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Boo Cuteness

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The kids and I were decorating our front porch this past weekend and I just thought it needed something else…like ghosts.  Not scary ghosts, cute ghosts and definitely not those blow up ghosts that look like the marshmallow man even though my kids would of loved that idea. Since I’ve been into wood projects lately, I decided at that moment to make some wood ghosts to add to our Halloween collection.  So, the kids and I headed over to the garage and hubby saw us  busting out his tools, and was like again?  Yep- I’m making ghosts.  Ghosts- Out of wood?  Yep-a boy and girl ghost, ya know, to look like the kids.  So that’s just what we made last Sunday afternoon.

Wood Board Ghost

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.

Wood Board Ghosts

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.

 

Boo Wreath

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?”

 

Halloween Boo 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.

Wood Boo Letters

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”?

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  13. 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!!

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  14. 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!

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