{Tutorials} Personalized Halloween Treat Bucket

My crafty friend, Amanda, always comes up with the cutest DIY projects! This particular one even looks easy enough for me. I'm craft challenged!

Supplies: a plastic bucket, acrylic paint (orange, white & black), paint brushes, polyurethane spray along with tissue, ribbon, a gift tag and candy.

Directions:

First, spray the bucket with polyurethane spray. This will help the paint adhere. Next, paint a white ghost on the bucket. Then, using white paint, paint the monogram, name or phrase you wish to use. Also, paint the large white dots on the side; 2 coats.

Using the black paint, add your ghost face, "Boo" and "2010" to your dots. Then, apply 2 coats of orange paint to the monogram, name or phrase. Next, add letter "shadowing" to your lettering using white paint. Finish by spraying the bucket with polyurethane spray once again.

Now all you need to do is include a gift sticker, fill tissue paper with candy and tie ribbon on the handle for a BOOtacular Halloween treat!

This is such a cute and easy Halloween bucket you can make as a gift or even for your child's treat bucket! Thank you Amanda for sharing!

**Amanda found this particular bucket at HEB in the candy aisle.**

A Chocolate Embellishment for your Cupcake

Tiffany celebrated her 30th birthday in style with a Cupcakes + Cocktails party at a local boutique. When I saw her pictures, the chocolate T cupcake toppers immediately caught my eye! What a unique idea! Tiffany got her inspiration from here and has also provided us with a simple how-to. Read below for the details...

How to make the chocolate toppers as told by Tiffany...

I used Microsoft Word and dafont.com (to find a font I liked) to create a T. I then printed a page full of them. I melted chocolate chips and poured it into a piping bag with a very small icing tip. I then placed wax paper over my print out and traced the T's, while half hazardly filling them in. I should mention that I had a piece of cardboard below all of this so I could easily transport them to the freezer...then to the party so they didn't break. We placed them in the freezer for about 20 minutes and the peeled them right off the wax paper. We did have some of them break because they were thin, but we had made so many it didn't matter. I received the most compliments on these and they were super easy to do! You could virtually trace anything!