Milk Carton halloween treat holder - Inspirational Challenge #91

The challenge this week at Inspirational Challenge is a colour one:  orange and green.  Of course those colours scream of Halloween, so I made a Milk Carton Halloween Treat holder - in green and orange.

• The milk carton was cut using a retired die, in Old Olive cardstock.
• A window was made in the front using the Lots of Labels framelits and covered with a piece of Window sheet.
• The carton was filled with skull candy and a small chocolate bat, and the top then closed with a clothes pin (also retired)
• The clothes pin hold in place a piece of Tangerine Tango pom pom (retired), and a bow made of  1/8" coral calypso organza ribbon (retired).  A glue dot was used to adhere this to the clothespin.
• The sentiment is from Teeny Tiny wishes and was punched using the Word Window punch.  The edges were sponged with Pumpkin Pie ink.
• An Tangerine Tango leaf was die cut using the Fall Fest framelits (retired).
• On the lower left is adhered a Mossy Meadow green enamel dot (Home for Christmas)

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Halloween Octagonal Box - LNS October Challenge

I have made an Octagonal box (the lid comes off) before, and I was actually really wanting to make a Halloween one.  So, when I saw the challenge with LNS for October, I thought this was the perfect opportunity.
I used a video tutorial by Beth Beard here

Stamps: Tags for You
Inks: SU markers (Basic Black, Tangerine Tango, Old Olive)
Papers: Basic Black, Orange Tango, Whisper White, Motley Monsters DSP
Accessories: Mini Milk Carton die (retired), Rosette die, 1 3/4" circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, 1" circle punch, 1/8" tangerine tango taffeta ribbon, Label punch, hot glue gun, Washi tape (skulls), 1/8" hand held punch, White Baker's Twine

Octagonal Box with Removable lid

I had so much fun making this 8 sided box and lid - as well as the flower decorating the lid.  This is thanks to an excellent video here which provided me with all the information I needed.  I cased the box, but used different designer paper.

Inks: Baked Brown sugar, Early Espresso
Papers: Basic Black, Typeset DSP, Baked Brown suger
Accessories: Mini Milk Carton die, Baked Brown ruffled stretch ribbon, circle framelit, large rhinestone
Punches for flower:  Scallop circle die, 2 1/2" scallop circle punch, 1 1/2" scallop circle punch, 7/8" scallop circle punch

I intend to make more of these boxes.