American Crafts | Halloween

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Halloween is my favorite holiday to document!  I love the spooky theme, colors, photos

and of course the candy!

Supplies: Crate Paper After Dark (ADPPR-80251) - Fright & Fun Paper, After Dark (AD680267) - Paper Pad 6"x6", After Dark (AD680269) -Thickers Shape Stickers Spooky/Glittered Foam, After Dark (AD680272) - Chipboard Stickers Glittered Accents, After Dark (AD680274) - Ephemera Die-Cuts W/Black & Gold Foil, After Dark (AD680277) - Wood Veneer Shapes, After Dark (AD680279) - Adhesive Enamel Dots, Heidi Swapp Minc (HSFOIL6-12113) - Reactive Foil 6"x5" Roll Orange, Minc (HS370124) - Foil Applicator & Starter Kit, Minc (Minc6-80284) - Paper 6"x6" Halloween, Sticky Thumb (ST340261) - Adhesive Runner and Refill Permanent Solid 

How To: Use a scratch piece of printer paper and a pencil to measure the size of the chevron shape that runs across the Fright & Fun paper.  Trace chevron shape and trim, use your trimmed piece as a template to create other chevron shapes out of 6"x6" pattern paper pad.  Trim out about 18 chevron shapes, each out of different pattern papers.  Adhere

to background paper in a pattern moving to every other chevron.  Use a sewing machine and black thread to stitch down shapes.  Splatter black spray mist across the page, set aside to dry.  Print a 4"x6" photo and adhere to center right side of layout. Place a "Happy Halloween" chipboard sticker piece overlapping the top right hand side of photo.  Overlap the "Happy Halloween To You" and "Admit One" chipboard sticker pieces and adhere under photo.  Place "Admit One 31" and "Halloween" ephemera pieces just above chipboard pieces overlapping the bottom right hand side of photo.  Spell out title "EEK" using thickers shaped stickers on the middle left hand side of layout.  Run the "Spooky Fun" ephemera

arrow die-cut through the Minc machine using orange reactive foil. Adhere to page just below title.  Adhere chipboard "31" sticker piece right below "Spooky Fun" arrow piece. Arrange bat ephemera piece, bat wood veneer piece and bat shaped thicker shaped sticker just above title in a sporadic fashion.  Adhere two glitter chipboard chevron pieces just

above photo.  Adhere chipboard spider web and "31" ephemera piece to right side of photo. Apply enamel dots to chipboard star piece and wood veneer star and adhere to top right hand side of layout.  Finish by adding two black ephemera star pieces to page.

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Halloween Cards with American Crafts...

Hi friends,
I hope that you all enjoyed a safe and fun Halloween with your families yesterday.  My kids got tons of candy and I am trying to keep them from eating it all in one day.  I had a post up yesterday on the American Crafts blog featuring cards made with the new exclusive Halloween collection made for Target and I can't wait to share them with you!

Booooo Card

6X6 Paper Pad (97144) - Halloween, Sequins (97145) - Halloween, Paper Flowers
(97142) - Halloween, Dimensional Stickers (97141) - Halloween, Star Stickers
(97140) - Halloween, Clothes Pins (97150) - Halloween, Black (AM710-82) - Cardstock,
This To That (AM617-13) - Adhesive


 Enter If You Dare Card

 6X6 Paper Pad (97144) - Halloween, Sequins (97145) - Halloween, Paper Flowers
(97142) - Halloween, Dimensional Stickers (97141) - Halloween, Star Stickers
(97140) - Halloween, Clothes Pins (97150) - Halloween, Black (AM710-82) - Cardstock,
This To That (AM617-13) - Adhesive


Trick Or Treat Card

  6X6 Paper Pad (97144) - Halloween, Sequins (97145) - Halloween, Paper Flowers
(97142) - Halloween, Dimensional Stickers (97141) - Halloween, Star Stickers
(97140) - Halloween, Clothes Pins (97150) - Halloween, Black (AM710-82) - Cardstock,
This To That (AM617-13) - Adhesive

Card Trio

 6X6 Paper Pad (97144) - Halloween, Sequins (97145) - Halloween, Paper Flowers
(97142) - Halloween, Dimensional Stickers (97141) - Halloween, Star Stickers
(97140) - Halloween, Clothes Pins (97150) - Halloween, Black (AM710-82) - Cardstock,
This To That (AM617-13) - Adhesive

Earlier this month I shared a layout and a Halloween Banner made with this exclusive collection.  If you would like to see those follow the links above.


Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you enjoyed my card creations!

October 31st....

 Halloween is one of my favorite holidays!  I love the costumes, the candy, and the crisp Fall air.  Can you tell that Fall just happens to be my favorite season?  So, I was over the moon excited when American Crafts sent me this brand new exclusive line they made for Target.  It is not available on their website, so hurry and run to your closest Target store to get your fix!


October 31st Layout

When I first laid eyes on this fun Halloween 6x6 Paper Pad I knew right away that I wanted to make a fun patterned pieced background.  I cut these pieces using my Silhouette Cameo then carefully stitched them down on my layout.

I was so in love with the fun sequins that come with this collection that I decided to take out a row of paper strips and adhere them down using my This To That Adhesive.

American Crafts Supply List:
6X6 Paper Pad (97144) - Halloween, Sequins (97145) - Halloween, Paper Flowers (97142) - Halloween, Dimensional Stickers (97141) - Halloween, Star Stickers (97140) - Halloween, Clothes Pins (97150) - Halloween, Decorative Tape - Halloween, Duplicate Stickers (97151) - Halloween, Labels (97143) - Halloween, Glitter Letter Stickers (366186) - Thickers
Black (AM710-82) - Cardstock, This To That (AM617-13) - Adhesive


I think that this exclusive collection is so fun!  I am currently using it to make Halloween Decor for our Fireplace Mantel.  I will be back with a second post this week to share.

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