Showing posts with label halloween crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label halloween crafts. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Punkin blocks

This little guy is easy to make. Take a block, I like 2x4x5″ blocks, paint it orange, then I cut out a the face using my silhouette and vinyl, but you could make your own face with your own design and paper. I then cut a dowel about 2″ long and painted it green, glued it to the top as the stem. I curled my ribbon then added it to the stem.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Bloody Candles for the Holidays

I came across this idea while thumbing through a Halloween idea book.   I love white pumpkins, so I decided to use those instead of candle holders, by carving a hole just big enough to hold my candles.   I bought white taper candles as my main candles, because red would show the best on white. Using parchment paper under my project,  I heated up a red candle and dripped the wax over my white candles while they were in the pumpkin, so the wax would drip down.

Halloween charger plate

I saw this little guy in the Silhouette design library and fell in love.   I had to use him on something, so I found a charger plate, it was around $3, and painted it with black shimmer tole paint.   I then measured the inner circle and cut out my scrapbook papers.  I used a lime green on bottem as my accent paper and the striped I cut half an inch smaller so the green would show.   I cut my skull out of  black and white vinyl, using my Silhouette, but you could use stickers, die cuts or even cut out your own design.
  When placing the vinyl, I made sure to put the black vinyl down first, then layered the white on top.   I cut out skull bones from a skull font I found for free online.