Halloween

How a Local Kids Museum Went Kooky Spooky With Spoonflower This Halloween

October 29, 2016

Whether you’re busy crafting up a last minute Halloween costume this weekend or adding the final touches to your haunted house, find some last minute spooky inspiration from Marbles Kids Museum, neighbors of the Spoonflower HQ! With the help of Performance Pique and Woven Wallpaper, the museum transformed their space into a Kooky Spooky Halloween extravaganza for their annual frightfully fun celebration.

Pennants printed on Performance Pique transformed the Ghoul School, a favorite spot for the little goblins and ghouls!

We’re Sweet on Sugar Skulls

September 23, 2016

Día de Muertos (Mexico’s Day of the Dead) kicks off on October 31st and rages on until November 2nd. Traditionally, southern and central Mexicans would celebrate & honor the deceased with sugar skulls (or calaveras) made of brightly colored sweets and flowers. We asked designers to interpret the iconic and sweetly macabre calavera last week. Browse their designs below, and get a jump on October’s renewed Weekly Design Challenges!

31 Scary Cute Must See Halloween DIYs

September 16, 2016

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Something about dropping temperatures, the smell of mulled spices and the orangey, golden hues painting the trees this time of year gets us in the mood to make aaaaaaaall the crafty things. Whether it’s sprucing up the home with an autumnal refresh, or a new cut-and-sew Halloween mask to spook the trick-or-treaters, we’ve found every Halloween craft under the Harvest moon for you to make this fall!

1. Cut and Sew Vintage Halloween Treat Bags

Halloween Treat Bags | Heidi Kenney

DIY Vintage-inspired treat bags? Yes, please. See the tutorial here.

Do the Monster Mash

September 14, 2016

Zombies, mummies, werewolves, vampires… perhaps not inherently evil, just misunderstood? We were delighted with all the creepy creatures our designer community came up with for last week’s prompt! Check out a few of our favorite “Monster Mash” tagged designs below and see them all here on our website.

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Ravens vs. Black Cats

September 9, 2016

Once upon a midnight dreary, you grabbed your paints and made it eerie! Last week we asked designers to channel their inner Edgar Allen Poe, an American writer who brought a supernatural magic to dark, mysterious animals in his poems. Check out some of our favorite Cats vs Ravens designs below, and be sure to check out all of last week’s Prompt submissions right here on Spoonflower. Don’t forget to “heart” and comment on your favorites! See one you like but it isn’t for sale yet? Log into your Spoonflower account and send a message to the designer letting them know you’re interested in purchasing their design.

Black Cats | Joslynndowd

Halloween Cats | Emily Cromwell

Cats & Ravens | Grace Andersson

The Raven & Black Cat by alinepellegrini

The Raven & Black Cat | alinepellegrini

Cats Vs. Ravens | Jacquelinehurd

Hungry for me? Preview the upcoming September weekly design prompts, and see what’s in store for October’s return of the Weekly Design Challenge (the return of a classic tradition!).

How to Get Festive With Scary Cute Halloween Placemats

September 6, 2016

Want to turn your table into a spooky setting for a Halloween feast? Heidi Kenney (our resident Queen of Halloween) is stopping by the blog today to share the how-to, using her cut-and-sew placemat template available in the Spoonflower Marketplace. Designed to be printed on 54″ wide fabrics (linen would also work), a fat quarter fits two placemats, and a yard gives you eight. Pick a FQ or yard up in Eco Canvas fabric, then follow her easy steps below to sew up these adorable placemats for a table-scape that’s fit for a family of goblins and ghouls!

Vintage Halloween Placemats by Heidi Kenney

design inspired by actual vintage paper placemats

How to Make Fun Vintage Halloween Treat Bags

August 30, 2016

These scary cute vintage Halloween treat bags are a quick cut-and-sew project from the Halloween Queen herself, Heidi Kenney. Heidi’s stopping by the blog today to share the how-to, using her cut-and-sew template available in the Spoonflower Marketplace. Pick a yard up here in a basic cotton or satin fabric, then follow her easy steps below to sew up these monstrously cute treat bags. They’re perfect for handing out to trick-or-treaters, as favors for Halloween parties, or for your kiddos to pass out to classmates at school.

A Spooky Saturday in the Spoonflower Greenhouse

November 4, 2015

While trick or treating might not have started until the sun was beginning to set, local Spoonflower community members started their Halloween on the creative side with a morning of spooky ( and cute!) Halloween inspired crafts. Festive fabric pumpkins, wacky woven wallpaper jack-o-lanterns and fabric ghosts: these were just a few of the spooky and kooky projects created at the Kids Halloween Craft Event this past Saturday in the Spoonflower Greenhouse.

Participants spent the morning crafting spooky no-sew pumpkins and ghosts to get in the Halloween spirit!

The ghouls and gals took a break from making their no sew fabric pumpkins for a trick or treat tour of the Spoonflower operations facility, complete with phantom printers and spooky employees.

Unprinted woven wallpaper was a great base for personalized ghosts!

The lovely Spoonflower hosts for the morning, Gina and River, along with participants celebrated Halloween in festive costumes.

We’d definitely consider these spooky projects ones to DIY for!

Happy Haunting!
Meredith

Happy Halloween from the Spoonflower Crew!

October 31, 2015

You probably won’t be surprised to find that we take Halloween very seriously here at Spoonflower! Each year we compete to see who can come up with the most original/ nerdiest/ scariest costumes. Bonus points are awarded for using Spoonflower fabric, of course! We hope you enjoy. Happy Halloween, friends!

5 Crafty Costumes to Make This Weekend

October 23, 2015

We've made it to another weekend, and what better way to celebrate some R&R than with a little make-believe? Whether you plan on trick-or-treating next weekend or are just looking to play dress-up more often, these 5 simple costume DIYs can be completed in an afternoon and are sure to provide endless hours of entertainment.