Happy Halloween!

Hope you are looking forward to a Happy Halloween today! Do you have any fun plans? Are you dressing up? I haven't really dressed up for years, but this year I bought a gypsy costume and I'm excited to wear it. May kids are really excited that I have a costume!

I've been collecting a bunch of fun Halloween ideas on Pinterest and thought that I'd share a few of my favorites with you today.

Frankenstein Rice Krispie Treats   from CraftGossip.com

I like that these treats are on sticks and displayed in a tin full of candy corn.

Printable Treat Toppers from Wants and Wishes Etsy Shop

The orange cheese balls are a fun Halloween colored treat.

Veggie Skeleton from Feeding Frenzy

There is a chance kids would eat a few veggies on Halloween with this cute guy at the table.

Mummy Juice Boxes from Parents.com

All you need is white electrical tape and googly eyes. This would be a fun surprise in your kid's lunch box.


Chocolate Spider Web Cake in a Jar from I am Baker

The webs don't look too hard although they would take some patience.

Halloween Mason Jars from Every Creative Endevor

These look easy and would it be cool to line the driveway with these on Halloween.

Mummy Pretzels from Bright Ideas

This looks like a fun food craft that the kids could make with me.

I didn't get to make fun Halloween food this year, but now I'm set with a bunch of fun ideas form next year.

Hope you enjoy the day and have a few pieces of your favorite candy!

Fancy Pants + Tombow Blog Hop

Fancy Pants Designs and Tombow have teamed up this week for a full week of blog hopping. Tombow was generous to send me a bunch of there products to try out and use on my projects. Today, I get to share two projects with you on the Fancy Pants Design blog.

Both of my projects share ideas on making your Halloween treats just a bit more fancy.

Hope you'll stop by the blogs and enjoy the blog hop!

Fancy Pants Designs Blog
Tombow Blog

Birthday Gift in a Snow Globe

Last month I spotted this Gift Card Snow Globe idea from the Creative Mama on Pinterest and knew that I wanted to make something similar.

Last weekend my daughter was invited to a birthday party, so it was the perfect time to try out the snow globe idea.

I stopped by the dollar store hoping that they would have some candles that I could use and luckily they had candles with numbers 1, 2 and 3. Perfect since the birthday boy was turning 12. The candle packs also came with smaller star candles.

For the assembly, I hot glued the candles and gift card to the lid and let it dry. I then added some glitter and water to the jar and screwed on the lid.

To add a little personalization the jar, I cut "Happy Birthday Ryan!" from red vinyl and stuck it onto the jar. Quick and fun gift wrapping!

We did finish off the jar with ribbon around the base of the jar with a little gift tag attached, but I forgot to snap a photo before we ran out the door to the party.

500th Blog Post >>> Let's Celebrate!

Wow, this is my 500th blog post. I love sharing my thoughts and creations with you and I'm thankful for you! Thought it would be fun to celebrate with a  giveaway. What do you think?

I will randomly select one winner to receive the upcoming Scrapbook Circle Harvest Festival Kit from the comments on this post.

Just leave a comment letting me know what you love most about autumn.

***Comments will close Monday, October 31st. Winner will be announced later that week!***

Thanks for your support!

Harvest Festival is Here

The Scrapbook Circle November Kit, Harvest Festival, is now live on the site.

The cozy fall colors mixed with the great patterns make me excited to create.

I'm still have plans for several more projects, but here's a look at my first layout share with the kit. This page is the first of a few about my kids' combined birthday party.

Enjoy your day!

Embellished Treat Holders

With Halloween almost here, I guess I have candy on the brain. There are a bunch of scrapbook clam shell  packaging things here at my house and I thought they'd be perfect to hold a few bits of candy.

I pulled out all of my Fancy Pants Oct. 31st goodies and quickly put together several treat holders. With rub-ons on the front and paper on the inside, there really were fast projects.

It was fun adding bits of ribbon or buttons to finish off the design.

Since the paper is all double sided, that meant that the back of the project was already decorated too. I just added a few stickers and design embellishments to finish it off.

We gave these out along with some baked treats when we BOOed a couple of neighbors. We love the tradition of getting BOOed and BOOing our neighbors at Halloween time. If you want to start up this tradition in your neighborhood, the TomKat Studio has a fun free printable that you can use with instruction on how it works.

Hope you are having fun getting ready for Halloween!

Boo Banner @ Glitter Academy

Friday night I went to a Glitter Academy crafting night. There were several crafts available for purchase, but with of the stuff I already have at my house, I decided to come up with my own craft. My friends Aimee and Jennie came and we had a great time together.

I'd brought a bunch of Halloween stuff to use to make banners for Aimee and I. When we met up with Jennie, I asked what she was going to work on and she said she'd just brought Halloween stuff to make a banner. How funny! Great minds must think alike!

The banners took over three hours to make, but there may have been more talking and eating than crafting going on.

The main treat at the event was ice cream from SubZero. It was pretty cool set up. You get to choose your dairy liquid base (custard, yogurt) and then your flavor (chocolate, pumpkin, strawberry) and then they pour it into a bowl and freeze it up into ice cream in about 10 seconds. Pretty fun! Plus there was a candy bar that was perfect for topping the ice cream after it was frozen.

We each embellished our banners differently and I didn't get any close up photos of their banners (camera phone + low light = blurry photos) but I did take a few of my banner today.

I think my favorite part of the banner may be the little bat hanging from the O because it's glow in the dark. I'd picked up a pack of glow in the dark bats last Halloween, but this is the first bat to make it's way out of the package. Maybe more will get to come out next year.

Hope you are looking forward to a great week!