Ideas For Home
On my studio door I have a chalk board that my daughter draws on and I write notes on, sometimes. Most of the time it just sticks on the door empty of activity. So I figured since I am in the Halloween decorating mode, I would start to use it as a sign to celebrate.
Here is the story:
1. I started out with a round, vinyl, chalkboard sticker. It is stuck to my glass studio door.
2. Using my Cricut and the October 31st Cartridge I cut a ghost out of white sticker vinyl and attached it on top of the chalkboard shape.
3. Using different color chalks I wrote “Boo” and “Happy Halloween”
I will be using this for every holiday to come.
So far I haven’t gotten around to carving a pumpkin but I wanted them around so I opted to decorate my little pumpkins for now.
These are all made from cut sticker vinyl using the Cricut and the Pumpkin Carving Cartridge.
This is my take on a fall cornucopia. I filled mine with Halloween candy and this will be the grab “bag” for trick-or-treaters. I love candy corns as visual icon and since orange is my favorite color I just can help but love these little treats.
Here is how to make one of your own:
1. Start with a large piece of white poster board. Cut it into a baseball field pattern. Round at the outer edge and instead of coming to a point, cut it flat at the base.
2. Roll it in to a cone shape.
3. Use binder clips to hold it into the shape. Lift edges and glue with tacky glue. Keep binder clips in place until it is fully dry.
4. Once dry, divide it into three sections. Use craft paint and paint the base white, the middle orange and the outer edge yellow. repeat this for both the inside and outside. Allow to dry completely by standing up on the outer edge.
5. Using broad cloth, tear a strip of white, orange and yellow about 1 inch wide and long enough to go around your candycopia. Glue down with tacky glue.
6. If you have too much room and not enough candy to fill the whole thing, stuff the bottom with orange tissue paper.
7. Add in candy of choice and enjoy!
I love cupcakes – but really who doesn’t? I had a special day with my daughter and we worked on Halloween cupcakes together. I tried to snap pictures before they were quickly gobbled up. All were made using Butter crème icing and a Standard White Cake. These are some of the outcome.
Bad Kitty
This cupcake was made by cutting the cat out of black fondant on the Cricut Cake using the Happy Hauntings Cartridge. Around the cat I scattered candy bones. It is frosted in white butter creme icing.
Mummy
This cupcake, The Mummy, is made by using a flat 406 frosting tip with white butter creme icing in a bag, piped on over top of gummy eye balls.
Orange Hairy Cyclops
This cyclops cupcake is made by frosting it first in white butter creme icing. Next adding on a gummy eye ball. Finally dyeing shredded coconut orange and adding it on top of the frosting.
Creepy Creature
This creepy cupcake is made by frosting it first in white butter creme icing. Next, I added sour patch strings for the hair, black licorice for the eyes, white frosting for the whites of the eyes and a gummy candy mouth.
Witches Brew
This cupcake was made by cutting the witches cauldron out of black fondant on the Cricut Cake using the Happy Hauntings Cartridge. At the opening of the cauldron, I inserted green sour patch candies . It is frosted in white butter creme icing.
Toxic Octopus
This cupcake is frosted in white butter creme icing. Next I added eight, blue sour patch candy strings for tentacles. On top of the eight legs I plopped a full sized marshmallow that I decorated with gummy candy and black licorice.
Cute Pumpkin
This cupcake is first frosted in white butter creme icing. Next, I dyed shredded coconut bright orange and adding it on top of the frosting. Finally I added in a green sour patch candy string as the pumpkin stem.
As the Halloween fever continues I am making a lot of food goodies to celebrate the season too. This is an easy goody that I made using green (spinach) and orange (tomato) soft tortillas.
Here’s how to make them:
1. Start by laying the round tortillas out on a clean counter top.
2. Next, pull out the Halloween cookie-cutters. Wash and dry them as they can get dusty while being stored.
3. Press the cookie-cutters into the tortillas and shift back and forth a little bit, ensuring that they are cutting all the way through. If you are using plastic cutters, as I did you may need to flip them over and assist with the cutting a bit by pressing your finger over the yet uncut areas.
4. When all of your shapes are cut out, place them on a pizza pan or a cookie sheet and bake in the oven on 350 degrees for about 8 to 12 minutes, depending on your oven.
5. Take them out of the oven, allow to cool and serve with dip or salsa.
NOTE: To store just place them into a plastic zip lock back.
To serve them on I made a spider webbed black serving plate. I bought the black plate at the dollar store and cut a spider web out of white vinyl on my Cricut, using the Happy Hauntings Cartridge.
