Halloween Trick or Treat bags

Hey ya’ll wanted to share a fun craft you can do with your kids for Halloween. 

My kids are 18, 16, and 11 so we have gone through plenty of Halloween trick or treat bags - we started with the typical orange plastic pumpkin - the one that cuts into your hand when it’s full of candy. 

We tried the pillow case - which leaves kids disappointed when they don’t get the whole case filled because really that could weigh 50 pounds if filled 

We also had grandma make some which were cute but small...so now, today for this Halloween, I made some more practical customized treat bags 

I started off with these blank canvas bags which could work to throw over your shoulder if the bag gets to heavy and for bigger kids they can hold it from the handle without it dragging on the floor 😁

I asked the kids what they wanted and I just drew the image on the front and had them paint them

(truthfully I did 2 because my kids are at school today but my daughter did paint hers) 

Choose your colors and paint brushes - these bags are nice and unwashed which helps with the paint going on and is forgiving - note: if you use a pencil like I did some of the colors of paint do not cover up the lines so definitely don’t use a sharpie unless it’s part of your design. 

Also, if you are using acrylic paint it will seep through the bag so be sure to add something inside the bag before starting to paint, such as a piece of card board. 

Once it’s done be sure to cover with an old towel or cloth and iron just to secure the paint if you want. You shouldn’t  have to wash these bags since the candy is mostly sealed - 

So you could just hang up for next year.!

Cute right? My old east painted in my penciled drawing 

And customizable to each child or friend. 

I’ll have more to share tomorrow after our fun filled evening we have planned - stay tuned. 

Happy Crafting friends

Tina

Feliz Dia De Los Muertos

We had a wonderful Halloween - Hope you all did as well. We had some fun playing dress up last night - especially with the make up part... we had a


 witch

 

with lots of make-up and a funky old broom - this costume was from the thrift store...love those kind!

 

we had

 

FREDDIE KRUGER

 

used some sticky waxy scar stuff for his face. Believe or not, we had the pants and sweater top and just bought the glove & hat from the party store...

 

My oldest daughter wanted something original but still cool so again to the thrift store we headed and my daughter was able to piece up

 

ROSIE THE RIVETER

found the shirt and some DOC MARTENS at the T.S. she had the tank, the shorts & red bandanna

mom helped her with the hair - which I think she totally rocked!!

 

 

All in all not a bad night with some fun & cheap costumes.

 

One holiday down and now the "SEASON" begins...HOLIDAYS

 

ok anyway I also wanted to wish you a splendid weekend and share a fun DIA DE LOS MUERTOS skeleton I made - I learned it in a class this past October.

Using fimo clay to create & sculpt the head

 

 

and hand sewn body and then the pain stakenly drawn then painted in BONES

 

...I am in LOVE with the doll - subtle but to the point 

 

 

and the finishing touch was some fun fabric to make a collar for the skeleton.

I am in LOVE with the doll - subtle but to the point and all handmade!

 

I will be linking my skeleton to the parties in my tab up top.

 

Here's wishing your dearly departed LOVED ones a wonderful day of rest & celebration

in honor of Dia De Los Muertos

 

Love you Mom & Paul and miss you everyday!!!

 

xo

 

 

Happy Halloween

Here's wishing you all a wonderful Halloween - whether dressing up or handing out candy - hope you have a fun & safe night...

 

Wanted to share a fun mixed media WITCH I created using different bits & parts and a wonderful old doll head.

 

vintage alphabet blocks

 A metal lamp shade base (I think?) for the body and a candle saver for the collar and vintage hands holding one of my hand dyed trees in purple.

 

all in all a fun & pieced together Halloween decoration.

 

I am linking this witch up to the weekly parties in my link at the top of the page.

 

Have a fun night.

xo

The Show

was a total success. Thanks to all my lovely customers friends who stopped by and visited for a bit, shopped and those of you who hung out and talked with me. I really enjoyed seeing you all and appreciate your support.

 I have a problem with taking photos of my booth before sales start and especially one with me in it. So I have shots of my booth during a quite time with a lot of things already sold - hence the  emptiness of it all.

 

the bottom rack of pillows (with words on them) was filled with burlap pillows - simply made but quickly desired...weird and I only made a few. Hate when that happens.

 

Here are the table tops and whats left of my products.

 

 

 

Here is that cool booth set up I made with not much left on it for display.

 

Here is the left over scrapbooks I had - I was so considering not doing them this year but I'm glad I did because people loved them and bought them.

It warms my heart to know  that people are still scrapbooking.

 

I wanted to share another cool project I made for Halloween scrapbooking...

 

I found a super cool white metal easel and made some scrapbook pages to fit and hang from the easel so you could easily share your Halloween past photos or add this years to it.

 

If you used some repositionable tape you could totally use this year after year

and add new photos to it...

 

I love the colors of this and the details - and so as not to overload this post I only shared 3 layouts but this comes with 10 total.

I have it listed in my ebay shop if you are interested in it.

 

Well here's wishing you a wonderful Halloween night and a crafty week.

 

I will be linking up my scrapbooking easel to the parties in my linky up top.

 

 

Happy Halloween

 

Here's wishing you all a Happy Halloween!

Is it to EARLY?

personally I think its NeveR too early for HALLOWEEN.

But of course, as a crafter and yearly Craft Boutique participant - July is usually when you

start seeing bits of Halloween creeping up in my home...

either halloween fabric, sewn pumpkins laying by my fireplace, painted creepy houses in the kitchen-

thats Halloween spilled all over.

Beyond the obvious halloween decorations, I also like to make simple things as well - that don't SCREAM Halloween but are still cute and that are functional.

take these cute little gift buckets

cute right and it was really a quick and easy to make and doesn't take many supplies

to get them done.

all you need are some PEET pots (for planting) some burlap or ribbon and some

center rosettes (handmade or bought)

take the burlap and cut it to fit the peet pots and hot glue them to each other

then add your rosette - you could totally make these fancier if you chose too. But I think

less is more.

see all of them together - looks pretty great and if you are thinking NOW what?

well why not fill them with some candy corn and use them as place settings or perhaps

fill them with some Halloween treats and keep by the door for giving to unexpected guests...

see they are really functional and cute!  best part is they are handmade - and you can't beat that...

hope you try this idea out --- have a crafty week

I am linking this up to the following parties:

ta-da-tuesdays

too cute tuesday

the creative spark

whatever goes wednesdays

we did it wednesdays

whatever you want wednesdays

one project at a time

tip me tuesday

handmade tuesdays

xo