Gimme All Your Candy! - TGIFC78

Happy Friday everyone! Can you believe we are already into the second half of October already??  I have been busy making a lot of Halloween treats for my nieces and nephew.  Two of my sisters asked if I would make tag toppers for the 2x8" cellophane bags from Stampin' Up! - 70 to be exact!

Here I am crankin' out all these candy treats and wouldn't you know, this week's theme at TGIF Challenges is a sweet candy theme!

I don't know about you, but I have mixed thoughts on candy corn.  I'm not even sure if I really like it or not... I prefer Kit Kat and Milky Way bars, but I see candy corn just hanging out in a bowl, I just snack at it.  But I'm not even sure if I really like it or if I just eat it because it's there... it's a love/hate relationship.

Ugh... I never should've bought any. 

But I needed to buy some to snack on while I used this cute candy corn stamp from Jar of Haunts.

To get the look of the piled up candy corn, I took the candy corn stamp from the Jar of Haunts stamp set and stamped in on computer paper.  I then cut it out as best as I could around each piece of candy corn to make a mask.  I recommend using computer paper because it is thinner and the images will blend better without too much spacing in between.  

For the falling pieces of candy corn, I inked a few of the pieces using Memento Black Ink and then cleaned off the excess.  This allowed me to cluster one, two or several pieces.  I colored the pieces in using Pumpkin Pie and Daffodil Delight Stampin' Write Markers.  I added some of the Basic Black/Basic Gray twine from the Halloween Night Baker's Twine.  I finished the card with a sentiment from the Spooky Fun stamp set.

I hope you like my "sweet" candy creation!  I'm also adding this card to the following two challenges:

I REALLY hope you play along with us this week at TGIF!  Check out our main page here to see what the rest of the design team made!

Have a great weekend!

-Holly

Lollipop Wrappers with Cheerful Tags - FabFri98

Happy Saturday!  I am so excited to show you something that I made yesterday!  My MIL ordered the new Cheerful Tags Framelits and since they were delivered to my house, I asked if I could make sure they worked alright! :) She's pretty awesome like that!

I've been buying (way too much) halloween candy lately.  The other day I bought some jolly rancher lollipops with the intention to somehow wrap them with some designer series paper (DSP).  When the Cheerful Tags Framelits showed up, I had a whole new vision in my head!  

The Spooky Fun Bundle was the perfect match, and the color scheme this week for Fab Friday fit too!

Maybe I should stop typing and show you a picture or two??

I love this picture! These are seriously the cutest little treats!  I really wish I knew some older kids to give them too - I know the Kindergartners won't even bat an eye! :)

I had fun using the many different stamps from the Spooky Fun stamp set.  Lots of cute halloween stamps and sentiments.  Each lollipop has some Halloween Night Baker's Twine to hold the tag in place.

This tree is from the Halloween Scenes Edgelits that you can buy separately or bundle with Spooky Fun and save!

These were my first two that I actually made late Thursday night.  I finished the rest yesterday and wish I hadn't eaten so many suckers.. I would've had enough to make doubles of each of these designs too.

Last but certainly not least are these cute little spider ones.  These and the ghost one above are my favorites.

You can see here that the "circle" of the tag makes a perfect window to see what flavor of lollipop you get!  The circle is normally what hangs over the wine bottle, but I love finding other uses for products.

I hope that you liked these little treats!  I'd love to hear which one you like the best!

Have a wonderful weekend!

-Holly

Spooky Fun Treats!

The weather here in Minnesota has been amazing - still in the 70's but the humidity is gone and you can just feel the cool crisp air! I LOVE FALL and everything about this time of year!

Now you might be easing into fall like most, or diving in with decorations already and stocking up on Halloween candy... like me. haha!

I usually don't get all into Halloween, but now that I have a son in kindergarten, I wanted to think of ideas already for his school treats.  No one in his classroom has any food allergies, so we are able to send anything! So I purchased the Spooky Fun bundle from the holiday catalog and made some fun treats to share with you.  Well... share in a viewing sense.  Sorry you can't have any treats to eat!

This bundle is a really fun one!  I actually thought of just buying the edgelits because I love the tree and fence, but you really do have a great set to pair it with! Here are the treats I made:

These cute Petite Cafe Gift Bags are perfect for a chex mix, popcorn.. any kind of munchies! :)  They are food safe too!

These Clear Tiny Treat Boxes are awesome too! They are tiny but you can certainly put enough candy in them to make it worth it!  Wrapped in the two toned baker's twine, these boxes are a hit!

If you remember the skinny 1x8" cellophane bags that SU! used to sell, you might remember that not much fit inside other than 1 pencil or some m&ms.  The new 2x8" Cellophane Bags are wider and can hold bigger pieces of candy (and a few more fun pencils).

These are quick and easy to assemble.  You get 50 in a pack which should cover a classroom or two of schoolmates.

Have you noticed the new twine on these Halloween treats?  The Halloween Night Baker's Twine comes in a 2 pack (25 yards each) of Basic Black/Basic Gray and Basic Black/Pumpkin Pie.  Here I paired the Black/Gray with Perfect Plum Solid Baker's Twine.

My favorite treat that I made are these ghost sugar cookies.  I had made these cookies for our friend's daughter's 5th birthday party on Saturday and decided to make some ghosts with my leftover dough and icing.  The adorable tags are made with the Tags & Labels Framelits.

I tried to use each "scene" from the stamp set and saved the gravestones for the ghost cookies.  

Isn't it cute??

Last but not least, I wanted to show you a card that you could make with this set too.  This could be something you send to a friend, or a grandchild, maybe even your neighbor?

I just love the tree and fence!  So glad I purchased this bundle.  It has a lot of fun options for Halloween but the fence and tree could go beyond just Halloween.  I will share another "non-Halloween" card with you later this week to show you! :)

I hope you enjoyed all of these projects.  If you would like to get a head start on your Halloween treats, I would love to help you with any SU! need.

Stampin' Up! just released to items on their clearance rack and new special deals start tomorrow (the others end today!).  There is a TON of great items on the clearance that I know will not last long!

If you would like to order through me, please use hostess code SM4QQ3KS at checkout.  I would love to send you a small thank you gift!

Have a wonderful day!

-Holly