Happy Hauntings!

After a day in Honduras, today we are visiting our second port, which is Belize City, Belize.  Today I have a treat for you.  Actually, a Trick or Treat of sorts, because our pillow gifts last night were a little spooky.

For our Halloween night of Cruising Through the Year, I made this little haunted house using the milk carton cut on the Close to My Heart Artiste Cricut cartridge.  Many of the other elements on these haunted cartons also came from Cricut cartridges, too.  A complete list of supplies can be found below.

One little note if you try to assemble one of these for yourself…I didn’t want my haunted house to look like a milk carton, so I worked in a couple of extra folds that are not marked on the Cricut cut.  I have made a video of the assembly process which I will post on this blog some time in the near future.  Until then, I’m hoping the photo below will demonstrate the extra folds.

Supplies:

Stampin’ Up Card stock:

Basic Black

Rich Razzleberry

Real Red

Pumpkin Pie

Daffodil Delight

Old Olive

Pacific Point

Whisper White

Cricut Cartridges:

George and Basic Shapes:  window

Handyman:  fence

Simply Charmed:  ghost, tombstone, bat

Close to My Heart – Art Philosophy: window frame

Close to My Heart – Artiste: milk carton

Punches:

Stampin’ Up 1-3/8” Cricle:  candy dispenser

Stampin’ UpPetite Curly Label Punch: “Lift”

Stampin’ UpWord Window: doorstep

EK Success Deco Scallop:  Roof

Martha Stewart Drippy Goo border:  windows

Stamps:

Stampin’ Up Googly Ghouls

Embossing Folders:

Stampin’ Up Square Lattice embossing folder

Button Magnets:

Basic Grey

The lid on this little treat box lifts up to reveal a hole where you can fill it with candies.  I suggest wrapped candies like Tootsie Rolls or Jolly Ranchers, etc. that will fit through the hole easily.  The lid attaches to the house a a very steep angle, and although it is glued down on one side, the side that opened had a tendency to pop up.  My solution was to use mini pancake magnets made by Basic Grey.  Two magnets go on the inside of the house on either side of the hole.  Their counterparts go behind a strip of paper on the underside of the roof.  I tried this with velcro and other fasteners, but they wound up pulling off or tearing the paper, so the magnets worked best, and only when they were separated by paper so that they could be pulled apart without tearing the paper or coming unglued.

There are a couple of items I cannot remember where they came from.  One is the skull stamp.  It was part of a mini-pack of stamps I bought for $1 somewhere.  I think the spiderweb came from there, too.  If I could find the package, I could figure out who made it, but it has somehow disappeared!  Two other items, the window frame and the pumpkin, were both Cricut cuts, but I did all my design work on the Gypsy and now I can’t figure out which cartridge it came from!  If I figure it out, I will update this post.  The door was just a rectangle with a brad for a doorknob.

That’s it for today.  I know this little house is a bit out of season, but we are cruising through the year with our pillow gifts, and next up is Thanksgiving.  I hope you enjoyed today’s project and don’t forget to come back tomorrow!

Really ugly photo showing which score marks to add/omit. Click to zoom.

Addendum 1/1/14:  
Woo hoo!  I found my little Halloween stamps that I used to make the spiderweb and the skull.  It was a "Studio G" clear stamp, Series 34.  Here's a picture of the stamp set: