Halloween Wicked Trick or Treat Box

I've created a quick and easy gift box for Halloween using the "Trick or Treat" stamp from the Halloween Wicked Collection, a must have set for the upcoming spooky holiday! This set has all the stamps you need to make wickedly fabulous Halloween cards for those you love!!

My project is made from a box I picked up in the wedding section at the dollar store. You know, the kind that you use for wedding favors? Easy to put together and decorate! I sprayed my box with Clearsnap Smooch Red Spritz and let it drip down the sides to resemble blood. Next, I stamped "Trick or Treat" with Versamark and embossed with white embossing powder, then cut it out with Spellbinders Paper Arts™ Labels One Scalloped and adhered it to my box. I added a funky skeleton bat from the K&Company Brenda Walton Haunted Chipbox and topped it off with fun googly eyes! Lastly, I stuffed it with Ghost Chocolate, Zombie Food and Eyeball Gum!

~ Darsie ~

Trick or Treat - Card

Hi there, it's Suzanne today!

Well, I didn't really plan to start Halloween yet, but the days are flying by and I've been wanting to use these new Spellbinder's Tombstones!  So here they are.

 I decided to use the black cardblanks.  (They come with black envelopes, too!)

I stamped Trick or Treat on the paper using Versafine Onyx Black, then stamped the bat using Archival Vermillion, let dry, then die cut the tombstone.  I really wanted to use the new paper and chose the skelton page to accompany the tombstone.  The Fleur de Lis Rectangles seemed like the most "gothic" die I had (I'm sure I'll think of something else tomorrow....), so that was cut from black cardstock.  I really couldn't decide which paper to use for the background.  Bats.Spiders.Bats.Spiders.....so I used them both, with each decorated paper covering half the card.  It all just looked too nice and neat, so it was time to grunge it up.  Time to tear some paper!

I didn't think you could ever have too much black.  But this was looking pretty plain. I used a white Gel Extreme to outline the tombstone.  (I resisted making it look like a little birdie had been sitting on it....) And a little blood red garden foliage seemed to perk it right up!

All the decorated papers where shaded at the edge with Distress Black Soot using the Foam Blending Tool.  And the skeleton got a waxed linen thread bow....  And a leaf.  ;-)

Thanks for looking!  Suzanne

The Halloween Wicked Collection may be found here!