February Frosted Designs Blog Hop

It's Blogtoberfest Time!

It's that wonderful time of year to join Tresa Black's annual "Blogtoberfest" over at her blog, Fabulously Artsy!! Click on the button below to check out all of the bloggy goodness that she's celebrating this month:





Have a super day!

Blog Hop: Spooky Halloween Tin PLUS Felt Ghost Instructions and Pattern

Hi, All! Tresa Black, (aka the Stamp Goddess), is hosting a Halloween blog hop so I thought I'd join in. Be sure to check out her blog, Fabulously Artsy for some AMAZING craft projects and while you're there, why not enter the blog hop with a Halloween project of your own?

My project is a super cute Halloween treat tin! I purchased the tin a while back at Hobby Lobby for just $1.00 because it was missing the wire handle! I knew that I'd be able to work with the tin even without the wire handle, and for a buck how could I pass it up?!?!? Anyway, here are some photos of the project...

Here's the front of the treat tin. I used Halloween-looking scrapbook paper and ribbon that I had on hand; cut the paper and ribbon to size and applied repositionable adhesive to the back using my Xyron machine. I then adhered the paper and ribbon to the tin as shown in the photos below:

Here's a photo of the lid...the bats are stamped from the CTMH "Beware" stamp set and double layered using 3-D dots for a little extra dimension:

A close-up of the bloodshot eyes:

A close-up top view of the ribbon handle:

A close-up side view of the ribbon handle, connected to the tin with a large white brad:

The ribbon handle is made from a piece of black ribbon that I purchased that had pre-attached silver eyelets. I wove a piece of orange ribbon through the eyelets, folded the ends under, and secured with a brad. I then adhered the pumpkin buttons to the ribbon using Liquid Glass, but I cut the shanks off of the backs first, so they would lay flat against the ribbon. Here are some close-up photos of how I dressed up the black ribbon:

Here's a close-up photo of the felt ghost, along with the pattern and instructions so you can make one too! These also make really cute lapel pins...just add a pin to the back with Liquid Glass and you've got a fun accessory for a jacket or sweater! Just click on the pattern to print a full-sized version.

To make the felt ghost, print and cut out the pattern pieces from the template shown above. Cut 2 ghost bodies out of white felt and glue them together. Cut 2 pumpkin bases and glue those together, too. Glue 1 pumpkin center to the top of the layered pumpkin base. Cut 1 brown felt stem and 1 green felt leaf and attach with glue to the pumpkin as shown in the photo. Glue finished pumpkin to ghost as shown in photo. Cut 1 nose from orange felt and 2 eyes from yellow felt. Attach with glue to ghost face. Glue black beads to the centers of the yellow felt ghost eyes. Using a fine-tipped black permanent marker, draw a squiggly smile on the ghost and your done!

Have a TERRIFIC week!!