Dollar Store Crafting - Book Page Halloween Treat Bags

Okay so now I am apparently addicted to the Dollar Tree and Dollar Store.  It's amazing the things that you can find to craft with or to repurpose, and on the cheap (which is the best part).

I adore crafts created using vintage book pages, but for me I can't bring myself to rip a page out of a vintage book.  My solution is the $1.00 book section at Dollar Tree. So I have several books sitting on my craft table, aka the previously known formal dinning room table, and came-up with the idea to create chic little Halloween party favor or treat bags using book pages!

Supplies - 3 book pages, black glitter card stock, paper, just twine and glue, and two hole punches. 

The adorable retro Halloween images I found, of course on the The Graphics Fairy blog, I copied the images and set them on different backgrounds using my basic word program, and punched those out with my 1 1/2" punch, and set on scalloped edged black glittered card stock punches.  Creating the little bags was super simple by tearing out the pages, creating a clean edge and then folding over and gluing!  After they were dry I used a fancy scissors to cut a large scalloped edge on the top of each bag. I then punched a hole at the top of each bag and affixed each little tag with jute twine.  My bags came out measuring 4 1/4" x 3".

     

  

 

Etsy Love - Have a Glittery Halloween

Ok, so as you've noticed I love Halloween and all the decorations.  I also adore, and not just a little bit, glitter !  I would glitter my cat is she would sit still long enough, lol.


So this morning I've been shopping and hearting all kinds of wonderful glittered Halloween decor and more on Etsy.  Here are a few of my favorite finds today!


Icing on the Cake Studio, has the most adorable boxes covered in glitter.  Here's her precious Halloween Cupcake Box covered in vintage type papers and trim and complete with a black rose.

Jennifer Arndt creates the most wonderful little houses and other holiday treasures using vintage treasures.  I'm thinking that this adorable little glittered Halloween house would be perfect on my mantle, the detail in this piece is so fun with the owl, black cat & crow.

This fun artist, Sleepy Hollow Folk Art is a fellow Texan ya'll !  She is a wonderful mixed media artist, with wonderfully whimsical sculptures. Her Shabby Shriek Jack O'Lantern Wand is so fun, it's prim and glam all at the same time!

Canadian artist Avant Carde creates exquisite vintage inspired paper and fabric collage creations.  Her Decorative Witch Hat is over the top fun with layers of lace, vintage ephemera, ribbons, roses and of course glitter!

Getting ready for Halloween

Ok, so by now I have usually gone through tons of Halloween DIY inspiration and started creating new spooky décor for my house. In fact by now I have at least decorated my front porch for Fall. But…. this year I am really lacking the humph to get started, maybe because it is still around 100 degrees here and my lovely rose bushes and butterfly bushes have now died.


But, at least I have created a few chic Halloween celebration items for my Etsy Shop, inlcuding fun Spooky Chic Gift / Hang Tags and one of a kind assemblage jewelry pieces.

Elegant Victorian Witch Spider Chic Gift Tag Set Vintage style witch collage gift tags featuring antique ephemera of an elegantly dressed Victorian witch with her friends the black cat and white owl, with a little black spider coming to sit down beside her. Images are set on a background of antique Brussels lace.

Fancy Halloween Bat Collage Assemblage Necklace ooak Fun and one of a kind Halloween Bat Necklace. Pendant is created with an adorable, highly detailed brass bat set on a black & white checkerboard round resin cabochon set in layers brass lace edge setting and lacey black Victorian filigree. Pendant is accented with a vintage jet black glass bell flower and tiny orange glass bead.

Hedwig Owl Victorian Collage Gift Tag Set Vintage Ephemera Collage Halloween gift tags, featuring a vintage owl wearing a wizard or witches hat set in an ornate frame with a friendly bat, ornate black filigree, a spooky orange Halloween set on an aged sepia toned background, with hand applied black glitter accents.

Retro Halloween Black Cat & Lace Soldered Charm Necklace Retro Vintage Halloween Black Cat assemblage Necklace, created with a two sided soldered Halloween pendant, featuring retro black cat ephemera, a jet black glass bead rosary chain, antique black lace, vintage brass cat charm and a vintage orange rhinestone flower drop.