halloween

October 31, 2012 No Comments

10 last minute trick-or-treat packaging ideas

Out of time, but still want to craft fun and creative Halloween treats for tonight’s festivities?! Here are 10 easy, creative and oh so fun ideas to get your juices flowing!

Bring on the Bats cello bags with DIY tutorial from Martha Stewart
Jack-o-Lantern Suckers from BHG
Muslin Halloween bags from The Twinery
Cello Monsters from me
Dropping By Spider Bags from Lisa Storms and Fiskars
Free Ghost To A Good Home Treat Bags from BHG
Jack-o-lantern favor boxes (aka recycled Easter eggs!) with DIY tutorial from me
Frankenstein snack cups from BHG
Owl Candy Bar Wrappers from me, featured in BHG, and available for free download!
Spider, owl, monster and kitty cat favor bags with DIY tutorial from… yep… me again…

As always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and celebrate! Happy Halloween everyone and I hope you have a wonderful and safe trick or treat tonight!

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8 black & white Halloween ideas

It’s not too late to get creative this Halloween, especially with these fabulously fun black and white ideas from JoAnn Fabric and Craft Stores!

My absolute favorite crafts in this collection are the black and white animal print Funkins with the treats inside! And a close second is the spooky silhouette embroidery hoops with bats, spiders and rats… oh my! {grin} So clever! You can find full tutorials for these projects and many more on JoAnns Halloween site.

No worries if you’re all wrapped up for Halloween, they have some adorable fall party ideas that would be perfect for Thanksgiving!

And you simply must checkout JoAnns Christmas craft ideas. The site starts with a beautiful storybook video entry and takes you on a journey around what could be your woodland inspired Christmas!

As always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and of course, CELEBRATE!! Happy Halloween!

DIY candy corn wreath + video tutorial

I’m a huge fan of candy corn, more so the nostalia of it than the taste, but love it all the same.

And today I’m sharing how to make a candy corn inspired Halloween wreath using pine cones! My boys were playing a game where they would throw their footballs into three pine trees in our side yard to see who could knock down the most pine cones. Needless to say we had an overabundance and I felt challenged to make something out of them. {grin}

I’m pretty proud of how my pine cone wreath turned out! Here’s what you’ll need to make your own candy corn inspired pine cone wreath:

15-17 medium size pine cones (if you can’t find them in nature, you can pick them up at your local JoAnns Fabric and Craft Store)
orange, yellow and white spray paint
base wreath (this one I upcycled from an old project, but you can pick them up for a few dollars at your local craft store)
orange ribbon
orange, yellow and white cardstock
stick glue
tools: scissors, glue gun

And here’s a easy how to video tutorial to show you all the easy steps for making your own pine cone wreath craft:

Oh, and don’t forget, my Candy Corn Halloween Party Collection (like these dessert labels) is free for download right now! Enjoy!

As always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and celebrate! Happy Halloween!!

easy no mess pumpkin decorating

Looking for easy ways to decorate pumpkins that doesn’t involve carving, painting or hot glue?! Well this one is for you!

I really want to save this little pumpkin for baking (these are the best size pumpkins) but I needed a fun way to dress him up to go with my new Candy Corn Pine Cone Wreath (tomorrow’s post). So with a simple black masquerade mask from the craft store and harlequin pattern witch hat we made a few years ago, he’s a masquerading pumpkin!

He’s adorable AND I can still make him into a pie. {grin}

As always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and celebrate!

DIY ghost pillow with video tutorial

Super excited to share that I’m starting a DIY craft video series! I’ve been wanting to do it forever and now I’m finally taking the plunge. Oh, and I’m learning here so please be kind. {sheepish grin}

So today I teamed up with Sew Jewell to bring you a video tutorial on how to make a Halloween ghost pillow. Super easy craft and mine has been a plush toy for my boys, a throw pillow for my front porch bench and even hung as Halloween decor.

To make your own Halloween ghost plush pillow you’ll need:

1/2 yard white fabric
1/2 yard quilting batting
Pillow stuffing (how much depends on how fat you want him)
Black fabric (for the face)
WonderUnder or similar iron on adhesive (available at your local craft store)
Sewing machine, or be willing to hand stitch

Watch our video craft tutorial for all the how to steps:

And here’s what he looks like with his ghostly tail.

Thanks for watching and as always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and celebrate! Happy Halloween!!

DIY Halloween tree ornaments

All Hallows Eve is just days away! {eek} And, as my baby girl reminded me this morning, “What kid doesn’t like Halloween candy?!” Can you tell she’s my little sugar junkie?

For her, Halloween is all about the candy and other assorted goodies, but I love the holiday for it’s fabulous decorations! From ghoulish and gruesome to sweetly spooky, whatever your style, there’s always something exciting to put out.

This year, our friends at Cricut Project Center sent us some adorable DIY 3-D Halloween ornament ideas that I wanted to share. I just love the little purple bat ornament — he’s the perfect embellishment for a Halloween party or home decor!

The jack-o-lantern ornament and spider ornament are too cute. But wouldn’t the sweet little ghost be lovely with our Candy Corn Halloween party printable collection?! If you join us on facebook you can download the entire collection for free. Plus ALL of our other Halloween printables are 50% off in the Shoppe right now!

As always, we hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and celebrate!

DIY headless horseman costume

My oldest was reading A to Z Mysteries, Sleepy Hollow Sleepover when we started talking Halloween costumes for this year and so it didn’t surprise me when he decided he wanted a Headless Horseman costume!

I’m not much for super scary or gross costumes, actually, we typically go as super heroes, as you can see from his little brother (aka Batman) in the background, or civil service (e.g., police swat officers, fireman).

I tried to talk him into carrying a carved pumpkin, but that was a no go. I also tried the “I’ll paint your face and hair orange.” That too was a no go. He wanted it to sit on his head… well, you can immediately understand the issue.

Then my friends at JoAnn Fabric and Craft Stores came to my rescue and didn’t even realize it. They sent me some Halloween goodies and among them were Funkins!

Super simple pumpkins to carve, no mess. It was great and he got so many compliments this past weekend at a local park’s Trick-or-Trail Halloween event, where this pic was taken. One man even asked us if it was real. Really?! Like I would put a oopy goopy pumpkin on my little one’s head! But my guy loved that the man wasn’t sure and I guess it’s a testament to how good Funkins look.

Here’s what you’ll need:

One large Funkin and pumpkin carving tools available at JoAnns,
Toboggan and/or quilt padding,
White button down shirt,
Black pants,
Black cape (we got our from Sew Jewell on Etsy, she has two. A cape with a high collar and bat wing scallops and a riding cape with hood.)
Black boots

Carving suggestions and tips:

Measure the Funkin and your child’s head before you purchase it. You don’t want their head to be squished!
Consider cutting small divots in each side of the pumpkin so that it sits on the shoulders and doesn’t slip back and forth on the child’s head.
Insert any padding and tack with hot glue inside the Funkin.
Now that the padding is in and shoulders cut, have the child place the pumpkin on and point to where their eyes are.
Take the pumpkin off and make a small hole. If the child can see out that hole, go ahead and carve

For Halloween night we may let him carry my iPhone and play horse whiny noises when he goes door to door. {grin}

As always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and celebrate!

free candy corn party printables

Love owls, spiders and candy corn?! Well you’re in the right place!

My Candy Corn Halloween Party collection was featured in Better Homes and Gardens Tricks and Treats issue last year and I’d love for you to celebrate this Halloween with all of my FREE printable party details — from the invite to the beverage wrappers to the cupcake picks to the cello toppers.

Join me on Facebook and DOWNLOAD my FREE Candy Corn Halloween Party Printables now!

And browse around while you’re here, I have tons of Halloween inspiration and DIY tutorials including:

and more! Happy Halloween everyone from The Celebration Shoppe!

monsters, bats, mummies, oh my!

These adorable cookies arrived in my e-mail this morning from Pillsbury and I couldn’t resist sharing them. My favorite are the Chomping Monster Cookies on top. I’m soooo making those with the boys. We might use a bit less icing in the mouth… {grin}, but adorable nonetheless.

And the Owl Cookies, Chocolate Mocha Mummy Cookies and Spooky Bat Chocolate Chip Cookies are perfect for my Trick or Treat Halloween party collection — complete with witch, mummy and Frankenstein in the invite and tons of owls in the printable party supplies.

Oh, and did I mention, all my Halloween invitations and party supplies are 50% off! Visit the shoppe for all the details.

As always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and celebrate!

easy vampire bat cookies

Hi there! It’s Deanna from Mirabelle Creations. I’m sharing a fun and simple Halloween treat, not-so-scary vampire bat cookies, that will impress your kiddos, but just takes minutes to make!

When my kids get home from school, they are usually starving, so after-school snacks are a must! Although snacks are usually healthy, on occasion I make them a special snack to enjoy. Recently, my husband brought them home from school and I had these cute little bats waiting for them. They were a huge hit!

I’ve seen variations of these little bat cookies made with chocolate bat wings. I admit that I don’t always have the best of luck with melted chocolate, so I tried to think of another way to make the bat wings. These wings are simply chocolate graham crackers cut with a bat cookie cutter.

Here’s what you’ll need to make Halloween bat cookies:

Oreo Cakesters
100 calorie pack chocolate graham crackers
chocolate bar
Wilton candy eyes
orange sprinkles
bat shaped cookie cutter (I used a Wilton cutter)

Simple how to steps:

Using a bat cookie cutter, cut graham crackers into bats. With a knife, cut off both wings from bat’s body.
Break off a small part of a chocolate bar, melt in microwave. For wings with sprinkles, dip the top half of wing into the chocolate. Shake off any excess chocolate. Pour sprinkles onto plate and dip the portion of the wing that you dipped into chocolate into the sprinkles.
Let chocolate dry for a couple of minutes. Insert each bat wing into the cream part of the Oreo Cakester.
Dip the bottom half of the candy eyes into the melted chocolate, press onto the top of the Oreo.
Using the portion of the chocolate bar that you didn’t melt, cut two small triangles for the bat’s ears. Insert ears into the cream part of the Oreo.

These cute bats only took minutes to create, making them the perfect after-school snack. But, they would also be great for a Halloween party or play date!

As always, we hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and CELEBRATE!

Visit Mirabelle Creations for details on how to purchase the complete Trick or Treat, You’re So Sweet Halloween printable party collection.

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