Black Pumpkins!

To go with my sparkly pumpkins I made some black ones! Same process, except that this time I did something that I should have done with the sparkly ones. I primed them first! The paint stuck so much better and looks much more even all the way around.  Lesson learned, always prime stuff first! Anyways, so the steps are simple and the same as before.

1. Buy cheap foam pumpkins
2. Buy Primer (preferably one that is black) 
3. Buy Black spray paint
4. Put pumpkins on sticks in a box (or floral foam, the ground or whatever floats your boat)
5. Prime first, spray black paint, seal with a clear coat. (sealer is optional, I chose to do it because I already had some from before and because I want these pumpkins to last)

 See how even the paint looks?!! I promise I'm done with pumpkins for a while. Thanksgiving crafts will be coming soon!

Sparkly Pumpkins!!

I love sparkles and I'm not ashamed to admit it. So when I saw a picture of sparkly pumpkins on a crafty blog a while back I decided that this Halloween I would make a couple! Naturally they will also make an appearance at my party but I'm not sure where yet. Anyways, here is a quick tutorial but it's really pretty straight forward. Buy cheap fake pumpkin, cover in glitter spray paint and then cover in a clear sealer to keep all the pretty sparkles on it.

I got my pumpkins from the dollar store because I'm not about to pay $15 for a fake pumpkin at Michael's or Joann's. Not that I'm against those stores, I love them! I'm a gold member at Michael's for goodness sake! I'm just against paying too much for stuff I'll only use once a year.

Moving on, I used Krylon Glitter Blast spray paint which is more expensive than I normally buy but it was the only kind I could find. It was $8 a bottle at Michael's and buying it directly from Krylon would have taken way too long because I'm pretty impatient. So I sucked it up and bought a couple bottles. They only come in a small 5oz size so you will most likely need at least two to do anything more than one pumpkin. Even after two bottles one of my pumpkins could still use another coat.

First step is to put your pumpkins on little sticks and then spray paint the crap out of them! On my first pumpkin I didn't use the stick idea and I ended up spray painting my hand.

 This is how they looked on the stick after I glitter blasted them.

Then use a CLEAR sealant to keep the pretty glitter on the pumpkins!

 End result looks like this!!  The sealant did a pretty good job at keeping the sparkles from rubbing off on stuff so I'm happy with it.

Halloween Monster Part Two!

Since there are going to be lots of kids at this party I figured they wouldn't want to wait and take turns trying to pin the eyes/mouth on one little monster. As a result of this I decided to make several monsters and put them all on a poster board so that a couple kids can go at a time.

So I picked up a cheap poster board from the 99 Cent store and decorated it with some grass, a moon and some stars and then hot glued the monsters on to the board.  This craft is super easy and hopefully it works out really well. We'll see how it goes! Anyways here is a picture of the board all completed, I didn't make a tutorial because it's pretty self explanatory.  Files for the monster outlines and eyes are available to download in the Holiday Tab.

The monsters are supposed to be playing in a field.  I'm thinking about doing a pumpkin patch as well but we'll see how that goes.

Halloween Monster Part One!

I am a crafty blog stalker and during one of my latest stalking sessions at one of my all time favorite crafty blogs I came across this darling idea for a game! It's kind of like pin the tail on the donkey but with monsters! For the original post you can see it here.

This is only part one of my plan however. I am going to get a big poster board and put a bunch of little monsters and jack'o'lanterns on it so that it can be played by lots of kiddos at once.  For the time being though here is a quick tutorial on how to make the monster! (File to be uploaded to the holiday tab soon)

So first I printed out the outline of the monster that I made up. Second is that I printed off all the eyes and mouths that the kids will be "pinning" on the monsters/pumpkins. I made WAY too many mouths on accident because I just like to be prepared I am silly.



 


Third get some crepe paper or streamers to make your monster all fluffy! I just used the streamers I found in the dollar store and it worked fine.  I picked yellow and green to give it some depth and because it looks super cute!  Roll out both colors into equal length strips and then hot glue them together. I strongly suggest using hot glue for this project, Elmer's glue has been letting me down as of late so I am breaking up with Mr. Elmer and leaving him for Mr. Glue Gun! After you glue the strips together fold them in half lengthwise, then cut to size to fit your little monster and glue to the paper. Here is some pictures of what it looks like in progress. 

And above is the finished product! Stay tuned for part two where there will be many more little monsters!

Easy Peasy Halloween Banner!

I love banners! I think they are a nice easy way to make a big statement.  Sometimes when my dad would go away on business trips for a long time, my mom would let us make a big banner on a huge roll of butcher paper and it was so much fun.  This banner is not a huge welcome home banner and it doesn't make a huge statement but instead this one shows an attention to detail and is fun to boot!

I will put this banner and a couple other banners under the Holiday tab so you can download it and do it yourself!

****Side Note if you send this file somewhere else to be printed, double check that they have the right font.  I didn't do this and they changed my font to just a plain old block font which I did not want since this is a Halloween Party!! It looked like this:

Normally I wouldn't care but like I said, the font was a super creepy one and the substitute I had to use doesn't look nearly as good but there is nothing for it. You see the difference?

So after you cut out the letters all that's left to do is punch the holes and string them together like this:


Super cute and super easy! This banner in particular will go on the front of the drinks table at  my party!

Paper Pinwheel Banner

I really liked the way the paper pinwheels turned out so I decided to make the other pinwheel craft that I saw on a craft blog which sadly I can't find again. So if the owner of that blog happens to read this I'm really sorry and I'm not trying to steal your idea or call it my own idea.

That being said here is a quick tutorial on how to make the banner!

First I got some wooden clothespins and modge podged some Halloween themed paper on top of them. I didn't take pictures of that process because it is pretty straight forward. When they're done they look like this:

Secondly I made four more pinwheels following the tutorial I previously posted about. Two of them were large ones and the other two were smaller. I again used the whole puncher to make a cute circle to cover up the not so pretty part in the middle where all the little fans meet.

Third glue the ribbon to the back of the large pinwheels and then attach the clothespins. For the party I will be using the clothespins to pin up some family pictures but you could use them to pin up whatever you wish. This is also easy to do for any other occasion, just use a different themed paper/ribbon.

The end result looks like this (please ignore my messy table):

Halloween Paper Pinwheels!

I was at a loss for what to do to decorate the bucket that the sugar cookies on a stick will be in for the party.  Until I saw these cute paper pinwheels! Originally they were for a little girl's birthday party but I just used some Halloween themed paper and I think they turned out pretty darn cute!!

The batch of paper I bought was 12X12 so I cut it up into four equal squares and folded them all into little fans like this:

Then glue them all together like a pizza or a cake or a pie or some other tasty treat you cut into triangles!

And once they are all glued together they fan out into a circle like this!

 And this!

 

 Then using my hole puncher I cut out a big circle to cover up the weird looking center part were all the little fans meet and it looks like this once you tape/glue it on:

And lastly you tape them onto stick of varying sizes so that they look all cute like this!

Now to get these to stay upright in the bucket I got some floral arranging foam that I'll put in the bottom of the bucket. But that craft will come later when I make the cookies for the party!

Halloween Cupcake Toppers!

The Halloween party is fast approaching and the only way to get everything done that I want to, is to do as much ahead of time as I can.  So yesterday I picked up my big hole puncher from Michael's with a 40% off coupon which made it only $7! I'm also kind of a coupon nut so I'll occasionally frequently mention my coupon scores on crafting supplies. I also sent my cupcake toppers file to OfficeMax to be printed since my home printer is ca ca when it comes to printing graphics. The cupcake toppers file I used is available under the holiday tab here on the blog.


First step is to punch out all the toppers as close to the black outline as possible. In retrospect I should have made the outline a tad bit bigger since quite a few of the toppers I made have some white around the edges but that is an easy fix with scissors.

Secondly after all the toppers are punched out, glue both sides and place a toothpick in between and press down.  Make sure you pinch the sides around the toothpick or it will fall right out!

End result looks like this:

I made way too many because whatever extras I have left over from the party will be used for my nursery kids!

 These are the front!

 And here's the back! (please ignore my fingers that are covered in glue!)

 Because it makes so much more sense Because I have some OCD issues I bagged each type of topper separately, and labeled them with how many and what kind they are. 

Alrighty, there you go!

Goodie Bags!

These are the goodie bags I made for the Halloween party.  I didn't take pictures of the process of making them nor did I take pictures of the goodies inside them because I'm lame like that.

I needed something cheap and easy to put together since I was going to be making 30 of them.

Stuff Needed:
Paper Bags
Stamps/ Ink Pad
Ribbon
Tags

First I put all the goodies in the bag, which this time were:
Bouncy Balls
Finger Puppets
Playdough
Candy
Stickers
Confetti

Second I trimmed down the bags since they would not be full all the way to the top and I didn't want them to look all empty.  After that I folded it over and punched to holes about an inch apart as close to the middle as I can get.

Third I stamped my cute little designs on the front of the bag while it was all still nice and flat.

Fourth I made all the tags by printing the words on cardstock with my printer and then using a big hole punch I punched all the tags out.

Fifth I looped the ribbon through holes after putting tags on the ribbon.

And here is my finished result!

Halloween Cupcake Stands!

In October I am throwing a huge Halloween party and I needed some cute cupcake stands.  I have seen lots of cute stands where people have taken cute candle stick holders and little plates of varying sizes, glued them together and painted them all sorts of colors.  And I wanted to try it out so here are my cupcake stands!

Here are my candle holders pre-paint!

 And here is the plate I chose to go on top!

 I was going to glue first and paint second but if I was going to paint them two different colors I needed to do them separate. So here is it assembled but not painted.

 Here is the plate all nice and painted!

 This candle stick holder is a little taller than the others.

 These are what the rest of the bases looked like after I painted them.

 And here is the finished product!! All glued together and gorgeous if I do say so myself!

Hope you enjoyed it!

About Me!

I love to craft things and I love to plan and I love to party so naturally I came up with a crafty, party planning blog! I hope to show crafty mommas how to plan an awesome party with lots of crafts!

I'm a newbie when it comes to crafting so you will have to bare with me on how I explain things and such. I'll be updating as frequently as I can. 

Ultimately my plan is to be able to help other people plan parties or possibly do it for them as a business but for now I'm content with showing my crafty ideas!