package, I have never used it til now.

I cut out a couple of the boxes with my transparency sheet. Man, what a pain. the transparency sheets are hard to fold! It took a bit of scoring the fold lines to get the box to fold up and the curved lines were even harder, so much for taking it easy on myself. But I kept at it an got them together.

I decided to use the cute little owl from the Stampin Up "Warmest of Wishes" hostess set. Isn't he cute? I stamped him three times, once with black onto very vanilla and then again with black onto pumpkin pie and daffodil delight. I cut out his treat bag and his mask and added to the base. I punched him out using the owl punch. I punched out a 1-1/2 inch circle from some daffodil delight and sponged it heavily with pumpkin pie and cajun craze ink. I tied some 1/4 inch old olive grosgrain ribbon around the box and then added the owl with the moon to the box with some dimesionals.  I stamped the little "boo" onto some very vanilla and punched it out with the jewelry tag punch. and added it to the box under the edge of the ribbon using a bit of a dimensional. 

Be sure to check the Our Creative Corner Blog to see what the rest of the design team came up with for this fun  challenge. I hope you can find some time to play along and if you do don't forget to link it up over on the Our Creative Corner Blog so we can all see it!

Thanks for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

Halloween Owl Treat Box

TGIF Peeps!!

I am so ready for the weekend! How about you?

Yesterday I had an idea to make a Halloween OWL treat box, using The Stampin Up fancy favor box die. 

Owls are so popular right now and I have seen them is so many versions, I just had to try my hand at making one.

I used basic black card stock for most of the OWL. I also used the Stampin Up Tasteful trim Die for the scallops on the front. The eyes are made from circle punches, 1-3/4 inch, 1-3/8 inch and 1 inch circles. I added glitter to the eyes and beak. I  sponged  whisper white craft ink onto the edges of the black pieces. I like this version, but also wanted to try a more colorful version:

I used some retired DSP and the silver glimmer paper. I also made the pupils a bit smaller using my 3/4 inch circle punch. I added a handle to both and used silver and black glimmer brads to attach it to the box.

So what do you think?  Do you like the all black owl or the all dressed up owl? 

Well, that is all from me for today, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

You're a Gem

Happy Thursday Peeps!

Today I am sharing a card I made awhile back using an older Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.

I used one of my favorite sets from Stampin Up called "Field Flowers" the card is a 5 inch square or Rich Razzleberry card stock and also used very vanilla  and some retired DSP.

 I love the crochet trim and of course my favorite silver pearls.

Well, thanks for stopping by!

HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

SC354....eeek!

Happy Hump Day Peeps!

Today I am sharing a card I made with the sketch challenge today on Splitcoaststampers.

I was stumped for a bit when looking at the sketch. I then started looking for a set that would fit the small image panel. I settled on the Stampin Up "Dark &  Dreary". I stamped the candle stick with black stazon and colored it with some basic gray ink using my aqua painter. I used some cajun craze and daffodil delight ink for the candles and flames.

I used some DSP from the Frightful Sight paper pack.

I had a few of these black roses that I had used on another project laying on my desk and thought it would be  a good addition to the Halloween card.  

The little rose is made from a sizzix die and then rolled up. I added a rhinestone to the center and a couple of rhinestones to the candelabra .

The base of the card is old olive and the DSP is matted with basic black. I rounded the corners of the main image panel and the large back panel.

Well, that is all from me today, thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

PP67....Thankful thoughts

Happy Monday Peeps!!

Today I have a card to share made with the color challenge this week on the The Paper Players Blog. I really liked the colors when I saw the challenge:

I rarely ever use Bravo Burgundy, so I was eager to give it a go. I messed with this card forever and originally had used some leaves from the Stampin Up
Gently Falling stamp set but in the end I didn't like what I had done, so I took it all apart and started again. I did keep the original base and very vanilla embossed layer. I added a strip of Cajun Craze on the side that I embossed with the stripes EF. My Big shot got quite the workout on this card. The sentiment piece is another EF and I used very vanilla and stamped with bravo burgundy ink. The sentiment comes from the Stampin Up "Grateful Greetings" stamp set.

I made my "sunflowers" with the Daisy Die using More Mustard and Bravo Burgundy card stock. The centers of the flowers are circle punches and are embossed with the square lattice EF. I added a few leaves made with the little leaves sizzlet die. I finished it off with a few gold pearls.

Well, that is all from me today, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki