Haunted House Dollar Store Decor

Happy Tuesday crafty friends!

I hope your day is off to a great start and you are enjoying the new season we just hit...FALL! It is our collective households favorite season! I am outvoted 3-1. All of my family members love fall most of all! I love it, because I love them! Anyway, the fall feasts are a lot of fun. One of the celebrations is halloween. While as a family we do not participate in halloween, I do have a couple of halloween events I do for my job. So I wanted to make something that I could used to decorate the booth. Here is what I created.

Here is my project. It is super cute. It is a free standing decor piece.

I started with a plain haunted house from the Dollar Store.

I painted the house with some purple paint. I made a base for it by gluing some jenga type wood blocks to both sides. I then painted them with some black paint.

With the black paint, I painted some "roof tops" While the paint was still wet, I sprinkled some glitter on them.

For the moon die cut, I used some wire and sandwhiched a couple of the dies together with some foam tape between them.

I then went to work adding in all the super cute die cuts I used. As with most of my projects, I started by die cutting all my pieces from white cardstock. I then colored them in with my markers.

In this close up you can see the following dies: The tops of the cake sho

Here is one last look at my completed project. Below are the dies I used.

Vintage Lamp Post

From the new Christmas Release

Holiday Door

Used the bottom base, door, and columns for the door are of my project.

Used the oval window top for the two windows on each side of door.

Snowman w/ Country Shed

Used the shed wood base for the background of my door area.

Cake Shoppe

Used the Roof top and the awning of the front window. The roof top piece is over the door and over the left second story window. The awning piece is over the third story window. 

Candy Cart

Used the Top for the awning on the seccond floor to the left window. It is layered underneath the roof top piece of the cake shoppe die.

Lemonade Stand

Used the base of the stand for the window box planters on the bottom windows. Also used the little penant. it is on the second story window on the left.

Cute Ghosts

Halloween Victorian Gate. Used at the front of the house.

Jack-O-Lantern Witch. Used the Jack O Lantern and the hat on one of the pumpkins

Spooky Fence Mini

Used a cut piece from this for the 2nd floor skinny window on the right side.

Spooky Kitties

Used the little pumpkins

Used te spiders and some of te web pieces

Used the roof top on the 2nd floor side piece as window awnings on the small windows and also used the 2nd floor as my chimney.

Trick or Treat Phrase

Witch Hat

Witch Legs

Used the legs as "Shutters" for my first floor windows.

Well that about covers it for this project. 

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They are amazing and on sale now for a limited time!

Until the next time, have a wonderfully crafty day!

-Melinda

Hello Cute Witchy Die Cut Card

Happy Tuesday crafty friends,

I hope you are having a wonderful day. Today I am sharing a super cute, quick and easy card I created featuring some fun Cottage Cutz dies! Here's what I created.

My cute and quick card is a standard 4.24 x 5.5 top folding card.

Here's a closer look at the fun hello card. Hello comes from the Spring die cut collection.

Here's a closer look at the cute little pumpkin. I used some glossy accents in the eye nose and mouth to give it a little extra sparkle and shine.

Here's a closer look at the darling little witchy. You can see after coloring her in, I used some Stickles glitter glue for some extra decorative touches.

Here are the pieces of the Witchy die cut. I started with white pieces and then used y markers to color her.

Cute Witchy

Hello Spring Bunny Cottage

Spooky Fence Mini

Wacky Stitced Rectangle Frame set

This was a quick and easy card that you can make very quickly. Here is one last look at it again.

Make sure you head over to the Cottage Cutz You Tube channel and see what they have been up to.

Well that about covers it for today. Be sure to head over to Cottage Cutz and check out all the cute dies. Until the next time, have a wonderfully crafty day!

Halloween Treat Box and Card Set

Happy TuesDIE Cottage Cutz Friends!

Melinda here with you on this terrific Tuesday. Today I am sharing a fun and very easy card I created featuring dies that are part of the new Halloween Release.

Here's a look at my card and treat box. 

Here's a look at the card. It is a standard A4 Top Folding card. I started with a black cardstock base. I then adhered a purple mat and a yellow mat. I used the Spooky Kitties die to create the adorable kitties. The die includes the pumpkin, the bottle and the broom. I added a Web to the background. I mounted them onto a pierced circle and then mounted all of that onto a scalloped circle.

For the background I added a couple of cut webs for the top corners and then I added 

Here's a look at just the box. It was made to fit 5 little mini candy treats like the kind you get in the bulk bags. The little mini milky ways is what I used.

To create the box

For the base you start with 4.25 x 8.5

To create the box you need to score it along the 4.25 side at 1.25, 2, 3.25 and 4

for the 8.5 width you need to score it at .5 and 1.25 on each end.

Then you will need to cut it on both sides where I have the "X's" 

Here's a picture of what it looks like when you cut it on both ends.

Then you apply adhesive to the .25 piece and fold up to create the body of the box.

This is what it will look like when you have glued the two long ends together.

Then all you have to do is close the ends.

Here's a look at my black box and the mats. For the mats I just cut them an 1/8 of an inch smaller than the box sides. You will cut two at 1.125" x 5.825" and the other two are .625 x 5.825

Not pictured above is the little mat for the top of both flaps. You will need to cut two at 1.1/8 x 6.25

Of course the mats can be whatever size you like depending on how thick you want the borders to be.

Here's what the flaps on both ends will look like.

After I completed the body of the box, I used the cute Jack O Lantern Witch to create the cute little pumpkin lady. I added a little gathered tool to create a sort of tutu skirt for her. I then added some legs and decorated her. I mounted her onto a pierced circle mat cut from some cute yellow diagonal plaid patterned paper and then all of that onto a purple circle pierced mat and all of that onto another scalloped circle. I did this to kind of match the look of my card.

I then added the kitty, the tiny spider and web to the top. I added glitter and white gel pen lines to give it all a little extra decorative touch,

Here is one last look at both projects

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Dies I Used

Spooky Kitties

Jack O Lantern Witch

Web

Spooky Fence Mini

Nested Scallop Die set

Pierced Circle Set

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Well that about covers it for today! Until the next time, have a wonderfully craft-die day!

Melinda Beltran