What?  You don’t see it on my table?  This is what my table looked like while trying to figure out the pattern for that little box!  (I’m not a clean crafter, that’s for sure!)

Then I took a nap-and my brain kept working on it.  I love how your brain is always working on solutions to problems, even if you’re not consciously working on it!  I woke up with the perfect solution and sketched it out right away:

Want to make one?  I’ve got the template for you!  Just download the pdf, cut, and trace onto your best black spider paper, attach ribbon legs underneath and you’re done!

To hold it shut black velcro works perfect!  It’s a great size for a small message and a piece of candy!  Doesn’t it look cute perched atop this jam jar watching over the treats?  I wrapped the jar in white organza to give it a little spider web feel to it.

Ready for the next project?  Need some easy to make drippy and spooky votives for your Halloween get together?

All you’ll need are some glass votives and red acrylic paint.  (I used the Christmas Red Folk Art paint from Plaid.)

Wash your votives so they are free of fingerprints, oils, and dust.

Hold the votive at an angle and put a bead of acrylic paint around the inner top edge of the votive.

To get it to get a good drip shape just tap the bottom of your votive on the counter top.  The drips will appear on their own.

Just let them dry and drop in your LED tea lights!  Easy peasy!

Happy Crafting!

Erin

Supplies needed:
Shadow Box (get these at pretty much any craft store, even Target and Wal-mart have them)
Foam Tape
Spooky Patterned Paper

Instructions:
Cut the patterned paper to fit into the back of your shadow box.
Print from your photo editing program a spooky phrase. I used the Bleeding Cowboys font and printed it onto orange paper.
Stack about 4 squares of foam tape to each other and tape your phrase to the back. You’re finished!

Try adding a spider to the front, or a few gravestones. You have lots of space to work with, so make sure you use things with different depths to take advantage of that!

Happy Crafting!

And here’s how it’s done. It’s pretty easy. I used two different FREE downloaded digital scrapbooking kits:

Coralee Evans, aka MzCora Halloween Mega Kit found at http://mzpimptress.vox.com. This kit is awesome! So many different papers and embellishments! (She just emailed me and let me know that her site where the Halloween Kit is found is down at the moment. If you leave a comment with your email I can email you the pages that I used to make the kit.)

Ronna Penner of Scrapadelic.com ExpressYourself alphabet found at http://www.scrapadelic.com/ (Well, it was found there, but I think it was a limited time only kit for free. The only thing I used from Ronna was the alphabet, which you could switch out the letters for any other font you feel like, but I still have to give credit to her.)

Anyway, just print out the pages onto white cardstock, trim to sizes below, glue/tape to foam core, tie together and your done.

The quantities and sizes of the pieces are as follows:

4- 2 1/4″ x 10″ paper pieces

2 – 3″ x 3″ paper pieces

3- 3″ x 4 1/4″ paper pieces (This is for the BOO pieces. You can print them out with the green background or if you have green cardstock, just print out the black letters onto the green cardstock to save a little of your ink cartridge)

Glue/tape them to foam core board and trim to the correct sizes. I hung all of them from a empty paper towel tube wrapped in black chenille yarn. Just put a stripe of glue down the tube and start wrapping! I connected all the pieces together by taping more of the black chenille yarn to the backs.

Finished Size: 12″ x 24″

Designer Tips:

I made mine to hang against a wall, but if would also make a great mobile. Just cover the backs of the pieces with solid or more printed pattern cardstock. (This designer tip is from Christian! Thanks!)

I originally designed this to be a Christmas wall hanging-use christmas colored paper and instead of the BOO you could have JOY, or put pictures of your family inside.

If you’re into quilting, this would also be great made from fabric! or wood, or…well you get the idea!

Also, since you’re only using small pieces, you can crop the papers down to size before you print them out, then you use even less cardstock and ink.

Any questions? Just ask!

-Erin