Kiss My Bones

My theme for my Halloween projects this year were the Skelanimals. I first met these little creatures while shopping at Target for Halloween treats last year. I thought they were adorable, and promised myself I'd remember to use them this year. So I visited the Skelanimals official website and learned that there are twenty four different ones, each with their own name and distinct personality! It was a tough decision, but I decided to select just three favorites to work with to start.
Meet "Diego" the Bat...

..."Chung Kee" the Panda...

...and "Kit" the Cat!

I used Make the Cut (MTC) to render my Skelanimals into cut files, then created the tent boxes for them in Design Studio using shapes from the George cartridge. Being that the images were already solid black & white, no further editing was needed and creating the cutfiles for them was super quick 'n easy...just my speed!

I cut several of each out with my Cricut and used them as Make and Take projects shared with friends at a craft club get together and Cricut Club meeting.

Here's how they looked from the back...

Tags were created in Design Studio and "happy halloween" is a stamped image from Good Stamps which I scanned and printed to fit the tags. Tiny bat, ghost and skull cut outs are from a Cuttlebug die.
The round Skelanimals "seals" were created using my new stamping toy...

From PSA Essentials, these stamped images fit into the self inking stamping unit and are all interchangeable. The stamp pads are interchangeable too, and are available in various colors, even ones that allow you to stamp the outer ring in a different color. Cool, huh. The best part about this is that I get a crisp, sharp image everytime...virtually no more boo boos...hurray!

After stamping my Skelanimals in black, I colored in their hearts, punched them out with a circle punch then backed them onto a larger black circle to create my "seals".

I also made several more tent box treats to share with friends at work...had to do these in white since I ran short on the colored card stock, but they came out looking okay.
Also used my Skelanimal friends to decorate gift bags for friends and family...

These smaller brown kraft bags held okoshi (puffed rice candy) and arare (rice crackers) for our aunties...

And these larger gift bags were filled with special goodies for my niece and bff Kris...

Used Cricut Blackletter Font to cut out the "happy halloween" on these.
Then at the last minute, I decided to add a fourth Skelanimal to my collection. Here's "Dax" the dog. Used MTC to create the cut file for Dax and Paper Pups cartridge for his bone.

These were filled with doggie treats for Latte to share with her fellow doggie friends.

Also want to share the many Halloween goodies I received this year...

This adorable Halloween card is from Kris. See how it opens up?

Super neat-o! I just love cards that pop up and move, and Kris is always surprising me with these! And don't you just love that neat "bat fence"? Lots of layering and dimension on this card too...makes this card such a treasure!

More devilishly fun treats from special friends....

From the top left, scary tombstone is from Iris, adorable Hello Kitty bag from Cheryl & Coleen, cute & funny jack-o-lanterns from Teri (black) and Kris (orange), and very cool folded candy holders from Gwen. I am lucky beyond words to have such talented and sharing friends!

And finally, here's the card I created on the Hallmark Cards website (with a little help from Latte) to send to family and friends...LOL! Can you tell that poor Latte was not too thrilled about her cute froggy costume? Though I must say that she has recently become a lot more tolerant of me photographing her in these silly outfits. I guess she has come to the realization that the more cooperative she is, the sooner the torture will end.

Latte: "...BUT I don't wanna be a FROG for Halloween!!!!"

(Have a fun and safe holiday!)