Halloween Spooky Treat Explosion Boxes

 I wanted to make something different in the way of treat holders for my older grand children.  After visiting the dollar store, I came up with the idea for a spooky treat explosion box that I could decorate with die cuts I had on hand and papers I already owned.  I  did have to buy the glittery skulls as it seems I never have everything I need in my existing stash.

I simply scored a 12" x 12" into 4" squares, cut out the unneeded pieces and used the paper to reinforce the box sides a little more.  I hot glued the skulls in the middle, decorated the panels with paper and added a few die cuts and assorted embellishments. I tied mini-candy bars to one flap and I was done.

Halloween Haunted Paper House

 As I've mentioned before my two favorite and maybe only holidays that I like to craft for are Halloween and Christmas.  I always plan to make things for them through out the summer, but I never seem to be successful.  The hot, muggy summer days don't inspire me enough to be making cool weather items.  I'm working on it though.  Maybe I'll make that my 2021 New Year's resolution.

In any case, here's a set of simple houses I put together to add to my simple Halloween decor.  I don't decorate as much as I use to, but I still put a few things out for the grand kids.  

The houses were die cut on my Silhouette using a Lori Whitlock file and pieces from other files as well.

I'm late posting this , but between the virus and work, I didn't have much time to do the crafting I had planned to.

Looking Forward to Halloween

Though I love all holidays, I have to admit that Halloween and Christmas are my favorites when it comes to crafting.  I enjoy making greeting cards and decorations around those two themes.  With the exception of a birthday card here and there and some scrap booking of photos, I don't craft much for other occasions.

Here are a couple of projects I have already made for Halloween and am looking forward to working on a few more.  Though starting on Halloween projects during the summer might seem a little premature, when you're as busy as I am with volunteer work, family and friends, it never too early to try to carve out blocks of time here and there.

Here's a little paper Halloween village I made with my Wishblade ( yes you read that right, I still use a Wishblade) and patterned paper.  I cut the tree, bats and fence from black card stock.  I plan to display it on top of a stack of old books.

Here's a simple step card I decorated with shapes I cut with my Wishblade and covered with a print r that I purchased from a seller on Etsy and printed off.