The ghosts are cut at 5 1/2 wide and 12 and 16 inches high, sanded, distress with a hammer and spray painted white. I inked the edges with black distressing ink and cut smiley faces out of vinyl using the Mini Monster cartridge. They still weren’t cute enough so we added googly eyes for cuteness.
My son wanted his ghost to have a bow tie and of course my darling daughter needed a spooky bow on her head tied with a button and curled wire. This whole project seriously took maybe an hour to make and totally full of cuteness.
To continue with our ghost theme this year, here’s our Halloween wreath. Pretty simple wreath, unlike most of the wreaths I tend make.
I’ve actually reuse this grapevine wreath many times. I’ve become sort of a “crafting cheap skate” ’cause I rather up-cycle or dig through the dumpster before I go out to buy another overpriced craft item. Since everything is hot glued together, I just use my heat gun to melt the glue and then remove the embellishments. Works great, I don’t need to store another holiday themed wreath and hubby can’t say…”you made another wreath?”
I wrapped a whole roll of ribbon around the wreath, spray painted wood letters black (No, I didn’t make the letters, I’m not that good with power tools yet) and added crepe paper flowers.
These crepe paper flowers are so easy to make. Basically, you just put a big blob of hot glue on a circle and just keep wrapping and pleating the crepe paper around into a flower. Crepe paper outside you say? Well, I do live in the dry desert climate so I probably wouldn’t recommend using crepe paper outside with rain and humidity.
For the wood letters, I embellished them with curled orange wire and added some googly eyes to keep up with our fun ghost theme this year. Don’t ya think it’s total “Boo-Cuteness”?
Can I say AWESOME! I love the wreath and your happy boo day ghosts!
These are so fabulous, Holly!! Wow, I just love the adorable ghosts!! The googly eyes were a great touch!! And the wreath is gorgeous!! What fun Halloween projects!! I hope you are doing well and thanks so much for playing along at Decorate to Celebrate!!
Lisa
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Hubby should’ve said…There you go again, rockin’ out some AWESOME stuff!!! Love your stuff.
Be blessed, Beckie
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Super cute wreath and love those ghosts!!
Tracy
Holly these decorations are just awesome and I love those ghosts. TFS
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Your decorations are adorable! Love that beautiful wreath!
Love all your decorations. Those ghosts are great.
Tara
Okay, okay, okay… You had to have known that I’d make a big deal about your trip to use the power tools again, RIGHT??? These are adorable — I especially love the little bow tie and hair bow (and of course googly eyes!!)… LOVE them!!
Thanks so much for decorating your celebrations at the Decorate To Celebrate! Challenge Blog!
BIG HUGS,
Amy 🙂 at http://www.lovetocrop.com
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Your projects are great! I like the flowers on the wreath and the shading on the ghosts!
super cute thank you for joining us at dtc. hugs
Thanks for sharing this cute decor item with FCCB’s vinyl challenge
These ghosts are super cute! Love them! Thanks for bringing them on by to show us at FCCB!! Scrappy hugs, Connie
Your projects are lovely Holly. I love the inking on the ghosts and their super cute wiggle eyes! Thanks for joining FCCB’s Vinyl Cricut Crawl this week!!
These projects are terrific!! I love the ghosts with their google eyes and the inking on them looks great! Thanks for joining the vinyl challenge at FCCB this week!