The days seem to keep getting shorter and the night air a bit cooler. Fall is almost here. And with fall comes Halloween. Now I know that not everyone "celebrates" Halloween, but I do. I enjoy making Halloween cards for family and friends (maybe because I'll use most any excuse to send a hand stamped card to brighten someone's day!). I also LOVE making little Halloween treats- I really miss making these for class treats for my kids, but for some reason it's just not cool for a teen-aged boy to take treats to high school to share with the guys- go figure!
Any way, tonight's project is a fun little one that I create with the new Sweet Centers stamp set and Sweet Treats Cup (now available in the Holiday Mini Catalog!) This project is also my entry in this month's So Shelli Contest. I realize that no matter how great this project might be, my chances of winning are probably small since I just won a few months ago, but it doesn't hurt a girl to try again!
So, with no further adu here is my Sweet Centers Halloween Bouquet...
Supplies Used:
Sweet Centers and Batty For You stamp sets.
Lovely Lilac, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive and Whisper White card stock.
Basic Black and Old Olive classic ink
Sweet Treat Cups, 1-3/4" Circle Punch, Pennant Die (for the EEK scallop), Crimper, Old Olive 1-1/4" Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, and Crystal Effects (for adhering the elements to the sticks)
Non-Stampin' Up: Halloween M&M (don't the colors match so well) wooden skewers, small bucket, and floral foam.
One of the things I would really like to point out about this project is the custom raffia- To make some filler to cover my floral foam, I simply cut really thin strips of card stock, ran them through my crimper, then balled them up in my hand. This made perfectly matching raffia for the project.
The only thing I wish I could have also done, was to add one of the cute Rub Ons from the Spooky Treats Rub Ons, but I don't have any left!
Well, wish me luck and Shelli, if you read down this far, HI from Cincinnati- it was so much fun meeting you at the Cincinnati Rationals this past weekend.
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