It looks like my house threw up Autumn. Or Autumn threw up on my house.
Either way, I got a lot of fall/halloween decor and not enough space to make it non-cluttery so even cutting out half of my decor my house STILL looks a little too decorated.
That is my excuse for not doing very many fall crafts. Maybe I should make stuff and then give them away on the blog…sound good to you? Sounds good.
Are you sick of Halloween wreaths yet? Here’s mine:
…gotta love using Photoshop brushes 🙂
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| For this wreath I used a foam wreath form, white yarn, a piece of ‘sign-cut’ wood, and a red faux floral. Oh yes, and some plastic spiders, not shown. |
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| And of course my lovely assistant. With some serious drool on those overalls. |
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| I started by wrapping the wreath with the yarn, pulling it tightly. This took awhile. |
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| When I was almost to the end, I trimmed the floral and jammed it in the foam. |
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| Then I wrapped the rest of the wreath, covering the bottom of the floral. I didn’t cut the yarn though… |
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| Since I decided to wrap it around the wreath in a spirograph format to make a web. |
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| I then painted the sign black. Then I free-hand painted the white letters: “Abandon all hope ye who enter here” (from Dante’s Inferno) I was going to do vinyl but I just didn’t have time. Plus the free-hand gives it a much more old and creepy feeling. After I painted the white letters, I sponged on some black and then wiped it off with the same brush. And I used gray (the black mixed with white) to fill in the letters that you couldn’t see very well. |
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| I also painted some of the gray on the yarn in the middle to add some dimension. |
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| For a wreath hanger, I tied some muslin strips together and added a tiny bit of black paint. |
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| Just tied it on! |
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| And glued on these big scary spiders. (I would freak if this was for real!) |
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| Here is my spooky wreath! And since I have so much Halloween stuff (and will probably do more next year) I made it so that when Halloween is over, I can just cut off the ‘web’, & remove the sign (which I just slipped in between the string) and have a plain white wreath with a pretty red floral! Perfect for something Christmasy or Valentines, I’m thinking? |
And because you love me, here’s a free printable for you:
Happy Halloween…in a few more weeks!
Better Life Bags says
October 7, 2010 at 3:49 pmlove it 🙂 AND I love that you can use it for other holidays – those are my favorite types of decorations!
posidanielle says
October 7, 2010 at 7:57 pmAdorable! I totally need to make one.
Amy @ Increasingly Domestic says
October 7, 2010 at 8:18 pmThis is so cute! I agree that if it were real I would be terrified…those spiders are huge!
Carmen @ Life with Sprinkles on Top says
October 7, 2010 at 11:33 pmThis is definitely different than what I've seen. I like it! The spiders are creepy. hehe
C.S. Curtis says
October 8, 2010 at 12:56 amSo adorable, I need to put more halowwen type things on my blog!
JoEllen says
October 8, 2010 at 3:28 am"Just put it on!!!" What a great tut that was. Referring to the couch cover, of course.
Have you actually read Dante's Inferno? And all this time I thought that phrase was from Bloom County. I too, stink at listening. Although I think mine is mostly at listening to books.