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Jul 30, 2018

August 2018 Release Countdown Day 1: Our Spookiest Release

Hey there, crafty friends! While the month hasn’t turned over to August *quite* yet, today I’m getting started with sneak peeks for our August Release! It’s hard to believe we’ve already been enjoying two months of summer and in less than a month the kids will be back in school and routine will be in full-swing. I’m looking forward to more routine, but also wishing summer could last just a little bit longer! For the last several weeks, the Creative Team and I have been busy designing projects featuring lots of black and orange! You can probably guess – it’s our spookiest release of the year! Altogether we have over 30 new stamps & dies, 2 new cardstock/ink colors, 5 new stencil designs, and some fabulous new foiling products!

I can hardly wait to show you, but before I get started with sneak peeks, I want to make sure you know about our Crafty Points Loyalty Program! For every $1 you spend at the TE webstore you get one crafty point and every 20 crafty points = $1 off a future purchase! With each new release, we have a special promotion where you can earn double points for a specific product or group of products. This month we’re offering double points when you purchase our On a Hinge product bundle – a unique way of creating an interactive ‘swinging’ element on your cards!

When you purchase the On a Hinge Bundle between August 2nd – 5th you’ll earn 86 Crafty Points! Mark your calendar now as all of our new products will be available for purchase starting Thursday, August 2nd at 9am CDT at the TE webstore!

So let’s started by learning a bit more about our new interactive element – On a Hinge. It all starts with the On a Hinge die and the same On the Right Track Discs that you’ve come to love for your slider and spinner cards. When the project is complete, the witch legs swing back and forth on the hinge that’s hidden underneath the skirt. Take a look at the video below to see exactly how the card above was put together!

    

That was super easy, right!? I hope you love it as much as I do! And now moving on to another collection of products designed to work together, but with lots of versatility for combining with previously released products or using on their own. Take a look at the card that Kim Singdahlsen designed using the new Bare Trees Background combined with the Tombstone Trio dies and the Tomb Sweet Tomb stamp set:

      

I love the colors she used for her color-washed background and with all of Liquid Watercolor, there are so many options for creating spooky backdrops for the Bare Trees. Next up, Jean Manis created a simple card and matching envelope using our new Bubble Greetings – Halloween stamp and Spooky Mail set designed for decorating envelopes:

   

The Bubble Greetings collection is designed to work with our previously released Boxed In Basics for quick and simple cards, but I love how Jean shared a different layout that also features our newest pack of patterned paper – Playful Patterns – Black & White.

These patterns are bold and versatile and can be paired with so many of our stamps and dies, but happen to work great with lots of the new Halloween products. Keep your eyes peeled for these patterns in use throughout this week of sneak peeks! Next up, we have a beautiful shadowbox card by Gayatri Murali featuring our latest addition to the Cutting Edge & Caps Lock collections: Ghosts & Boo!

   

I mentioned 5 new stencil designs for this release and Jen Shults showcased two of them along with our new Candy Shoppe Shaker and Halloween Shaker Filling on this adorable set of cards!

  

   

It’s probably no surprise that one of my favorite parts of Halloween is the candy! I love coming up with something new each year to put a different spin on candy giving. This year, we’ve got a couple options for Halloween themed candy gifts. First, check out the super cute Under Wraps Ghost & Vampire designed to hold a Hershey Nugget or Hershey Miniature candy bar. You also have the option to leave the slits out of the center of the die cut and use the shape to create a tag, garland, or card element! Take a look at Jean’s vampire candy wrap and how Kim attached her wraps to a card front:

One more important note about these die sets. I know how much you love our stamp sets that include the coordinating dies, so we decided to offer die sets that include coordinating stamps! These two candy wrap dies each include 3 face stamps to give your vampires and ghosts a little extra personality!

   

And last but not least (for today!) we’re bringing back our popular Potion Bottles with a few accessories to dress them up with a Pick Your Poison label and gift them inside our new carrier designed to fit two bottles perfectly. Check out the cute set that Melody Rupple designed:

      

Whew…was that enough for one day!? I hope you like everything you’ve seen today, but I can’t stop quite yet! I want to show you the two new colors joining our collection this month. Say hello and welcome to Sweet Potato Pie & Eggplant! Both of these new colors are available in cardstock, full size ink pads, mini ink pads, and ink refills!

Before I head out, I want to give you an opportunity to win it before you can buy it, by answering my question of the day!

My Question of the Day is: What is your favorite Halloween costume that you remember wearing as a child? Leave your comment before Wednesday, August 1st. One comment per person. Each comment will also be entered into our Grand Prize drawing for a $50 gift certificate! Winners will be chosen at random and announced on the TE Blog on Thursday, August 2nd.

Today I’m giving away your choice of Under Wraps – Vampire or Ghost PLUS a package of Hershey Miniature candy bars!

Make sure you check out what the rest of the Creative Team has been up to with today’s featured products and we’ll see you back here tomorrow for more sneak peeks!


  • Patricia O.

    Great new releases. Love the trees!

    My favorite costume was a road runner costume my grandmother made. Very realistic and way better than anything you could buy on the store!

  • Teresa Godines #6857

    It has been so warm it’s hard to think about Halloween. I love these sweet little designs. My favorite costume was my Caspar the friendly ghost costume. Those ones that are plastic that came in the box. I was so excited to have that costume.

  • Kim Klinkovsky

    My favorite costume as a child would be the handmade costumes my mom used to make us kids. I always wanted to be the witch. lol. LOVE your new release…fun for Halloween and that triple moon stamp is AH-MAZING! Love it!

  • Michel Espey

    My favorite costume was a gypsy. It was handmade by my mom.

  • Andrea B

    My favorite Halloween costume was probably the monster costume I made myself. I cut a head and arm holes in a black garbage bag and then stapled strips of various fake fur material all around it. Not the fanciest, but it was fun!

  • Jennifer Petersen

    What a fun release! I love the candy wrappers. For a costume I remember wearing a blue crayon outfit my mom had sewn me. I was even able to use it for one of my kids.

  • Pat Gotsis

    It was a giant plastic mask of a large man with a very large head with a wide opened mouth. It slipped on over your head and your eyes were actually looking through the nostrils. It was from my aunt who was so much fun. All of my siblings want to wear it. It got a lot of laughs and comments as there wasn’t any others around like it.

  • Karthikha Uday

    We havent celebrated Halloween in India, so not sure of my fav costume 😀 But I do love seeing people dress up in fun costumes! 🙂

  • D.Ann C

    I’m loving those papers!! And the fun, crazy eyes with the die for cutting candy wraps… genius!
    I dressed up as Snoopy with a stand and a sign that said ‘hug a warm puppy 5 cents’ for my parent’s anniversary…. hugs all around!!

  • Angie Hall

    I think I was a gypsy some years. A long skirt, peasant blouse and lots and lots of jewelry.

  • Janet

    My mom had saved a dress that she wore when she was a teen. I pulled it out of the cedar chest for more than one Halloween…added some jewelry and felt so grownup… It had to have been my favorite because it’s the only one I remember!

  • Nancy M.

    My favorite costume was Mary Poppins! My mother altered a flannel nightgown into a dress, popped a straw hat on me, and I carried an umbrella and old tapestry bag. I won the costume contest! The costumes we had as children made out of found things were so much more creative than the ones you buy at the stores now!

  • Shirlee C.

    My favorite costume when I was young was the clown costume my mother made for me and she made one for all six of us kids. Every year we got handed down the next one in line that fit. When did clown costumes become so scary to people? I always just loved them.

  • Dorina D

    the one costume I remember the most as a kid is dressing up as a “Magnavox TV” complete with rabbit ears and with John Wayne’s picture on the screen. My uncle worked for the local TV repair shop and kept my costume picture on his work bench. We didn’t trick or treat in our community when I was a kid, instead we had a community party at the school with all sorts of events and food. The event is still on-going in the small community where I was raised and has been going on since the 40’s. Now days, it’s a great way to know that everything the kids get from candy to prizes to food is safe and won’t harm anyone.

  • Becky Freeman

    I always got a cowgirl outfit for Christmas and then that would be my Halloween costume.

  • J Alley

    We always had homemade costumes…simple ones like a hobo or ghost or, the worst one, was a rabbit. I wore footy pajamas that my mother sewed cotton balls on for a tail and we cut out ears from construction paper…not stylish but crafty.

  • Kathleen Spaeth

    I remember my favorite Halloween Costume was dressing up as Dorothy (from the Wizard of Oz) complete with a stuffed Toto (and the Red Ruby Shoes). My Mother handmade my Gingham Dress. As an Adult we attend a lot of Halloween Costume Parties and our favorite so far have been a Pilgrim and a Witch. I handmade both Costumes and my Husband agreed to be the Pilgrim. Thankfully he did not burn me at the Stake, since we currently live in New England. Halloween is still one of my favorite themed Holidays. I hand make all our Halloween Treats and hand them out to every one for weeks up until Halloween. It makes dealing with the cooler Fall weather so much more fun! It is a great way to see all the Neighbors, and their growing children, before that other dreaded Season comes in.

  • Trisha Perry

    My favorite childhood Halloween costume was Cousin It from the Adams Family. My Grandmother had an old raccoon coat that she was throwing out and I had long hair that I brushed over my face with big sunglasses!!! Not a very safe costume but it was the 1960’s!!! Good times…

  • Charlotte Deerborn

    I went as a gypsy one year and loved it.

  • Linda Meunier

    Oooooohhhhh I LOVE everything!!!!!!
    My favorite costume as a kid was a witch. I had the most realistic witch wig and it was one of those plastic face masks. But it was soooooo cute!

  • Sherri Thacker

    So many cute new Halloween stamps coming out!! I can’t wait to get started on my Fall cards!! My fave costume as a kid … hmmm … I think it would be my homemade train costume. It was out of a cardboard box – ha! My kids now would never wear something like that but i loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Ann miller

    I dont remember what my favorite costume is, but as others have said it was a purchased at the store with a mask that had elastic string to hold it on. But i dud make most of my childrens costume and my favorite wss probably my son first halloween he was a snowman with a top hat on his head.

  • LizD

    Love the new colors. My favorite costume was probably dressing up in clothes that I shared the arms and legs with my sister. It was so much fun trying to walk around sharing the pant leg of the overalls and the sleeve of the oversized sweatshirt.

  • LC Lamothe

    You have some of the BEST Halloween products around! I love the black and white playful prints paper. Definitely a must-have! I think my favorite costume as a child was a princess one.

  • Ann

    My mom didn’t like to buy us costumes, but I remember having to have the Isis costume with the plastic mask. Lol

  • Avra Williams

    Hmmm…I never really had any memorable costumes as a child (sad, right?) but when I was maybe in middle school I wore my dad’s old suit to a party – that was fun!

  • marlene jones

    My favorite costume was Cinderella!! I love anything Disney. I have such fun memories of trick or treating, parties, and carnivals. Halloween is still one of my favorite holidays. I especially enjoy hanging out with my Grandchildren! I have been scrapbooking Halloween since 2009! Thank you Taylor for all your inspiration!

  • Sharon Stoutner

    My favorite was a witch. My sister teased and sprayed my hair so it stood on end then used makeup to make a ten year old think she was beautiful. What fun! Until all was over and all the teasing had to be combed out.

  • Susan Engblom

    When I was growing up there were a lot of homemade costumes. My mother spent weeks making cat costumes for my sister and I, and we were very excited. When Halloween nIght rolled around, we were screaming and crying because we didn’t want to put them on. I can’t remember why, but we wore them at her insistence. A bag of candy at the end of the night was our reward.

  • Cindy McGuire

    My mom was really into Halloween costumes for us as kids. My favorite was an Indian Princess. I wore a baby blue vinyl sheath dress that was fringed at the bottom and a wig with braided pigtails. To complete the costume I wore moccasins, which were popular at the time (I’m sure that dates me!). Love all of the new products!

  • Lynn C.

    My favorite Halloween costume was being a cowgirl. Really love the new candy treat dies. Thanks for the chance to win!

  • Marie Comer

    My favorite costume was Raggedy Ann. My Aunt’s helped dress me and I wore a homemade yarn wig. Raggedy Ann still has a special place in my heart.

  • Marlene Jones

    My favorite costume was Cinderella! I just love anything Disney. I have such happy Halloween memories! The carnivals, parties and lots of treats!

  • Nola Sullivan

    My favorite costume growing up was a cowgirl.
    I lived on a ranch and loved horses!

  • Laura Gauthier Turcotte

    OMG—Those are soo awesome—I want them all!!
    Idonèt have a favorite costume from when I was a kid–honestly, we weren’t allowed to get creative with our costumes. But as a mom, let me say, my kids and I fo all out for Halloween. A couple of my favorites for my kids would be salt and pepper shakers (my boys are twins, so it was perfect–they won first place at school); a ketchup bottle, and a box of Oros. Such fun to make.

  • Lori

    My mom always made sure we had fantastic Halloween costumes. One of my favorites was the year I went trick or treating as a Rubik’s Cube and my sister went as The Missing Link, another puzzle toy. The costumes were made from boxes and my sister’s was long. She tripped on pretty much every set of steps we encountered–and she still talks about it years later!

  • Amy Vitriani

    There are so many exciting projects!! I am super excited to see all these fun Halloween products ❤️ Sadly there were no holidays for me when I was a child, but as as adult I now so love doing everything Holiday related! I’m actually working on a girl version of the mad hatter right now that I think will be my favorite.

  • Tanya Gray

    I just recently moved and while packing I found a photo of me on Halloween from 35 yrs ago in my costume. When I saw it I couldn’t help but smile at the memory of that simple Witch costume I loved so much. I showed my 11 yr old daughter who commented “wow…your costume was nothing like I’ve ever had”. It was a face mask of a Witch with the picture of a Witches outfit and body on the front of a garbage bag style cover. Lol. I would love to win this so I can do some crafting with my kids and make treat holders for their classrooms. I can’t wait to buy the Witch set to make with my daughter 🙂

  • Bonnie Bayes

    As a child I remember our mom always trying to make our costumes with 4 of us and limited funds. One year she had gotten some fun designed material, now she wasn’t a seamstress but she traced my body onto the material and made me a clown costume. I loved it and wore it several years.

  • Anne Hartschlag

    Since I was born in 1935 I don’t recall having store bought costumes. The only costume I remember was being a gypsy. I wore a gathered skirt of loud colors and a peasant blouse with lots of jewelry. My older brothers used to go with me to trick or treat and they hated it. But we had a good time and lots of good memories. My favorite stamp and dies is the witch’s skirt and die.

  • Michele K. Henderson

    When I was a child, my mom had a box of beautiful hand-made costumes she got from friend who sews. One of the costumes was an amazing clown suit, one of those harlequin clowns with the big fluffy collar, big pop coms down the front, and elastic on the wrists and ankles! It was so awesome! It also was very big and roomy, so I could wear lots of warm layers which was perfect for those very chilly Halloween nights in Wisconsin!

  • Pam Traffis

    Favorite costume was the bunny costume my mom made me. NE Ohio Halloweens can be chilly and it allowed for clothing to be worn under it. Of course, my brother inherited it when he was able to fit into it. Definitely got its wear!!

  • Stephanie

    One year I went as a court jester. I loved the bright purple and rich golden hues of the costume !

  • Barbara

    My favorite costume was dressing up like the Wizard of Oz. Four of us represented the scare crow, tin man, lion and Dorothy. It was a huge hit!! The costumes were later used in a high school prom!!

  • Rhonda Rushing

    Sylvester the cat, I sewed the costume myself, wish I had pictures.

  • Jane T

    Definitely need to get the wraps and hinge. I don’t really remember my Halloween costumes as a kid.

  • KR

    We weren’t allowed to trick or treat, but I do remember one year my babysitter decided to let her kids take me and dressed me as a princess. As an adult I love Halloween and made all of my child’s costumes until she was about 7 or 8 when she wanted to buy them “like other kids”. Her hand sewn costumes usually won first place in the neighborhood costume contest held at the church. Bring on the pumpkins, witches, ghosts and bats…I’m ready!

  • Lynn K Spencer

    My favorite costume was handmade by my Mother. I loved to watch Little House on the Prairie as a young girl. So she made me a pretty dress and bonnet like Laura Ingles wore.

    Thank you for the chance to win this awesome giveaway !

  • Brenda Simpson

    My favorite costume was Raggedy Ann-so excited to have that red hair! Halloween is a fun time and this upcoming release is fabulous! Thanks for your generosity and kindness as you spread joy!

  • Emma H

    I was always a witch. I borrowed my mother’s graduation gown (which she sewed a snake on) and had a cauldron made of papier mache and an old ice cream tub.

  • Stephanie Lanzalotto

    My grandmother always made our costumes by hand and they were awesome. No Peep was my fav. The dress had lots of frilly layers, a boloney curl wig and shepherd staff. Fantastic!

  • Joyce

    Wow! What a fun release!
    I really don’t remember a costume from when I was a child but my daughter was once a homemade popcorn box and was super cute. As an adult my favorite was the zombie of Janice Joplin, I even won a singing costume contest. It was so fun!

  • Mindy Drummond

    I know that we always dressed up for Halloween when I was a kid and it was always the store bought costumes that had those awful masks that you couldn’t breath in lol. But I only remember one and it was Casper the Friendly Ghost so I’m guessing that was my favorite 🙂

  • Pam Paxton

    I guess one of my favorites was Daisy Mae from little Abner. Most people especially kids nowadays wouldn’t even know who that is. LOL Guess I’m showing my age 🙂

  • Mary Wenzel

    My favorite home-made costume that I wore as “more of a grown-up child” was a Female Pig costume. First a dyed a set of Long-Johns (white, one piece, winter underwear) a bold pink (PIG) color. I hand sewed two vertical rows of individual “nipples”; a total of about 10, (that were marketed to be used on baby bottles) onto the chest area of the pink dyed winter underwear top. I stuffed a standard-sized bed pillow in between my chest and winter underwear, which made me “fat” as a pig with the 2 rows of nipples now clearly facing whoever looked my way. I also stuffed my arms and legs with pillow batting to make all of my body “fat” as a pig. I attached a curly (heavy weight wire) pink tail onto my backside, and made a pig snout that went over my nose… leaving my eyes available for viewing, and mouth available for drinks and candy! Fun, Fun, Fun that costume was! I definitely wish to own the vampire under wrap die set, as I also “love to come up with something new each year to put a different spin on candy giving” – I’m especially excited to make them for my Grand-kiddos, but they look easy to make a stock of for us to give out to trick-or-treaters too! This is my !st visit to this web site (thanks to Stamp Junkies FB Group) and I WILL be back to place an order!

  • Margery C

    My favorite costume was Cinderella. It had the old plastic mask which smelled funny and was hard to breath in but it was the first store bought costume I was allowed to buy. I was so happy.

  • Julie

    The vampire wrap is the best!! My favorite costume as a child? My Mom made me the most beautiful butterfly costume and the wings made me feel like I could fly! Thank you for the chance.

  • Bethany Stover

    by far Strawberry Shortcake was my favorite Halloween costume when I was a kid. It had the plastic mask which made you sweat so much but I felt so pretty in it!

  • Holly Mahoney

    I saw so many “need to get” items!! Halloween is still one of my favorite crafting holidays. My favorite costume as a kid was a bunny that my older sister helped me make. I remember her making my ears out of hangers and socks. She was always so clever.

  • Ruth Dupchen

    My favorite Halloween costume was made from a faded pale yellow and white striped old sheet. My Mom made it into the dress that the Arabian men wear. She also made me the head covering and the circle rope that goes around the head. I also had some kind of sash on my hips. My sister used black eyeliner to make a mustache and beard on my face. I had black pants and black shoes that showed at the bottom. I really looked like an Arabian guy. This was my costume for a Halloween party at my dancing school. I won first place. No one knew that I was a girl.

  • Von Marie

    I love the new release so much!!! Those cute wraps would be perfect for my daughter’s 1st grade class. My favorite costume was Alice in Wonderland. I still love those costumes.

  • Cindy Zuberbier

    My favorite Halloween costume was a little Jolly Green Giant. We always passed a billboard with the Jolly Green Giant on it coming back from my grandparents house and they lived 3 hours away so it reminded me of going to see them. I even had the green tights.

  • Karen W.

    Love this release so far! I’m ready for fall. I have a couple favorites- both costumes my mom and I made: a can of Campbell’s soup and a Christmas gift!

  • Linda J.

    My childhood costume that I remember most would have to be the Sylvester the cat costume my mom made. I loved it but I remember I hated the mask part cause it was so itchy ???? I remember my mom put a lot of time in that costume!!! ❤️

  • Ceal

    Oh my so much cute stuff!!!
    My favorite costume was Pippy Longstockins my hair was alread red and I had the freckles so my mom braided it around a clothes hanger so it would stand out like Pippy’s

  • Amy

    My favorite costume (that I wore) was a fortune teller

    My absolute favorite costumes ever, though, were a pair of witches’ costumes I made for my daughters when they were 2 and 5. Hats and belts included! They were the most adorable little witches anyone has ever seen 🙂

  • Marjorie DUMONTIER

    Oh my goodness !! So many awesome products for just the first day !!! About your giveaway question, I sadly can’t answer it because I’m French and when I was a kid, we didn’t celebrate Halloween in France. Nowadays it’s a bit more common (but not quite as huge as for you American people). Thanks for the opportunity to win.
    [margessw(at)icloud(dot)com]

  • Janet Christensen

    My favorite childhood costume was a corn husk hair-ed witch. My mother got dried corn husks and sewed them on an elastic band to create a corn husk wig of hair under my witch’s hat. It was amazing. I made a similar one for my daughter–she loved it, too. (We could never afford the plastic mask sets in the stores, but I really wanted one. So thankful now that necessity demanded a need for creativity! Even when money was no longer such a huge issue, creativity was queen. My daughter now creates handmade costumes for my grandson with as much style and uniqueness as her grandmother.)

  • Suzanne Vanderham

    Oh I’m so excited about this release!! I would love those Vampire wraps and I already have the minitures!!!! Lol

  • Vivian C.

    Thank you for the awesome tip for cutting foam tape. I too needed that. My favorite costume as a kid was when I went as a ladybug.

  • Kathleen Darroch

    Oh what fun. The one costume that stood out for me was Witchie Poo. It was just one of those horrible plastic masks that made your face sweat and the vinyl outfit but I could not wait to wear it when I was about 6 or 7. I still remember the box with the window that displayed the mask. So much fun.

  • Annette Santefort

    I was ALWAYS a witch for Halloween! Maybe I was trying to tell everyone something!!

  • Cathy Lillie

    I don’t remember any specific costumes I wore as a child, but I do know they were always the store bought kind with the plastic masks. They always made my face hot! It was usually quite cold here at Halloween, so I always had a coat on and you could only see the bottom of my costume. Nowadays I don’t really do a lot of Halloween projects, but I do like to do special treats for the nieces and nephews and trick-or-treaters. I love the vampire candy wraps!

  • Ann Dahne

    I was always ALWAYS a gypsy because it was so easy to pull old clothes together. Neither my mother nor I was particularly creative, but this was also in the late 1950s, before Halloween became really big and definitely before Pinterest!

  • Claire

    My favorite costume was Sylvester the cat. This was back in the day….oh I loved that costume!

  • Cindy Holmes

    My favorite costume as a child? I really only remember being Casper the friendly ghost and a clown which my mother had made the clown suit for me to wear! So I guess I would have to say Casper of the two! HaHa

  • Beverly Perdue

    Oh my goodness! Such fun Halloween cards and goodies! The On the Hinge is awesome! My favorite Halloween costume was a witch, but not a scary witch — a fun witch with bright purple hair and bright colored outfit.

  • Karen burget

    My favorite costume was a old pair of overalls with holes and patches and every year one of us kids would be either a hobo or a skeleton for Halloween, not a year went by that one us didn’t wear those things. Lol such a great memory to have!

  • Mary

    Grew up in the Chicago area and Bozo the clown was one very popular shoe. My mom was a fantastic seamstress and sewed the costume and somehow made the mask that looked just like him
    That was my all time favorite costume.

  • Barb R

    I don’t remember too many Halloween’s but one of my favorite costumes was Casper The Friendly Ghost – plastic mask and all!!!! I just love the ghost treat holder!! I have got my toes, fingers and anything else and maybe I will win it ????!

  • Suzanne

    I went with a friend as tweedledee and she was tweedledum. Sort of ridiculous but fun too!

  • Janel

    My favorite Halloween costume was when I dressed up as a bride. My mother made me the most beautiful gown and veil

  • April Stevens

    We used stuff we had at home, too. I remember dressing up as a scary guy carrying some kind of scythe wearing a ski mask and a sweatshirt with pillows to make me look big. It scared all the really little kids.

  • Lisa Domke

    My favorite costume was a butterfly. The wings were made from a piece of oak tag that I colored and sewed to a sweatshirt.

  • Chris DuBois

    My mom was a wonderful seamstress and she made all of my clothes, but I don’t remember her making a costume for me. As a new seamstress, I did make a costume for my daughter for her first halloween-a witch-and I even made the hat. It was the first of many costumes I made for both my daughter and my son and grandchildren. I was very proud of my son a few years ago when he made a tractor for my grandson.

  • Jennifer

    My favorite childhood costume was when I dressed up as Cyndi Lauper from the video “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”!!

  • Lefant

    I wanted to be a penguin. You couldn’t find a penguin mask or costume. Mom made a head piece using a flour canister as the form. Bent coat hangers to make the form for my wings. I loved it. But I had trouble seeing out of the head piece and ran into a tree. All good, I was the only penguin in our school. Thanks Mom!!

  • Laura Stucker

    I remember most of my costumes had a horrible plastic mask. However my favorite costume was the year I went as Pippy Longstocking. My hair was really long so we braided it and used a hanger to get them to stand out. Sure wish we would of had the spray hair colors because unfortunately my hair was blonde.

  • Diane

    My mom always made our costumes when we were kids – Indian / pilot / raggedy Ann & Andy

  • Angela Lear

    I would have to agree with one of the earlier comments that I always had the plastic costume and a mask with a string and it wasn’t ever very attractive. Plus, being from northern Minnesota, we usually had winter coats and boots on so that took away from the whole costume haha! But I love Halloween and all your new products! I can’t wait to get my hands on them and create!

  • Meghan Kennihan

    I wish I could add a picture! We were HI-C BOXES in 5th grade! We made our costumes (crafty already) out of foam core poster board and the straws were painted wrapping paper rolls!

  • Janet P.

    When we were kids my mom would paint webs and spiders or anything else we wanted on our faces to go with the theme of our costumes. She really did a great job. I remember one year a lady really thought I had a black widow dangling from my hair! Some great memories! I think my favorite of this release is the Pick your Poison set. I lover the bottles and cute packaging you have. Such a cute office gift idea. Just love the creativity!

  • Gail Spence

    My absolute favorite costume as a child was being Mother Nature. Do remember the ad for a Better than butter substitute and Mother Nature said, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.” ? Well, I had flowers and butterflies all over me. It was fun!

    I LOVE the vampires dies that hold chocolates!

  • Shelly

    My favorite Halloween memories have been since I have had my children. I would make them costumes and one for myself all three matching. My favorite one was when we all dressed as Minnie Mouse.

  • kathy dumpert

    My favorite Halloween costume was a ghost costume that my grandma handmade for me that had a special Halloween scene on the bottom of it. I can still picture myself wearing it when I was about 6 years old.

  • LeighAnn Baird

    I was In elementary school but thought I was too old to trick-or-treat so my mom left to go trick or treating with my little brother. I decided I really wanted candy but I didn’t have a costume so I told my cousin let’s be street walkers! we raided my older sister’s closet and went trick-or-treating… As hookers. LOL I had no idea that a street walker was a hooker.

  • gail

    I remember being Methusala from Greek Mythology. I was fascinated by snacks, so I gathered all my brothers toy snakes and put them in my hair and made a necklace for my neck. I also got to spray my hair green! I loved it

  • Meghan Kennihan

    Our group of friends were Hi-C Boxes in 5th grade! We made them ourselves out of cardboard and the straws were wrapping paper rolls painted. Very creative

  • Tara Lanzo

    I remember my mom making me a little Indian girl with my cabbage patch doll in my Papoose on my back. Loved it!!

  • Cheri

    I was a child so many years ago, but my mom made our costumes for a yearly city Halloween parade. The one I remember best was being a walking teepee. Mom made a headpiece (probably out of wire that was inside the top of the teepee) that fit on my head. The teepee was constructed from burlap on a wood and wire frame Dad made. Mom painted Indian symbols on it with paint (and there were some eyeholes within those symbols so I could see to walk in the parade. My younger brother’s costume was of course the Indian. His costume was also made from burlap. We won first prize that year! I think the next year I was a TV (made from a box) with the old “rabbit ears” antenna, which Mom made to look like rabbit ears! Don’t remember what my brother was that year. When my 3 younger siblings came along Mom always made their costumes in “3’s”. One year they were the 3 Little Pigs (pink sweat pants and shirts) with added curly tails and faces painted, and another year the 3 Little Kittens, with gray sweatshirts and pants, added patches of color to make them calico kittens and face paint again. They frequently won prizes! AND, I’d like to win the ghost! Loving that black and white paper, the new colors and the piece that makes the witch legs “swing”! It’s going to be fun this week! Come on Wednesday (for the locals)! ????????????????

  • Mary-Anne V

    I can’t remember a favourite…maybe a scissors (for rock paper scissors). Love the interactive die.

  • Carrie W

    ❤️❤️ the new Halloween goodies!! My favorite costume was a gypsy… It was so fun tying on all of the scarves we could find and then adding as much jewelry as we could!

  • Eva Wierzbinski

    Love all the new Halloween stuff! My favorite costume was a pilgrim. My mother was a seamstress and made the dress, apron and even the bonnet. I loved it!

  • Kathy J in Ellicott City

    Favorite costume was a primary colored clown, complete with red curly wig and big clown shoes! Love the new release!

  • Liz Ford

    My favorite costume as a kid was I made myself into a TV! I took a box and poked arms and legs thru and drew a shot of the Incredible Hulk on the front smashing something; like he always did each week on the show! David Banner watch out! I even put tin foil on my head to increase the reception for the TV rabbit ears! It was hard to see in the dark because I did not have the foresight to put a light bulb behind me to light up the TV but it was super fun to make!
    What a great release and I love the potion bottle labels and the stencils and the tree stamps! So much fun and really enjoy the candy bar wraps too! Such a neat collection! Looking forward to purchasing some new stash!

  • Susan Weida

    Just want to say WOW on today’s sneak peek!!
    My Mom made us all kinds of wonderful costumes over the years! Being kid was a look long ago! I would have to say the one that stuck out the most was an indian costume. She always put so much so much love ing the things she made for us!

  • JeanneJenner

    ‘I can remember that we just dressed up with what we found in our home, I remember going as a hobo. Wearing my Dad’s pants and flannel shirt with pillows for stuffing.

  • Laraine Randall

    Looks like such a fun release! Can’t wait! The only costume I remember is when I was 7 or 8 was a witch costume.

  • Noreene Newby

    I don’t remember the costumes I had when I was a kid but when my girls were young I loved making all their costumes, my favorite was a princess costume but their favorite was a pumpkin costume.

  • Amberly

    I loved dressing up as an Indian and an angel

  • Michelle Laulu

    I always love dressing up as some sort of princess when I was little. Being a witch was fun too. Thank you for the chance to win!

  • Cindy Bistram

    My favorite childhood costume was a lady bug. Black stocking cap with aluminum foil antennas. Black body suit and tights. Cut large cardboard circle for my back. Painted it orange with black dots. Makeup for the cheeks. It was a cute costume. I remade it for my daughter when she was in the 1st grade.

  • Sandy Fleming

    My favorite costume growing up was a Rubrics cube. We uses a box and colored paper and created a mixed up cube. I remember receiving so many compliments that year.

  • Anny Kuwahara

    Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town, Up stairs and down stairs in his night-gown… my Mom had found me a little lantern and made me a long flannel night-gown. out of all the costumes this one stands out in my memories… after all I am over 50

  • Christine Fracchia

    When I was 7, my grandmother made me a black cat costume that was absolutely amazing. Cute cat ears and a long black tail!

  • Elise Vaske

    Love all the new products! Gonna have to make another trip south! My favorite costume my mother made was an upside down clown. She dressed me in a clown suit & then put a balloon decorated as an upside down clowns head complete with hat right at the top of my legs. I then had to put both arms up in the air & she put clown shoes on my hands. It was really cute & I won the Halloween costume contest that year even though my arms did get a little tired!

  • Antonious Maximus

    My favorite halloween costume was being a blue crayon , wore it 3 halloweens over the years . The vampires drew me in ???? Those are a brilliant idea .

  • Andrea Hastilow

    Brilliant, fun, funky release. Love every bit I’ve seen especially the witches skirt & legs. This side of the pond we didn’t do that much dressing up for Halloween ???? but I remember dressing my little girl up as part teddy bear part fairy aged two. Her bitten & legs were furry with a pompom tail & she had a shiny leotard on top with a huge pink tutu at her waist with a wand & wings. Wish I could find a picture.

  • Victoria tharp

    My favorite custome was a clown. I loved the face my mom painted on me. Thanks for the peek – what a great collection of Halloween goodies.

  • Anne Sturgeon

    My favorite costume was made in fifth grade. A paper mache elephant head with moveable ears. It was painted pink and my Mom made me a pair of pink flannel pajamas to finish it. So much fun and my Dad helped to make the ears move. Such a fond memory from 50 plus years ago….. Love the candy wraps in both the ghost and vampire bat. I am an October baby so Halloween has always been my favorite holiday!

  • Betsy K.

    My friend and I had homemade dinosaur costumes-complete with huge tails full of stuffing. They were adorable! Sadly they were custom made and we grew too much to ever be able to wear them again.

  • Gayle Bartholomew

    My mother passed away when I was 10,but I still remember the Indian princess costume she made for me.

  • Eileen

    My favorite as a kid was my friend and I got square boxes painted them white then put black circles on all six sides. Wearing black hats we went out as a pair of dice. Living in the city going up and down apartment stairs was a chore, but candy was involved and we were 12 with a pillow case in hand. I remember we made out like bandits haha! Till this day I LOVE Halloween and make huge treat bags for all the little goblins that darken my door Barrrrhahaaaaa

  • Sheila Lane

    One of my favorite memories was when the girls were small was making a Ragged Ann costume for one of them.

  • Pam Larson

    My favorite as a kid was a costume my Mom made. She painted a clear plastic table cloth for butterfly wings and then attached them to the arms and back of a black jogging suits because every costume was made with a jogging suit being the main art. You know it is also cold on trick or treat night ( as my Mother would say).

  • Marisela Delgado

    I don’t celebrate Halloween anymore, but, when I was a kid, my neighbor Mary helped me dress up as a witch and applied make-up on me. Regular make-up. I was a tween and it back-fired because all the boys kept saying,”Whoa, what a pretty witch.” I spent the whole night blushing. =) My neighbor Mary passed away already, but it’s one of the many good memories that I have of her. My 2nd mother.

  • Gilda

    I love this release. Some of the greatest Halloween items I have ever seen. I liked being a cowgirl. I also got to wear the same outfit to the rodeo.

  • Noreen

    Lots of fun new things to craft with! The costume I remember most was one I wore with my siblings. My oldest brother was the Pied Piper and the other 6 of us were rats. We won a prize for that one.

  • Gina

    My favorite costume was as a scarecrow. My Mom even made a stuffed crow to sit on my shoulder. So much fun! I love Halloween and these sneak peeks look to be for an awesome release.

  • Janice

    My mother made a Spanish toreador costume complete with hat and cape lined in red. Hallowe’en is a great celebration and this new release looks like so much fun!

  • Donna

    I love the Dracula and ghost candy holders. These are great for the kids/grandkids (I have a few) for school, the special needs children (I have one) and the church members (and the elders) who still want to be children. I would love to win these items. Thank you.

  • Erica Loscalzo

    My favorite Halloween costume was a bee it was home make

  • Vicki Dillon

    I don’t remember dressing up for Halloween. We went trick or treating for UNICEF with our church instead. I love going now with my grandchildren!

  • Linda Reilly

    My mother made an angel costume for me one year. It was pink flannel and cardboard wings covered with tin foil. I miss the days of home made costumes.

  • Cindi F

    The one that stands out is Princess Leia. My grandmother made most of my costumes so she made me the dress part of the costume and I had really long hair so my mom did the Leia braids. Can’t wait to see the rest of the release!

  • Pam Klehm

    My BFF and I went through my Mom’s closet and decided we’d dress up like Laverne and Shirley for Halloween. She was Laverne and I was Shirley…we had SO much fun that year!

  • Bobbi Gilbert

    My favorite costume was being a smurf!! I had pig tails that my mom made blonde – I have black hair – i think we washing my hair for FOREVER!!!

  • JuLie L

    I am so excited about this release!!! So many great goodies!

    My favorite costume that I can remember is being a Disney princess – Pocahontas. It suited me very well because I have brown skin and long, straight hair. 😉

  • Heidi H

    Tube of toothpaste-ironic, because I now work in dental. Most memorable part of that costume – the plastic flower pot I wore on my head (the “cap”). What memories! Love the new release! Adorable projects – love anything involving candy, as long as I can manage to keep some to give away without eating it all!!

  • Tona

    My favorite costume was being a crayon.

  • Mary Faith

    My favorite Halloween costume I wore as a kid was when I dressed up as a gypsy. I was always facinated by them.

  • Shelley Banghart

    I loved being a ghost for halloween. Super simple costume and no one knew it was you.

  • Deb M

    The clown costume was one of my favourites! It had plenty of room for warm sweaters underneath!

  • Malia Arnold

    My favorite costume was The Flying Nun because it was my favorite show when I was a little girl and my mom made it for me. She made the pattern and everything herself. My Dad would throw me up in the air and catch me and tell me I was flying and I would laugh and laugh and tell him to do it again!

  • Judy

    It was a princess costume. I wore my dress from my sister Catherine’s wedding (she is 10 yrs. older than me). It had huge, long sheer sleeves. I added a crown and instant costume.

  • Carla Hundley

    Fabulous Halloween goodies
    here, love the Bare Trees and
    the Spooky Mail sets. I dressed
    as a pirate with a pink feather
    in my hat, pink buttons and
    pink ribbons around the arms.
    Looked great!
    Carla from Utah

  • Nena

    My favorite costume was one I wore for several years. It was one my mother made. She was a very talented seamstress, and she made a beautiful clown costume for me with a pointy hat. It had pompom buttons and a pompom on the top of the hat. I wish I had a photo of me in that costume!

  • Jean Marmo

    About the only costume I remember was a hobo. IT was a long time ago! Super cute inspiratioN!

  • SharonKay

    So much Halloween fun today! So cute! My favorite costume was a princess costume that was like a short dress & then my mom made a long skirt to wear over it & make it more special & princessy!

  • Derotha Blaeser

    I love the Halloween dies!!!!

  • Christine

    My mom would work hard to make costumes for my two brothers and I every year. Some of my favorite: Rub-a-Dub-Dub Three Men in a Tub, Three Blind Mice and a Gumball Machine/Penny/Gumball combo.

    Thank you for the chance to win!

  • Rita

    My favorite Halloween Costume was when I was 10 years old my mom helped me put together a clown costume. It was the best costume ever and because we had so much snow on the ground (northern Minnesota) I was able to put my warm clothes underneath my costume and not on top! (That was a big deal!) i love this release and will be broke come Thursday night!!! Thanks for adding to my creative life!!

  • Denise Bryant

    All of these are just delightful! Halloween is my favorite cardmaking occasion, so all of these items are right up my alley! Love the Bare Trees Background stamp, Candy Shoppe shakers and the stencils!
    My favorite costume was a fairy. I had a beautiful purple lacey dress and carried a star wand that my father made for me!

  • Kirsty Vittetoe

    Snow White!!!! I love Halloween and sure love this fun release!

  • Sheila/

    My favorite costume was dressing up as a princess. Love all the new products!

  • CherriB

    I love everything I’ve seen so far – can’t wait to get the witch legs!! My favorite costume I remember was a California Raison – used a black garbage bag filled with balloons, black tights and white gloves. Didn’t think about using the restroom at the time I made it….. :-0

  • Niki Jorgensen

    My favorite costume was a flapper costume with all that swinging fringe…reminds me of your new hinge element! So fun!

  • Lee Owens

    One year my mom made me an Oscar the Grouch costume with a bid box and some ugly green fake fur she got at the local fabric store. It was great but I had a bit of a problem getting up and down steps at each house we stopped at

  • Becky Jones

    I always loved dressing up and being something homemade like a hobo. We didn’t usually buy premade costumes we made them ourselves. Looking forward to your release!

  • Denise Evans

    I remember dressing up as a gypsy many years, as we could not afford to buy costumes and made our own. One year as an adult I went as the Statue of Liberty. That was by far my favorite.

  • ionabunny

    I love this release. The swingy witchy-poo legs are hillarious. The under wraps Vampire is a wonderful idea. I love the on the edge ghosts and pick your poison goes straight to the top of the wish list. We didn’t do Halloween in the UK when I was a child, but I love it now and usually dress as a witch. Hugz

  • Vickie Gallagher

    My mom and dad put together out of cardboard boxes and lots of make up to make me the best Tin Man ever…. it was great, although I couldn’t sit for a few hours and going to the bathroom was out of the question, but I did win for best costume that year 🙂 great memory !!!

  • Kelsey Thomas

    We didn’t do much for Halloween when I was a kid, but I remember one Halloween I dressed up as a dog for the school Halloween party. I thought it was so cool because I was able to search for my own parts of my costume to make it. 🙂

  • LYNN WITTMEIER

    Back in the day, tulle was a popular material for under slips to make dresses poof out. I had one and mom dyed it red to make a ballerina outfit with red tights. I thought I was soooooo cool.

  • Cindy

    I loved dressing up as a princess… wearing the crown was always my favorite part of the costume.

  • Luka Pelz

    Bunnicula the vampire rabbit (book series)! I literally wore the costume for 4-5 years in a row ????

  • Margo Dryden

    My mother made the most wonderful little Dutch girl costume with blonde pig tails dyed from a floor mop. Dutch hat, blouse and skirt. Wish I had a photo of it.

  • Dyana Papenfus

    Oh boy…thinking that far back is a tough one. I recall a Wonder Woman mask (that I hated, because I didn’t like wearing a plastic mask on my face). I think my fondest memory of dressing up is one as a younger adult, where several of my friends and I dressed up as the Fruit of the Loom gang…grapes, leaves, apple and even a large pair of underwear to fit all of us! We didn’t win the contest, but we sure had fun!!

  • Deb Schuster

    I don’t have one costume that stands out to me but those plastic masks were hard to breath in!????

  • Mary Kay Ross

    My sister and I always dressed up as hobos. We would sew patches on my dad’s old suit coats and we would carry a stick with a bandana bag hanging from it. Lots of fun!!!!

  • Tosha

    My favorite was when my siblings and self dressed up in ragged overalls and blacked out our teeth, we had so many kids cracking up over the scene. With our deep south accents it really went over well. Very backwoods…where’s the banjo?

  • KimKaz

    My favorite costume for Halloween was dressing up as Cinderella. It wasn’t an expensive costume, circa 1964, but I loved it. Much to my horror it SNOWED for Halloween. Bundling up in my snowsuit totally bummed out my full-on Cinderella mood. But, had I had these great TE Halloween stamps & dies, I would have been quite happy!

  • Brian Poteraj

    I was a mummy one year. As I walked, my ripped up sheets fell off of me. It was hilarious.

  • Sharon Gullikson

    My all time favorite costume was when I was an alien. My Dad worked in aerospace, so that’s probably why…he also believes in UFOs, but that’s a different story…anyway, I wore his motorcycle helmet, carried a ray gun (aqua old time blow dryer–metal), and I don’t remember what else I wore, but it was COOL!

  • Marie Kennedy

    I was a child of the 70s!! I went as Wonder Woman once. She was so cool!! However, the material those costumes were made out of were not! Sheets of thin plastic with the character printed on them with a thin brittle piece of plastic for the mask with two eyehole cutouts, two small holes for you nose and small slit for your mouth for breathing. It wasn’t easy to breathe in that thing!! Most of the time the thin white elastic used to hold the mask on would snap or the mask would crack! We used pillow cases for our loot! My dad would walk us around and my mom stayed home and handed out candy… great memories!!

  • Terri Wilde

    I love your swing card. So cute. Also like the double tree die and tomb stones. They all look like fun.
    So as a kids (many years ago) my favorite costume was being a Gypsy. My Mom had a skirt with multiple colors on it (from her great Aunt) and a blouse that went with it. I got to wear makeup on Halloween which made it even more fun. This was back in the early 60’s.

  • Pat C

    It’s hard to remember that far back, but the first one that comes to mind is a gypsy costume that I wore to a neighborhood Halloween party.
    I’ve been looking forward to this Halloween release. Such a fun time for crafting!

  • Dana M

    I was a princess. One of my mom’s party dresses was modified to fit me. It was purple with lots of netting and I got to wear a rabbit shoulder wrap AND make up!

  • Nicole Ligaard Jensen

    I went as a lady bug 🙂
    As an adult, I prefer witch and pirate costumes 😉

  • Julia D.

    These new products are SO cute! Love the hinged legs on the witch! The designers did a great job of showcasing them, too. It was nothing special but probably my favorite costume was when I went as a gypsy. I was pretty young and I won the costume contest at the party I went to. Unfortunately, the first place prize was jelly beans (I hate jelly beans!) and the second place prize was M&Ms (I love M&Ms!) so I tried to convince the second place winner to switch with me but he wouldn’t. LOL. Thank you for the chance to win!!

  • Laurie Brown

    What fun and exciting products! The hinge is so unique and your new colors are awesome!! Can’t wait to see the rest of the release! I loved to dress up as a pioneer women with a long skirt. Remember watching lots of Little House on the Prairie!

  • Amy Cooley

    I was Wonder Woman as a kid. It was the best costume!

  • Christine Kiehl

    Holy ghosts batman this is an amazingly fun new release for Halloween; my favorite holiday to decorate for! For one whole day you can dress up and be whomever you choose!! You also have the opportunity to give and receive lots of yummy candy! Thank you for the sneek peek and you can bet your candy buckets I’m going to place an order!!

  • Lona Bavier

    Two years ago I was Olaf from Frozen (age 54). Our Church hosts Trunk or Treat, our whole family dressed up as the Characters from Frozen. We handed out Candy, and had a game. (Fabric round snowballs, weighted a that the kids threw through a board with holes with Olafs picture painted on.). We had a large frame decorated with Anna, Elsa and Olaf, they would hold it dressed in there costumes as their parents took their picture. I work at our Elementary School. Most of the kids recognized me and thought it was so fun that I was dressed up too. They still tell me that they remember me as Olaf. ????????
    So excited about the new release. I’m really liking the hinge die, and can imagine lots of creative things to do with that. Love the new colors of ink too.

  • Jill

    My favorite costume would have to be the pig costume my mom and I made together. I collect pigs so it was a perfect fit!

  • Arianna Barbara

    Awww!!! What adorable and funny sneak peek!!!
    My favorite was Tinker Bell! I loved it!!!

  • Jessica Bavier

    Sooooo many super cute sneak peeks! Loving the hinge die, so many fun possibilities! My favorite Halloween costume was when my family dressed up as the characters from Frozen for our Church’s trunk or treat. We also did Star Wars another year and that was super fun, too! ☺️

  • Angela Burnett

    So much fun! I love the on a Hinge. Can’t wait to create with this one. My favourite Halloween costume my Mom made for me was Miss Piggy. It was a great costume. ????

  • Angela Burnett

    So much fun! I love the on a Hinge. Can’t wait to create with this one. My favourite Halloween costume my Mom made for me was Miss Piggy. It was a great costume. ????

  • Sabrina Radican

    OMG!!! What awesome projects and what a beginning to a fabulous release!! I absolutely love Halloween!! It;s one of my favorite Holidays!!
    One of my favorite costume’s was Raggedy Ann. My mom made most of my costume’s for me. Even when I performed on stage. Which was most of the time I was in school!!

  • Kathy Kabat

    My favorite was Wonder Woman just didn’t have the right hair color and didn’t like wigs.

  • Lynn T

    Such cute sneak peeks today! My favorite Halloween costume was Pippi Longstocking. My friend did a fabulous job of fixing up my hair into those amazing braids that stuck straight out! Looking forward to creating with the new On A Hinge bundle!

  • Susan Lang

    Being the youngest child, I was stuck with the hand me downs. I think I was an Indian Princess for many years but the costume was not important, it was all about the candy. Love the witch legs stamp and die set. So funny!

  • Stacy H.

    My Mom made Raggedy Ann and Andy costumes for my brother and I. Though these were not our favorites, we did win first place in our small town costume contest, so that makes them most memorable.

  • Carolyn Cece

    Love when the Halloween stamps start coming out. My favorite costume as a child was a ballerina. It was a real cloth costume, not the plastic ones. My Mom made me a beaded tiara to wear with it, I still have it.

  • Joan VanCourt

    Oh, I love that hinge die. I remember one boxed costume, with the plastic mask. I think it was a clown passed down from an older sibling. Hated it. But we loved to dress up as old women with curlers in our hair and flannel nightgowns. Half the time it was snowing, so we had to wear coats.

  • Carol L

    I just love making Halloween cards and treats, and I love everything new you’ve presented! As a child, we always wore sheets and went as ghosts, but as I got older, I made a clown costume that I loaned to so many friends – we all had a blast with that, fooling our neighbors and one friend even fooled her husband!

  • Chris L

    Such a cute post today! I don’t know that I ever had a favorite Halloween costume–one of my favorites from my kids was when my girls were dressed up as Cinderellas and my son as the pumpkin, they looked so cute!

  • Barbara woodard

    Favorite costume was dressing up as a witch and have it be so realistic my classmates couldn’t figure out who it was. I love the new items so far the witch legs are darling. Love the stencils and the potion bottles. I just want it all!!!!!

  • Lynn Corr

    I love Halloween. When we were kids, I dressed up as a witch and we went through a graveyard. It was awesome and spooky at the same time.

  • Janet Sisk

    One year my dad made me some pink butterfly wings for my costume. I wore a pink leotard and pink tights with my beautiful butterfly wings. The only disappointment I had that year is that it snowed right before Halloween and I had to wear my ugly snow boots with the costume. 🙁 Thanks for a chance to win a fabulous die set.

  • Dee Earnshaw

    love this new release – love dressing up as a witch with warts and green hair – so fun:)

  • Jackie Parkins

    I love Halloween but I honestly can’t remember any costumes, it was a long time ago 🙂 I love these new stamps and dies!

  • Sandie Obrin

    My favorite costume was one that my mom made out of leftover material from back to school dresses. It was a clown costume with matching cone hat that was stuffed with newspaper to make it stand up straight. This costume was completed with matching rick-rack and yarn pom-poms going down the front. Loved this one so much, we put it in her cedar chest and when my own twin daughters were old enough, brought it out and one used mine and God bless grandma, she made another one for my other daughter. Such memories!!

    So looking forward to Wednesday, want the black/white paper and of course, the new colors. Loving the new products!! Pick me! Pick me!

  • Mary Holshouser

    My childhood Halloweens are so far in the past that I don’t
    have much memory of my costumes. I know my
    mother made all of them – she was an expert seamstress.
    In my mind I see a cowgirl outfit and I
    think there was a gypsy outfit – other than that I
    don’t know.
    Love the new release. The witch legs with the
    skirt is cute. the pumpkin ink color is great.
    thanks for sharing
    txmlhl(at)yahoo(dot)com

  • Cynthia Cole

    My favorite costume as a child was a scarecrow.

  • Cynthia Evanoff

    Halloween is sooo fun. My favorite costume was Little Bo-Peep, complete with a staff and ribbon. The best memory reminder will be when one of my granddaughters wears it this year.

  • Barbara Baldwin

    Love all your new ideas! I remember dressing up as the Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz for Halloween.

  • Laura

    I always wanted a store bought costume that came in the box with the plastic face mask. Luckily my mother knew better! I always had a costume she sewed which was then passed down to my little sister. They always seemed to be animals…. I think my favorite was a mouse.

  • Anita Young

    I don’t really remember my costumes – just remember getting lots of candy!! ????
    I’m in love with On A Hinge – Wicked!!!!

  • KT Fit Kitty

    This has been such a hot, humid summer that I have actually been thinking and wishing for fall! It’s my favorite season! It is fun to see these new fall products and inspiration! As for costume, my favorite was, and still is, a cat!

  • Teresa Mikalouski

    One of my favorites was my Mom made a pumpkin out of material and I would wear green leggings and she would stuff the pumpkin with newspaper before I ventured out. Not sure if it was the actual costume or that my Mom made it!

  • Jana Earnest

    I dressed up as a huge chocolate kiss I was the hit of the party

  • Karen Wedding

    I don’t remember any of my costumes as a young child and my mom and dad didn’t take pictures of me in my costumes, so I have no idea what I went as or that I even went. I remember as an older child being a witch in Jr. High, but that about it. Witch was an easy one to do.

  • Phyllis Freese

    My favorite costume was being a witch with the big pointy hat that didn’t want to stay on my head, especially with the elastic from those hot, plastic masks everyone wore.

  • Becca Yahrling

    I was a majorette, dressed in gold & white with a pretty gold feather
    in my hat and I have a photo showing me, my younger sister as a bride and
    my older brother as a pirate from that year. We always had a blast!
    The new products look so fun. LOVE the witch’s skirt & boots!

  • Sherry

    The costumes we head when we were younger weren’t very good, but I remember being a hobo and a ghost. As an adult, my favorite was dressing up as a mermaid and my husband was a fisherman who caught me. 🙂 I’m always impressed with the creativity of everyone’s costumes. So much fun! I love the new release (of course)!

  • Angie VC

    I loved dressing up as a hobo for some reason…fun and comfortable!

  • Julie

    As a young child all of my costumes had those horrible plastic masks held on with an elastic cord. They were awful. When I got a little older I went with a friend as a pair of dice and loved it. I got bruises on my legs from the box banging them but that was far better than the mask!

  • Beth KS

    I remember the costumes my friends wore more than I remember my own! One of my earliest memories of Halloween was a party at school where one of the boys in our class dressed as Winnie the Pooh. (I still love Pooh, so maybe that’s why that one sticks!) I don’t remember a lot about the costumes I wore, but I do recall being a witch one year complete with green face paint to look like the witch from Wizard of Oz.

  • Martha Acord

    A good fiend and I went as Raggedy Ann and Andy. Our Moms made the costumes. They were awesome! My older brother and I often went as hobos, cowboys, Indians or military men. For some reason, my costumes were not girls.

  • Evelyn

    I think my favorite was when I was a hobo (that was pretty popular when I was a kid). My dad put lard on my face and then added coffee grounds for a scruffy look.

  • Jennifer Langton

    Last year was the last time for trick or treating. I’m a little sad my girls are to old. Halloween is so fun!

    My Mom was pretty elaborate with costumes, but my favorite year I was a gypsy. I got to wear a fun wig, makeup and earrings (I was probably 6 at the time). I was draped in colors, jingles and sneakers (LOL)

    Definitely my favorite as a kid.

    As an adult, I went to a party as a bowl of fruit loops. I bought colored sponges and cut holes in them and attached them to a white tee shirt. I wore my hair up in a messy bun and put spoons in my bun. I thought it was pretty clever. Tee Hee

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