Boo gift wrap. And a tag and a card and a gift/treat bag topper is what this is all about. Also if you scroll down I will show you the treat bags I actually made to pass out to the few neighborhood kids we have around these parts. Fewer kids = bigger treats. It's supply and demand hard a work.
But first some color coordinated candy bags. Just because. Rolo's, Tootsie rolls and Swedish fish. I included three sizes of gift toppers to already fit these baggies by Celebrate-it that are available at Craft stores: 4x6 inches, 3x4 inches and 2.25 x 9.75. I couldn't find them online.
Of course you can easily resize these to fit whatever bag you have on hand. Ziplocs work too.
Fill them up with candy and secure the bag topper to the bag with a staple.
You could split up some Good & Plenti or bring back together a left and right Twix. So many options.
This was fun to photograph, but not what I really made for passing out to the kids. We will get to those in a minute.
I made the Boo into a card and a tag too. Here is a gift wrap idea:
Wrap your gift in white tissue paper. Write something on the card.
Wrap the gift in white crepe streamer and tie with ribbon or string. Add eyes and the card. Or the tag if you don't want to write anything. Then decorate with a spider.
The card is folded and with a white lined cardstock so that you can write on it. The tag is just the word ready for you to punch a hole. Or not.
Ok here are the gift bags I am really making for the neighborhood kids. A mixed bag of goodies. The scull and the glow-in-the-dark vampire teeth are both a bulk buy from the dollar store. I am pretty excited about those fangs myself, You?
That's it. Boo gift wrap with a card and tag and a gift bag topper.
Download the Boo gift wrap set here for free - for personal use.
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Some SVG files in this download have score lines. Here is a tutorial for how to handle score lines in SVGs.
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Oh and the first picture. The candy-free option. Download the spider shape here.
How about some pumpkins? They are made of two layers so that one color can peak through the cutouts on the front shape. Find the download link to this free shape below in the post.
For this garland I first just glued the string between the two shapes being careful to glue where you wouldn't be able to see the string through one of the holes, but the front pumpkin took shape of the string and I did not like that so I made a circle to glue to the back of the pumpkin to give more freedom to where you put the string and to avoid the string shape showing through on the front.
I tried my new color scheme to go with the wreath I made for the front door. I used this cardstock pack and this one. I used this twine (similar).
A totally gratuitous show of a stack of cut out pumpkins. Happy Halloween! Moving on...
Here you can see how I fastened the string using the small circle I included.
You can also make the garland with more traditional colors like here.
Or black and white. And smaller.
Here I sized down the shapes In Cricut Design space so that the pumpkin so that it was just under two inches tall. Remember if you do this to size both shapes at the same time to easily get an exact fit. Let me know in the comments below if this is something you would like to see a tutorial for. The circle I sized up to 3/4 inches. Aim for the center of gravity to be such that the pumpkins don't turn upside down. You can achieve this by placing the circle towards the top of the pumpkin like shown below.
You can also string these individually and put on some branches in a vase or I even used one as a card. They could also be a filler in a pumpkin treat bag. Etc etc.
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This year I wanted to switch up the color scheme of my Halloween wreath a little bit and use more yellows, pinks and peaches.
The steps to make this are very easy. Here is a picture tutorial of how to make this in about 20 minutes.
First I armed myself with a copious amount of coupons, and then I hit up my local Michael's store (The shopping part is obviously not part of the 20 minutes) and bought a few floral stems, three orange pumpkins on wires and a little bag of assorted miniature pumpkins.
I used the same grape wine wreath I have used for the past 10+ years and just removed last fall's items from it. It had some stems of tiny red berries, which I kept for this year's wreath.
Online I had bought a pack of these stems with green leaves. And I also got me a spider. The dollar store had a version with no underside to it if you are looking for something less expensive.
And just as a side note: did you know these skeleton creatures also come in Horses and they are almost life sized. Magnificent. I am not getting one. But part of me really wants one. Can you relate?
I didn't re-use the yellow hydrangea you see on the picture from last year.
Ready for some very easy assembly? I try not to hot glue anything directly to the wreath so I can re-use the same wreath over and over again.
Step one. Insert the three greenery stems by weaving them into the wreath. I make sure they are all going in the same way - counter clock wise.
Step two. attach the wired pumpkins to the wreath. Bend the wire on the back. In stead of dispersing them evenly on the wreath, I make anchor points on three spots but give each anchor points different clusters of things.
Step 3. Next I took out the mini pumpkins from the bag and attached bent and twisted floral wires with hot glue to them like you see in the picture below.
Step 4. I then inserted them to the wreath and added the red berries. Here you see the beginning of the three clusters. One at the top with two white pumpkins and a branch of berries. Bottom right an orange and white pumpkin with red berries and bottom left two orange pumpkins with a white pumpkin. I am leaving a spot open at the bottom for the focal point, the spider, to come later and added two small green pumpkins on the left upper quarter to fill in the space there.
Step 5. Cut off the blooms from the floral stems leaving about 4-6 inches of stem (that way they can be reused later in a different way). Place them throughout the wreath. I like to place some like colors with like. For instance the large greenish yellow flower on the left, I placed next to the green pumpkins to have a little light green moment over there.
Step 6. To mount the spider, I put a white floral wire around its front leg and twisted it. Then twisted white floral wire around that to make it look nice. I may have dabbed the floral wire right around the leg with some off white paint to make it almost disappear. (I am a member of overachiever's anonymous)
Step 7. Some leaves were left of the floral stems. I plucked them off, hot glued some floral wire to each and twisted some brown floral wire around the stems for a more realistic look. Then inserted them into the wreath.
My wreath already had a wire loop on the back for hanging. Here is the final wreath. Some very easy Halloween home decor.
And a close-up of the dangerous spider. Uooooh.
Don't worry. These spiders aren't real. And they are super easy to make. Here is how.
I made the body in three sizes so that they fit with available pom poms.
The body size for the large guy is 1 inch pom poms. Use a smaller pom pom for the head. Download the SVG and PDFs for the bodies below if you want to make some too.
The medium one uses a pom pom of 0.5 inches. The smallest one has the body of a 0.4 inch pom pom. Shown below.
You can of course turn them into little picks for your next Halloween party. Simply glue a tooth pick between the body and cardstock legs like shown in the image below.
Stick them in your favorite party food. Here is one made with a cube of mozzarella and a grape.
I feel like the head on these is even optional. But it does add a bit to the realness factor to have it. Just like in real life.
Make a brigade.
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