I’ve got just one more Halloween project to show you then we will move onto something else!
I actually did this project to clean up a part of my house. We had a gap between our house and our foundation that needed sealed. Steve had this idea to use drywall tape mesh to help hold the spray foam in. So he asked me to cut him some lengths. I did too many and so we had some lengths left. So they have been sitting here waiting to have something done with them.
I bought a couple of pans from the dollar store and got my glue gun out! I know you have all seen these a million times!
First you have to paint them.
So here are my drywall tape mummies!!!
We put the picture of the one (below) I did a few years back in also so you could see the difference in the materials. I did that one with gauze.
So these are $12.00 each
Lu
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Halloween is a great time for parties and this is just the thing to make your party fun!
This classic game takes on a fun Halloween theme with its spooky skulls and bones playing pieces!
Adding some cute papers to the board and some fun colors makes this a perfect addition to your holiday fun! I had a fun time making this set but the possibilities are endless! I have papers that will go with all different color schemes, I even have some red and black Halloween themed! It only takes a little while to put it together and or pick it up already done!
Take N Make $6.00
Make N Take (class) $8.00
Ready to Play $12.00
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Lu
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Halloween has always been a big holiday in our family. We have almost as much Halloween decor as we do Christmas!
So when I came across these fun boxes that look like books I knew I had to do something fun with them! These are ones that I found last year. I found some this year too and will posting them as soon as I get them tied together!
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$12.00 a stack pickup or meet up, close to Fulton or Mexico MO
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Lu
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So I really like to paint ceramics and dry brushing is my favorite technique. Sometimes it is hard to find things that have the detail to paint. I saw this cat in the store and it was 50% off! Well you know I love a deal! Only one problem, it is plaster and not ceramic. Plaster paints totally different and doesn’t really hold up to the dry brush technique. I thought this had enough rough edges that it would.
It did not hold up well. The plaster flakes off as the dry brush applies the paint! Well I had to make it work because I was determined to get it to!!! lol lol lol I used black for the base on it all and it took one more coat than it should have. Then I used gray and blue on the stones and that went without too much problem. Then I used purple and gray on the cat. This was where it really started to have problems. Just the pressure of the dry brushing made the black come off in a lot of places. I just kept going and came back in with more gray or purple trying to cover the white spots.
So it took a lot longer to do and more days of it sitting and then looking for fresh white spots but eventually this was the result! I like it now that it is done but will try to find ceramic in the future!!
Sorry I have so much Halloween that we are past the holiday and still posting ideas! But we found so may fun things this year!
These next two thing are wood that we found at the local craft store for under $5.00. They both have lights in them, the 3 pumpkins one changes colors and blinks and the house one is just a solid.
So the pumpkins we gently took the light out and spray painted it black. The house one I just painted with a brush. Then we scanned them into my Cricut software and started to play with the sizing. Once we got the sizing right things went pretty fast.
For the house I glued tissue paper between the light and the front to get that more diffused look. But the light in the pumpkins had a bigger area to cover and didn’t work with tissue paper I ended up cutting each image 3 times to get what I wanted! I probably could have played with it more in the software and not cut so many times. The house one was pretty fast, but with all the detail the pumpkins took about an hour a time to cut! Good thing I had multiple projects going that day!
Once I had the images cut out then I just glued the papers to the wood! Let that dry and give it a top sealing coat and they were done!!!
When I first saw this sign in the projects for the Cricut, I thought it said Halloween. And I loved how it looked like it was black iron! But as I started to put this together for me, I noticed that it doesn’t really say Halloween as much as it says Hallo and then has it mirror imaged. I guess you can kind of just glance and see Halloween!!! Lol lol lol But once I see the other I can’t stop seeing it!
It was an easy project to do. I just cut the image out of black paper and then gray paper. Then I cut the parts off the gray where I wanted the black to show! Then I just glued the gray to the black, attached a straw and put it in a cute bucket!
I have always loved those bags that people line their driveway and walks with on the holidays! You know the ones that you put a candle in and the image is cut out with tissue paper behind it so it looks like a paper jack-o-lantern.
They have seemed like they would take a lot of time and effort. But the I saw some in my Cricut images and decided to try one! And they are super, super, super fast and easy this way!!! I can’t wait to be in our house so I can make some full size to lead down the driveway!!!!
I love the dimensional things you can do with the Cricut! And Halloween is no exception! They had this scene done and put under a glass dome. It didn’t have the path or the yellow moon. I didn’t want to put it under glass for display so I just found the moon and path on another image and put them together with pop up dots! I think it is perfect for your scrapbook page or you could put it in a frame for the holiday!
I saw these Halloween cake pop holders and thought “those would be a perfect give away at my open house at Joann’s on October 9th”!
But can’t do cake. So I found some suckers and those worked well.But I wanted to make them smaller! You all know I can’t just do something like it says. Besides it takes too much material wise. so I shrunk them down and put those smaller suckers in them!
