on your Christmas cards that is, with the card sketch posted on the Bo Bunny blog! Yours truly created this sketch for the Bo Bunny DT and you to play with! Stop by the Bo Bunny blog to see how the other DT members where inspired by the sketch! I hope you are inspired by it and I would love to see what you create!
Here's the sketch:
Here's my take on it:
Supplies: Patterned Paper: Tis the Season, Tis the Season Deck the Halls, Tis the Season Stripe Embellishments: Tis the Season Buttons & Bling Cardstock: Double Dot Coffee Dot, Double Dot Wasabi Dot Ribbon: Double Dot Sage Ribbon
Designer tip: I added dots with a white gel pen to the dots on the Wasabi Dot Christmas tree.
It's Halloween! It's Halloween! The moon is full and bright And we shall see what can't be seen, On any other night. Skeletons and ghosts and ghouls, Grinning goblins fighting duels, Werewolves rising from their tombs, Witches on their magic brooms. In masks and gown we haunt the street And knock on doors for trick or treat Tonight we are the king and queen, For oh tonight it's Halloween! -Jack Prelutsky
Halloween...it is definitely one of my favorite holidays! I think it mostly has to do with the colors...I simply love orange, purple and green and the Boo Crew line by Bo Bunny has filled me with happiness and inspiration because of it's fun colors and designs! It is definitely one of my favorite lines ( at least for the moment! LOL!!!!) and I have had so much fun playing and creating with it!
Today I want to share this fun little haunted house that I created using the Boo Crew line, 2 wooden haunted house shapes (I found these at Hobby Lobby) and chipboard. You can also make your own template or download one off the internet, cut it out of cardboard or chipboard - just make sure that the material you cut it out of is strong enough to stand vertically without bending. For the supply list and detailed instructions on how I created this project keep scrolling!
Supplies Patterned Paper:
Boo Crew Dot ( black dot used for the outside of the house and the green used for the door), Boo Crew Here's Looking at You (used for inside the windows and door), Boo Crew Masquerade and Goblins (used for the roof), Boo Crew Ghoul Friends (cut out the characters, jack o'lanterns, spider and ghosts), Boo Crew Stripe (used for the grass).
Stickers:
Boo Crew Time for Treats (cut out the Beware sign)
Instructions 1. Take two wooden house shapes, sand the edges and spray paint them black.
2. Cut off the fence on one of the houses and discard. The house with the fence removed is the back of your house.
3. Cover what will be the front of your house and the back of your house with patterned paper.
4. Ink all edges of the patterned paper with black ink or carefully run a black sharpie marker along the edges.
5. Cover the inside of the house (the part that will be the inside of the house) with the orange paper so that the orange shows through the windows and open door.
6. Use chipboard to create the side walls, roof , open door and the stairs for your haunted house.
Creating the side walls 7. Measure the length of each wall (its vertical length when the house is standing), as indicated in the photo below. Cut chipboard this length by 5 inches wide. Score a ½ inch in on each end so that the piece is now 4 inches wide (This is the distance between the front and the back of the house). Repeat this for every wall: cut 5 inches long by the distance of the wall height. (You will hot glue the folded 1/2 inch section on each piece to the wooden house to create your side walls.)
8. Cover the walls with patterned paper.
9. Ink the edges with black ink and set them to the side.
Creating the roof 10. Measure the length (actually the height) of each roof as indicated in the photo below.
11. Cut them to be 5 inches in length
11. Use masking tape to bind the 2 roof sides to each other. (The masking tape will be running along the peak of the roof.)
12. Cover each side of the roof with strips of patterned paper. I used an embossing punch to create my strips.
13. Ink the edges if you wish and set them to the side.
14. Attach the walls first to the wooden house shapes using a hot glue gun. Start by attaching them all on one wooden shape and then attach them to the other shape. I also recommend starting at the bottom and working your way toward the top. Here are several views to give you an idea of what I mean.
15. Next attach the roofs using the hot glue gun.
16. Finally, finish by decorating the house with your choice of embellishments such as stickers, cut outs from the patterned paper, glitter, gems etc.
I hope you have fun creating your own haunted house! And if you do create one, I would love it if you would share it with me!!!
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a Happy Halloween!
I have a few scrappy projects to share with you today! The first one I want to share with you is an altered project I created using Bo Bunny's Flutter Butter line. I just love the combination of colors in this line and the chocolate brown offers such a wonderful contrast to the blues and greens! The paper line name (Flutter Butter) and of course the adorable butterfly design on the papers inspired me to pull out this butterfly "skeleton" puzzle I purchased awhile ago at Michael's. It seemed to me to be a perfect match for an altered project! I then created a bed of paper roses for it to sit among! I created the roses using a tutorial by Maria Holder. I used my Silhouette to cut out the flower shapes and then followed her tutorial on how to create the roses. They are very simple to make and I think they add a nice touch! After creating these, I have been on the search for other flower designs and realized that the Silhouette has several different 3D flowers available!!! More fun for the future! LOL!!! How to alter wooden projects: Sand the wooden pieces. Paint the pieces, especially the edges, a color similar to the paper you are going to cover it with. Glue the pattern paper to the wooden piece. Cut around each wooden piece using an x-acto knife to remove the excess paper. Sand the paper edges with a fine grit sand paper. Ink the edges if desired.
(butterfly size: 10.5 inches x 13 inches)
If you are looking for more inspiration, stop by the Bo Bunny blog to see what the other DT members created using Flutter Butter!
I also have my October reveal article for ACOT posted today! This month I worked with Sassafras Lass's Amplify line! I found it a bit challenging to start with...the colors and designs are bit out of my comfort zone! However, after taking a step back and a deep breath, I was able to step outside the box and have some fun with their products! Feel free to top by ACOT for my full article along with more close up images of my layouts!
Thanks for stopping by and be on the lookout tomorrow for a some fun Halloween inspiration!!!
For my first project, I used the Scallop Lace Book to create this fun little Halloween treat bag. I cut 2 of the pages to the same height and then cut the sides and a bottom from chipboard.I used masking tape to hold all of the pieces together.I painted the inside and outside of the bag black.I then covered each side of the bag with pieces of pattern paper, stickers and glitter. I finished by filling it with some yummy Halloween peanut M&M's!!!
My second project was created for the October contest. For this months contest you are to create a Halloween or harvest themed card. I created my card using the Nesting Circles.I covered them with patterned paper and used them along with some foam tape to give more dimension to the cardstock sticker.
My third and final project that I am sharing today was created for the October challenge. For this months challenge you are to use a tic-tac-toe grid as inspiration.I chose to use the actual grid design as my source of inspiration and I used this to determine how to place my photos in my photo collage.I used the Baseball player silhouette on this LO and I painted it red and then covered it with red glitter glue.
You still have plenty of time to enter your creations for the October Challenge and Contest for a chance to win some free Magistical Memories chippies!!!
dianagirly said... I am totally loving both Love Bandit and the gorgeous Snowy Serenade!!! October 20, 2009 8:12 AM
Congrats Diana! Thanks for playing along! Get your contact info to me and I will get your prize package to you!!!!!
I also wanted to thank all of you who stopped by and played along with the Bo Bunny blog hop! I hope you had a great time! And just a little FYI...we might me doing this again sometime in the near future! ;)
Hi! I hope you are having a great time as you "hop along" on your Bo Bunny scavenger hunt adventure! If you haven't heard, Bo Bunny is having a scavenger hunt/blog hop to celebrate their 3 new Fall 2009 releases! Stop by the Bo Bunny blog for all the details and your chance to win some awesome Bo Bunny goodness! Speaking of their new releases...Have you seen them yet? I am loving them!!! Here are images of the papers and if you want to see the entire new lines just stop by the Bo Bunny website and check them out!
Right now, I think Love Bandit is my favorite, but I also really like Snowy Serenade and Persuasion. So of course, my favorite will probably change as I play with each of them! LOL!!! Do you have a favorite yet?
To thank you for stopping by, I will be giving away a little prize package of my own which will include some Bo Bunny goodness along with some other fun scrappy supplies! You have until midnight on Tuesday October 20th to leave a comment for your chance to win!
Again, thanks for stopping by and keep on hopping!!!!
If you haven't seen the Boo Crew line by Bo Bunny yet you are missing out! It is adorable, fun and perfect for all of your Halloween scrapbooking and crafting projects! Be sure to stop by the Bo Bunny blog to see what that other designers have created using this awesome line! And don't forget you can sign up on the blog for Bo Bunny email updates or become a fan on Facebook and Twitter!
Here's a card I created...I think there is a name for this type of card design, but I can't remember what it is! If you know, please feel free to inform me! LOL!!!
And yes, those are peanut M&M's! Yummy in my tummy!!!!
We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are... Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself. ~R.J. Baughan
Carolen Janson
