Haunted Mansion Halloween Party

And my next party feature goes to this spooky HAUNTED MANSION HALLOWEEN PARTY submitted by Danielle Arcese of Cutie Putti Paperie. Danielle threw this party for a 10th birthday- Halloween style! I bet all the guests had a blast! I just love all the food with the appropriate halloween themed labels. So much detail went into this celebration!

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Here is what Danielle said about the party- "I created a spooktackular Haunted Mansion printable party collection this year for Halloween, that is now available in my Etsy shop. I had a friend when I was growing up who had her birthday around Halloween, and she always had a halloween themed party. She hated it, but I thought it was amazing! What could be better them a costume party birthday, and even more fun to set the scene by transforming your home into the infamous Haunted Mansion!

I used gothic style text on an antiqued paper background for all of the paper goods. Spooky bats, skulls, and spiders adorn the items as well.

For the table I was able to find great items in my local Home Goods and Michael's craft stores to set the mood.
Food Items:
Tombstone Brownies- I found a super cute skeleton parts chocolate mold at Michaels. Bake and cut brownies into squares, chocolate frosted the tops and added brownie crumble to look like dirt. Lastly I bought white chocolate melts to make the skeletons and added them to the top.

Chocolate Coffins-
Again I found a chocolate coffin mold at Michaels, and used dark chocolate melts to make them. The molds are super easy to use. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler and pour into mold. After 15min in the fridge they are ready, and they pop out of the mold easily. I added a collection of white chocolate skeleton bones to each one, and lined them up in a rectangular vintage mirrored glass dish lined with crumbled brownies to look like dirt.
Bat Juice- Green Powerade with a little added green food coloring to darken the juice.
Wax Vampire fangs- were found at my local grocery store displayed on metal skeleton arms serving spoons (Homegoods)
Skeleton Fingers- This mold was also found at Michaels. The mold is specifically made for pretzel rods. Fill mold with white chocolate and insert pretzel rods before cooling in the fridge.

The cracked mirror pedestals I used for the cupcakes were candle holders found at Michaels.

I snagged a super cool scary hologram portrait at Home Goods. At one angle its a creepy old man face, and from another it transforms to a skeleton. Great for setting the mood, looks like it came right off the walls of a true haunted mansion.

For the final touches I created POISON chocolate bar wrappers, for goulish girls and boys to take home with them. The back reads "You survived the Haunted Mansion" with a warning that reads "May contain bat parts".

The thank you cards read "Thank you! Beware of hitchhiking ghosts that may have followed you home!!" One of my favorite tag lines from the original Haunted Mansion ride at Disney.

The whole collection is available in my Etsy shop here!"

Credits-
Paper Goods- Cutie Putti Paperie
Chocolate molds, cupcake pedestals, tombstone centerpiece bases, table cloth, cupcake liners-Michaels
Hologram picture, Skeleton hands serving spoons, vintage rectangular glass dish- Home Goods
Paper Straws- Hey Yo Yo Etsy

Haunted Halloween Party!

My next winning party feature goes to this absolutely adorable HAUNTED HALLOWEEN PARTY submitted by Anders Ruff! Maureen and Adria never cease to amaze me. Is this not the cutest halloween party?! I LOVE all the vintage stuff! The old painted typewriter with "critter cookies" is my favorite!


Party Detail from Maureen & Adria- "For this year’s Haunted Halloween party, we wanted to show a spookier side to Anders Ruff!  We used a mix of antiques (books, cameras, medicine bottles, paper documents from the early 1900s, an old clock & typewriter, shutters and window panes) to give that haunted house feel.  Since we didn’t want to scare our little gobblins away, festive treats such as hanging bat cookies, pumpkin & owl cookies, mummy-mallows (mummy-head marshmallows), boo-meringues (meringue ghosts), white chocolate drizzled caramel apples, chocolate skeleton keys were displayed.  These treats gave a kid-friendly feel to the setup while still showing unique ideas for desserts.

A side bar was perfect to display our bat-juice (apple cider) and other small treats.

We used hues of burnt orange, olive greens and natural creams & browns.  

Our printable graphics included modern polka-dots, skeleton stripes, vintage bead-board stripes, and classic tweed patterns.  We used some Harry Potter inspirations for witch spells and potions.  We also included real haunted house photography for our main banner."

Anders Ruff is offering this complete Printable Haunted Halloween Design Collection in their shop for only $12!

Dessert Table Details- {Again, told by Anders Ruff}

"The backdrop was an olive green silk that had embroidered tree branch looking detail and it was the perfect fabric to give a haunted forest look.  We tea-stained cheesecloth (DIY) to drape over the table for depth and interest.  The old columns were the perfect side decor to anchor the table because they reminded us of the columns of an old haunted house.

Bat sugar cookies (From Firefly Confections) were hung from the ceiling as if they were swooping through the air. Our focal point of the main dessert table was an antique typewriter where we displayed pumpkin and owl cookies, plus witch’s spells from our printable collection. Old medicine bottles wrapped in our graphic designs were used to display the Mummy-mallows and Boo-meringues (DIY made by Maureen of Anders Ruff). We made inverted book displays out of old beat up books and used varying sizes to add height and dimension.  A vintage ammo box was used to hold caramel apples and an antique door knob was set up to hold the chocolate skeleton keys.  We made the chocolate skeleton keys from key molds and also our printable key template that is included in the printable collection. We also made the caramel apples and drizzled white chocolate horizontally to carry through the same “look” as the wrapped mummy treats. We used accents of old-school cameras to accessorize the table and flowed well when it was mixed in with the haunted house photography/banner (in the printable package). We wanted to show a more eclectic way to serve cupcakes so Got What It Cakes layered the cupcakes in mason jars topped off with chocolate spider webs."

Other Accents, by Anders Ruff-

"We displayed a wooden box filled with candies that were packaged in cellophane bags and sealed shut with our printable bag toppers.  Mini-candybar wrappers embellished the tiny chocolates.

The kids loved passing this around - and what a great way to pass out your trick or treat candies!

We couldn’t do this shoot without a black cat!  (Thanks to our local humane society!) The kids dressed up as the classic witch and mummy.  The costumes were made by Morgan of “Made by Morgan”.  The kids enjoyed classic Halloween Party game of bobbing for apples. They also enjoyed having a popcorn fight and chasing the black cat around."

Side Bar Details, by Anders Ruff-

"We used old shutters and a window pane for our backdrop - a simple prop that gives a bold statement. More antique books, cameras and medicine bottles were displayed to hold our treats. We added some Spanish moss for another spooky element. Our drink tray was wrapped with old paper documents. This was so easy to do and gave one of our modern trays a new look.

The bat juice (cider) you see is in mini canning jars with an old fashioned candy stick straw. We created a square Trick or Treat banner to offset the scene. Popcorn cones (made out of our printable patterned papers and embellished with a printable party logo) were filled with fresh popcorn and strung along the table with mini-clothes pins, so the kids could easily take them off to eat.  We piped chocolate cobwebs (DIY) to add to the tops of some of the popcorn cones as well."

Credits:

Event Styling, Graphic Design and Printables by Anders Ruff Custom Designs

Photography - Becca Bond Photography

Cupcakes - Got What It Cakes 

Cookies - Firefly Confections 

Boo Merengues, Skeleton Keys and Mummy Mallows - Homemade by Anders Ruff 

Costumes- Made by Morgan 

Label Material - OnlineLabels.com 

Cello Bags - Nashville Wraps 

Skeleton Key Molds - Mold Shop