spoooooky ideas

This haunted house is a cardboard house from Hobby Lobby. (they have them year-round on the cardboard/wood aisle).  It was 3.99 then half off. I spray painted it black and sanded the edges and windows. I then stretched a small piece of cob web over the house to make it even spookier. The lid opens so I put purple halloween lights inside and cut a little hole in the back for the cord to come through.  

I found this little cauldron at Ross. I filled it up with 'tricks' such as vampire teeth, bugs, spiders and cob webs. Even if you don't have a cauldron that says TRICKS, you could use vinyl letters.

Using Blackboard paint, I spraypainted a pumpkin black. With chalk you can change the faces and write messages on the pumpkin. How fun is that?

This is a simple accordian decoration made using three pieces of heavy cardstock. I covered them with scrapbook paper and connected the three with ribbon. EEK!

Three wreath ideas

1- Use a string of skeletons from the dollar store, and wrap around a wreath for added spookiness.

2- Use a wire of pumpkins from the dollar store to wrap around a wreath.

3- Hang wooden letters over the front of a wreath.

The possibilities are endless... just keep your eyes and mind open when you are at the dollar store.

CHEAP HALLOWEEN DECOR

The other night for Enrichment, my friend showed us how to Decorate for Halloween on a dime.  I was amazed at her ideas and she told me I could share. Here they are...

Witch's Spells Book.  Made by buying an old book, spray painting it Orange, inking the edges and adding Witch's Spells Vinyl.  So cute!

 This is the Book I made.  I added Ribbon for the Bookmark. At Shabby 2 Sweet, she suggested these other book names you could make and stack together:

Witches Spells

Friday the 13th

Tales from the Crypt

Cooking up a Witches Brew

Scary Stories

In the Graveyard

The Dark Dark Room

Ghost Stories

Werewolf's and Witches

Ghosts and Ghouls

This list could go on and on!

Halloween Tree.  Spray paint a limb and secure in pot (floral foam would be easy).  Hang ornaments with vinyl spiders and ribbon.  Add boa and other fillers.

Halloween Wreath.  Instructions for paper wreath here.  Then embellish however you'd like.  She put a scrapbook paper in the middle and got the crow from Dollar Tree.

This is my version of the Halloween Wreath.  I wrapped a boa with Ribbon and then painted a piece of cardboard and added a vinyl EEK sticker.  The crow and Tarantula are from Dollar Tree.

Wooden Pumpkin.  Paint a block of wood.  Cover in a stocking.  Add foliage coming out of top.

Pumpkin Book.  Fold an old book backwards until it makes a circle.  Secure with glue and ribbon.  Add foliage and decorations.

Halloween Jars.  Find these labels at Dollar Tree and stick to Old Pickle Jars, etc. and spray paint lid black.  Also, stick them to Root Beer Bottles.  Fill jars with Skeletons from Dollar Tree or something else.

Halloween Star.  Take a metal star and cut out pieces of Halloween scrapbook paper and mod podge onto star.

Boo Banner.  Take 3 squares of Halloween Scrapbook paper and secure to 3 squares of cardstock.  Then add BOO letters printed off and cut out.  Ink edges and add holes and tie together with riboons.

HALLOWEEN PICTURES.  Glue cute Halloween Paper to Torn Cardboard and Ink
Edges.

BALL DECOR.  Styrofoam balls covered with Rope, flower petals, split peas, moss, fabric and beans.   For a Halloween version, you could cover with gauze like a mummy, orange fabric to look like a pumpkin, etc.

Paper Wreath Rosette Tutorial

I saw a tutorial on Paper Wreaths here.   I thought, okay, but I'm really not into the book page look on my wall.  Then I thought about spray paint, my new craze.  But could you really spray paint paper?

I tried it out and now have 4 funky little wreath Rosettes.  I'm obsessed with Rosettes for my hair, my shirt, my bag and anything else.  Why not a Rosette for your wall?  So that's what I'm calling these, my Paper Wreath Rosettes. And guess what?  I spent $7 for supplies (not including spray paint).  

So, first buy a foam wreath at Dollar Tree along with a book from Dollar Tree or your collection that you would love to rip apart.  I couldn't bring myself to buy a bible, but a cheesy novel worked great.  The more pages and the stiffer the page the better.  I bought spray paint at Lowe's.  The black and white are only $1.  They have a large selection of cute colors for about $3 a can.  (better selection than Walmart).  I also bought a primer and primed them first, just to be safe.  You will also need a hot glue gun and plenty of glue.

Let's get started.... 

Then spray paint.  Like I said, I primed first.  It took about 3 different layers to fully cover all the writing.

Cute eh?   I love how they look metal or wooden.