"Hey Barbie!"

When I learned our granddaughter would be dressing up as "Barbie in her Gingham Dress" for Halloween, I started putting together a few fun PINK goodies so we could send her a Barbie themed Halloween package.

First, the card: I used Make the Cut Design program to convert a coloring page image of Barbie, a spider web and a wtich's hat clip art into cutfiles for the front of my card. I picked up a Dolly font bundle which included cute Barbie clipart and icons from Exordia Designs to use for the sentiments, and cut out embellishments.

On the inside of the card, I installed Karen Burniston's  Twist Flower Pop Up mechanism. The movement of this pop up is a little difficult to capture with still photos alone so I have a short video to demonstrate the movement of this fun pop up.

Since this was a slimline format card, I could fit three of the Twist Flower Pop Up mechanisms in the card. The top and bottom panels with the orange flower shapes pop up and twist to the left while the larger center panel twists to the right as the card is opened. I also attached two die cut bats to the center round panel with strips of acetate so they twist and appear to be flying when the card opens. Barbie silhouette and crown svgs came as part of the Dolly font bundle, bats were die cut from Karen Burniston's Haunted Tiny House Add Ons, and black cat and jack-o-lantern were clipart images rendered into cut files.

Since I had not seen the Barbie movie yet, I watched the movie trailer hoping to get ideas and creative inspiration for fun things I could put together that our granddaughter might enjoy. I thought this shoe from the movie and references to "Barbie feet" vs flat feet were hilarious. It got me thinking, "Hey, I think I can make that!"

I used the free svg cut file for paper witch shoes shared by Cindy Louh on her website here. This is the same template I used to make the witch shoes which I posted last week. But since this one was for Barbie, I used pearlescent pink cardstock instead of black, and attempted to duplicate the heart shaped rhinestone shoe clip.

The next fun little thing I made was this Barbie Eyeshadow Compact...

The inspiration for this came from a similar one posted on Instagram and created by Ideas Caprichosas.

The eye shadow compact was made with circles of glitter and pearlescent cardstock to look like the eye shadows with a foil board mirror. I found clipart of a shadow brush and used Make the Cut Design program to convert it into an svg cut file. The completed paper pieced compact was then glued onto a box with side flaps and filled with candy.

The third little surprise was this personalized pop up slider box with a gift card to her favorite store. I used the Dolly font to make a layered cut out of her name for the front of the box. A little hard to see in the photo but lighter pink panels were dry embossed with Sizzix Stars and Swirls embossing folder and trimmed with glitter cardstock and tiny rhinestones for glitz.

I think I had the most fun this Halloween putting together this box of surprises for our granddaughter. Hope you enjoyed your Halloween too!