Free Halloween Printable!

Fall is officially here. Except in Oklahoma.... where it was 90 degrees today!  What the what?

I guess it's still "officially" fall but I could really go for cool weather.  I hate heat.

Anywho, with the arrival of fall, we know Halloween is just around the corner.  Not having kids, I don't have to make costumes or deal with trick-or-treating, but I still love making goodies for my co-workers and friends.

Since I got my fuse tool, I have been OBSESSED with all things shaker.  Shaker cards, shaker bookmarks, shaker dashboards for my planner....  So why not do a shaker Halloween treat bag?

If you're not familiar with a fuse tool, check this out:

Now that you are in love with the fuse tool like I am, what can you do with it?  I have a simple idea that will be a hit with all your pals.  Promise!

All you need is a printer, some paper and some 5x7 cello bags. (I got mine from Amazon HERE)

I guess you could call these "treat packs"?  I have no idea. I just think they're cute.  I basically took a printable card, put it in a 5x7 cello bag, added embellishments and/or candy and sealed the end with my fuse tool.

With my limited photography skills, it's very difficult to photograph a shiny, flimsy bag.  I kept getting a glare, so I just laid it down and hoped for the best.  If you want to give a treat without candy, you can add some sequins or die-cuts and just write a little note on the back.

In this one, I added a couple packs of Sixlets.  My hubby loves them.  I find the crunchy shell nasty, personally.

If you don't have a fuse tool, but still want to make these, you can easily fold them over and seal the back with some cute (and glittery!) washi tape.

Now for the best part - a Freebie!  I created these cards to share with you all.  Just click the link under the picture to download the PDF document for yourself.

Halloween Printable 2017

If you make some, I'd love to see pics.  Post them on the Pink and Paper Facebook page and we can all share fun ideas!

Happy Creating!

Cute & Simple Halloween Cards

Earlier in the week I posted some cute little Halloween treat bags for my co-workers.  Of course, I had to make cards to go along with them!

I made 6 different cards, mixing and matching the colors using up my scraps from last Halloween.  They were easy and fast to make.

Each card measures around 3" x 3".  I took a simple pennant shape and imported it into Silhouette Design Studio.  I flipped one over and welded them together to make cards.  For ease of folding, I added a score line in the middle of each card so it cut that for me.

I then used the internal offset function to make some layers to cut my patterend paper.  

The font I used is apparently unavailable now, but it's very similar to Galpon from DaFont.  You can get it HERE.  For the font, I used the offset feature to make an outline, then welded the letters together.

I love Halloween colors!  I had a blast making these fun little cards.  It's been a long time since I've sat at my craft desk and played.  It was wonderful.  And I must do it again very soon!

Happy Halloween!
Cheryl

Halloween Cheezy Poofs!

Halloween is just around the corner.  Are you ready?

Every holiday, I have great intentions.  I decide I’m going to make these fabulous treat bags or boxes full of fabulous goodies for my family, friends and co-workers.  Most holidays, I’m good to just show up with whatever I agree to bring, much less something cutesy and fun.  I have a tendency to bite off more than I can chew and then I run out of time for the fun things… like making treat bags!

This year, however, I have turned over a new leaf.  I am trying to stop doing things out of obligation and do more of what I want, in my downtime. 

So, guess what?  I made Halloween bags for my co-workers!  I totally stole the idea from Pinterest, so I can’t take credit for the creative genius, but I did them my own way. 

I started with a GIANT tub of cheezy poofs.  (Yes, I realize they are actually called cheese puffs, but thanks to my husband and his younger days of watching Southpark, they will forever be known as “cheezy poofs” in our household!)

That sucker is massive, huh?  You can see my Silhouette machine to the right, just for scale.  I got this whole tub at Sam’s for about $6.00.  What a bargain!

I bought some treat bags and measured them to see how much space I had for the faces.  On Pinterest, everyone had drawn the faces using Sharpie markers.  What?!?!?  They obviously don’t own a Silhouette.

I went to Google and searched “jack o lantern faces clip art” and got tons of cute little faces.  I imported a few of them into design studio, then traced them.  Voila!  I cut the faces from some scraps of black vinyl I had in my stash and applied to the bags. 

After all the faces were applied, I filled them with cheesy goodness and tied with twine.  Sooooo cute!

I love these little guys!  

If you haven’t yet made Halloween goodies, this is an easy and quick project you could do tonight.  Of course, if you try it, I’d love to see your pictures.

Happy Wednesday!
Cheryl

Something Wicked This Way Comes

I am a big chicken.  Like seriously, I am a 39 year old woman (WOW - That birthday last month made me feel a little old...) who is still somewhat afraid of the dark.  I don't really like to admit this but my hubby works nights, so I'm alone a lot in the dark.  If I have to wake up in the middle of the night and go to another room of the house, you can guarantee my house is lit up like the Griswald's yard at Christmas.  I turn on lights as I go.  

I do not watch scary movies, nor do I go to haunted houses.  When I was dating Charles, he thought it would be fun to go to a haunted forest out in the woods.  Now, at the time, I thought I could handle it because I was going to try new things and not be afraid.  Well, that lasted all of 47 seconds.  I started panicking while we were in line.  Once we started to walk in, I told Charles to walk behind me and keep his hands on my arms.  I proceeded to pull the hood on my jacket as tight as possible and never opened my eyes.  Fortunately, we had other folks with us, so I waked behind them and they sorta led me through.  It was horrifying.  And no, I wasn't a young teen then.... I was 26.  Sad, I know.

I said all of this to say that Halloween has never been one of my favorite holidays.  They show scary movies on TV for weeks ahead, people have scary things on their porches, and you never know when something might jump out from behind the bushes.

This year, I have strangely enjoyed getting ready for Halloween.  I am not sure why, but I keep seeing fun things like sparkly pumpkins and cute owls and now I like it a little more.  I was hoping to maybe even decorate my house, and decided to make some printables.  I posted one last week HERE.

This is my second, and my favorite.  I really don't want anything wicked to come this way, but I love the fonts and stuff.

You can download this printable as a PNG file HERE or as a PDF file HERE.

If you print this and decorate with it, I'd love to see the pictures!

Hugs,
Cheryl

FREE Halloween Printable

I am seriously need of some Halloween decor for my home.  We moved earlier this year and I'm really excited about giving out candy on Halloween.  At our old house, we NEVER had trick-or-treaters, so I'm hopeful we will have a bunch here.  I am on a tight budget right now, so I can't buy a ton of stuff.  I've decorated a tub for my candy (I'll be posting that in a few days), I'm going to get a pumpkin to carve and/or paint and I decided to make some printables to frame.

Here's the first one:

I'm planning on a making a few more, but figured I'd start with a fun one.  I'm kind of a chicken about scary things, so I like fun Halloween stuff.  When you start sending ax murderers (even pretend) my way, I tend to act like a little child cry/run/panic/faint!

It will print on a regular sized piece of paper and the picture is 8x10, so you can just cut out and frame.  You can download it in PDF format HERE or as a PNG file HERE.

Enjoy!

Cheryl

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

I hope you are all doing well on this nice fall holiday!  I thought I would share one last Halloween project with you.  I had planned on posting these on Sunday, but my weekend didn't go as planned.  

As I've mentioned before, our church volunteers to run a concession stand for the OU Football games every year.  We work for free and then our church gets 9% of whatever the stand makes that day.  We had a game this past Saturday and it was a doozie (is that how you spell it?)!  We arrived at 3:00 pm and worked until a little after 10:00 pm.     Then, we had to walk like 100 miles back to our car.  I realized I'm exaggerating a little here, but after standing on your feet, on concrete for that long, a 1 mile walk feels like 100!  Plus it was really cold and I had a blister on my foot.  We arrived at the van around 10:40 pm and proceeded to sit in traffic for approximately 2 hours trying to get home.  We got on the highway and while driving in horrible traffic, our church van was hit from behind by a young lady in a brand spanking new Jeep Cherokee.  She was too busy playing with her radio and GPS to concentrate on driving.  Priorities, right?  She hit us pretty hard and it hurt! Thankfully, no one was seriously injured and finally an hour later we got back on the road and headed home. 

I'd planned on making these goodies on Sunday but my back and neck started screaming louder as time went on.  When I'd sit at my desk and look down to work, it hurt. So I didn't!  I got an appointment with the chiropractor and I feel a little better now and I know I'll get better by the day.  I finally finished them last night, just in time to bring to work to today to my co-workers.  Here are close up shots of some of them...

The picture quality is bad because I just threw them on my desk and took some quick pics before packing them up last night.  

I cut the boxes from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More 2 at 5".  I tied them up with twine and ribbon and added a stamped sentiment to each.  Some of them have stickers and some have cuts done with the Cricut from Simply Charmed.

I filled each one with a Werthers Creamy Caramel, Werthers Caramel Apple and some Peanut Butter Bars.  Have you ever had these?

Oh. My. Goodness.  They are yummy!  I could chomp on them all day.  Which is exactly why I bought a small package so I only had 2 leftover to tempt me!

That's all for today folks!  Be safe if you go out trick or treating tonight and ENJOY!  My Halloween plans include a trip to the chiropractor, coupon shopping, church and then going home to enjoy one of our holiday traditions...

It airs tonight on ABC, so if you're home, you should watch it!  I love celebrating the holidays with Charlie Brown!

Blessings,

Cheryl

Font Friday - Halloween Style!

It's Friday!  That means it's time for fonts....Halloween Style!  I thought we'd go all spooky and festive today.  Here are several fun fonts to use on your last minute Halloween projects...

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As you can see, they are more fun than scary, but what can I say?  I'm a chicken!  I don't like scary things.  When my husband and I were first dating, I decided to be brave and go to a Haunted Forest with him.  Now, in my opinion, a haunted forest is way worse than a haunted house because...well...it's just scarier.  The trees and the moon and the darkness and the hidden murderers all make for a bad night.  I have no idea why I felt the need to go, but I did.  I had on a zip up jacket with a a hood that night.  From the moment we entered, I put that hood up over my head and around my eyes, and buried my head in his back until we walked out safe and sound.  I have no idea what happened or who was chasing us in there but it was awful.  I admit it - I am a grown woman whose afraid of the dark!  I don't like what's lurking in the darkness...  So, I prefer to enjoy happy Halloween stuff and not scary!  

Have a great weekend!

Cheryl

Batty!

We're getting closer to Halloween, so I wanted to share another fun project with you.  I haven't bought any Halloween paper this year, so I'm still using up my stash from last year...

This box is from TBBM 2.  I really like this cut.  I think since it's a "french fry" box, it would be fun to make some, line them with wax paper and serve some kind of food out of them (not candy).  I may just have to do that someday...

To match the goofy bat paper, I cut this little fellow from Simply Charmed twice and layered him to make his wings stand out.  I hand cut the fangs and used punches for the eyes to match the paper.  The sentiment is from another piece of paper from that same stack that I cut out.

Recipe:

Box - Tags, Bags, Boxes and More 2 - french fry box from pg 69, cut at 6"

Bat - Simply Charmed - Bat (layer 1 and layer 2) from pg 59, cut at 1.50"

Paper - K & Company

I've noticed a lot of folks in blog land have really gotten a head start on their Christmas cards.  Have you?  I think I might get started as well...

Blessings,

Cheryl

Brrrrr!!

We finally got cold weather in Oklahoma!!  We finally got cold weather in Oklahoma!!  We finally got cold weather in Oklahoma!!

Can you tell I'm happy about that?  It got pretty cold here over the weekend and it actually feels like October.  I could not be happier.  I hate to be hot almost as much as I hate crickets so I like fall and I love winter.  The weather inspired me to create some more Halloween goodies.

This box is from TBBM 2.  I have been wanting to make one of these for a while now.  I used the fit to page option and it's pretty big!  In the first picture, the background is a 12 x 12 piece of paper and you can see how big the box is in comparison.

I used a stamp from Hobby Lobby.  It's supposed to look aged and creepy, I guess.  To me, it just looks like the stamp didn't work too well!  I used my Sakura Glaze pens in purple and orange to highlight the dots, etc.

This little tiny spiders are so cute!  They are by SandyLion and I bought them a few years ago in the dollar spot at Michael's.  I have saved them waiting for just the right project.  I tied the ends of the box using twine from my store.

Recipe:

Box - Tags, Bags, Boxes and More 2 - cracker box on pg 61

Paper - K & Company

Twine - Pink and Paper

Stamp - Stampendous

Pens - Glaze by Sakura

Stickers - SandyLion

I'm so glad you stopped by today.  Have a great Monday!

Blessings,

Cheryl

Happy October!

Can you believe it's already October?  Time is flying by this year!  I started making some Halloween goodie boxes and wanted to share one with you.  But first, check this out...

How much do you love that pink car?  Do you see the eyelashes on the headlights?  I love it!  My dad sent me this pic because he knew I'd love it.  I think it looks like a fun little Barbie car and I need one.  I think it would make me really claustrophobic, but it just looks so happy and fun!  

Ok...on to the paper stuff...

I will start off by apologizing for these horrible pictures.  My poor, pitiful camera just didn't do well on this.  I re-adjusted the white balance to every setting I had and the picture still came out poorly, mostly because of the orange background, I'm sure.  I made this box using the Life's A Party.

This picture turned out much better.  I made a rosette out of orange paper, then punched the circles using different sized punches.

As you can see, I adhered it with foam dots to make it stand out.  I also inked the edges of the box using black ink.  I then added the mummy sticker just because he's so stinking cute!

Recipe:

Paper - K & Company

Sticker - Jolee's

Cuts - Coffin box from Life's A Party @ 5"

           Rosette made from a 1" strip of paper, scored at 1/2" intervals

           Circles punched using 1.25", 1.5", 1.75"

           Scalloped circle punched using 2"

Thanks for stopping by today for a visit!

Blessings,

Cheryl 

Trick or Treat...Smell My Feet!

I promise I'm almost done with the cheesy Halloween phrases.  They just abound this time of year, don't they?  I hope you all got to watch The Great Pumpkin last night because it's a necessary part of the season.  =)  I have another treat bag to share to wrap up my week of Halloween fun....

It's a Boo-tiful Day!

It's a Boo-tiful Day, isn't it?  Ha ha...enough with the cheesiness again!  Today I want to show you another Halloween goodie bag I made, but first, I just wanted to remind you.....

It's Spook-tacular!!

So, today I have another Halloween box to share with you.  I have wanted to use this cut forever and finally got around to it...

EEK!!!

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate bugs?  I hate them with all the fire that's within me.  Especially bugs that jump.  Crickets and grasshoppers are at the top of the list of hated creatures, followed closely by flying things and then the crawlers.  

Let's go Batty!

Ok, so I'm aware the title of this post is cheesy, but oh well - I like it!  Since Halloween is just a week away (Where has this year gone?), I thought I'd kick off a week of fun Halloween projects and cards.  I told the kids in my class at church they could come by my house while trick-or-treating next week if they want, so I decided to make up some goodie bags for them and for my niece and nephew.

  

I used the fit to page feature and cut this on a 12x12 sheet of paper using Life's A .  I love this long triangle box!  It's just fun.  I used some bat paper I got on clearance at Hobby Lobby last year.

I tied the top the box closed with the green ribbon.  The top cuts with two tiny holes so you can tie it shut or even attach a ribbon to make a handle.

I cut the scalloped circles from Elegant Edges.  I used an embossing pen to write the sentiment and then embossed it with white powder.  The little bat is a sticker by Sandylion from the dollar spot at Joann's.  Isn't he cute?  Only as a sticker though, not in real life!  I don't do bats.  Ick.

I am off to work now, so I wish you all a happy and peaceful Monday.  I'll be back soon with more Halloween fun!

Blessings,
Cheryl