Halloween Decor- Pennies a project

SIX PROJECTS ON A DIME!

Are you looking for some Halloween Decor ideas?  I have a few for you.  These are projects I have been working on for the past couple of weeks. 

BANNERS

I made Boo and Beware for my 2 corner windows.  These are cut from Birthday Bash, using Recollections Halloween paper and Stampin Up Halloween Paper.

I made this Tim Holtz Banner, "Trick or Treat".  Hangs over my spooky dining room.  Black sheets are there for the holidays.

Cut from Birthday Bash and the frames/ font are a Sophisticated cut.  I added beads from Walmart and skulls are a $1 store necklace cut up.

This BIG Banner is "Happy Halloween"

The charms are Walmart and the tulle is from an old Halloween costume.  This glitter spiders are a $1 store find.

Happy Halloween!

Candles

Cheap-o-la...You can make this on a budget...promise!  I picked these candelabras up from Michaels for $12 at 50% off.  I bought them on a day they there was an additional 25% off so in the end they were less than $10.  I then used my 40% coupon for the Recollections glitter and Modge Podged these Walmart white candles.

I glittered the little spider too.

I glue dotted these $1 store plastic spiders.  For both candelabras I paid less than $30.  And they are metal!

OK SUPER CHEAP!  My SIL had these Halloween Candles and asked if I wanted to use them, DUH...YA!  I didn't have any candle sick holders.  So off to the $1 store at a $1 a piece I got these glass holders.  I added some Halloween ribbon I had and glitter spiders! 

I always have LOTS of spiders and Halloween ribbon.  So these cost me $3 for all 3.

These glitter spiders are 6 for $1.

Altered Jars

Not that I'm addicted to Pinterest or anything BULLSHIT.  But I did see something similar to this.  So I grabbed these assorted jars, again $1 store for $1 each.  Cheap right. Then pinning on Pinterest I came across printable free Halloween Paper.  Because I don't have enough!  I like these for jars though since they are LABELS!

I distressed with my TH inks.

Print these for FREE!  Trim, distress and glue!

I use Modge Podge glue.

Glue them on then brush the glue on the front, it dries clear!

Spook out your home!  I have 2 on these shelves!

And 2 on these!

I have battery operated tea lights from Costco and they will flicker safely on the night of my party.

These were less than $2 each to make and minutes to create!

Spruced Up Witches Broom

Now, these brooms I have had for a few years.  They are my fav out of all my witch's brooms.  I had some big Halloween ribbon from last year kicking around.  I just tied a big bow on each and done!

Easy and at night with the purple lights they look awesome!

Spruce Up your Skeleton!

This poor guy needed a home.  I picked him up last week without any clue where to put him.  As a joke I popped him into my tree pot and now I love him there.  But there was something missing...

I had a little left over ribbon from my witches brooms.  So he got a Halloween Bow Tie! 

If you already have this stuff then these things to add are free!

Spooked Out Toilet

Just added this one.  I used scrap peices of black paper, cut on an angle, cut some fingers (but oval punch works to) and punched out the eyes.  I taped it on my toilet and I'm ready to haunt!

 I hope you found some inspiration to haunt your house.  I am always looking for inexpensive ways to do anything crafty!  This does a couple of things.  One... crafting can be pricey and two...what a fun challenge to keep it cheap!  If you look around you will be inspired to try new things to add to your next project! 

Halloween Invitations- Easy

Now that all my Halloween Invitations have been delivered I can post.  Not that many people know I blog....

I got all my paper and stamps a little later than normal.  So I needed a quick project.  The stamps are new from Stampin Up and these little baggies you can pick up there too.  I picked up the Halloween Candy at the Bulk Barn as there were a ton of Halloween candy choices. 

I loaded all the candy one at a time.  It's time consuming but worth it.  I distressed and rolled a scroll with all the Ghoulish Party info.

I cut the squares on my Cricut.  Then punched my stamps out after stamping and clear embossing.  The metal charm is from Walmart tied with Hemp.  The stamples are attached with my Tiny Attacher.

This ticket is a Tim Holtz die cut and then stamped.

All my invites together

These little baggies are awesome and will be great for Christmas too!  A little different take on a Halloween Invitation but totally fun!  My house is spookified, the banners are hung, the spiders are crawling and the bodies are moaning!

What's your favorite thing about Halloween?

What's New Wednesday and GIVEAWAY

Welcome to What's New Wednesday

This weeks Guest Designer is Betty with The Scrappy Witch

First, off I want to thank Nicole for having me... she and I go way back, and the love of Halloween is something I think will bond us forever and ever!

As many of you know, I am the owner of Simply Betty Stamps. I am a crafter by heart. Have always been, I think I started the scrapbook trend! HA HA HA!

I remember having a polaroid camera, taking pictures of my friends constantly and making my own scrapbooks with my doodles, and stickers I found here and there. Again, all this before the Scrapbooking industry hit! I fell in love with rubber stamping in High School. I remember walking in to my first stamp store called Stamp, Stamp, Stamp. I looked at a few stamps and thought, "Oh my gosh, these are expensive I will never have a collection!" Well, here we are 4355 wooden stamps (that's after two months of purging), 285 clear stamp sets, and well not to mention my own lines, later!

Nothing is more soothing to me than sitting, stamping and coloring! Crafting in general really!

Here are a few cards with our very new line the Coquettes!

I would like to offer all six clear stamps as a thank you prize for Nicole's What's New Wedneday.... she can figure out the distribution and give you all the details on how you can win these cuties!

Thank you for stopping by have a great Wednesday.

WOW 6 STAMPS!  That is so nice.  Please leave me a comment on this post and a way to get a hold of you.  Also, please click HERE and leave a THANK YOU to Betty for offering up such an awesome prize.  To check out the whole line and what you could win click HERE.  So get your comments in ASAP as I will be choosing a winner.

Distressed Halloween Tag

Look out I am distressing again! 

I can't help it...it's my new passion and I think it's here to stay!  My darling husband and I were invited to our good friends home for some pool and darts Saturday.  We all made some yummy appy's, my husband made salmon skewers and I made pumpkin cheesecake.  I made a Thank You tag to go with the appy's we brought.  Not to mention some of the techniques I learned from crafty BFF!

I distressed the medium sized tag with my inks then stamped the Trick or Treat and Skeleton, both from SU.  After that was dry I ran it though my Tim Holtz Halloween embossing folder.  Then I spritzed gold all over the tag.  I only have the Perfect Pearls (without the fixative) that will smudge off if you don't set it.  So, if you have these use hairspray to set the shimmer.  Then it won't come off.

You can see the embossing here over the skeleton. And I banged out the metal brads with my new hammer!

I tied with MS ribbon and distressed a bat charm with my Ranger Alcohol Inks.

I punched my MS Bat Fence punch then attached with my Tiny Attacher.

I have been recently trying some new stuff.  I was getting a little tired there for a bit.  This tag is a perfect example of all the new things I have been experimenting with.  My Tiny Attacher, the Spritz bottles with the Pearl Ex, hairspray, Alcohol Inks on metal and my newest toy, the distressing hammer. 

A BEVY OF MONSTERS

***WARNING...CUTE ALERT***

The Monsters and Creeps are out and around. 

So lock your doors to keep safe and sound.

If you are looking for a great Halloween card that is UNDER 10 MINUTES to build this is it.  I made a variety of these to give you different ideas of creeps you can make.  From start to finish these Halloween cards are a breeze and would be perfect for a class, office and for some friends.  I made these in between making projects...mostly waiting for things to dry!  The googlie eyes are different sizes make them so cute. 

All the cards are stamped with Scrappy Moms Stamps Halloween set Bewitched!

Mummy
 

Frankenstein

Candy Corn

Vampire, I love this one!  I didn't distress the white glitter paper.  Then added this red glitter glue to the fangs.

Ghost, I posted this the other day HERE

All my fun cards together

I cut the cards to 5x5.  Then I cut a 4 3/3x 4 3/4 black for the black behind the googlie eyes.  Pick your coloured carstock and rip.  I distressed the torn edges a bit then mounted it onto the black cardstock, trim if needed.  Make sure to rip an opening for the eyes and mouth if you need.  If you do fangs, just cut the fangs from the scraps and tuck it in.  I bent mine a bit.

This is an easy card...I promise!