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Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Pumpkin Make-Over
On my trip to the dollar Tree store I
picked up the following Styrofoam pumpkin
and cool stickers and turned them into
THIS below:
Supplies Used
| Styrofoam Pumpkin White Glue (any white glue will do) Brush Punchinella | Vintage Book Pages Pigment Inks Stickers PYM II |
 I've gathered my supplies |  Start by tearing your book pages into strips and coat the pumpkin and the strips with watered down white glue. |
 Smooth any air bubbles and wrinkles (you don't want) out with your finger. Allow the pumpkin to dry. |  Using the inks add highlights and color using the punchinella as a stencil. |
 Add your stickers where you desire and burnish well with the cap of a pen. |  Add 3 or more coats of the white glue allowing each coat to dry in-between. |
 Once your pumpkin is dry seal it with PYM II to keep it from getting sticky from the glue. |
Check out your Dollar Storeand see what you
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
Low Flying Witches and Herm & Ethel
It's that time of year again for low flying witches!
When I woke up this morning Herm and Ethel
had arrived unannounced as usual. For some
reason Herm is in the birdcage aka doghouse...
for what I don't know Ethel is mums the word on
the subject!
As always these postcards are free for
you to right click, save and download to
email to friends and family.
Click HERE to see past Herm & Ethel postcards
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Halloween Printables
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Halloween Mail Art Tin
Halloween Mail Art Tin
Supplies Used
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This was a fun project to create I love finding new ways to alter these large windowed tins, and then mail them as is through the mail. Don't let your postal person tell you that you can't. You can mail almost anything through the mail....even live chickens! LOL I've altered shoes and mailed them as is through the mail along with plastic bottles and tins. This would be a great project to create and send to college kid away from home, a grand child, niece or nephew just in time for Halloween or a birthday perhaps!
 Step 1: Start with a blank large windowed tin and the following colors of 3D Crystal Lacquer (dark blue colored, pearl blue and clear). Open the tin and start applying both 3D colors on the inside of the plastic window. Fill in with the clear CL. |  Step 2: Use your finger to smooth it out evenly then set it aside to dry (you'll have to prop up the window lid, so it stays level. *Note-I originally applied some of the yellow to give a moonlight appearance but didn't like how it looked once it was dry so I went back and applied both blues over that area so it was evenly blue. |
 Step 3: Apply white gesso to your stamp using a make-up sponge (make sure to wash your stamp off right away). I choose gesso because I wanted a flat finish but you can also use white acrylic paint. |  Step 4: I also stamped part of a picket fence. Once paint has dried fill in white areas on the skeleton and fence with clear 3D Crystal Lacquer. |
 Step 5: While lacquer is still wet sprinkle extra fine iridescent glitter dust over the wet areas. |  Step 6: Next Add your choice of embellishments (I added a cardboard moon and bat I had in my stash). I also added some bling to my skeleton by adhering rhinestones (to his eyes and spine) using clear 3D Crystal Lacquer and a toothpick. |
 Step 7: Next use the yellow colored lacquer and fill in the moon around the bats (this will give it added dimension). |  Step 8: While the moon is still wet sprinkle extra fine iridescent glitter dust over it. |
 Step 9: To finish off the outside of my tin I added rub-on wording. Allow tin to completely dry. |  Step 10: Open tin and add iridescent or paper grass to the inside and fill it with Halloween candy. |
 Step 11: Seal your tin with some decorative washi tape. |  Step 12: On the backside of the tin using your black sharpie marker write your to and from addresses. |
 Step 13: Once the tin has been addressed, to protect the tin on the outside slide it into a clear cellophane bag, secure it with tape and take it to your local post office to mail to be stamped and mailed. |  Booya! |
Click HERE to see
more of my mail art.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Crash Landing!
Yikes! We had a crash in our
front yard! We heard all this racket
and discovered that the Wicked Witch
of the West had crashed landed in our
bushes! She even lost one of her
ruby slippers!!!
ruby slipper postcards and
email them to your friends
Artistic Inspirations to help you create!
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Halloween Boo Banner
I created this boo banner for my niece.
I used some Halloween papers I picked up
at Michaels this year. I dug out the plastic
spider rings I bought last year (click Here to see
last year's project using them) and cut the
backs off and glued them on to the fronts and
added a little sparkle with extra fine glitter dust.
I added some skull beads to finish it off.
Click Here to view previous banners
Artistic Inspirations to help you create!
Friday, October 08, 2010
Retro Halloween
(anyone else remember Mr. Peabody?)
and lets revisit a past Halloween Card
tutorial HERE I created a couple of
years ago
Artistic Inspirations to help you create!
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Free Halloween Postcards from Herm & Ethel
What a fun surprise we had yesterday when we discovered Herm and Ethel had arrived and set up camp for a visit!
Artistic Inspirations to help you create!
They regaled us with their travel adventures and were most pleased with the new bench, just their size, that we had ready for them!
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As always Herm and Ethel are most gracious posing while we took pictures. Feel free to click on each picture to enlarge, download and save it to your computer to send to a friend!
Click HERE to view
past Herm &Ethel Postcards
Artistic Inspirations to help you create!
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Day of the Dead Bottle Cap Earring's Tutorial
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