Halloween - Haunted Signage

Using the second of the two sign plaques that my Mother In Law gave me, I painted and sanded it to shabby chic perfection.  I used Halloween rub-on's that are so old, I can't even remember WHEN I bought them on spider web paper scraps from my stash.  I paper stained the edges with Tim Holtz "Old Paper".

The balsam wood "Haunted" is from Michael's, I cut off the House portion from the bottom, painted it black and covered in black Stickles.  

Check out the The "Canicula Embalming Fluid" bottle.  It's REAL.  I know I have shown this bottle before on my previous blog, but it's just so cool.

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for second injection.

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the half-gallon).  For cavity injection

use concentrated form.

Price $5.00

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Dollar Store Feather Boa Wreath

$13.00 Halloween Wreath Tutorial

Everything for this project was purchased from the dollar, except the Styrofoam wreath form.  The form is $ 9.99 @ Michael's, but I used a 40% off coupon.

Wrap the entire wreath form with black Electrical tape or black duct tape if you have it.  I have seen similar wreaths online that were wrapped in black fabric ribbon before adding the feathers.  The electrical tape made this super quick and easy.  It adheres instantly and is very flexible.  Plus it was one less item I had to purchase since I already had it on hand.

The boa is fastened onto the form with metal sewing pins.

Awesome tip: only partially wrap the boa's onto the wreath, leaving a long feather tail. Using the electrical tape, adhere the unsightly section of the wired roses onto the wreath then cover with the reaming boa.

Cost Breakdown: 
1 - Hall Rose Bqt Glit $ 1.25
3 - Feather Boa's $ 1.00 ea.
1 - Black Glitr Crow $ 1.25
1 - Styrofoam Wreath $ 6.00 (with the 40% discount)
Total: $11.50 before taxes

Ignore the glue gun, I didn't end up using it at all in this project.

Thanks to curlymade.blogspot.ca for the super fun hand drawn arrow jpg's, and dafont.com for the Buffied font.

Halloween Deco Mesh Wreath

I finally tried making a Deco Mesh wreath.  I can't believe how easy it was.  Hint, buy the right colour pipe-cleaners. I just used what was on hand.

Deco Mesh YouTube tutorial found here.

Very happy with the results, I may change up some of the elements at another time, but for now I am satisfied.  I have so much mesh left over it's ridiculous.  Anyone want a Halloween Decor Wreath?

Burlap Pumpkins

Here's a few pumpkin crafts I worked up this weekend.

Paint or distress the Styrofoam pumpkin, Mod Podge the burlap strips in place and hot glue ribbon onto the seams.

I also took the paper Decoupage pumpkin I made in a previous post and added ribbon and wrapped twine around the stem.