Spooktacular Stamps...Halloween Projects to "Die" For!

With all the great Halloween stamps available you may not have time to trick or treat, because you are too busy making Halloween cards, bags and treats for your Mummy and other favorite monsters in your life.

Gotta trick or treater with big plans for Halloween night. Purchase a cheap pillow case and let them use big fabric or chunky stamps...like those by Backstreet or Plaid to design their own trick or treat bag. If you don't have fabric ink you can use acrylic paints or purchase paints for fabric. Duncan's new Tulip paint line even has a velvety textured paint...your bats and spiders can be soft to the touch if you want! A t-shirt board or poster board cut to the size of the pillow case can be inserted to keep the case stiff while you are stamping. Using black paint, stamp bats in the hem of the pillow case. With orange and black add ghosts, witches and jack-o-lanterns on the main section of the pillow case. Using a fabric pen of paint brush write Happy Haunting, Trick or Treat or Will Spook for Goodies on the bag. Follow manufacturer's directions to heat set paint and you'll have a Trick 0r Treat bag your little spook can use for years to come!

For a quick home dec item, stamp a spider, bat or other halloween haunt onto inexpensive white tissue paper. Use clear embossing powder to stamp the design on to the tissue and then emboss the stamped item in black or orange or purple, (my current favorite halloween color). Be careful embossing on tissue because it gets hot quickly. Take a solid color candle, (to determine if the candle is a solid color turn it upside down. If you can see white on the bottom it means the candle is not the solid color all the way through...only dipped into a layer of color), and a piece of stamped tissue that you've cut around onto the candle. Quickly heat the design with your heat gun...the tissue will melt and your design will be "embedded" into the candle. Always keep the candle over a paper plate or paper to protect your work surface from dripping wax...the candle gets very soft during this process. You could do several votives and set them on a plate for a decorative centerpiece. A series of pillar candles could be stamped with witches or ghosts in graduated sizes to match the size of the candles.

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