Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Haunted House Dollar Store Decor

Happy Tuesday crafty friends!
I hope your day is off to a great start and you are enjoying the new season we just hit...FALL! It is our collective households favorite season! I am outvoted 3-1. All of my family members love fall most of all! I love it, because I love them! Anyway, the fall feasts are a lot of fun. One of the celebrations is halloween. While as a family we do not participate in halloween, I do have a couple of halloween events I do for my job. So I wanted to make something that I could used to decorate the booth. Here is what I created.

Here is my project. It is super cute. It is a free standing decor piece.

I started with a plain haunted house from the Dollar Store.


I painted the house with some purple paint. I made a base for it by gluing some jenga type wood blocks to both sides. I then painted them with some black paint.



With the black paint, I painted some "roof tops" While the paint was still wet, I sprinkled some glitter on them.


For the moon die cut, I used some wire and sandwhiched a couple of the dies together with some foam tape between them.


I then went to work adding in all the super cute die cuts I used. As with most of my projects, I started by die cutting all my pieces from white cardstock. I then colored them in with my markers.
In this close up you can see the following dies: The tops of the cake sho












Here is one last look at my completed project. Below are the dies I used.






Vintage Lamp Post
From the new Christmas Release


Holiday Door
Used the bottom base, door, and columns for the door are of my project.
Used the oval window top for the two windows on each side of door.



Snowman w/ Country Shed
Used the shed wood base for the background of my door area.



Cake Shoppe
Used the Roof top and the awning of the front window. The roof top piece is over the door and over the left second story window. The awning piece is over the third story window. 


Candy Cart
Used the Top for the awning on the seccond floor to the left window. It is layered underneath the roof top piece of the cake shoppe die.


Lemonade Stand
Used the base of the stand for the window box planters on the bottom windows. Also used the little penant. it is on the second story window on the left.


Cute Ghosts


Halloween Victorian Gate. Used at the front of the house.


Jack-O-Lantern Witch. Used the Jack O Lantern and the hat on one of the pumpkins


Spooky Fence Mini
Used a cut piece from this for the 2nd floor skinny window on the right side.


Spooky Kitties


Used the little pumpkins


Used te spiders and some of te web pieces


Used the roof top on the 2nd floor side piece as window awnings on the small windows and also used the 2nd floor as my chimney.

Trick or Treat Phrase


Witch Hat



Witch Legs
Used the legs as "Shutters" for my first floor windows.

Well that about covers it for this project. 

Be sure to head over to CottageCutz.com and pick up the two new fantastic releases! 
They are amazing and on sale now for a limited time!



Until the next time, have a wonderfully crafty day!
-Melinda

Monday, October 10, 2022

Treat Yourself

... because whether we have kids at home or not, what's Halloween if you can't sneak a few treats for yourself, am I right?!  LOL


Welcome Scrapping Cottage friends!  Kris here with a simple card featuring the Candy & Bucket die and the Trick or Treat Phrase die which are both part of the HALLOWEEN RELEASE!  

These individual dies are still 30% OFF, so if you're needing to make some Halloween cards or plan to scrapbook those adorable photos of your kids/grandkids, now is a perfect time to shop!

Design Steps:

Mary, our awesome DT Coordinator here at TSC, is hosting this week's Color Challenge #916 at SplitcoastStampers, so I joined in! 
-  White Card base:  A2 top folding card 
-  Gorgeous Grape cardstock:  5-1/4" x 4".
-  Yellow star paper (Doodlebug Designs' Happy Haunting)  3" x 3-3/4" 
-  Plaid paper (from the same pack):  3-3/4" x 2-1/2" 
-  SU! Grape paper:  cut diagonally, about 1" tall


I die cut the pieces from Candy & Bucket die from orange, yellow and white cardstock and colored the white portions (handle and candy) with Copic markers.  Added some definition to the pumpkin with markers also and attached with foam dots.


I die cut the Trick or Treat Phrase from patterned paper (same Doodlebug Designs HH pack) and another from Grape cardstock to offset behind as a shadow, then mounted with foam dots.  

I printed my sentiment in white ink with an orange text box behind, then die cut and offset a Grape version behind it, then popped it up with foam dots.  To finish off my card, I added some sparkly dew drops.


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I hope my project today inspires you to get crafty with your CottageCutz dies!  

Kristine

Friday, October 07, 2022

Princess Castle Featuring the Halloween Release!







Hi everyone! Linh here and I have a new video up on the Cottage Cutz YouTube channel. Whether you make Halloween cards or not, I hope you'll check out this latest release from Cottage Cutz! There are several sets that be easily generalized to use for any and all occasions! Today I'm using a few sets to create a Princess-themed castle scene. I hope you enjoy it!



Here's a close up of this beautiful castle & gate. I love these sets!




Monday, October 03, 2022

Dancing Feet Treat Box & Card

Hellooooo CottageCutz friends!   

Kris here with a fun and interactive card and treat box using dies from the new HALLOWEEN RELEASE!   If you missed Part 1 of our team post yesterday, click here. You'll see that these dies are not just for Halloween... many of the dies you can use any time of year!  There will be another team post next Sunday, and we are also showcasing samples throughout the week, so LOTS of inspiration for you!

I started by making 2 "Dancing Feet" cards (or should we call them swinging legs?) but then I decided to make a fun Candy Box, with the dancing legs/feet on the front!  They are both easy to make and I'll show you how!

(here they are in action)

How FUN are these?!! 

For my projects today, I used the Witch Legs, Witch Hat, Trick or Treat Phrase, and the spider is from the Spooky Truck die from the New Release.  I also used the Wacky Stitched Rectangles the Pierced Wide Circle Frame die set and the Pierced Circles set.

Let's Start with the Card:

1)  I started with my card base then attached each of the following layers:
White card base = top folding card, 5-1/2" x 4-1/4"
Plaid paper mat = 5-1/4" x 4"
Purple paper mat = 4-7/8" x 3-5/8"
Orange paper = 4-5/8" x 3-3/8"
Black cardstock = 4-1/8" x 3-1/8"
White cardstock = die cut with 2nd largest Wacky Stitched Rectangle


2)  I die cut my pieces:  hat, legs and spider, and added some shading with Copic markers.

3)  Then I made the mechanism that will make our legs swing!  I used the smallest circle die I could find in my stash and cut a hole from purple cardstock.  I then hand cut around it a piece that looks like the one in my photo below on the left, cutting a rectangle around the circle first, then I cut up from the bottom to create 2 stems, and I rounded the top to follow the shape of the hat.    


4)  I glued my witch legs onto the stems of the purple piece we just cut.  See photo below.

5)  I then added a small circle foam dot to my white card front a li'l higher than the center, and hung my legs around it.  

6)  Next, I added foam dots to my hat.  Notice you DON'T want to add them to the brim of your hat or your legs won't move!  Learned that one myself!  LOL!  One at the tip of hat will suffice, because you'll also have the middle dot that we hung our legs on.  Remove the backing from both foam dots and center your hat over legs.  

7)  I added s sentiment that I generated on my computer and die cut, added the li'l spider and some black sequins and we're done with the card ☺


I made another similar one for the front of my treat box.  


Design Steps for Treat Box:

1)  I cut a piece of lime green cardstock at 3-1/4" x 4-1/8" and mounted my white Wacky Stitched Rectangle on top.   I repeated the rest of the steps as my card to create the front panel.

For the box... I wasn't sure score lines would show up on black, so I also made an orange version to show you where to score/cut etc.  

2)  I cut a piece of (black) cardstock, 11" x 7-1/2".  Then, with the 11" side along top of my score board, I scored at 3-3/4", 5-1/4", 9", and 10-1/2".  Then I turned it so the 7-1/2" side is along the top and scored at 1/2", 1-1/2" and 6".

3)  Use the photo below to make cuts with scissors to create mitered flaps etc.  The largest sections you will NOT miter the flaps, all others you will.  (you can click the photo to enlarge if you need to)


4)  Once my flaps were mitered, I measured each of the larger sections (that have the 1/2" score on top) to find the middle and placed a pencil mark at 1-7/8" and used my Crop-o-dile to create a hole.  I rounded the corners of the flaps with the holes.  

5)  You CAN decorate just one side of your box and be done, but I thought it'd be fun to create a peek-a-boo window on the back so they can see the candy inside!  ☺  So I cut a piece of purple patterned paper, 3-1/2" x 4-1/4" and glued it to the outside panel of the largest end as shown below.  

6)  Then I die cut a circle (5th largest of the Pierced Circles Set) from the middle of that panel. 


7)  I then turned it over and added a piece of window sheet larger than the circle and attached to inside.  


8)  I cut a circle frame to cover the hole on the outside using the middle sized Pierced Circle Frame die.  Then I added the cute spider from the Spooky Truck die by gluing it behind the frame, then attaching it to the box. 


9)  This is totally optional, but I thought the candy (and spider) would show up better with a colorful insert, instead of seeing black through the hole, so I cut a piece of yellowy-orange paper cut at 3-1/2" x 4-1/4".


10)  I cut some candy-patterned pieces for the spines and top portions of my box.  I cut (2) spines at 4-1/4" x 1-1/4"


11)  And (2) plaid pieces for the top portions cut at 3-1/2" x 3/4"

12)  I die cut the Trick or Treat Phrase from glittered cardstock and glued onto the back of my box as shown.


12)  To assemble the box, add a strip of Score Tape onto the outer 1/2" flap as shown.


13)  Then flip it to the other side and add 2 or 3 strips of Score Tape to the non-rounded end flap as shown below. 


14)  Bend the short 1/2" flap over and remove backing from tape, then fold the other end of box over onto that flap, lining up corners.

15)  Now you can fold in the small bottom (non-rounded) flaps in, then fold in the non-taped flap, then remove tape backing from the 3 strips and fold over that flap.

16)  You can use the straight end of your bone folder to stick inside your box and rub over the flaps to help secure them. 

17)  Lastly, I added cute ribbons thru the holes at the top and tied a bow!  Done☺

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Check out the whole HALLOWEEN RELEASE HERE!


I hope I inspired you to get crafty with your favorite CotageCutz dies ~ Have a blessed week ☺

~Kristine