Granddaughter's Halloween Art...

Hello Crafty Friends!

We had our granddaughter up for a visit for a week and just had to do some fun crafty project for her mom and dad.  I had to wait for my husband to have a day off work because this was a 4 handed project.  LOL!  Wish we had another person around to take behind the scenes pics as it was quite comical trying to direct my husband on how and which way to hold the baby while I painted the body parts.  She is quite the wiggler and very ticklish.  A memory we will never forget.

This pumpkin is of her painted butt!  This was the funnest one to make.

Her hands as a bat and feet as candy corn.  In retro spect I should
have done her feet upside down.  Oh well...oops!  hehe!

Going to try to get a Halloween photo shoot in pretty soon.  Need to get out my props...I'm a little afraid of getting into that closet!  Eeeek!  LOL!

Until next time...Happy Crafting!!!

Halloween Decor and 5th Blogaversary...

Hello Crafty Friends!

Hope everyone is doing well and gearing up for Halloween.  We've moved and won't get any Trick-or-Treater's here, but that didn't stop me from decorating.  :)  A few family and friends kids come to visit occasionally so they will get to enjoy it.  :)  

Our doxie Penny didn't even care that this really wasn't daddy.  She slept in his lap anyway.  Any port in the storm.  LOL!

We have loads of wildlife where we live now, and due to the drought the pond is all dried up, so I put out 2 watering buckets.  These turkey's come several times a day and hang out around the water cooler.  The deer and other's come out in the morning and evening, and more come out throughout the night.  ;) Now that they know there is water there I need to fill it up everyday. LOL!

Back on the 6th I posted about my 5th Blogaversary.  Well it didn't show up for some reason and it isn't in the drafts.  So anyways, I can't believe it has been this long.  So many changes have happened and new social media avenues have opened up it is just to hard to keep up with all of them. I have been posting all around and not staying consistent with the blog.  I don't ever see any action from here (blogger) anymore, is anyone out there? LOL., My facebook page for myneed2craft gets more action. This year has been super crazy either way, and I haven't done much in the way of crafts, but I will share anything I do.  :)  Plan to get the craft studio up and running before the holidays.  

We'll see. 

Until next time (hopefully sooner than later),

Countdown to Halloween Blocks...

Hello Crafty Friends!

Just wanted to share with you the Halloween countdown blocks I finally got done.  :)  Better late than never I guess.  They have only been sitting in my closet since, oh, 2 years ago.  LOL!

Dem bones...

Hello my Crafty Friends!

Thought I would share Chelsea's project from the other day.  She made a bowl full of bones for the kids at the school she works at.  They turned out so cool.

These were made using pretzel sticks, mini marshmallows and melted white chocolate.

Assembling the bones...

She did fill up this whole bowl...

Dip one side at a time and allow to harden...

Messy hands...

Finished bones

Pumpkins and Ghosts...

Hellooooo Crafty Friends....

What a wonderful crafty Saturday we had here on Saturday.  Kristine and I have been talking about making these ever since we saw them on Pinterest (yes Pinterest again)  LOL!

Thankfully the nice young man at Home Depot cut up all the wood for me in the sizes I needed, so we got real nice flat cuts.  All we had to do was sand.  Now you don't have to sand them perfectly smooth because you want it to have a natural look and the dry brush painting technique works and looks better.  :)

Sand

Base Coat

Layering up colors with dry brushing technique

Used scissors to cut Balsa Wood into sign shapes

All painted up and ready to embellish

A limb from one of my Crepe Myrtle trees

Cut out vinyl face shapes

 And Voila!

Kristines finished ghosts

My Pumpkins

Kristines Pumpkins

Stay tuned for Chelsea's Skeleton Bones...

Halloween Candy Jar...

Hello Crafty Friends!!!

Here is a version of the Gumball machine style candy jar I made for Halloween.  It sure is taking a lot of will power not to eat all those Smarties!!!  LOL!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!

Hollooooooooo my crafty friends!

OK, let's wrap up the Halloween craftiness, shall we?  :)  hehe

Here are the rest of the Halloween projects I have for you (I've got to move on to Thanksgiving and Christmas now)  LOL!

Let's see what is left, hmmmm.....

BOO Letters!

I used letters that were already made that I picked up at Joann's.  They are the paper mache type.  I traced the paper letters by using the paper mache letters as a template.  First I painted all the letters black with craft paint.  I Modge Podged the paper letters in place.  (I made the letters reversible for more color choices) Then with my Momento Tuxedo Black ink I sponged it all over the edges.  And lastly I Modge Podged all over (doing sections at a time and letting dry in between).  From here you can embellish as desired.  I used some stickers I had and decorated just the one side.  :)

By using coordinating paper on both sides I can acheive
different looks.  :)

Embellish if you like.

The piece de resistance.....

The Cauldron!!!!!

I have been wanting to make this since I saw it on SVGCuts.com blog.  I had a little bit of a hard time putting together, but after the first one (throw away) hehe, The second one came out perfect.  Be sure to follow Mary's tutorial EXCACTLY as she does it and you shouldn't have any problems (can you see where I went wrong with the first one).  LOL!  

Using the Party On Elm Street SVG Kit from SVGCuts.com and following the directions EXACTLY the way Mary shows you in the tutorial, hehe, I embossed my outside pieces with a spiderweb embossing folder from Cuttlebug.  Highlighted with sponging some silver ink.  Added a few dots of Stickles on the inside edge to resemble rivets and tied it up with a ribbon.  (Oh, I also sponged the white edges with black around the top, the black paper had a white based center, grrrr.)  :)

Make sure to use wax paper as a liner for protect
the paper and you then you can reuse.  :)

OK, I think that wraps up Halloween.  Now off to do Thanksgiving and Christmas projects!  

I hope you have a SPOOKY HALLOWEEN!

Coffins.....

Hellloooooo my crafty ghoulies.....

Yeah, I made that word up (ghoulies) hehe.  Here are the coffins I made to hold snacks/candies in for when I hosted Bunco at my house this week.  :)  I really loved how these turned out and they were super easy to make with the Elmhurst Hollow SVG Kit by SVGCuts.com.

Instead of making the moon top, I ran the background base through my cuttlebug using embossing folders (sorry I don't know what it is called, I borrowed from my friend Ann, it is from cuttlebug), it wasn't long enough so I had to do just a little bit at the end.  Then I sponged them on top with a silvery metallic ink.  I also sponged Momento Tuxedo Black ink around all edges.  (I used the paper pack you can get at Walmart for $5, but the inside is white so you have to sponge the edges black)  It did give it that extra little something.  :)

Oh yeah, I did stamp in silver a bat from the stamp set
solids4Halloween
from The {Stamps} of Life

Be sure to line with wax paper before you put in your
snacks, that way you can use them again and again.  :)

These were a hit.  Somehow I only ended up with one at the end of the game???   LOL!  JK!  Of course I shared with my friends.  :)

OK, stay tuned, there is more....muah ha ha!