Monday, October 18, 2010

Halloween printables

I found these vintage Halloween pictures online. I printed them up on cardstock and cut them out, glued the circles back-to-back and hung them with black thread over the kitchen table. I like the look of them and the kids do to. It's all I can do to keep them from touching or blowing them. The tape doesn't stick so great to the ceiling so I've had to put a few of them back up a couple times.


Here's some closeups of the pictures. It was hard to get them in focus because they kept turning in the draft.



At the same website there was this bunting. I couldn't get a close picture but it says Happy Haunting. I used halloween theme scrapbooking paper for the back grounds and hot glued the flags to rickrack. Then I realized I had done the whole thing backwards so I had to cut the ribbon and re-glue it all together. It's not as drapey as I wanted because otherwise the flags get stuck in the cupboard doors when they close.


Halloween Table mat


I've had a book of crafts from Mary Englebright for years. I don't really like any of the projects in the book except for this one. I finally decided that this was the year to do it. It was fairly easy. I ended up I really big piece of yellow felt because the by-the-yard felt was twice as wide as normal but that ended up a good thing because I had a hard time squaring it up and went through almost all of it before I got a piece cut right. The stars were also hard and ended up bigger somehow then they were supposed to. There should be 5 stars in each square but my hand was starting to ache with all the cutting so I just left them as is. Also, Sam was quick to point out that real candy corn are orange with a yellow bottom but I was just following the pattern so not my fault.