Happy Haunting Day 6: Banners & Lollies & Poms, Oh My!

It seems I keep coming back to my stand-by paper crafting decorations- banners, flags, lollies, and tissue paper poms.

All of these things are all easy to make, they are cheap, they are versatile, and they add so much festivity to your space. For me, more is more so I've slathered every inch of my living room with these paper crafts and they make the whole space sing with Halloween happiness. Change up the sizes, the colors, the materials; and you have a whole new look for each holiday! Let's go on a little tour, shall we?

The very first thing that greets people when they come in my door is my two black hanging pom poms, some Spooky Junque Banners, & some handcut glittered bat banners. I just found a bat template on Pinterest, traced & cut them out of cereal boxes, spray painted them black, then glittered them with Martha Stewart black glitter. Hot glue them on some Black Divine Twine and you have a lovely little  batty banner. 

I have three jars with various flags in them surrounded by pumpkins on my computer desk right when you walk in my door

Here is my giant metal board above my little white couch in my living room. Notice the tissue & newspaper pom pom "flowers" at the top. The "All Hallows Eve" Banner I made two years ago (I think) and the burlap candy corn painted banner was made last year. The candy corn rosette magnets were just made by hot gluing some yellow & orange crepe streamers around a doily, gluing some Spooky Junque accents on the front, then I glued the whole thing to some old alphabet magnets I had hanging around on my fridge.

And here is the chalk board right next to the metal board.

My black console filled with craft supplies sits underneath the Printable Art I shared yesterday

On my console in my living room are wine glasses filled with moss & mini skulls for Witches Brew

 

These skulls on a cake plate sit right next to the witches brew glasses

Newspaper & book page lollies with some Spooky Junque accents

These candy filled apothecary jars sit on my piano, tagged with some Quatrefoil Background & Spooky Junque Border tags

Outside my door I have a pumpkin sitting in a hanging planter with some festive little flags poking out

In front of our bay window I stuck a chair I repainted and reupholstered and filled it with pumpkins, a chalk painted pot, and some more lollies & flags

And I even laminated some Spooky Junque Banners to hang outside, so they are protected from the minuscule chance of rain we may have here in AZ. 

So there's the front part of my house. There's so much more to share in the kitchen area, so I'll show & tell next week! 

Happy Haunting Day 4: Ghostly Glam Wreath

Our Happy Haunting Feature today is  Ghostly Glam Wreath Tutorial!

I featured this wreath on Happy Haunting Day One Pinterest Inspiration

Source: daysofchalkandchocolate.blogspot.com via Rosemary on Pinterest

And created my own Ghostly Glam wreath using my favorite paper crafts:

I had a TON of plumbing pipe "wreaths" made up from my Thanksgiving Hello! Holidays craft for hello there! house, so I created this easy peasy wreath using a homemade wreath form, some leftover white sheets I bought at Goodwill, and some Spooky Junque Designs. 

1) Cut foam piping to size you want your wreath and duct tape your wreath into a circle. 

2) Rip a piece of sheeting into strips and hot glue the end of one strip to the inside of the wreath form. Wrap strip around the wreath form to cover the entire wreath attaching ends with hot glue to wreath and adding more strips as you go. 

3) Once the wreath is completely wrapped, cut and tie small strips randomly along wreath to look like "mummy wrap"

4) Print out Bat pattern, cut out and trace along a piece of chipboard (I used a cereal box). Paint bat black and glitter (I use Martha's)

5) I hung the bat on a giant doily from Hobby Lobby then glued one of the Spooky Junque Labels on it

6) I made kraft paper lollies from lunch bags, and glued on some Spooky Junque Brushes I punched out with my scalloped circle punch

7) Last I made some mini black tissue paper poms to look like flowers and hot glued those on there with some mini flags I made with the Spooky Junque Backgrounds & words from the Spooky Junque Candy Cone Kit. These kits are so awesome because there is so many little pieces you can mix & match on a variety of projects. 

8) I hung the whole thing up using black Divine Twine and called it a day. Make one for yourself! 

Team Tuesday: Busy Bee To Do Lists

Happy Tuesday! Here's this week's Rendition of Rhonna Design's Team Tuesday:

I was in desperate need of some new to do lists, and the Honeycomb kits were the perfect solution! I used both the Background kit & the Pieces kit, plus a little bit of the 6 week shape up brush kit to had some pizzaz. 

Honeycomb Pieces Kit

$5

Honeycomb Backgrounds Kit

$8

Now visit Rhonna's blog to see the other entries this week!

Team Tuesday: Quatrefoil Love

Quatrefoil Tag Kit

$4

When I saw the Quatrefoil Kits in the Rhonna Designs store,  I felt a surge of happiness- it's absolutely fantastic! And $4? Seriously, there is so much you can do with this thing. The first thing I thought of was home decor. If you've ever been to my house, you know that I have a tendency to decorate everyday like a party. I have banners, pom poms, signs, & flags all over the place all the time; and I think it adds a little festivity to the "glamourous" life of being a mom of 5.  Happy home decor just makes me feel good. So that's just what I set out to make.

I grabbed a couple of small mason jars and filled them with flour, then grabbed a big old crusty mason jar and spray painted it platinum. I tied some Divine Twine to them and printed off some of the Quatrefoil tags really small and punched them out with my scallop punch. 

Then I made the flags. I added some inspirational words to them, added a graph paper background, then just printed them out & cut! I hot glued them to skewers and made some little mini flags to fancy them up. More scalloped round tag punches were hot glued on, and a tissue paper fringe pom topped a few flags.

How fun are these? They are now sitting on my computer center and remind everyone who walks in to stay inspired & creative. Oh, and don't you love the frames I used on the photos above {wink}?

Simple Photo Edges Kit

$5

Check out Rhonna's Blog to see some other Team Tuesday entries!