Spooktacular Treats

This Friday is 'technically' Halloween at work.  And being such I am dressing up with my coworkers...we work in office supplies and thus will be sharpie highlighters. I'm the neon green one.  Should be fun.  But this weekend while watching my Chargers (hopefully) crush the Chiefs I'm crafting up a storm.

For most major holidays I create some type of food gift for my friends and coworkers.  I get to create and they get to eat. Pretty much a symbiotic relationship.  This halloween I purchased a few of the key edible/container ingredients early (good thing because when I returned they had sold out!).
I had a preview of this craft earlier in the past week so here it is from assembly to completion. 

Paper Crafting Element:
To create a Halloween tag you will need these essential elements

1.Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist  in Fully Purple

2.Making Memories Scrapbook Shimmer  in Grapesicle

3.My Little Bicycle  clear stamps in Frightful (sadly they are discontinued...but any stamp will do )

4.The Essential Glue Pad, used to adhere the shimmer to the cardstock.

5. White and Black Cardstock, 2-3 pieces of each.  This will yield about 20 tags.

6. Paper towels, to catch the overspray of the glimmer mist.

7. Small spray bottle filled with water and paper towels to clean off acrylic stamps.

8. Acrylic Stamp block

9. Something to catch the glitter when poured out of container, a cardboard box will do. 

10. Ink for stamps, I chose a matte black to coordinate with the border.

11. Adhesive for adhering the two layers of cardstock together.

12. Hole punch

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Assembly:

Cut the white (inner) pieces of cardstock into 2 3/4"x 2 3/4"squares.  And cut the border pieces of black cardstock into 3"x3" squares.  After cutting all pieces of cardstock put aside the black cardstock and pull out paper towels and pre-cut white cardstock.

After spreading out paper towels now the fun begins.  I sprayed each square of white with at least one pump of the glimmer mist. The richness of the color depends on how much and how many times you spray.  The squares will be wet and must be set aside before completing any other steps.  After about five minutes the squares should have retained their cardstock consistency and will be ready for stamping.

Ink your acrylic stamp with chosen ink. I prefer pigment or chalk ink to dye ink.  Nothing personal, I just feel you get a more even stamping surface and create a crisper image when using pigment or chalk inks. Tsukineko creates some amazing colors with awesome dimension, especially with the shimmer colors. 

Once the stamping is dry make sure to adhere all of the stamped/sprayed white pieces to a black cardstock border piece before putting the glitter on.  This way you won't smear your glitter...learned this one the hard way.

Next is my favorite part, get out the essential glue pad and stamp your chosen image into the glue pad and then onto the tag.  Then sprinkle glitter on top of the sticky image and then dump excess glitter into your receptacle.

Your finished product will need to set up for a few minutes to let the glue dry.  The shimmer will still be somewhat pliable.  It will stay attached to the card but don't be dismayed if some of it flakes off. 

After all is dry punch a hole in the top corner for easier attachment to the rest of the treat. 

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Candy Corn Goodness:

Essential elements

1. Candy Cauldron Cups from Target ($2.99 for a pack of 9)

2. Brach's Mellowcreme Pumpkins and Candy Corn, Hershey's Pumpkin Spice Kisses. (Target two for $4 candy deal on brach's, $3 for kisses)

3. Wilton Skull printed Treat Sacks (Target $2)

4. Grey Curling Ribbon (walmart $2)

5. Scissors to cut ribbon

Assembly:

Dump candy into a bowl for easier distribution into cauldrons.  Also makes it easier to see how much you have left for remaining packs.

Place cauldron into base of treat sack and sprinkle some excess candy around base of cauldron.  This makes it appear as if candy is bubbling out of the cauldron.  Using twist ties that come with treat sacks secure the bag closed.  Cut ribbon into 10-12" strips.  String tag through hole and tie onto treat sack.  Use scissors to curl ribbon and tie curled ends into a bow.  Finished product will look like this:

Hand out and enjoy with friends.

Using existing papercrafting products and buying around $20 bucks worth of candy and supplies you too can create a fun treat for family, friends, coworkers, and even for little ones classmates.

Happy Halloween Everyone!!!