SO MUCH FRIDAY FUN...

that you won't believe your eyes.

In fact, this one post should really be several separate posts! But I'm taking the entire weekend off and I wanted this to hold you through the next several days.

First - I want to show you the project I made with the pumpkin faces I showed you yesterday. The faces I cut from black vinyl, with my Silhouette SD. Here is what they became...

{remember, you can click on any of the photographs for a larger view}

Is this cute, or what? It's made from one 12"x 12" sheet of paper that is simply scored like this...

Score corner to corner, then at 4" and 8" from each side. Make your diagonal folds go backwards, and your straight folds go forwards. Punch a hole in each corner and pull the corners in to the center. {I decided to set eyelets in each hole, and used green ribbon - kind of added to the "stem effect"}.

Each 4"x 4" square side got a vinyl pumpkin face. Applied easily with the QK Transfer Paper. Then I stuffed the base with green crinkle paper and added in a bunch of goodies! This holds a bunch of stuff...snacks, trinkets, candy, post-it pads, gift cards, etc.

The sky's the limit with this! Try one for yourself and let me know what you do with it!

What follows are a bunch of other "container" ideas for the upcoming holiday. All of them easy, all of them totally doable with supplies you likely have on hand. My kinds of projects!

These cuties are from Brenda...

M&M treat bags! Grab some cellophane bags, measure the width, cut your cardstock tall enough to double-over, staple and embellish. A snap!

There are so many great NEW Halloween dies from QK - but don't forget we have some amazing ones from previous years. Here, Brenda used the 2x2 Vampire, 2x2 Mrs. Claus, 2x2 Witch's hat and 2x2 Frankenstein {I love how she grungied up his face with black ink...CUTE!}. She added her sentiments with the Chicken Noodle font.

CUTE and simple. Usable and CUTE! {Thanks Brenda!}

Up next are some adorable bags from Miss Gail. She watched last week's episode of Scrapy Land LIVE!, took the idea and tweaked it. FOUR TIMES! Simply amazing...

The Big Bat - QK Banner border, QK Nesting Diamonds {cut in half} and QK Nesting Circles.

Ms. Witch - QK Grass border {the negative shape}, QK Nesting Circles {eyes, eyelids and nostrils} Spellbinders Ovals {for nose} QK Picket Fence {negative shapes for teeth}.

Boo the Ghost - QK Clouds border and QK Nesting Circles

The Great Pumpkin - QK Rev Halloween Shortkutz {which is out of stock, but I think this would work just as well} and Spellbinders Vine border.

Gail accented almost everything with her Copics. Super job Gail - it does my heart proud when someone takes an idea I've throw out there and runs with it. Well Gail just logged a half-marathon! {Thanks for sharing Gail!}

Then my friend Veronica checked in, with some easy ideas too. {Pretty darn-adorable projects from someone who lives in a country that doesn't celebrate Halloween!}

Black Gift Bag - Silhouette downloads, the welded title and the cute boots.

Candy Topper - Revolution Spider and some Silhouette Print & Cut downloads circle punched {I've been teasing Veronica about her candy choice here...since jelly beans aren't considered a Halloween candy. What would be a fun Halloween candy to send her? M&Ms, chocolate eyeballs? Ideas anyone? LOL!}

Boo Card - QK Haunted font and QK Revolution Bats.

Halloween Gift Bag - Silhouette downloads for title, Print & Cut images and the Revolution Spider again. {Tack så mycket Veronica!}

And finally - a Scrapy Land Starting Blox! I know, I know - I took last week off! But if you knew why you'd understand! {wink, wink} So on top of all these fun ideas to copy and tweak and play with, here is Blox #32 to start working on...

All patterned paper! No cardstock, except for your dies and your journaling strips/block! Are you up for the challenge? I am - I'll share my ideas with you next week!

These will be due next Thursday, October 29th at 6pm PDT. Since everyone took the week off, I am expecting stacks of pages!

Thanks to all of my Halloween Helpers today - fun projects, easily reproduced and made to work for what you need. I LOVE IT!

If you have any questions for these ladies, please leave a comment here. If you have other suggestions or ideas for seasonal projects - please do the same. I'm off to photograph a wedding, watch the high school marching band compete at Arizona State this weekend and create some semblance of order in this scrap-room! I'll catch you on Monday!

I'm here for your habit...

Comments

[Brenda]

Wow you weren't kidding when you said this was a jam packed blog post.

First off your jack-o-lantern candy caddy is adorable. You did a great job on that.

Veronica Halloween bags, treat bag topper, and card are all great!

Gail's bags are wonderful and her ghost with a little different mouth would make an adorable lamb for Easter!!!! (I love the Frank he looks like he has been hitting the bottle.)

Great job everyone!

[MBstang]

Nice Job everyone! I just wish that I had time to make my own version of each one of these! At least it is a treat to see all the fun ideas! Gail I especially like the candy corn eyes on the pumpkin bag! And thanks for the SB, Susan! You know I have to have my blox fix! :)

[Lara]

Whoa Mama....this post was loaded with fantastic ideas! You ladies are all amazing!! My girls and I are having a "girl party" night as my hubs is out of town for the weekend....so they stayed up late and looked at the post with me... and now they want to try and make EVERYTHING they saw!! We'll be buying lots of paper tomorrow :)

[Anonymous]

Be sure to include gummy worms for Veronica's boys! not really halloween but fun all the same!
Deb