Here is a Halloween project I've been working on, inspired by my bestie over at Scrap It Girl. I give her and my sister-in-law all the credit for this project, because I basically just borrowed their ideas.
Anyway...
Sparkle sparkle!!
I picked up some Halloween-y ribbon for 50% off at
HL, to start constructing my 'banner'. The combination of black, green, purple
and orange just says 'Halloween' to me.
I also picked up this black and orange feather boa from Hobby Lobby, also 50% off. Kimberly (Scrap It Girl) has been doing all kinds of fantastic things with ribbon on banners, so again, that's where the inspiration comes from. I fixed the letters to the extra wide, sparkly ric rac with hot glue. The letters are really light, so their weight isn't a problem. I thought about using a staple gun, but considering the amount of glitter that would come shooting off, I didn't think about it long.
After cutting the boa and laying it between the letters, I wasn't overly pleased with how the fluffiness of the feathers kind of covered the letters a bit, and I was afraid that 'BOO' wouldn't be clear enough. So, I wrapped each section of boa in the purple and green sparkly ribbon to tame it a little bit, and also add those other two colors into the mix. It worked out pretty well.
Maybe I should mention here that I originally only bought one 4' roll of green ribbon, and used the whole thing on two of four boa sections. When I went back for more, of course they were out. That's where the purple comes in. I was originally going to use all green ribbon, then add purple in somewhere else. Again, it worked out pretty well.
It's hard to see the purple ribbon in the pictures, but it's there, swirled around the boa just like the green. Trust me. I added in the little accent chochkies for a little extra character. The purple owl was a floral pick, so all I had to do was yank the stick out. I had to make a minor repair afterwards, but he's sitting on it, so you can't tell.
Clearly my photography leaves much to be desired. My new pumpkin friend is a jingle bell. His purple glitter mask coordinates splendidly. I just tied his little head right onto the O.
Anyway...
The letters are from Hobby Lobby and come naked like this. They are really cheap, and if you have a single creative bone in your body, the options of what to do with them are pretty much endless. The 'O's here are actually zeros...they were out of Os.
As far as I am concerned, they work out perfectly.
Spray painting sure is fun, I see why the hoodlums like it so much.
Anyone have anything they need spray painted? I'm your gal.
Spray adhesive is almost as much fun as spray painting. Maybe even more fun, cause you can stick stuff to other stuff...and stuff. Like this glitter. I stuck it to my spray painted letters.
It took almost the whole two glitter tubes to do 3 letters.
I will have this glitter stuck on me, somewhere, forever.
But don't they look pretty? Eh?!
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| Oops, no purple ribbon in the pic. |
I also picked up this black and orange feather boa from Hobby Lobby, also 50% off. Kimberly (Scrap It Girl) has been doing all kinds of fantastic things with ribbon on banners, so again, that's where the inspiration comes from. I fixed the letters to the extra wide, sparkly ric rac with hot glue. The letters are really light, so their weight isn't a problem. I thought about using a staple gun, but considering the amount of glitter that would come shooting off, I didn't think about it long. 
Maybe I should mention here that I originally only bought one 4' roll of green ribbon, and used the whole thing on two of four boa sections. When I went back for more, of course they were out. That's where the purple comes in. I was originally going to use all green ribbon, then add purple in somewhere else. Again, it worked out pretty well.
It's hard to see the purple ribbon in the pictures, but it's there, swirled around the boa just like the green. Trust me. I added in the little accent chochkies for a little extra character. The purple owl was a floral pick, so all I had to do was yank the stick out. I had to make a minor repair afterwards, but he's sitting on it, so you can't tell.
This bats green matches the green sparkle ribbon pretty much exactly, even though it doesn't look like it in this wonderful picture. He was also attached to a stick, but with a wire. I think he was also a floral pick, but I think he was also slightly broken. He served my purpose perfectly. Minus his stick.
Clearly my photography leaves much to be desired. My new pumpkin friend is a jingle bell. His purple glitter mask coordinates splendidly. I just tied his little head right onto the O.
And voila! One of a kind Halloween decor that makes me look like I really know what I'm doing.
Gotta love it.
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