- Halloween Background Paper (I used the Spook Hill collection from Michaels)
- Metallic and Glitter Scrapbook Paper
- Black Cardstock (Recollections 110 lb)
- Halloween Words ( Tim Holtz )
I'm envious of this fabulous find and transformation shared by Penny's Vintage Home. If you're ever lucky enough to find an "old rusty 5 gallon gas can" look at the gorgeousness you can create with it like this Jack O'Lantern transformation! So cute! I also love the vintage Halloween dolls. Did I mention there's a festive fall cocktail recipe in the same post?
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I love these whatever they're made of seasonal signs I find at Dollar Tree. You can paint them, decoupage them, glitter them, vinyl them or do whatever your imagination comes up with. I chose paint and dots!
Supplies:
This is the unfinished sign. I did the insides of the letters and the edges with a small brush first, then painted the front and the back in a couple of coats of flat black Craftsmart paint.
You want to make sure you get all of the nooks and crannies of the letters so it just takes a little patience. Spray paint would also work.
Once you've got your sign painted, time to "dot it up". I bought a set of Ball Stylus dotting tools on Amazon and they really are great for making consistent dots. I also love that the paint wipes easily off the metal. From here, just go with whatever your flow us. I used different sizes and eyeballed my pattern. These are great for mandalas too.
I started with larger dots and then filled in using smaller ones, filling in the exclamation point the most.
Et voila!
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Since our nest has been empty, my Halloween decor has become much more "Gothelegant" which is a word I just this second made up to combine gothic and elegant. Lots of jewels and metallics. Less whimsical ( although I do have some of that too!). But let's just say about the Darth Vader meme "Come to the dark side, we have cookies" is a perfect fit for me! I've wanted to do something with an old doll head but my thrifting trips the past few years haven't yielded the kind of doll head I want so I'm still on that particular hunt BUT I found some creepy plastic doll heads in the Halloween stuff at Walmart and they just spoke to my deep dark little Wednesday Addams heart!
Supplies
"They're creepy and they're kooky, they're altogether spooky".
Dollar Tree has these foam pumpkins every year and they're great. You can paint them. You can cut them. You can wrap them in fabric. So many possibilities. For this project I painted them.
They take paint really well and this Apple Barrel Gloss only needed one coat. Then I did my go to glue crackle.
To finish the pumpkins, I went over the glue with white paint and then used my craft room blow dryer to hasten the crackling.
The doll heads were already pretty perfect but what fun is that? I got out my silver Rub N Buff and just added some spots of it here and there.
This highlighted the scars already on the heads and then I dry brushed and wiped off some black paint so it would get in the cracks.
Creeptastic! Now it's time to glam them up. I had some clear flat backed jewels in my collection so I randomly glued them onto the skulls and finished with smaller self adhesive rhinestones. Glamtastic!
Once you're satisfied with your jewels it's time to assembler. I used hot glue to attach the skulls to the painted pumpkins and then the Beacon 3 In 1 to attach the pumpkin to the candleholder. I have found that hot glue doesn't always last on glass but it will work, just may come loose after a while.