Caroline's "Spellbound" Halloween Ornament

Who says SPOOKY can’t be CUTE?

I’m loving the new “Spellbound” collection so much! The characters/icons, the kitschy colors and the assortment of ephemera are all so perfect for Halloween. Honestly, I can’t stop using it! I’ve made memorydex cards for my October Daily, layouts for my 2020 album and even some cute décor!

This Halloween ornament features paper, ephemera and sequin mix all from the “Spellbound” collection. I’ve used half of an ornament to create a flat-backed shaker globe that I’ll likely keep displayed year-round. The jack-o-lanterns are so happy, you can’t help but smile! The sequin mix has been curated to perfectly combine traditional Halloween colors with the sweetest pastels. And the papers, my personal favorite, have a fun retro vibe!

I’m having so much fun creating so many spooky AND cute things, I’m still crafting with “Spellbound” even though Halloween is over!

Halloween and Dia De Los Muertos Printables!

Hello there, everyone! Here are a couple of fun printables for you! Yaaaaaay! I know these are a bit late, but better late than never! Besides, I don't know about you but I'm not ready for Spooky Season to be over! Sooooo, for the next couple of weeks I will be posting Halloween and Dia De Los Muertos goodness and celebrating both of these amazing holidays with my hubby at home! (and then I will switch over to Christmas-time goodness). Alright, hope you all are doing well and staying safe! Huuuuuuugs!!!!

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Andrea
Owner/Founder/Designer
The Fairytale Club

Halloween Printable!!!

Hello everyone! Here’s a printable in honor of Halloween-time (my favorite time of the year)! Two color options to choose from, or get both!

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"Spellbound" Collection Full Reveal and Launch!!!

Hi, everyone!!! I'm super excited to share with you today the full reveal of our newest collection, "Spellbound"! Yay!!! I am absolutely in love with this new Halloween collection! As many of you know, Halloween-time is my favorite time of year! I love the magic and whimsy and creativity of this holiday!!! To me, Halloween is all about letting out your childlike sense of wonder and seeing all the magical possibility in this world! I know 2020 has been a crazy year for all of us, but I hope that you all are getting into the spooky fun and magic of make believe that is Halloween! And I hope that you are using the inspiration of this imaginative season to be super crafty and creative! Hopefully this collection specifically inspires that kind of sweet whimsy and wonder that we felt as children at Halloween-time and that we all hopefully still feel at this time of year! And I hope that it makes you smile and gets you making! Alright now, let's take a look at the wonder that is "Spellbound" -- which by the way, is inspired by tons of spooky fairytale goodness that I love - like The Addams Family, Hocus Pocus, The Haunted Mansion and more! And I went with a really sweet “pasteloween” vibe mixed with traditional orange, black, and white for a fun, fresh take on a Halloween color scheme! I really hope you love this collection as much as I do, and that it casts its magic on you so that you are in fact, "Spellbound" by it all!

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Let's check out the pattern paper in the collection.

First, we have "Candy Corn." I love this paper! It's a really cute, painted, sort of ombre page with yellow, peach, orange, and pink. And on the back is a super cute, little, candy corn pattern.

This next page is called "Spellbound," just like the collection, and it is super gorgeous! I love these collage papers that we do in each of the collection, now. They're perfect to fussy cut or leave as a whole. On the back is a great, black and white buffalo print that is simple, yet versatile.

Next, we have "Pretty Potions." On the front is a cute, potion pattern, with various bottles of magical goodies in pretty, pastel colors. And on the back we have a really cool, retro geometric in pink and blue.

Here we have "Another Glorious Fall." This is a really pretty, fall floral, with a mixture of really lovely flowers and fall leaves and acorns and spider webs and such. On the back we have a sweet, yellow pattern with three broomsticks (a la three sister witches that you might know).

Then we have "Grim, Grinning Ghosts." This pattern has three grim and grinning, but adorable, little ghosties on an aqua blue background. And on the back there is a pretty, multi-colored, star pattern that is definitely one of my favorites.

Next we have "My Spooky Friends." This paper, as you can see, has various spooktacular people on it, including Francine Stein, Vivian Vampita, and, of course, Pastel Pumpkin-Spice. On the back is a really cool, thin, black and white stripe.

Next is "Black Cats Are Better." This is a lovely, pink pattern, with adorable, little, black kitties all over it. And on the back is a super duper, loopy pattern that has the word "eek" spelled out on it (with many extra e's...lol)!

And next we have the two cutapart sheets that are in the collection. The first cutapart sheet is called, "On Wednesdays We Wear Black." This cutapart sheet is super cute and includes 3x4's, 2x2's, and various, other-sized pieces as well. These are all really cute and fun to play with. I especially like the little, "Eek!", ghost card. It makes me smile. And then on the back is a cool, moon and star pattern that is very fun and fresh.

The next cutapart sheet is called, " The Haunted Marketplace." I absolutely love this cutapart sheet as well. It includes cute, little, vintage-style cards with spooky peeps on them, lots of great labels and tickets, and other awesome cutapart ephemera pieces, as well. On the back is a spooky cute, white spiderweb against a pretty, mint background.

So, that’s the principal set of patterned papers in “Spellbound” that come with the Scrapbook Kit or the Happily Ever After Kit. Let’s now take a look at the embellishments in the collection. First, we have the ephemera pack, which, as usual, is my personal favorite! I love all the hearts and bats, but I’m especially drawn to those awesome frames and the cute, potion bottles. Of course, I can’t wait to use the pumpkins, the witch hats, the cute ghostie, the cauldron, the candy….you get the idea.

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Next, let’s take a look at this collection’s acrylic embellishment pack, which has become pretty much a staple here at The Fairytale Club. This pack includes three different shapes - bat, pumpkin, and star - in each of four different colors - black, orange, pink, and turquoise. These pieces make a wonderful addition to the collection!

Next, we have the flair buttons for “Spellbound,” and I think these are some of my favorites that we’ve ever done. The colors are amazing, and the graphics are just so cute. As always, I can’t wait to attach these to paperclips and use them as decorative paperclips. I’m definitely going to have quite a few of these in my October Daily! My favorites are the pumpkin, the ghost, and the boo!

Now, typically, at this point I would be telling you about the variety pack for this collection, but instead we decided to take a page, so to speak, out of the “I’m in Wonderland!” playbook and make a set of foam stickers, this time out of black glitter foam instead of silver. And instead of alphas, this pack has a truly spooky collection of words and shapes to fit the Halloween season! I love how this turned out so much!

Finally, the last embellishment I want to tell you about is our sticker sheet for this collection, which comes as part of the Planner and Happily Ever After kits, but not the Scrapbook kit. I love how the colors really pop on this sticker sheet, from the orange background to the simple black “October” word sticker, to the lovely yellow behind the orange words “happy haunts.” And of course, we had to include stickers of a cat and a bat! I love the two banners, too!

The last item that’s included in every kit is, of course, our specialty paper and matching sequins pack for this collection. This paper is called “Home, Sweet, Haunted Home,” and I love love love how it turned out. Leave it to Pastel Pumpkin-Spice to throw an absolutely smashing Halloween party! Just don’t mind the giant snake in the crawl space below the attic. Or the ghosts that like to hang around outside the roof. You should probably bring a friend with you, just in case. Well, that’s the front of this specialty paper, and on the back we have an awesome pink polka dot with a peachy-orange background.

Next, let's take a look at the "planner pages" that come in the collection. These come in either an A5 (6” x 8 1/4”) size or a personal (4 1/8” x 7 3/16”) size. These, of course, can be used as traditional planner pages, but also as decorative mini album pages, framed art pieces, and more.

The first planner page here has three super cute ghosts on the front. I love how each ghost has a distinct personality! And on the back is a paraphrased quote from one of my favorite movies to watch during Halloween-time, The Addams Family.

I love this next planner page! We did this storybook type of page in our last collection, “My Magical World,” and I loved it so much I wanted to do a version of it for “Spellbound,” too! So the front has the haunted house with a bit of storybook text underneath describing what’s happening, and on the back is a really cool skull and wings illustration with text describing Halloween, itself.

I love this next planner page, too! On the front is a cute witch casting a “magic” spell, and on the back is a super cute Halloween cat.

This next planner page is certainly one of the most colorful of the collection, with a cute, vintage-style, cat trick-or-treating pail on the front and an ode to Fall on the back.

Our next planner page has a simple, blank, Halloween calendar layout on the front, while the back features a list of why I love Halloween so very much!

Our last planner page is the second of our storybook featurettes for this collection. The front has a vignette from the haunted house party shown in the other storybook planner page, with a more detailed description of what Halloween-time means to our heroine, Pastel Pumpkin-Spice. And on the back is a colorful sentiment inspired by The Addams Family.

The "scrapbook" kit and the "happily ever after" kit both come with the first 9 double sided patterned papers that I showed earlier in this blog post. However, as with “My Magical World,” for this collection we also decided to do a set of super cute additional "add on" papers! There is a set of 4 double sided add on papers that you can get individually or all-together.

The first add-on paper is called, “That Hat is Wicked,” and I absolutely love it! The front has a pattern of colorful witch’s hats with various words on them, like “spellbound,” “wicked,” and “magic.” And on the back is an equally colorful pattern featuring the word “Boo!” on an orange background.

Next we have a paper called “Haunted Portraits,” which features a pattern of the four beautiful frames from this collection - orange, yellow, pink, and mint. And on the back is a delightfully whimsical pattern of jack 0’ lanterns and stars.

Our next add-on paper is another one of my favorites. On the front is has a pattern featuring my oh-so-cute, vintage, cat, trick or treating pail, a lovely orange bow, and candy, of course. And on the back is an awesome ledger where the lines are a series of alternating Halloween-colored dots!

Our final patterned paper is an awesome, multi-colored, calendar-type page on the front and a beautiful, classic, orange and black pattern of bats on the back.

We have one more add-on for this collection. We started doing these collection-related mini album covers recently, and I’m just really excited about them! This one has a clear acrylic front cover with a wooden back cover that is painted with very Burton-esque black and white stripes.

Alright, that is "Spellbound"! It is like a whimsical “pastelloween” dream, don't you think?!!! I love the childlike wonder of it all, and I hope you do, too! You can subscribe to get your kit, or order here now! Spooky virtual hugs and magical virtual kisses to you all!!!!

Andrea Bethke, Queen of Halloween (lol)

Designer/Creator/Founder/Owner, The Fairytale Club

"Spellbound" | New Collection Sneak Peek!!!

Hello everyone! I am super duper, beyond excited to show you our next and newest collection in this sneaky peek -- presenting to you... "Spellbound"!

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Yaaaaay!!! Isn't it so beautiful?!!! And amazing?!!! And downright spooktacular?!!! Anyhow, I hope you love this new Halloween collection as much as I do! Many of you know that this is my most favorite time of the year, and so I always love making a new fun Halloween collection each year and of course this year was no different. And I absolutely cannot wait to start making fun spooky crafts with "Spellbound"! I am loving the color palette I used this time - the pink, aqua, yellow, orange, peach, mint and black and white - so fun and fresh for Halloween time! And I cannot wait to see what you all make with this collection too! I think you are all going to have so much fun playing with it. There is such a great new vibe to this collection, and it has that pasteloween feel which I love, but also has a great vintage, mid-century modern look to it too, so it is just the best of both new Halloween and traditional Halloween, in my opinion! More info on inspiration as well as pics of the whole collection will be revealed soon with the upcoming Full Reveal (so stay tuned for that)! Meanwhile, you can pre-order "Spellbound" right now by clicking here...yay!!! Happy Spooky Season everybody!!!

Hugs!!! Andrea Bethke Owner, Founder, Designer, Creator The Fairytale Club

"Trick or Treat" ::: New Collection Sneak Peek!!!

Hello there everyone! Sorry for the delay, but I have a special Halloween-time surprise for you on this dark and spooky October 1st night, and it is this...it's our newest collection!!! Yaaaay! The collection is called "Trick or Treat"! And it is such a Treat for sure! You are absolutely going to love all of the spooktacular goodness! It is so cute and amazing, and I can't wait for you all to get it! I was so inspired this year by my favorite director, Tim Burton, and some of my fave magical fairytale movies by him, such as The Nightmare Before Christmas (of course), Beetlejuice, Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissorhands, Batman, and more... Anyhow, the collection sneak peek is here and the full reveal is tomorrow! And we did just get everything in from the manufacturers today so kits will be packed up tomorrow and shipped out to you guys yaaaaaaay!!! I also want to just say that I thank you guys for your patience with me on this! It really has been such a tough year with my CRPS condition, and for so many other reasons, too...but I'm finally here at my favorite time of year, and I finally have this beautiful Halloween collection to show you! Those who are subscribed will be getting theirs very soon, and if you are not yet subscribed, you may do so right now here, or you can make a one time purchase of this kit, starting tomorrow, or as soon as I can update the website! Ok, Happy Halloween Everyone! Trick or Treat!!!

Oct Daily Journal Bag Insert with Carrie

Hello Everybody. Carrie here with an insert for my October Daily album using the I’m In Wonderland Kit along with some Halloween treat bags from Target.

I have a few different treat style bags and always enjoy when I’m able to add them into my scrapbooks. When I saw these Halloween treat bags at Target this year I was hoping I’d find a way to add them into my October Daily. It just so happens that the small planner pages will fit inside the bag if you trim the width ever so slightly. So I picked out the small planner page with the yellow notebook paper design and placed it inside my bag. This is where I’ll add some journaling to go with the adjoining photos. I”ll probably also add a photo to cover the whole back as well.

Next, I knew I wanted to use the silver glitter aphas from the kit, so I added “OCT” directly onto the front of the bag. I also found the vellum “happy” and vellum red heart from the ephemera packs and layered them using glue dots with the glitter alphas.

To embellish the little ghost on the front of my bag, I tried a few different die cuts from the ephemera pack (which all looked super cute), and ultimately decided on the Mad Hatter hat. For a little extra embellishment I layered the “Eat Me” flair towards the top of the die cut. I used glue dots again to attach both to the bag. To finish off the bag I placed some different colored rhinestones and puffy candy corn stickers from my stash.

On the opposite page I placed a 3x4 card from one of the cut apart sheets and added a sliver glitter heart from the alphas to the center. Next, I used yellow embroidery thread and sewed around the yellow arrow on the card. The photos on this page are from last year, and just serving as place holders until I add photos from this October. Adding in this 3x4 card now should help me tie in and use the bag insert later.

For the same reason I also added the black and white heart with blue color block paper from the kit and cut it down to 6x12. Adding it in behind the bag helps tie it all together too. I may end up doing a layout on this paper or just adding a number for the day. To coordinate with the embroidery thread on the opposite page I also added in some blue thread along the line where the blue meets the white and black hearts…..and that’s it for this project for now.

Thanks for taking a look and I’ll see you next time : ) Carrie

Kellie's Happy Mail Pocket

Hello everybody! The full reveal for our new collection, “I’m in Wonderland,” will be posted soon, and we are so excited to share it with you! In the meantime, we have a few projects to share using previous collections from The Fairytale Club. Here’s talented design team member Kellie Winnell with a cute tag holder and tags, featuring the Magical and Mischievous collection.

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Hi there everyone, Kellie here today, it's been a while since I've come to share anything here, but that will soon change as I have some projects I've been working on.  For now let me how you this one.  Sharing something a little different from me today and to be honest this was a bunch of fun to make. So much so that I grabbed a different kit and created same again, more to come on that.  But for this one I grabbed the Magical and Mischievous kit.  So good, still one of my faves. ⁠

I followed the youtube video from the talented @iamabsolutelyalice which was super simple to follow and LOVING the end results with the Magical and Mischievous kit that is still my all time favourite from The Fairytale Club, because @andreabethkedesigns nailed it.

I'm actually really happy with how this came out and might even start looking to make a bunch to send out to make someone day.  But don't hold me to that, I think I'm going to start a lot of things, haha!

Do you send happy mail?

Adeline's Halloween Planner Setup

Hi my fairy friend,

It's Adeline today for the blog, I'm happy to see you again for a bootiful post!!! As I said in my last post, Autumn is my favorite season, and I really love Halloween. I think that Andrea's Halloween themes are the best!!!! Magical and Mischievous is a good witch theme. I love the design, the colors, EVERYTHING!!! I knew this kit would be perfect for my new purple holographic planner from Kikki K, so I made my setup with it.

I tried to create a girly magic halloween atmosphere, for that I decided to accentuate the effects with different items from the kit.

First I made my inside cover decor with the blue pumpkin. She is so pretty, and I added so much ephemera, like Halloween candy corn, the pretty witch...finally I added the pom-pom paper clips (I love them so much!!).

Regarding my dashboard, I decided to do it in three separate parts. For the first part I just cut my insert from a sheet of paper decorated with pretty witches. I punched it and integrated it into my planner, and it was the base of my dashboard. Its decoration is very simple - I just glued a ribbon of pom poms onto it.

For the second part of the dashboard, I have my insert with spiderweb acetate, and I chose the purple side of it. I punched it and integrated it into the planner without decorating it. This step will come at the end.

For the third part of my dashboard I chose a project life card that I cut and punched. And finally I decorated it with kit ephemera and some crystals in the colors of the kit.

And then, I came back to the second part of my dashboard, the acetate sheet, to which I added decorations suited to the project life card that was added on to it so that everything was harmonious.

Then I chose some pumpkins and the poisoned love apple that I love and the perfect silver foil words "Happy Halloween". Also I made a little cat paper clip with a super cute "Magical and Mischevious" ephemera.

I hope you enjoyed my planner set up with this bootiful kit.

Kiss from France,

Adeline

Kellie's 6x8 Halloween Layout 2: The Spookquel

Kellie here with you today to share a layout I created using the Magical and Mischievous kit that I love to bits! This kit truly has everything and not just for your Halloween crafts as I've shown as we don't celebrate it down here in Australia, per se

I feel that using a white cardstock background works so well to then add as much colour as you like. I scrapbook in the 6x8 size. Snap chat to the rescue for a photo and in black and white which, again, makes using colour even better.

Layering in a layout is my favourite thing to do. Often I have to stop myself from layering too much, if there is such a thing! I've used the 12 x 12 pattern papers from the kit and with the ephemera also.

I've used the acetate web sheet also on the silver side as the other side is purple, which is awesome to have two different colours.

I'm really happy with the end result, and after two layouts, two cards, and a mini album layout, I still have enough of the kit left over for so much more spooky crafting! What are you going to create with your kit?