While shopping at Michaels the other day, I came across these cute unfinished wood coffins (if a coffin can be cute) and decided to grab some to use as candy holders for my son's school Halloween party. They are the perfect size to hold a few pieces of candy and a free Frosty coupon. After painting them in both Espresso and Eggplant Adirondack acrylic paint, I stamped the Stampendous Frightful Phrases stamp in Versamark ink and embossed using my favorite Stampendous Midnight Black embossing powder. I have never stamped and embossed on wood before so I'm pretty pleased how the candy boxes turned out.
To go along with the boxes I made a clean and simple mini card using two Stampendous sets: Costume Kids and Cling Spider Web.
Did you know you can buy a book of 10 JR. Frosty Coupons from Wendy's for $1.00 and 90% of the money goes to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Dave Thomas was an amazing man. On a personal level, I will always be grateful to him as one of the founders of my son's school. He believed in children and gave so much to our community. If you are unfamiliar with his foundation, one of it's main goals is to find loving, permanent homes for kids in foster care.
Keep in mind, you have until September 29th to join in the fun with this month's sketch challenge on the Stampendous blog. It's a great sketch with an even greater prize.
Thanks for visiting!
Stampendous Supplies:
Costume Kids SSC263
Cling Spider Web Set CRS3010
Frightful Phrases R120
Midnight Black Embossing Powder
Other Supplies:
Markers: Copic E00/E01/E02/E33/E35/E37/E29/E50/BV000/BV01/BV02/BV04/BV08/C1/C3/C5/C7
Ink & Paint: Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black and Grape Jelly ink; Versamark Watermark ink; Adirondack Espresso and Eggplant Acrylic Paint Dabber
Dies: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 3
I've entered this in this week's Crazy 4 Challenges C4C106 challenge and this week's Just Us Girls Fall 3-D Challenge.
Absolutely adorable!! I working on a box for JUGS, but it's not even close to how wickedly cute yours is! Great job!
ReplyDeleteWhat a cute gift set. An adorable count with a fun treat box. So clever.
ReplyDeleteGreat set! Love your box it came out fabulous! I saw those in Mike's as well but did not get any! LOL! Thanks so much for playing along with JUGS!
ReplyDeleteSo so cute!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is so cute Melinda! What a great project and I'm sure the kids will love it! And thanks for the heads up on the coupons! I'm a teacher and my 5th graders would love that coupon! Thanks for playing with Just Us Girls!
ReplyDeleteOH MY WORD~ this is just too fabulous! L O V E it!!! What a super idea--love your coffin and I think that this would be perfect for a school party! :)
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