mini pop-up box (Lawn Fawn inspiration week)

Hi there!

I am terribly behind on my posting this week! We hosted a big 40th birthday party for my hubs last night and for the last week I haven't been able to focus on anything more than baking and prepping and decorating for our 35+ guests. It was such a fun time, but I was running around so much I hardly snapped any photos. ack!

Back to today's business! Lawn Fawn inspiration week continues today, with a closer look at the Mini Pop Up Box die.

From the outside, the card looks simple enough... but open it up and there's another surprise:



I decorated the card with the bear from For You, Deer and gave them all halloween accessories from Booyah.



I matched the inside of the card to the outside. I gave it the same starry background treatment, and cut a kraft-colored box inside to match the base layer outside.

I hope you like it! Check out the Lawn Fawn blog today to see all sorts of different designs for this box - click!

♥.

no tricks, just treats (lawn fawn party post)

Hi there!

I have a quick and cute halloween party to share with you today: no tricks, just treats!



I made 3 of everything so that each one of my kids could have a special little package on halloween day. My 2 oldest kids have retainers this year and they are already lamenting all the gummy candies that they will not be able to eat. ha!



I love all of the critters dressed up in their Booyah costumes! Especially the bat sheep - cracks me right up!

To dress up the water-bottles, I dangled tags (the Small Stitched Envelope label) dressed up with a casual knot.



The cupcake toppers are my fave. I stamped the greeting, from Happy Howloween, to frame the images.



The Candy Corn patterned paper from Perfectly Plaid Fall ties everything together. I just want to point out that the little sprinkles on top of the cupcakes are maple flakes. MAPLE FLAKES. I found a little jar on severe liquidation at William Sonoma (because I can't afford WS treats otherwise, I mean maple flakes at 3$ are fine, but at 25$? nope) and I have been putting them on everything. On toast, on oatmeal, in coffee. So good. Everyone loves maple, right? Not just me because of the Canada connection?



Moving right along, these gable treat boxes are so perfect. I dressed up the same critters and slapped them onto the fronts.



I hope you like my all-cute-no-spook halloween party! I set up for this photoshoot, and cleaned everything up before the kids came home from school. I can't wait for them to see it all put back together on Monday!

♥.

happy haunting! {lawn fawn and chameleon pens}

Lawn Fawn and Chameleon Pens are teaming up this week with fun Halloween projects.

I used the pastel pack of Chameleon pens to color the bear from Party Animal. He's Halloween-ready, with accessories from Booyah!

This was my first time using Chameleon pens, and it was fun to experiment with different markers! I like my images to be lightly colored, and look shaded. It took awhile to understand that instead of coloring first and adding the shading second (like with Copics) I had to keep coloring lightly and adding the shading a little bit at a time at the end. (I had to stop coloring every 20 seconds or so to re-click the pen into the chamber to remove saturation.) If you are confused, watch these videos! I found them very helpful to start, and then I had to figure out what worked for me.

I hope you like it!

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booyah! {lawn fawn inspiration week}

Hi there! It's the first day of Lawn Fawn's fall & winter release inspiration week. We're showing off the new ghostly, but never scary set, Booyah.

I can't stop with the cute, you guys. I mean, I put rosy cheeks on ghosts.

I started out with a piece of white cardstock, and grabbed all of the blue/navy/black inks in my collection, from all different manufacturers, and just started blending them until I was happy with the night sky color. Then, when the card base was dry, I splattered white ink over it, to make it look all starry.



I wanted to add some dimension to the card, so I grabbed a circle die and cut into the navy panel. I propped up everything but the circle on very thin foam squares. Just enough space to wiggle in a few ghosts so it looks like they are floating out of a wormhole.

Aren't the ghosts adorable? I love the different accessories - the Frankenstein hair, the witch's hat, and the kitty hat and whiskers.

I hope you like it!  In case you missed it, I made another card with this set last month:

You can check out the original blog post here - click!

And Kelly Marie liked that card so much that she made her own version on the lawn fawn video today. Visit the LF blog to check it out - click!

ghouls night out {lawn fawn}

Hi there! On Monday, Lawn Fawn unveiled the new set, Booyah, as part of their Fall/Winter release.

I paired the ghost from Booyah with the pumpkin-in-a-wagon from the also upcoming Happy Harvest. I dressed up the pumpkin with some fun accessories. I love all of the dress-up images found in Booyah! I can't wait to add them onto critters from other sets too!



Once the images were stamped out and colored, I did some night-sky-ink-blending, and added the stars to complete the look of a halloween night.

I hope you like it!

♥.