Glow in the Dark Halloween Pajama DIY

Around these parts almost as important as the costume you will wear on Halloween are the PJ's you will don on 'Wear Your Pajamas' to school day. For grade schoolers this is like the prom and the right jammies are crucial. I of course had to customize a pair for my daughter.

Halloween Spider Web Ornament How-To

I have a Halloween tree. OK, I have a lot of Halloween trees. Finding ornaments for a Halloween tree can be tricky business. Luckily it is easy to make your own.

No Sew Bat Costume For Halloween

When I asked my son Baxter what he wanted to be for Halloween without hesitation he responded "bat". I thought that this should be an easy costume to pick up at the store and could be quickly checked off my list. I thought wrong. After searching at several different stores I quickly realized that if Baxter was going to be a bat, it was up to me to make it happen.

How To Black Light BOO Pumpkin

Hey Guys! Tanner Bell here. I'm so excited to share this DIY Black Light BOO Pumpkin. You're going to love this simple no carve pumpkin idea and it is super trendy this year. It is super fun and easy to make with the Tulip Black Light Paint. Let's jump into it.

Glow In The Dark Ghost Photos

Glow in the dark paint is so awesome. It's like a surprise every time you hit the lights. I can't tell you how many times I have gotten into bed after a night of crafting and realized at some point I wiped glow in the dark paint on my pajama pants. Always makes me smile. This fun surprise when the lights go out is perfect for Halloween!.

Crafty Chica Face Paint Kit

Get ready for Day of the Dead with this fun and easy to use Crafty Chica Face Paint Kit. Inside your kit you’ll have everything you need to turn your face into a cool Calavera for Day of the Dead. This is a great kit to use on kids, if you can get them to sit still. Let’s get started!

Big Eyed Monster Puppets

I have to admit, I love monster crafts. I can’t help it! They are super cute, and girls and boys alike think they’re fun too. What’s not to like?

What I love about these is that they require so few supplies, and chances are you have them at home if you do basic crafting with your kids.

Halloween Burlap Pillows

With Halloween right around the corner I think it's time for us to start decorating our home! I am madly in love with burlap so when I love to Create came out with these burlap pillows my heart dropped to the bottom of the earth. Literally. OK, fine not literally but you get it right! There is something about a prickly pillow that makes me feel all warm and cozy. Maybe it's the fact that burlap kinda smells like a barn or feed store. I may be crazy but what can I say burlap is the bomb. Today we are making some fun and quick Halloween pillows so let's get started. 

15 Halloween DIYs To Wear & Decorate

I've made no secret about it... Halloween is probably my favorite holiday. And not because I love to dress up because I haven done that in YEARS. I do love taking my nephews trick or treating and watching them completely immersing themselves in the whole experience. Here are a few of my favorite Halloween projects that use our very own iLoveToCreate products Check 'em out!

Halloween Face Paint Tutorial

With Halloween right around the corner I think it's time for us to start planning what we will dress up as! If you know anything about me then you know Halloween is my favorite time of the year. I think kids love this holiday the most because they can transform into any character they have always wanted to be and today I am showing you a product than can help make that happen. When you are turning yourself into a character you can't forget about the face! This Tulip Body Art is the most amazing product for face and body painting. 

Ready to see how I created my Skele-Dog face, let's go!

Simple DIY Little Letter Pinatas

 I have a very strong love for pinatas having grown up where no festivity was complete without one. It seems that pinatas are really popular right now which makes me very happy. Today we're going to knock out some super cute and super simple DIY little letter pinatas to spell out "BOO" for some Halloween fun.

How to make Velvet Pumpkins

Halloween is becoming less black and orange and more elegant and refined.  That's why we absolutely love these dyed velvet-wrapped pumpkins.  They are both stunning and sophisticated and can easily be taken beyond Halloween and into Thankgiving as well, depending on the color Tulip Fabric Dye you use.  Here's how simple they are to make...

DIY Faux Fabric Milk Glass Pumkins

What is going on people! It's already time to start putting out our FALL decor and if one person is ready it would be me! A long time ago I had a problem with this season and the colors that went along with it. Don't get me wrong, I love orange, brown and yellow but I love white, black and green much more. Now the question is how can I create FALL decor with these colors. I am starting with this faux fabric milk glass pumpkin. The name is sorta tricky which is why I love it. I transformed a bright orange pumpkin into a soft delicate work of art. I promise, if you do 20 of these and place them all over your house they will make you smile from ear to ear. There are so many options with them and I love that they make any space feel clean and crisp.
Wanna see how I made them? Come see!

Melted Crayon Halloween Picture Frame

I have a thing for seasonal picture frames. It is kind of an addiction. When Target puts their seasonal picture frames out I am the first in line. I decided to add to my collection this year by making one of my very own.

SUPPLIES

Blank Picture Frame

Black Crafty Chica Paint

Halloween Colored Crayons

Vinyl Letter Stickers

Aleene's Tacky Glue

Hairdryer

Craft Knife

Pardon my lack of step out pictures, I had an anxious toddler as my co-crafter on this project. The first thing I did was spell out the word boo on my blank frame with vinyl letters.

Next I painted the frame black. Tallulah did a base coat with her kid paint and then I followed up with some Crafty Chica Paint. I set my frame in the sun to dry.

Using a craft knife I slit the paper on the Crayons. Tallulah was in charge of unwrapping and breaking. I chose Halloween colors. Yes, in my world teal is a Halloween color.

When my frame was dry I used Aleene's Tacky Glue to attach my broken crayons along the top of the frame.

When my glue was dry I headed outside with my hairdryer to melt the crayons. In a perfect world the wax would have made it down over the words Boo, but alas they did not.

The heat from the hairdryer helped my stickers to peel up at the ages. Tallulah helped me peel up the letters to reveal the words BOO! All that was left to do was add a fun photo of the fam at the pumpkin patch last year and display.

Handmade Halloween Coloring Books

Did you know you can make your own notepad, coloring book, to-do list with just some Tacky Glue and paper? I didn't either until recently. My mom showed me a cute project in Country Living where they had made a weenie dog notepad doing not much more than cramming several pieces of paper together under a stack of heavy books and painting one edge with Tacky Glue. Always on the look out for purse size coloring books to have with me at all times in case of long restaurant wait emergencies I had an idea.


The first thing I did was scavenge online for cute Halloween coloring pages and my favorite embroidery patterns. These designs are by Vickie Howell. They look as cute colored as they do embroidered.


I printed the images four to a page and cut the paper into 4 squares using a paper cutter. I stacked my paper together into a neat pile and stuck it under several books.


Once my coloring book was in place using a small paintbrush and tacky glue I applied several coats to what will be the spine. I allowed the glue to dry in-between coats.


Presto magic a coloring book is born! Next I think I will make notepads for all the grandparents with my kids artwork water-marked in the background. Perfect handmade Christmas gifts.

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Halloween Serving Displays

Today's I Love to Create project started as one thing and ended as something completely different. I first intended to make some Halloween centerpieces and finished with a few Halloween food stands. Anyone who has ever had a party knows that fitting all the snacks and goodies (check out my chocked full table form last year's party) on one table is always tricky. For this year's Halloween party I thought I would try putting my food on various tiers.


SUPPLIES
Coffee Cans
Large Cardboard Rounds
Scrap Booking Paper
Aleene's Tacky Dots
Scissors
Aleene's Tacky Glue
Vinyl Records


I made 3 versions of my tiers (and plan on making more). You might recall the cement molds I scored from a neighbor's trash. I used them to make a Toadstool Stool for Tallulah. They are coming in handy again for Halloween.


Using scrapbook paper and Tacky dots I wrapped the forms in the decorative paper. Using Aleene's Tacky Glue I attached a record atop one of the molds and set a bowl inside another.


I might go back and change out the paper, I have not decided yet. In the meantime the stands are doing a great job decorating my dining room table and displaying my pumpkins.

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