{"id":18242,"date":"2016-10-02T22:45:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T02:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=18242"},"modified":"2016-10-03T01:01:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T05:01:01","slug":"kicking-off-our-5th-annual-countdown-to-halloween-with-a-new-banner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=18242","title":{"rendered":"Kicking off our 5th Annual Countdown to Halloween with a New Banner!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We are back today after an extended hiatus to kick off our 5th annual participation in the CountdownToHalloween<\/a> blogging event.\u00a0 Since it’s our fifth annual countdown romp, we’ve tweaked our Halloween-themed masthead and today we’ll be sharing the details, so make the jump to check it out!<\/p>\n

Each year that we’ve taken part in the CountdownToHalloween<\/a>, we’ve replaced our standard masthead banner graphic with one themed for the spooky holiday season.\u00a0 Each subsequent year, it has received minor tweaks, but for our fifth time around, we decided to mix it up a little more by replacing the background collage with an entirely new one.<\/p>\n

You can see each of the Halloween banners in order here:<\/p>\n

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CollectingCandy.com’s Halloween Masthead evolution – 2012-2016<\/p><\/div>\n

The changes over the years have been subtle.\u00a0 For 2013, the only change was the addition of the year — 2014’s Countdown masthead got a brighter CollectingCandy logo and a new “Halloween” logo design — 2015 had one of the masthead ghosts turning green — Finally, 2016 saw that green ghost turning more blue and the background collage getting a complete redesign.<\/p>\n

I’ve never exposed those background collages before, but today I’d like to show each one of them without being obscured.\u00a0 Here they are:<\/p>\n

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The new banner background collage is made up over 30 different Halloween candy packaging scans, about a third of which are vintage with the remainder coming from the years since CollectingCandy.com launched.<\/p>\n

It was fun reviewing so many of the new Halloween packages that have been introduced over the last few years (and that I’ve collected) and bringing them into this collage design.\u00a0\u00a0 It also has me excited to share a bunch more new and vintage Halloween candy items as our 2016 Countdown continues.<\/p>\n

For now that’s everything we’ve got for our kickoff but we’ll be back with more Countdown to Halloween fun soon, and we’ll see you next time!!<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s post has been part of CollectingCandy.com\u2019s 2016 Countdown to Halloween. To check out other sites celebrating Halloween all month long, visit the official CountdownToHalloween site.<\/a>\u00a0 For more of CollectingCandy.com\u2019s CountdownToHalloween posts, just click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We are back today after an extended hiatus to kick off our 5th annual participation in the CountdownToHalloween blogging event.\u00a0 Since it’s our fifth annual countdown romp, we’ve tweaked our Halloween-themed masthead and today we’ll be sharing the details, so … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[589,252,50],"tags":[321,316,328,351,332,14,324,78,333,1225,1222,29,21,450,1268,15,341,11],"class_list":["post-18242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-countdowntohalloween","category-halloween","category-holiday-2","tag-candy-collecting","tag-candy-collection","tag-candy-collector","tag-candy-wrapper-collection","tag-candy-wrapper-collector","tag-collectible","tag-collecting-candy","tag-confectionery","tag-confections","tag-countdowntohalloween","tag-halloween","tag-holiday","tag-packaging","tag-packaging-design","tag-spooky","tag-sweets","tag-vintage-candy-wrappers","tag-wrapper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aFGk-4Ke","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18242"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18267,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18242\/revisions\/18267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}