Witch's Broom Treat Bag

Sorry I haven't been blogging all that much but I have been coloring, just not a lot of finished projects to show yet.  I did just finish this adorable Halloween Witch's Broom Treat Bag for the Summerween competition in the Markers! Papers! Digis! (that ends tomorrow) using the adorable Sabrina Witch from Scrapper's Delights.  She and a whole slew of her Halloween Friends are available or only $1, as part of Thrifty Thursday, but only through TOMORROW, so act quickly, if you want to take advantage of the great deals.

The broom is made from paper lunch bags, the first intact, and then I cut the next two (I decided a double layer covered the base better) along each folded edge down to the base, and then each section in strips (again to the base) and layered them over the center bag.  Gathered the whole bunch at the top around a stick, tied and trimmed, et voila!  I've added a sticker sentiment (2 cute 2 spook) a die cut kitty, an epoxy bat and pretty halloween ribbons, along with the adorable Sabrina.

Here's a close up of this cutie.  She's colored with Copics with a smidge of shading from Prismacolor pencils, and was eventually fussy cut and popped on the bag.

I'm also adding this to the Scrapper's Delights ATG Challenge, the DL.Art August Linky Challenge, Left of Center Altered Images or LOC and the Outlawz Twisted Thursday ATG.

Dilly Beans Halloween Challenge

OOOps!  sorry about the late post, here.  Had to run to the airport and pick up the hubby.  This week at Dilly Beans we have our final Halloween Challenge.  Instead of a card, I did a little witch's broom treat bag (Google it, there's tons of tuts) and decorated it with the adorable #150 Framed Halloween and Candy Witch (scroll down to the bottom of the page for her).  She's colored with Copics, her lolly sparkles with Stickles and there's a bit of Glossy Accents on the candy on her hat.  The little candy string is by K&Co.  The team has some fabulously bright and fun projects for you so be sure to check them out HERE.

I'm also entering this in the Scrapalicious USA Halloweenie Challenge and the Decorate to Celebrate Halloween Party (Part 2).

Tiddly Inks Treat Bags and Boxes Challenge

It's a Treat Bags and Boxes Challenge for the Tiddly Inkers this week. I've been dying to color Higgelty. Isn't she just a darling witch? She comes with a broom too, but I saw some adorable little broom bags (complete with tutorial) on my dear friend and DT sister Julia's blog and I thought it woud be perfect! The word "Treat" was cut on my Cuttlebug using a Sizzix die and attached with beautiful Halloween ribbon from M's.

Higgelty was colored with Copics and her hat and dress were paper pieced using some of my fave Graphic 45 Halloween in Wonderland paper. She was actually printed 3 times so I could also cut and color the patches. I used some foam to give her dress a bit of dimension at the bottom of her sleeve and coat. I added a gem body to the spider and a purple jewel to her wand and there you have it. Now pop on by The Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog to see what the rest of the Tiddly Inkers have in store for you. And Christy has a fab new freebie border that you won't want to miss.

I'm also entering this in the Stampotique Designers Challenge which is also treat containers. I usually like to use my Stampotique stamps for this challenge but you can use any stamps this time so I thought this was too cute not to enter it there too.

We're Falling at The Cuttlebug Spot

This week at The Cuttlebug Spot we're featuring a Fall theme. WooHoo, now we even have some cooler weather here in CA for some inspiration! I was also inspired by SusieB on the Cricut message board and decided to do a little treat bag like those she did for Halloween. Click HERE for her post and instructions. I decided to use my new Nesties Maple leaf for the flap and the autumn Cuttlebug folder which I inked a bit and shimmered up with Perfect Pearls. The other leaf is the Cuttlebug cut and emboss die. I used a piece of packaging from one of my Cricut cartridges and ran it back and forth until it pretty much cut through (about 4 or 5 times and it still needed a little punching but not too bad) and then used alcohol inks to color (on the back side). Then used my cropadile to punch two holes through all of the layers and tied it up with raffia.

I know the first pic doesn't really show it's a treat bag, but it did show the glimmer a bit better. Hmmm... this pic doesn't really show it much either but you get the idea. I always make spiced pecans at Thanksgiving and thought these would be nice for favors. So fun and easy! Thanks SusieB! Now drop on by The Cuttlebug Spot to be inspired to join us with your own Fall themed project.