Halloween Tool Box Treats with Artiste!

WHeW!!!!  I finished them!  All 25 treat boxes are filled and sealed for my daughter's 4th grade class party on Thursday.  Time to kick back and....create some things for my next craft show, lol!  ;)

Anyhow, I had picked up some of the Close to My Heart Spellbound papers for a steal on my website when it appeared in the "While Supplies Last" section.  Have you ever checked out the great deals there?  You sure should!  Click HERE to take a peek!  Right now, there is a 2" scallop punch for just $5!!!!  I used it to make the tag on this adorable, adhesive-free tool box!

One of my favorite crafty blogs, Creating with Color by Cassandra, recently showed some adorable creations using googly eyes...and I absolutely loved the idea!  I decided to use them on my tags in a slightly different way.  The stamp I used is from MCT, and those white circles are leftovers from some projects I was cutting...I love finding a use for everything!  ;)

Now, I know these painstakingly crafted designs will be torn apart by the 4th graders, so I kept it super simple, lol!  You could say I kept them totally clean and simple for CAS-ual Fridays new challenge to make a gift box with a tag!  ;)

Like I mentioned, these boxes require absolutely NO adhesive to put together!  SCORE!  No, really!  You just have to find the score marks and fold away!  ;)

Unfortunately there is no food allowed in the treat boxes for school, so I found some erasers and trinkets to fill them with instead of candy.

I am linking this Halloween themed project up over at the Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog.  Thanks for peeking in today, and hope you all have a safe Halloween! 

Encore, Encore!

You guessed it!  Another triple stamping technique card is on the way.  Listen, these are so crazy-easy and fun that I am surprised I didn't end up with more!  ;)

This one is a fun Halloween card.

Sorry if spiders aren't your thing, (#Bethiehatesspiders), but my spidey sense told me these webs were meant to be used for this technique, so I had to listen!  I used the awesome Spellbound My Acrylix stamps, Black Ink Pad, and Sunset/White Daisy CS for this one--that's it!  How much more fun and easy can it possibly get?  Hope you like this one as much as I do.  Just one left to show you this week!  What will it be?  Tune in Friday to find out!

In case you missed my earlier posts, HERE is the Youtube Tutorial by Dawn where I learned to make these cards.

Mojo Monday 257

Hi everyone!  Hope you had a most excellent day of rest yesterday.  Me, not so much, but that happens when you have kids, lol.  Especially when you have kids that want to go to the mall.  To hunt for a homecoming dress.  And you try on hundreds and still come home empty handed.  After three hours of torture.  Are you feeling me yet???  On a high note, I did figure out how to use my smart phone to pull up store coupons during all my waiting time, lol!  Yay, me!  ;)

 AND now back to my Mojo. Mojo 257 to be exact.

Well, I was not quite sure where to go with this gorgeous sketch from Mojo Monday, so I decided on a theme first.  Halloween.  Yep--my most feared and dreaded "holiday" of the year.  I am a cutsie decor kind of gal, and being frightened is not something I torture myself with intentionally (unlike dress shopping, HA!)  SO Halloween is kind of hard for me to wrap my creative juices around.  I did manage to snag one cute set of our Close to My Heart Stamps for Halloween because I wanted to TRY to make something for the occasion.  This My Acrylix set from the Spellbound Cricut Workshop on the Go.  Since this is a Mojo entry, I also allowed myself to use my retired Hooligans papers and went to work.  I really did surprise myself with this mix of this year's and last year's Halloween products...and made a fantastic card for my nieces.

Oh yes, would you believe I even used spiders?!  I can handle them a lot better than monsters any day.  These are even kind of cute.  I stamped them and cut them out with my handy dandy, precision point scissors.  (Okay, so who thought I was going to say, "notebook?"  Blues Clues really was a classic!)  

This spider web is stamped in White Daisy on Black Cardstock and then heat embossed with the clear embossing powder.  Do you see the Glitter Glitz dew drops on the green web?   How adorable is the notebook paper cut from the Artiste Cartridge???  Oh, yes, it is on there along with both of the web shapes!  You honestly cannot believe all the cuts you have at your fingertips on it!

Some of you might need to sit down for this next little reveal.  The sentiment, "Happy Halloween," and the web that I stamped on the white strip were both from the same acrylic stamp--I cut it apart to use them separately!  Are you cringing?  Sorry, I knew that this is how I wanted to keep them though, and a really didn't want to mask it all off, so I went ahead and clipped!  ;)  Here is a link to the set on my website:  Spellbound

Current CTMH products that I used:

Spellbound Workshop on the Go My Acrylix
Glitter Glitz
Black Ink Pad
White Daisy and Black Cardstock
Artiste Cartridge

NOW, you might want to jump up and down to cheer for this announcement.  I am ONE FOLLOWER away from my 100th follower here on my blog!!!  I am already over 100 on my FB page, so when this one hits the big one, oh, oh, get ready for a giveaway!!!!  So exciting!!!!  Send your crafty friends on over to play!  :)