Candy Holders for Halloween

While searching online for ideas for Halloween treat holders, I came across a plethora of candy holders by several designers that use clear domed ornament balls. Honestly, there were so many that looked so cute and fun that I had a difficult time deciding on which I wanted to make. As you can see from the photo, I couldn't resist choosing Hello Kitty. 

I purchased the cutting file to create this Hello Kitty candy holder from designer "By Yeni". The original design was of Hello Kitty peeking out of a pumpkin but I decided I wanted to change things up just a little and dressed my Hello Kittys in black cat costumes for Halloween.

And for my guy and ghoul friends who aren't fans of the kitty, I made these fun skeleton candy holders, also designed "By Yeni". The crown of flowers came included in the cutting file to give the look of a sugar skull, and I created a cutfile for a top hat and bow tie from clipart found online so the guy skeleton could look dapper.

Both the Hello Kitty and Skeleton candy holders were designed to be made using 8cm plastic ornament balls but I decided to try using 8cm half ball shaker domes that I picked up from Amazon instead. As a result I had to make some changes to the way the domes were attached and how the candies inside could be accessed. I decided to create a bottom panel for the candy holder with a hole just large enough for the candies and covered the opening with a petal style closure as I have done in the past. Although I had to make a few modifications to the original design, in the end I had a much easier time using the shaker domes than if I had used the plastic ornaments. Both the Hello Kitty and skeleton candy holders came together pretty quickly so I was able to finish several of each to share with friends.

Earlier this month I decorated boxes of cookies with this cute Frankenstein wrap to share with friends we had lunch with.

The original cutting file for "Frankie" from My Scrap Chick was designed be used as a candy bar wrap. I wrapped purple cardstock around the sides of the box and enlarged the cutting file for "Frankie" to be large enough to fit onto the front of my favorite LaGrande Gallette cookies. This was a fun way to give the boxes of cookies a festive Halloweeny look.

Our furbabies are the only children we have in our home these days, and yes, we do have fun dressing them up for Halloween. Enjoy your Halloween too!

Photo Collage Pop Up for the Bride and Groom

Last month was full of fun and excitement for our family as our niece and her fiancé tied the knot here on Oahu. 

For a personalized wedding card, I used the print and cut function on Make the Cut design program to create a heart shaped window with the couple's names welded inside and the date of their wedding along the right side of the heart. 

Behind the window, I placed a photo that was taken of the couple a year ago when Sam surprised  Ashley with a wedding proposal on the beach.

Inside, I used my all time favorite Karen Burniston Photo Collage Pop Up mechanism die to animate photos of the couple from their wedding website as well as a few I had taken at their wedding shower. Kept the decorating to a minimum using only a few random glitter hearts and a die cut word "love" from Karen Burniston's Pop 'N Swap die set.

I used opalescent glitter cardstock matted onto textured silver foil cardstock for the inside panels. No skimping here on bling and shine!

I printed up a watercolor image of koi and used an envelope template cutfile to create an envelope for our gift. The red envelope and pouch were quickly put together a few days before the wedding to take to the couple's Chinese Tea Pouring Ceremony. I found a neat stylized heart shaped Chinese character for the word "Happiness" which was rendered into a cutting file using Make the Cut. I cut the characters from gold foil cardstock and backed it with  red glitter to make a tag for the pouch and an embellishment backed with pearlescent gold paper for the red envelope.

Another Photo Fan Pop Up Floral Bouquet

As I mentioned last week, I have another Photo Fan Pop Up floral bouquet card to share this weekend.
 

Yes, this card is nearly identical to the card I posted last week except for the type of die cut flowers I used. This time around I used Spellbinders Big Blooms die set to cut the three different flowers you see in this card. For the leaves I used the same Karen Burniston Flower Pot Pop Up die I used on the other three cards of this style of card.

Flowers and leaves were glued onto the spokes of the mechanism from Karen Burniston's Photo Fan Pop Up die. Cutting files for the vase and bow were created in Make the Cut Design Program.

I added the same "70" flower pick  I made for last week's card which was created by gluing together numbers cut from Sizzix Boxed Brush and pick cut from Spellbinders Sealed Holiday Squiggles dies. This card counts as number four of the seven extra 70th Birthday landmark cards I challenged myself to make this year. Yay! Just three more to go!

I made another simple top fold gift card holder embellished with the same die cut flowers used on the card. I used Spellbinders Hexi-Gems Sentiments plate to hot foil and die cut the Happy Birthday sentiment.