Halloween Scrapbooking

I know. I know. YES we are just getting around to doing the Halloween scrapbook pages for the kids. Someday we will be all caught up with everything. But today is not that day. As for now, I am happy with our progress. My mom helped me with these as always. She did Nate's by herself. I always need help. And I am grateful for it. :-).

This was our first crack at the distressed look. We used a lot of the Tim Holtz stuff that we have collected. We also made some good use of that leftover Halloween paper from our wooden letters projects. Love how they turned out! Thanks, as always, Mom.

Christmas Card

Tonight Izzypop and I decided to make a Christmas card for her teacher. We used the Tim Holtz Christmas stamps and embossing folders. Then Izzypop used her creative talent to draw a perfect picture. We even made an envelope.

Christmas Crafting

I have actually gotten more Christmas crafting done this year than I had anticipated.  As always, Mom has been a huge help.

First, Mom bought us all "JOY" from The Wood Connection.  I love it, because it starts with a J and ends with a Y.  (Love you Callie.)

 

And here is Mom's version.  It looks great in her front room.  Incidentally, someday I hope to be as great as my mom at decorating for Christmas.  This is her front room.  You should see the "big" room.  I'll be sure to post pics of it later.

I decided to try to make the wreath for my front door.  The pre-decorated ones seemed so expensive.  I bought the wreath and sign from Hobby Lobby.  I wrapped some ribbon around it, wired various sizes of ornaments together in bunches, then wired them to the wreath.  All in all, took about 30 min to make.  I hope it keeps well for next year.  I kinda like it.

I wanted to get something cute and inexpensive for all the girls in our Young Women group.  I went to Bath and Body works and got the pocket hand sanitizers along with cases for them that the girls can use to attach them to their backpacks, purses, etc.  They were on sale and I had a $10 off $30 coupon so it came out to be pretty cheap.  I used a Sizzix die cut to cut out tag shapes.  I then used a Sizzix Tim Holtz embossing folder to emboss some snowflakes on the tags as well.  I tied them with a bit of 1/8 in. ribbon.  The tags say

"May your days be merry...

And your hands be clean.

Merry Christmas!"

My favorite craft I have worked on this year has been these wooden block advent calendars.  I made these for the Young Women leaders in our ward.  First I painted the base red and the blocks off-white.  I put a different scrapbook paper on each side of the blocks, then Mom helped me cut the numbers out of scrapbook paper using her cricut.  We printed out "Christmas is Coming..." onto scrapbook paper for the base.  I sanded the all the edges with sandpaper, then mod podged it all.  I also used the Tim Holtz Sizzix ornament die to cut tags out.  I stamped them using a snowflake, tree and "To: From:" stamp and tied it all with some grograin ribbon.  The ladies loved them.....maybe I should have made one for myself :)

HP Halloween Costumes

Halloween is our favorite around here.  My mom and I make the kids' costumes every year.  This year, I splurged and we made me one too.  I couldn't resist!  It's Harry Potter!  Here's me and the kids and my wickedly wonderful inspiration to the right -- Rita Skeeter.

 And here's my mom exercising her inner eye as Professor Trelawney.

It was a good time making these with my mom and an even better time enjoying them with my kiddos.  Thanks Mom for all the help!  We did good!

Advent Calendar #2

My mom, sister and I were pretty motivated after the successful craft night our family had last Sunday, so this weekend, we took on a couple more projects.  After my mom and I finished my Halloween advent calendar, we were so excited that we just had to do one to surprise my sister.  Today we put the finishing touches on it including a 31, bat and "Trick or Treat" sign to go on top.  It goes perfectly with her "Wicked" she did last Sunday and her "Spooky" she did yesterday.

I also got to do my Halloween word, "Fright".  I loved how Shereen's turned out last Sunday, so I decided to copy it :).  It matches perfectly with my advent calendar.  So dang cute!

I still cannot believe that we made these.  They have to be my very favorite things we have ever made.  And that's saying something after all the quilts, scrapbook pages, costumes, stockings and so forth.  I love these things!  Thanks again, mom and dad, for all your hard work on th them.  Love you!

Hansen Halloween!

We decided to get all the Hansen girls together and get a little crafty.  My mom made some witch shoes for the Halloween party table decorations and our job was to create a witch hat to match the shoes.  So, grandmas, aunts, cousins, sisters, nieces, moms and daughters all got together and got creative.  Here's what we came up with....it was like a glitter bomb had gone off in my mom's house.  Way cute, but next year, NO GLITTER!

And as if that wasn't enough to accomplish in one day, we decided we just *had* to make some wooden Halloween words for our own decorations.  We painted each letter, then mod podged Halloween papers on the front and distressed them.  Check them out:

 Megan and Kerry's "Cackle"

 Ashley's "Beware"

 Grandma's "Scream"

Aunt Fig's "Fright"

Ashee's "Witch"

Callie's "Wicked"

I cannot believe how cute and totally different they all turned out.  I love them!  Thank you everyone for such a fun day and such great food too!  And super gigantic thanks to my mom for providing all the supplies...you are too much.  Love you all!

5 Minute Halloween Wreath

I cannot tell you how busy it has been around here.  I have had little to no time for all my Halloween decoration delusions of grandeur.  I was able to whip this wreath out in 5 minutes for my front door.  I found the wreath, broom and ribbon at Michael's and got the sign at Joann's.  I wired the broom and sign to the wreath with some florist's wire, added a couple bows with the ribbon and chucked it up on the door.  Not complicated, but much better than the empty space that was there before. :)