HALLOWEEN TREAT CONTAINERS

hello all...

just that you know (wink)

i have been doing bits of "this n' that" around the house after been very limited. 

my lower back has been giving me a lot of grief for a while now, finally went for an mri that showed a very bad slipped disk and it is the

reason for not posting much lately. i still hurt but better after some steroid injection. 

now, i am playing catch up with blogger, etsy and household chores. 

in the meantime i wanted to share these small pouches that will hold any small goody for gifts or treats.

they are so very easy to make but a bit of time consuming since i made all from scratch. i did not even used my cricut.

i cut a 5" wide x 3" tall piece of designer paper, folded it in half and opened it again. i used a one inch circle paper punch to cut off a half circle you see on the front top (but you do not have to) to make it easy to access the content, glue the sides with your fav adhesive (i used my adhesive tape runner)

 and, there is the base for your treat. i had made the mini tags a while ago so i just proceeded to stamp on them with some of my g-studio clear stamps. i used jute to attach the mini tag and go around the pouch. 

(i made them for my etsy shop (hence all the info on them) but if i do not sell them i will use them for the few "trick or treaters" on our street).

hope these mini bags give you some ideas for your own. if you do not celebrate halloween, they are also perfect for any other yummy treats, small gifts and mini trinkets.

i hope you have a great weekend and thank you so much for stopping by.

BOO EASEL CARD FOR MADE BY MOMO TUESDAY CHALLENGE

Thanks to Momo!!!

for the easy to follow directions on the cards she demoed in her first class on the Ustream Monday night.

This is momo's blog below in case you want to visit her:

http://madebymomo.blogspot.com/

I made my first Easel Card yesterday to enter it in Momo's Tuesday Challenges. This week theme ""is to use Black and White, and then you can pick 1 other color of your choice"". 

I chose red as my complimentary color.

My first Easel Card

4.25 inch

 you can also find videos on you tube to make this card and on many other blogs too, just google "easel card'.

My ghost and my Boo! phrase are from Happy Hauntings. The ghost was cut at 3.75 inch and the phrase and its shadow at one inch. I used foam tape for dimension on the ghost. The bats on the red background are stamped. The nice checker board paper is from Me & My Big Ideas. I digged out the R.I.P. from a K&CO die cuts Halloween bag and I traced the letters with a red glitter marker because they were orange in color. I did not need orange but red. :)

I used a Martha Stewart punch for the tombstones border and add a strip of white AC cs behind it to make stand out better. The half moon is a circle altered into a crescent moon. I also adhered one of my eyes next to the phrase to keep watching you, lmbo.

This easel card is not hard at all to make, actually is really easy.

try it and let me see what you come up with.

Thanks for Visiting!

Love you all.