Boo! - are you too cute to spook - or very grown up Halloween?

Good morning all

Well the day is finally here - well that's what my grandson Jacob thinks anyway.  He's six years old and is totally taken up with the idea of Halloween, dressing up and face painting, trick or treat and everything else that goes with it.  He's had a fun week going to a National Trust Halloween night at the weekend, Apple ducking at Beavers on Monday night and finally..... the big day has arrived lol

My daughter rang me last night because he was so excited to come round to visit tomorrow after school because I told him I might have a special treat (or trick!) for him and his sister.  She was just making sure that I knew about this - to avoid disappointment lol.

Things certainly seem to have gone up a gear in the Halloween celebrations round here,  I passed a full blown graveyard in someones garden when I was walking the dog - really fun and obviously lots of work had gone into it, the painted gravestones with funny verses, bones in a wheelbarrow too!

Anyways ...... our challenge theme this week at

Fab'n'Funky Challenges

and our theme is 

Halloween

and as expected by Jacob I  made a treat bag!

This one is much more 'grown up' than the one I made for his sister Eva - after all she is only 2!!  I used papers to decorate it from a very old pad from from MME - I hope he'll be impressed at how grown up and scary it is! - and filled with treats of course!!  I always put their names on things I make - I think kids love to see their name on a card or box, they like the idea that it's made just for them : )

This is what I did...

Box made from a peice of orange card on my scoreboard

Papers - My Minds Eye - Wicked Merchant Malvado

Label dies - Dienamics

Skeleton 'parts' - Sheena Douglass  day of the dead die

Alphabet dies - Fashion Dies from Crafters Companion

Black twine and sticker spider from my stash

velcro sticky fastener to secure the flap

Hope you'll join in with our challenge this week - can't wait to see what you make!

Challenges I've entered with this card

Disdigis -Creepy or cute 3/11
Digichoosday - anything goes 6/11
Asyoulikeit - favourite autumnal or Halloween colours - orange and black!

Green and Orange and Black......

Good morning all

I'm guessing that one way or another we're all facing the change in the season - whatever that means to you depending on where you are in the world!!

To me at themoment it means a little bit colder, windier, darker.... I don't really mind any of those things what I hate most about this time of year is not knowing what to wear!! - it's definotely not summer but it's not cold enough for winter clothes so I end up changing clothers 2 or 3 times a day!

Anyway I digress....

Today's share is a little bonbon box that I intend to fill with Halloween sweets for my granddaghter Eva. At just over 2 years old I think her most favourite thing in the world is chocolate - so it will go down very well!  If i gave her the bag ofsweets I think he'd be just as pleased - I could have probably saved my time - but I'm a proper Grandma so it has to be done properly : )))    Besides these little boxes are so quick and easy to make with just a square of paper.  

I followed the theme of this weeks challenge at 

Fab'n'Funky Challenges 

Green Orange Black

I decorated each side of the box as shown

(I haven't added the sweets yet because I'd eat them - far better for my diet to wait!!)

This is what I did.....

Papers -  Mariposa pad from DCWV to make thebox

          -  halloween pps from MME ( very old pad)

Orange, black and white card

Stamps are a Halloween set from G45

Coloured with SN markers

Alphabet die - Fashion dies from Crafters companion

Flower dies - memory box

Challenges I'm entering with this project

Sasayaki glitter stamps - Halloween/harvest festival - closes end of month

Show us your pussy cats challenge - furry things goes/meowleen closes 5th nov

unicorn challenge - autumn or halloween - closes end of month