I think this lil witchis just adorable. I had fun with her and the layout for this. I’m all about the layers, without overkill. Im not a very complex person . Clean and SIMPLE ๐ I can’t escape the traditional and expected “Halloween” colors. I have no idea WHY, I just can’t.
I colored her with my Copic markers, then made a moon in the back using the reverse masking technique.
The pumpkin is from the spooked set. I love the Happy Halloween sentiment done in the corner in white craft ink-looks like a web!
Then onto the bats! They are just a punch from Martha Stewart. I think its a really cute one.
Im honestly not a huge Halloween person. While I do have a cute collection of images ๐ I don’ have a ton of Halloween STUFF. If you haven’t noticed this is the ONLY Halloween themed paper I have used this entire season!! (By Imaginesce) Since I don’t really celebrate it (aside from school stuff for the kids) I don’t stock up on this particular holiday with stuff. I KNOW! Can you imagine?!
I do create things, and let the kids do things for school, but we don’t go trick or treating or anything like that. Its part of how I was brought up, not celebrating that holiday.
Many people asked if I felt deprived as a kid, honestly no. I did get to celebrate a few Halloweens as a kid, then it stopped when I was about 6 or 7. My last costume was Strawberry Shortcake! Remember the plastic masks? Then the plastic outfits. Good grief!I always remember FREEZING every year! LOL!
I was a cat, a bumble bee, andย Smurfette. I can’t remember any other costumes, so maybe that was it.
Anywayย we always went and did something else that was fun. We’d go out to eat (usually Chinese food) and get ice cream sundaes. My mom would buy a couple bags of candy the day after, so no big deal. I think my mom worried we’d be scared for life with that decision, but it really was fine.
I have no idea how I even got into that subject! LOL! Oh well, there is a little info you most likely didn’t know about me, but now do.
On another note: I see you all have RAVAGED theย Martha isle at Michaels for the test tubes! I KNEW I should have stocked up.ย
Those who have emailed me re: the Disney Princess set-I haven’t seen them since I posted. I must have locals here who read my blog, and promptly ran out for the good find ๐
Well I’m off and running. Lots to do. I found NOTHING good for Alexa’s birthday :C Maybe try Toys R’Us. Not like she NEEDS anything!
Noah has a doctors appointment. I think he needs an ear cleaning. He doesn’t seem to be hearing well, and clears his throat a lot. Maybe its allergies. He does it so much. Yesterdayย he saidย doingย that helps him hear! OK that can’t be good. So off to the doctors we go. Plus its dance class, and open house tonight. Busy times.
Alrighty. I hope you all have a great day.
I would LOVE to hear of some of your Halloween costumes as a kid! Or maybe a memory if you have one you feel like typing out.
I have MUCH more to share, just tight on time.
Stay tuned.
33 Responses for "Sweet Treater"
We didn’t go Trick or Treating but maybe a few times. We did always have costumes though. ๐
My husband hates trick or treating…he says he hates that it encourages children to go around to stranger’s houses and beg for candy when the entire rest of the time, they aren’t allowed to talk to strangers.
This is adorable!
We don’t celebrate Halloween either and really, what are they missing??? We play “dress up” all the time anyway! The candy is the WORST part of the holiday and we try to do something special and memorable with the kids each year. . .family time, y’know? We all have to make these decisions personally and what WE think is best for our families. . .not what OTHERS think is best!!! Cute card Lauren — will be glad when this holiday is over and I can be inspired by THANKFULNESS and JOY ๐
So cute, Lauren!! You know, I was actually Smurfette one year, too! I even had a pair of Smurfette glasses when I was ten! ๐
This weekend I was fortunate and while I was at Target, just getting ready to leave I remembered I wanted to look for that set. I looked at the Disney stuff, not there. I looked elsewhere, didn’t see it. Went back to the Disney stuff and went digging and lo and behold there was 1 set left, hidden behind some of the other sets. I snatched it up real quick and can’t wait to make some cards with it!
Love the card. Had a lot of costumes a a child. I just remember freezing too!
I remember being Princess Leah from Star Wars. My hair was long so I even had the buns up around my ears. LOL! I also remember being a blue fairy/princess of some sort. That was my last costume. I have always disliked halloween. Don’t really know why I just think its silly. But since having kids I feel guilty for not being “in to it”. Oh well. They dress up and we trick or treat for 1 block. This year we will have a party instead. I want to control the candy and I have lots of friends who’s babies are to young to T or T but want to dress them up. We’ll see.
Adorable Lauren! I’ve never been a huge Halloween card maker until the last year or so. Now there are so many cute images out there…lol
I’m glad Chloe is handing candy out this year and not going Trick or Treating. We usually have SNOW by then…lol…I’d rather stay in my WARM house ๐
Very cute card. I don’t have very much Halloween stuff either. I have never really been much of a Halloween fan either. I last went trick or treating when I was in 7th grade and last dressed up for school as an 8th grader. I just didn’t see it as fun. My siblings did though.
I remember once, in my early 20’s, being a mermaid for Halloween. I was working two waitress jobs at the time and wore this costume for both shifts…long (and I mean long) blonde hair and tight around the ankles the entire time. Oh man, was that hard work! Fun memories though.
Love your card! It’s just adorable!
Gotta run!
ttyl
Hugs
What a great card. This is so cute and I love the different layers.
Well I for one LOVE Halloween…When we were kids we went out trick-or-treating but we never had regular costumes (just whatever our mom threw together) and we used a pillowcase for our candy. I still enjoy dressing up to greet the kids who do show up even though any more it’s not that many due to all the (weirdos) who wrecked the holiday. I decorate our house even if no one comes to see it because I just love the decorations and we carve pumpkins (from the fancy pattern books) and it’s just fun if you ask me.
I grew up in Iowa so I know what it’s like to have some Halloweens that were warm and some that you froze your behind off. We lived in the country so we couldn’t exactly go door to door since the closest door was a half mile away. We went into town and walked around my mom’s best friend’s neighborhood. We went every year and I think my mom always made my costumes. I remember going as a clown one year and mom made the whole costume. We really loved it and it was during the 70’s when everyone wasn’t so worried about letting your kids walk around by themselves. We walked around as a group of kids and told jokes if someone asked for a trick when you said trick or treat. Now kids just expect the treat and they rarely if ever have a joke for you. I miss those simpler times. This year I’m going all out with my outside decorations. I’m doing a huge spider web and a big tarantula inspired by Martha Stewart and some spider eggs also inspired by Martha. And we’ll also have the traditional jack-o-lanterns. It’s just fun and we’ve always walked around with the kids for about an hour. We love it and it’s something we can share with our kids.
Soooo adorable, love the lil witch!!
Honestly – I’m a lot more into Halloween as an adult than I ever was as a kid…a very shy, big for my age, kid, so I always felt *Silly* trick or treating…I don’t dress up now, but we deck the house out every year with fun decorations, and make sure there is plenty of candy on hand for the neighborhood kids, and we take the kids out, but not for too long…honestly I feel bad, because 3/4 of it goes to waste, Shan doesn’t eat a ton of candy. Halloween costumes?? Strawberry Shortcake (yep, same plastic mask and dress!) Dorothy from the Wizzard of Oz, and Wonder Woman…*thumbs up*
love the layout on this card, BTW- and that cute little witch is just too much!
I loved making costumes for my kids when they were little. One year they were Mickey & Minnie and I made there costumes, once Alex was a Ty Beanie Bear, and all the princesses of course! I love seeing all the kids of all ages and their costumes every year. My mom was always into major decorating for every holiday, and this was 2nd to Christmas. Have a great day! Love the witch and colors!
You know….I went trick or treating every year as a child but I can’t recall one costume I wore. Now how strange is that?
This year though is going to be another story….my grandkids all come over to trick or treat because I live in town and they all live in the country. I make Ghoul-osh for dinner and then they go out with their mom’s and dad’s all around my neighborhood. But this year…..I think is my time to shine :~)
I really am not an obsessive person (for the most part LOL), but I have seen the movie Mamma Mia 4 times now with my girlfriends! I just LOVE that movie!!! Anyway, we have decided that we’re going to dress up as The Dancing Queens That’s right…we’re going to be Donna and the Dynamos LOL
For those of you that haven’t seen the movie…go, it will entertain you. Hope you don’t think I’m nuts but I think this Halloween is going to go down in history!! I will remember what costume I wore :~)
There are two Halloweens that stand out in my memories. One is where my parents made me the most wonderful pink butterfly costume. My dad constructed the wings out of cardboard and wood braces and painted it all pink with some sparkles on it. I thought it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. THEN Halloween night came and it was snowing and cold. My parents made me wear UGLY boots with my costume. I pitched a major fit, but alas I still had to wear the ugly boots. ๐ The other memory I had was of having strep throat and not allowed to trick or treat. I was so bummed! I had been on the meds for a couple of days so I at least got to hand out candy at the door. That was so hard! I did get to eat some of it though. ๐
my 3 brothers were always football players and i was always a cheerleader, funny i never became a cheerleader, i played varsity sports all through jr high and high school, we lived in a small town and when it was cold the people would just dump thier bucket of candy into our sacks…my mom never went because she like to see all the other kids costumes, since some of them she use to or still does watch. Then at the end my mom would get this huge bowl and we would all dump our candy together and we could each pick out a couple of piceses each day after a meal until all the good stuff was gone….my mom also decorates for every holiday with things we have made over the years and things she has gotten, i still love to visit my mom’s and see all of the neat decorations she has up, one year I dry brushed a ceramic witch with a light underneath her and every year my mom offers to give her back and every year I am temped to take her…..
love your card. We don’t celebrate halloween also. As a little kid we did a few costume party, but that is it. We are a catholic country and most school don’t celebrate it either. The kids do costume in feb. for our independence.
super cute card! I was rainbow brite for halloween i think 3 or 4 times. haha. I wore that costume until it just absolutely did not fit! ๐
Disney Princess stamps at Target ~ I RAN to my Target after your post and found nothing and I live in Florida. The following week hubby and I were food shopping and he found one set of them one the end of the isle!!!
Very cute card, I love Halloween, and my daughter who is seven is obsessed with decorating the outside of the house every year. I have an idea for your son you may want to look into, ear candling, some of the spas around here do it for around $20 bucks, it pulls everything right out there, and is great for allegeries.
Lauren, I’m not into Halloween either. We did not celebrate it growing up. I do not feel deprived in the least. It was always our special family night instead. We always went out to dinner and then a movie afterwards. That was a very special treat for us since we rarely ate anywhere but home.
Love your card Lauren!!
I really prefer having a party at home..
friends & family. Bobbing for apples…donuts on a string..
fun games for the kids ๐
My memories of Halloween. Were do I begin- I have 6 sisters and 1 brother we all went out together with my Dad Usually freezing our buts off( living in upstate NY). I even remember having 4 to 5 inches of snow! But we would go until our pillow cases were full. Go figure my dad a doctor and my mom a nurse.I can’t imange the denisit bill. My younger kids still go out. Yes I make them costumes. We go to Jo Ann and pick out the fabric and pattern. I think that is what my kids remenber most. Love your card
I’m actually quite pleased to hear that some of you out there don’t really celebrate this holiday. Should we?
I celebrated it for years because that’s what my husband’s family (USA) did so our children dressed up and visited the ‘safer’ neighbourhoods. Imagine that – having to decide where it’s safe to knock on doors even 20+ years ago! I can even recall we visited the local hospital offering to scan bags of candy (1988 Utah). Is it really harmless fun?
We were both finally re-educated about some of it’s origins, superstitions and a very real darker side to this holiday by a wonderful minister with a heart to educate Christians about Halloween. Shame it wasn’t our own minister who flatly refuses to even go anywhere near the subject. Yet that speaks volumes!
Our own church and many others here in the UK refuse to get involved in anything that promotes this holiday and try to arrange alternative events for our youngsters so they don’t feel they’re missing anything. Even several schools have made conscious choices to boycot it.
Sadly it is beginning to gain momentum commercially so it may be here to stay. It’s not all as innocent as it is intended to be. The church windows are frequently pelted with eggs as are many cars in the neighbourhood! Reports of many ‘tricks’ to varying degree follow in local newspapers and many newspapers print off free posters for houses to put on doors asking people not to call on them. This was started at the request of the elderly folks who are often terrified to open their doors to the rowdy hooligan callers who terrorised the neighbourhood.
Give me an honest, heart warming holiday like Easter or Christmas worth celebrating any day! You carft just as many lovely projects for friends, family and neighbours and celebrate for all the right reasons.
I like that little witch stamp. My favorite costume when I was a kid was Tweety Bird, I think I was that bird 3 years straight. : )
Lauren,
I remember as a kid going around the neighborhood sometimes freezing trick or treating. One year my mom’s friend designed my outfit, I was a genie. I wore a bikini ( I was little lol) and my genie outfit was made out of something and it was see through. I even had a headband and the whole outfit looked like I dream of genie.
Than one year I was the tin man from the Wizard of Oz. My mom had made my costume for a play that I did in the summer and I used it for Halloween. I wore gray sweat pants and sweat shirt, and I had a silver paint on my face and my mom cut a box and it was huge lol Than she painted it silver and decorated a funnel as my hat! Needless to say I was definitely the most interesting outfit lol.
I found the disney stamp set not in the aisles but on the outside of the aisle! It was right by the mickey & pop star stamp sets. Oh and they also have the test tubes there too.
Love the card as always,
Charna
Adorable card!! Love the colors and fun in it!! I had so many silly and fun costumes!! The best ones were the “hand made” ones that you thought up an hour before you left to go!! ๐
Love that witch. I tried to stand that way as a kid but no luck. For 2 Halloweens either I had chickenpox or my sister so we had to share with each other. I am a retired teacher who always loves seeing the kids come to the door and ask me to guess who. Now I get the children of the kids I taught. Its always fun here so my kids always do the place…one of the joys of living in a small town.
Heather
We didn’t celebrate Halloween in France, so I didn’t grow up with it. It only started in the recent years and hasn’t been well received because people see it as some kind of “Hallmark Holiday” that’s here just to spend money on candies and costumes! :-S Plus the fact that it is a pagan celebration turn most people off.
I think it is different here, it is so much a part of the culture and people grew up with it. I never dressed my kids in costumes when they were babies, I don’t like that. I usually just get Noah an halloween tee-shirt because I doubt he would be happy in a costume and what’s the point if he couldn’t care less? (last year he wore an orange shirt that said “this is my costume!” ๐ ).
Naomi has been wearing a costume and trick or treating only for 2 years now (so since she was 5), before that I thought she was too young. She is now having a blast trick or treating, even though (thankfully!) she doesn’t eat much of the candies afterwards!… ๐
I like the pumpkins, cute little ghosts or bats, but I think way too often Halloween is too spooky and gory, some people go to great lenght to have their garden look like a grave yard with zombies, I hate that! Someone in the neighborhood has a larger than life devil in front of his house and everytime I drive by it gives me the creeps… ๐
At least this all leads us to Thanksgiving, which I really love and we don’t have in France either. ๐
You just amaze me with your creativity! You are such an inspiration as an artist and a mom and I wanted you to know that! Girl you rock!!
Great card. I love halloween and dressing up. Now I have a halloween t shirt that says I don’t do costumes. it’s just cute. But I don’t do costumes because I don’t have friends who will dress up as well. LOLOL!! I would though. Growing up I loved trick or treating and i was never one to eat all the candy but loved checkign out the loot.
I remember being strawberry shortcake, spiderman – yes the plastic ones in the boxes! LOLOL! OMG, now the cotsumes are like $30 for a little kid unreal! My Aunt knew how to sew and she used to make things for me as well, one year I was a witch and another a gypsy. I can’t remember what I did as I got older though.
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