What’s inside the haunted house?

I had so much fun creating this because of four reasons:
1. The Core’dinations cardstock was on sale at Jo-Ann’s for $0.25 each.
2. Glue Dots® adhesives made it a No-Need-To-Wait-For-Glue-To-Dry project
3. Sparkly Fluff
and most importantly…
4. It put a smile on my sons’ faces :).

Ghosts, jack-o-lanterns, black cats, bats, Tombstones, oh my! 

See that stuff on the arrow?  That just isn’t regular ‘ol flock…it’s Sparkly Fluff and you can grab some up over at Our Craft Lounge.

 

Ready to enter my haunted house?  Let’s go inside:

That Sparkly Fluff made good dirt for my tombstones! 

I used Glue Dots® Dot N Go for all the panels, house top and lid. Glue Dots® Continuous Line and Pop Up Perforated Sheets helped me with the important accents:

Here’s how to attach the strips of acetate:

I’m off to conjure up more spooky creations!

(I wrote this blog post while participating on the Glue Dots® design team.)

Haunted House Explosion Box Recipe

Glue Dots®: Dot N Go, Continuous Line, Pop Up Perforated Sheets

Stamps: Studio G ("Haunted House", “Boo From The Crew”)

Paper: Stampin’ Up! (Elegant Eggplant, Summer Sun), Core'dinations (black with white core), distressed metallic cardstock, DCWV (orange Halloween print)

Accessories: acetate, Martha Stewart Craft punches (Fence border, Tombstone), Cricut (Expression machine, Tags, Bags, & Boxes cartridge for triangle box), Brown Sugar Sparkly Fluff, Halloween foam shapes,  embossing powders (white, Kaleidoscope transparent), sanding block, Scor-Pal

And before I go, I wanted to share a few pictures I took with my Olympus Evolt e-420 camera.  It was my first time using it and I brought it with us for our early morning visit last week to La Shores and Cove:

The sea lions were out!  This one heard my flash go up and looked directly at me:

This one looked like it was smiling:

This birdie stood still…must have wanted a close-up so I obliged:

My sons had fun exploring the little nooks and crannies!

Our footprints at the end of the day: