Tiffany Bodily bringing you another hybrid post.
Some of you may be familiar with the idea of doing the twelve days of Christmas, where you make a goodie and leave it on your neighbor’s doorstep each night for 12 days under the secret veil of the night. I saw a post on The Crafting Chicks and thought it would be fun to do the Halloween version for a few of my neighbors.
I will be starting my delivery of surprises and goodies on Monday night and will finish with a final Happy Halloween gift on the 31st. I didn’t have time to come up with any catchy poems to go with it either but decided to just use tags to accompany each of the goodies/gifts.
I made these tags in Photoshop with Deena Rutter’s HAPPIER-party helpers. I just had to make a few color adjustments to make them more Halloweenish. After printing out the tags I used a large circle punch to quickly cut them out. I could then attach them with ribbons to the gifties! I also used Carina Gardner’s HAUNTED- Stamps and Brushes to add a bat to the final tag as well as to cut out and attach to the large soda bottle.
So here are the goodies I have ready so far. Days 13, 12, 11 & 10.
On Day 13 I will be giving a cute Happy Halloween glittered foam cutout that I found at the dollar store. On Day 12 a 2 liter orange soda. I simple removed the original wrapper and used a pattern paper from my old paper scrapbook stash to wrap it. I then cut out the bat stamp I had printed previously and attached it with foam tape. So cute and easy! On day 11 I’ll be giving some magnets that I made again using Carina Gardner’s HAUNTED- Stamps and Brushes, color wheel: HALLOWEEN: digital paper by Sara Schmutz, Life: October Illustrations by Kate Teague, and D-cut SUPERSTITION by Deena Rutter. Day 10 is a bag of unpopped popcorn with a scrapbook paper wrapped around and a plastic spider attached with a glue dot.
The magnets were relatively simple to make; now that I have made these I think I’ll be making some for every holiday to decorate my fridge. In Photoshop create circles that will fit the bottom of the glass pebbles. When you print them out cardstock will be a good choice so the glue doesn’t go through the paper. I purchased my pebbles at the dollar store and was able to make 5 sets of six magnets with a few pebbles left over. The circles I created for my magnets happened to be 1 inch. I was then able to use a circle punch to cut them out. I then used the adhesive E-6000, which you will find at WalMart or many craft stores, to adhere the paper to the bottom of the pebbles. Just put a drop on the bottom of the pebble and then use a toothpick to smooth the glue around on the bottom of the pebble. Then place the cute circle you created to the bottom of the pebble so that the printed portion shows through the pebble. use your fingers to smooth out any air bubbles and work the excess glue to the edges of the pebble where you can wipe it off with wax paper or a toothpick. I then let my paper dry to the pebble overnight. The next day I used the adhesive again to attach a magnet to the bottom of the pebble.
I hope you will join me tomorrow when I will share some of the other projects that I will be giving my neighbor’s for the 13 Days of Halloween. Some of the goodies/gifts I’ll be sharing will be quite different from those shared by The Crafting Chicks & I don’t know about you but I always like to get lots of fun ideas. Of course many of the fun ideas shared by the other House Decorators on the blog here would be fun gifts to give too!
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Tags: deena rutter, Halloween, Halloween Hybrid Projects, Hybrid, Tiffany Bodily
Hi Tiffany!! I’m so glad you liked my 13 Days of Halloween idea and thank you so much for linking to my post! I LOVE your tags and the little gifts you’ve made so far. Fabulous job!!! Anyone would be so thrilled to receive those treats on their doorstep.
Have a fun Halloween!
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