how to make your own printables

Next week is Lili's birthday and she will be 5.  I have been looking for some cool cupcake toppers and hadn't found any that really stood out and then i came across a great tutorial on themotherhuddle blog which shows you how to make your own printables.  Heres my first attempt but i was just messing about. It is done using picnik.

I'm going to have a go at doing some Christmas labels when i get a minute. 

Staying with the theme of Lili's birthday i have been starting goodie bags for the party and have made these to put in the bags.  They are milkybars wrapped in background paper and i have made a label to stick on - wish i had found picnik when i made these!!!

These are halloween ones i have done as well!!

Last year i bought a green plastic wreath in the sale in Tesco.  I intended on buying christmas bits and jazzing it up for this year.  However i changed my mind and made it into a halloween wreath by spray painting it black and adding embellishments.  i glued them in place with my hot glue gun.

and finally i bought some cute owl stickers from accessorize and made these cards today

More Halloween Makes

Well its half term and raining hard - theres a surprise!!!.  To avoid getting drenched i decided we would occupy ourselves inside today.  Its our Halloween party on sunday so i though i would do some kids crafts with Lili that we could use as decoration for the party.  Here is what we have done so far...

 This paperchain was made from strips of Halloween themed paper and some halloween toppers.

 The tin is a recycled chopped tomato tin covered in halloween paper that i printed from a website (see previous posts for links to lots of blogs that have free printables).  The skull is from a pack of about 10 from home bargains and the cobweb is also from home bargains.

Now we are going to wrap some chocolate bars in halloween paper for in the goody bags.

  We have started to decorate the downstairs of our house with Halloween items.

Crafty Sunday with a halloween theme

This weeks crafty sunday makes are mainly halloween themed.  This is because i had a bit of a mad moment and thought it would be a good idea to have a halloween party next sunday for Lili and all her friends.  The invites have gone out and now i just have to get organised!!.  here is what i have made so far...

 I have made this halloween tin by recycling a chopped tomato tin and using a halloween backing paper.  All you do is cut the backing paper to the right size.  i cut mine to 10.5cm high and approx 25cm wide.  I then added a happy halloween round label that i printed off.  This website has lots of amazing free printables to start you off

I have made little trick or treat sweet bags

These will be the party bags to take home .  i just bought some brown paper bags from home bargains (89p for ten!) and then printed off the trick or treat paper and stuck on with roll on glue.

I have made this sign for on the buffet table

Another trick or treat sample.  I used a plastic test tube then printed off a label onto card and tied a piece of ribbon round the tube then secured the tag on with a brad.

 The wall hanging was from home bargains and i covered it with 3 kinds of backing paper and embellishments.  The boo paper is downloadable free from skip to my lou website.

Phew now i feel a little more organised!!!

I'm surfing again!!

For the last five days i have been having internet connection problems.  It has been taking 5-10 minutes to load web pages and has been driving me bonkers!!!.  Fingers crossed it seems to have improved so lets hope it stays that way!.  So now i'm back in blogging world i can share my makes from this week.  Halloween is just around the corner and there are some fab papers and accessories around at the moment.  i used some cool free printables from various blogs to make this...

The backing papers are papermania.  Here are just a few blogs with some cool printables if anyone wants to use some.

eighteen25

sassysites

livinglocurto

thecraftingchicks

tipjunkie

matthewmeadstyle

You can spend hours going through the sites above getting some great ideas.  Anyway i will upload some more of this weeks makes when i get a few spare minutes tomorrow but now i'm off to bed.  Night all!!

Trick or treat sweet bag

Today i have been trying to think of a cute way to give trick or treaters some sweets.  Normally i am completely disorganised and just dish out handfuls of haribo's.  I have seen so many nice halloween makes that i thought i would have a play around and this is what i came up with.

I cut out some orange felt and sewed black lines down it then gave it a green felt stalk and sewed it onto some black fabric which i then turned into a simple drawstring pouch.  i threaded some ribbon through and punched some orange card and stuck a bat sticker on.  I filled the pouch with lollies and sweets.  it only took me 5 minutes to make so think i will be able to make plenty of these before the kids coming knocking.....

These bags were simple to make using my sealer that seals plastic, some card and 3D stickers.  Again a 2 minute job and easy for anyone to whip up.