Coffin candy boxes! Candy containers from iced capuccino bottles!!
And, what display for Halloween would be complete without a pumpkin?
Want to make your very own? Here's some simple directions. I used these supplies from Close to My Heart:
Cricut Artiste Cartridge (Z1790 $99)
Magic Potions My Acrylix stamp set (C1509 $13.95) - labels
Love Life My Acrylix stamp set (D1482 $17.95) - star, flourishes on pumpkins
Universal Backgrounds My Acrylix Stamp set (D1477 $17.95)
Moonlight Paper Packet (X7161B $9.95)
Dark Chocolate Striped Grosgrain Ribbon (Z1617 $6.95)
Burlap Ribbon (Z1760 $7.95)
Baker's Twine Harvest Assortment (Z1751 $4.95)
Kraft Cardstock (Z1375 $9.50)
Olive cardstock - leaves
Black cardstock - bottle sleeve
Colonial White cardstock - shapes, backgrounds
Inks:
black
goldrush
smokey plum
saddle
chocolate
olive
new england ivy
cocoa
autumn terracotta
We also used a Stamp of the Month set, Baroque Borders (S1208), for the inside of the coffin. This was only available with a qualifying order in August. When you see something you like, make sure to place an order or it will be gone!
Candy Bottle
We used the smaller frapuccino bottles from S***bucks, 9.5 oz. I'm not endorsing them, they're just the right size. The hard part was drinking all that frapuccino! (ha!) You can use any bottle or container you wish.
Cut a piece of black cardstock to fit around your bottle. Ours was 2 3/4" by 9". Put a glue dot on the front of the bottle to hold the wrap in place. Wrap and glue ends only.
The background shape was cut at 2 1/4" high. It's from page 67 (key D7, Accent 3 Shift) on the Artiste cartridge.
We used the Eye of Owl stamp from Magic Potions. Shape was cut at 1 1/4" from Colonial White cardstock. Stamped in Black ink. Distressed with Cocoa.
The bottle caps were painted with Krylon spray paint in Rubbed Bronze. The accent around the neck of the bottle is a piece of Burlap Ribbon cut to wrap around the neck, then cut in half and fringed. It's held in place with a piece of twine from the Harvest Twine assortment.
Coffin Box
I just LOVE this little candy box! The box was cut at 7" from Kraft cardstock.
Stamp the box first. We used the Baroque Borders inside the box with Smokey Plum ink; you could use any repetitive stamp to create a fabric design inside the box.
On the outside of the box lid, we used a design from the Universal Backgrounds stamp set which looks like wood; and we stamped it in Autumn Terracotta.
We scored the box along the score marks, and then assembled the bottom of the coffin first. We then assembled the lid of the box to make sure that they would fit together. When assembling a box with a lid, it's a good idea to check for fit before the final glue-up. Sometimes you can adjust the side tabs just a little bit for a better fit before they're glued together.
The embellishment was made by inking the edges of a shape cut from the Artiste cartridge (pg 56 accent 1 shift) cut at 1 3/4". The cat was cut from Artiste as well, page 76 card feature key, shift, cut at 2".
We used a 5" piece of Burlap Ribbon behind the embellishment. This was frayed on the edges, and cut into a reverse "v" shape at each end.
The star was cut from the Cricut as well. The stamp comes from the Love Life stamp set and was stamped in black ink. You could hand-cut a moon or use a circle punch instead.
In the sample, I put a skeleton on the bottom of the coffin using foam tape. The skeleton was cut from the Artiste cartridge as well (so much stuff on this cartridge!) at 6" page 76 accent 2 and accent 2 shift for the skull. HOWEVER. My poor Cricut needed a new blade and the skeletons were not cutting very well.
So, you could always do this:
In tomorrow's post, I'll show how the pumpkin was assembled. I really wanted my pumpkin to look like the one in the Idea Book on page 85. So, I'll tell you how that was done!
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