Our DIY Halloween 2012 Costumes

We always make our own Halloween costumes (for the most part). Usually I find one stinkin' cheap costume at the store, and plan the rest of the costumes around that. This year, my son got a Buzz Lightyear getup (Disney Store) from my in-laws for his birthday and he decided that was what he wanted to wear for halloween. (All I had to do was add white sweats underneath!) So, with that, I HAD to have Lily dress up as Jessie, from Toy Story. I found the tutorial from this pinterest link.

The WHOLE Jessie costume only put me out about $5! :
-The hat was from the dollar store (ribbon added).
-The clothing pieces were Jack's that he'd out grown, and I added the felt and cow print (with washable fabric glue).
-Belt was made from felt
-Cowboy slippers were a $2 thrift find!

The Hubby and I went as Jack Skellington and Sally from "The Nightmare Before Christmas." ( This picture is a little more frightening, so I didn't make it as big :)

                      I would love to hear about what homemade costumes you did this year!!!

Monday: Sew Can Do, Graphics Fairy,  Mad In Crafts, It's So Very Cheri, Skip To My Lou, The Girl Creative,  DIY Showoff, Making The World Cuter,  Sumo's Sweet Stuff, Keeping It Simple, Trendy Treehouse,   

Tuesday: Sweet Floweret, Hope Studios,

Wednesday: Sugar Bee,  Silly Little Sparrow, Today's Creative Blog,  

Thursday:Someday Crafts,  The Thrifty Home, Someday Giveaway

Friday:Beyond The Picket Fence, Train To Crazy,  733,  Shabby Cottage,  Fireflies and Jellybeans, Somewhat Simple, Thirty Handmade Days,  Shabby Nest, 

Hodgepodge Friday,  Fun To Craft,  Tidy Mom, Finding Fabulous, Fingerprints on the Fridge,  Simply Sweet Home, 

Chic On a Shoe String,  Kojo Designs.

Saturday: Show and Tell,  I Am Only One Woman, The Hungry Hippo, Funky Junk Interiors, Saturday Spotlight @ Craft Envy. 

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A Spooky Halloween Wreath

        I found a SUPER cool wreath from Our Best Bites that inspired me to make myself a new Halloween wreath!

 I didn't do a picture tutorial on it, mostly because you can head over to Our Best Bites for some really great instructions, and then just add embellishments that you like. But here are some basic instructions:

What you will need:

-Small Wreath form (I used pipe insulation from home depot $1)

-Spool of 50 yards of black tulle (bridal section at Joannes)

-Embellishments (I did flowers and feathers)

-Hot glue and scissors

1. If you're using pipe insulation from Home Depot, cut it to make a small wreath form and duct tape together.

2. Start cutting your strips of tulle using one as a pattern for the rest. You want all the tulle pieces to be fairy close in length. Mine were about 12 inches long.

3. Start tying your tulle pieces onto your wreath form using just a regular old knot, pushing tulle together as you go. 

4. Hot glue your fun embellishments to the wreath. I used feathers, ribbon flowers, and silk flowers (the white ones I spray painted BLACK! 

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Halloween Highlights and Giveaway Winners!

I hope you all had an eventful Halloween! I know we sure did! We made our own costumes (except for my son's). We were all Batman characters. P.S. I will love you forever if you actually know who I am off the top of your head. ;)

 ...and we threw a  Minute To Win It-- Halloween Party; a total blast!

Severed Finger Cookies

Jack Skellington Cupcakes

Brain Cupcakes

We have a winners for the Elmer's Craft and Tell Giveaway....

Katie said...

Elmer's white school glue is a must around our house! We use it several times a week.

October 30, 2011 6:48 PM     AND   

Kristin said...

have so many Elmer's products! I love the self-healing board, X-Acto knife and the tape runners!

October 30, 2011 3:50 PM   

Congrats Kristin and Katie! I will just need your email address so I can forward it along to our Elmer's Rep!

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Fall Wreath

I decided that my naked door needed some autumn lovin' this year. So I got together with my friend Jenny (who is going to soon by joining me here on Craft Envy), and we made some fun little wreaths.

What you will need:

~ One styrofoam wreath

~12 yards of ribbon

~Pumpkin wooden cut outs (Hobby Lobby)

~various sizes of wood circles (also Hobby Lobby)

~scrapbook paper in autumn colors
~straight pins
~Mod Podge

1. I apologize for not taking pictures of this process along the way. First you will Mod Podge your scrapbook paper to all your wooden shapes and let it dry.

2. Once Mod Podge process is complete, paper can be cut from the wooden pieces.

3. Wrap ribbon around the styrofoam wreath and secure down with straight pins.

4. Hot glue your pieces of wood down to the ribbon wrapped wreath.

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Honey Bucket Costume

This is my husband's costume! He's going as a Honey Bucket port-a-potty since his name is John :)

I love how it turned out!

 

Hope you all have a wonderful Halloween! 

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Elmer's Challenge: Trick or Treat Container

Elmer's glue sent me this box of awesome crafting tools to use to craft something creative! Isn't beautiful to behold...

And this is what I made...

It's a trick or treat can for my lil' boy!

Here are the tools I used:

• CraftBond™Adhesive Squares
• CraftBond™ Glue Spots, Thin-small
• CraftBond™ Gel Pens 
• CraftBond™ extra strength Glue Sticks
•  CraftBond™ Permanent double-sided tape
• X-ACTO® Designer Series 8" Scissors
• X-ACTO® Designer Series 6" Precision Tip Scissors
• X-ACTO® Designer Series 12" Metal Ruler 
• X-ACTO® Designer Craft Swivel Knife
• white cardstock and purple cardstock
• CraftBond™ Foam Mounting Tape
• X-ACTO® Designer Series Decorative Edge Scissors - Zig Zag Pack 
• X-ACTO® Designer Retractable #1 Craft Knife
• X-ACTO® Self-Healing Craft Mat

1. First I printed a side profile picture of my little boy, traced it and added a top hat. It doesn't have to look perfect (as you can see)...

2. Then I used an Elmer's gluestick to stick that paper to the purple paper that I actually wanted to silhouette to be on.

3. Then, I took the X-acto swivel craft knife to cut out the silhoutte on top of my X-acto cutting mat.

 4. Using the x-acto precision cutting scissors, I cut an oval that I printed off the computer to put behind the silhouette.

5. To create a formal looking frame, I used a pair of the x-acto scrapbook scissors and cut around the white oval.

 6. Then I used an extra strength Elmer's gluestick to glue the three pieces together.

7. Using a Craftbond gel pen in the color gold, I traced around the silhouette boy to give it an antique touch.

 8. I spray painted a no. 10 can in glossy black to use as the container.

9. I cut strips of ribbon with my x-acto scissors and measured them with the ruler, to span the length of the can, plus some to attach to the top and button. I cut five of these.

 10. Using Craftbond double-sided permanent tape and Craftbond adhesive squares, I attached the ribbons to the can.

11. To cover up the ribbons folded over inside the can, I ran a couple of ribbons with the double-sided tape and adhesive squares around the opening.

 

12. I used Craftbond glue spots to attach my silhouette to the front of the trick or treat container. 

13. For an added measure of protection for the candy, I added this i.d. tag...

I used Craftbond gel pens to decorate it and foam mounting tape to give it depth. I stuck this on the bottom of the can.

14. For the handle, I curled a wire hanger and spray painted it black. For the handle I used a black rubber hose and cut it down with the retractable knife. 

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And the Super Amazing Giveaway is....

So here is the moment you've all been waiting for.... The most AMAZING GIVEAWAY EVER IS... The Silhouette SD!!!  Our friends will be having the giveaway next Monday, October 11th, so make sure to put it on your calendars and go visit Mom It Forward!  I'll be posting there that day, with a fun project for fall using... you guessed it, the Silhouette SD.  If you're not familiar with what this machine can do, you need to go to their website right now and check it out.  It's amazing!

Check out this awesome project Nicholette made using her Silhouette SD!

What you will need: 

-Black 8x10 frame

-12 inches of ribbon 

-hot glue gun

-Silhouette machine

1. Using your silhouette machine, cut out the words "happy haunting" and a corresponding picture. (Pumpkins on the fence can be found at the silhouette online store). 

**If you want to put the vinyl behind the glass (that's what I did) you will need to flip your image horizontally.

2. Take the glass out of your frame and discard the backing to the frame. 

 

3. Peel out your vinyl cut-outs and stick them to the glass of the picture frame.

4. Smooth out all of the air bubbles.

5. With your hot glue gun, put a dab of glue in each inside corner of the frame. Set your glass neatly inside.

6. Hot glue or staple one or more ribbons to hang your picture.

 

So remember, October 11th, head on over to Mom It Forward and sign up for this amazing giveaway.  Make sure you are a Craft Envy follower!  Good luck to everyone, you know you want this!!!


Disclosure: Silhouette provided me with the SD machine for my review and use in writing this post.

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