A non traditional Holiday Ornament; Day of the Dead mirror

 Here is another addition to the Holiday ornaments all Blank Page Muse DT members are showing this month. The people who know me a bit, know about my love for the darker side of art, and that is why I decided to make an ornament with a skull theme. To make it less scary, glitter paint and gems were used to color the sugar skull stamp by Blank Page Muse.

The plastic mirror was in my stash for a few years, waiting to be altered. I thought it would be the perfect thing to use to make an ornament from. Not just to decorate a (gothic style) Christmas tree but also to be used as decoration for Halloween or Day of the Dead. The only problem was it was cheap looking and had butterflies for decoration. To adjust the look of the mirror to the gothic look I wanted to achieve, some clay skulls were used for decoration. Next step was to transform the mirror frame from plastic to an antique silver look. In the video below all steps are explained.

List of materials:

Stamp used: Blank Page Muse Day of the Dead Sugar Skulls SC 52, designed by Michelle Frae Cummings

Plastic mirror

Transparent piece of plastic (I used an overhead projector sheet)

Black Gesso

Silver Metallic paint

Glitter paint in Red, Green and Silver

Gem stones in red

Clay ornaments (of course you could also use metal or plastic charms)

Wire

Ribbon in black and grey

Waterproof permanent stamp ink in black

Stamp tool (makes stamping on plastic easier)

Glue dots or double sided tape (don't use glue on a mirror)

All instructions are in the video here:

This is what the back of the mirror looks like after altering it. I love how the metallic silver paint gives the gothic look I aimed for, Imagine it hanging it next to lights in the Christmas tree, it would catch the light perfectly and be all festive and glittery :-)

I had fun creating this mirror, it's always nice to find a use for things you find in your stash, even if it is not the way it was intended to be used. You might want to have a look at the things you have collected in your stash, you never know what you find :-)

Don't forget to check in at this blog again some day soon for more inspiration.

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Angelic Mermaid Ornament

Hi BPM Fans!!

 It's December and Xmas is looming ever closer!!!

Hope you are enjoying our Quick Makes and Xmas ornaments so far this month!

I'm sharing a stamped fabric ornament - it's a little bit fiddly but so worth the effort when you see the end result!

Supplies:

Blank Page Muse Stamp: Kai Lana Mermaid designed by Stephanie Eaton

Scraps Calico Fabric

Brown or Black Ink Pad

Coloured Pencils

Sewing Machine

Stuffing/Hobby Fill

Sparkly flower ornament or puffy wings etc.

Fishing Line

Tools: strong clear glue, scissors, large eye needle, chopstick or poker to push stuffing in! 

Instructions:

Stamp "Kai Lana" onto the calico fabric with the brown ink pad and colour with coloured pencils. Colour to match your Xmas theme!

Layer the stamped coloured fabric piece onto another piece of scrap calico and using your sewing machine sew all around the stamped image (through both layers of fabric) as shown in the photo and trim as shown below.

Next step is to separate the two layers of fabric so you can carefully snip a slit in the back layer. Use this slit to add stuffing and use a chopstick or the like to push into the cavity.

Use your needle and fishing line to make a loop for hanging the ornament.

Use your strong glue to attach the wings. For this project I used the "petals" from some sparkly gold tree ornaments. This step covers the slit in the back of the ornament - saving you from having to sew it up!

Your angelic mermaid is now ready for hanging on your tree! 

Seasons Greetings

Sharon

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Beware Scare Box

Hello everyone!! So glad you stopped by, Kelly here with a Beware Scare Box for Halloween today. I love Halloween and I like to have small decorations setting around that create some mystery for the viewer, this box does just that, I think. 

I found this little box that has a nice lid and closes well, it was already black so I didn't have to paint the outside of the box. I did, however, paint the inside a bit along the sides.  

Blank Page Muse stamps used for this project are - 

Halloween on a Shelf

Spooky Word

RIP Headstone Skull

Beware Bat Badge

First, clean up your box and paint any edges or creases that need to be touched up. Then paint a backdrop piece for the back of the box. For this project, paint cardstock with your fingers in orange, yellow, and green for Halloween, glue into the back of the box. To measure the background piece, lay the box on the back of the painted piece and trace around it. When you cut, cut just inside the traced lines to fit in the box. Set aside.

Now, stamp all of your Halloween images in VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink, and color with colored pencils and gamsol. The images will need to be fussy cutout, lay them aside.

 Next, you will need to create an accordion fold to glue all of the images you have ready to create the vignette inside the box. If you have a scoreboard, score your paper every 1/4" for 6 times then fold along the lines in an accordion style. Leave a 1/4" edge on the front and the back for the glue.

Decide on how you want your images to appear in the box, then start with the back and glue in the background piece and one or two of the images on the back. Remember to glue them a bit high on the background piece so that they will show when the piece is finished. Then decide how you want the images to look inside of the box, make sure that you arrange them from tallest to shortest and stagger them on your accordion folds. When you have decided how you want them to appear, glue them in place and let dry. Run a glue line down the folds and on the tabs you left and place it in the box. hold in place until the glue is set. 

Attach a few extra images to the front cover.

Using a sheet of washi tape, add to the front of the box attaching a printed paper panel and one of the fussy cut images to the front of the box. My box didn't need a closure but if it did I would have created a belly band to hold it together.

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Flying Witch Halloween Decoration

I made this hanging pillow Halloween decoration with the Flying Witch from the Sin City Stamps Halloween Takes Flight stamp set.  For details on how to make the canvas in this picture, see this post.

I stamped the Flying Witch image onto a piece of tea dyed muslin with India Black Ink from Stewart Superior.  Stewart Superior provided us some inks to work with, and this one makes a nice, crisp image on fabric.  It helps to put your fabric on top of some craft foam when you stamp.  For more tips on stamping on fabric, see this post.

I added the text with ColorBox Chalk Ink in Pumpkin Spice.