Haunted House Dollar Store Decor

Happy Tuesday crafty friends!

I hope your day is off to a great start and you are enjoying the new season we just hit...FALL! It is our collective households favorite season! I am outvoted 3-1. All of my family members love fall most of all! I love it, because I love them! Anyway, the fall feasts are a lot of fun. One of the celebrations is halloween. While as a family we do not participate in halloween, I do have a couple of halloween events I do for my job. So I wanted to make something that I could used to decorate the booth. Here is what I created.

Here is my project. It is super cute. It is a free standing decor piece.

I started with a plain haunted house from the Dollar Store.

I painted the house with some purple paint. I made a base for it by gluing some jenga type wood blocks to both sides. I then painted them with some black paint.

With the black paint, I painted some "roof tops" While the paint was still wet, I sprinkled some glitter on them.

For the moon die cut, I used some wire and sandwhiched a couple of the dies together with some foam tape between them.

I then went to work adding in all the super cute die cuts I used. As with most of my projects, I started by die cutting all my pieces from white cardstock. I then colored them in with my markers.

In this close up you can see the following dies: The tops of the cake sho

Here is one last look at my completed project. Below are the dies I used.

Vintage Lamp Post

From the new Christmas Release

Holiday Door

Used the bottom base, door, and columns for the door are of my project.

Used the oval window top for the two windows on each side of door.

Snowman w/ Country Shed

Used the shed wood base for the background of my door area.

Cake Shoppe

Used the Roof top and the awning of the front window. The roof top piece is over the door and over the left second story window. The awning piece is over the third story window. 

Candy Cart

Used the Top for the awning on the seccond floor to the left window. It is layered underneath the roof top piece of the cake shoppe die.

Lemonade Stand

Used the base of the stand for the window box planters on the bottom windows. Also used the little penant. it is on the second story window on the left.

Cute Ghosts

Halloween Victorian Gate. Used at the front of the house.

Jack-O-Lantern Witch. Used the Jack O Lantern and the hat on one of the pumpkins

Spooky Fence Mini

Used a cut piece from this for the 2nd floor skinny window on the right side.

Spooky Kitties

Used the little pumpkins

Used te spiders and some of te web pieces

Used the roof top on the 2nd floor side piece as window awnings on the small windows and also used the 2nd floor as my chimney.

Trick or Treat Phrase

Witch Hat

Witch Legs

Used the legs as "Shutters" for my first floor windows.

Well that about covers it for this project. 

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Until the next time, have a wonderfully crafty day!

-Melinda

Snowman With Country Shed Christmas Card

Happy Sunday Scrapping Cottage friends!  Melinda here, and today I am sharing a fun Christmas card. It features the super cute, Snowman With Country Shed die. It is one of the new dies in this month's new release. Now is the perfect time to pick them up! They are 30% off and they are SUPER FUN! They will help you get your Christmas projects done with some fun and pizazz!

Here is a look at my project. I created this cute card filled with frosty country charm!

The card is an A4 horizontal top folding card. The base is from some gray cardstock. I cut a mat from some cute pink snowflake digital paper I created. I then used the cute Snowman With Country Shed Die. I cut all the pieces in white and then used a combination of markers and colored pencils to color my pieces.

For the country shed, I colored it with a base of my red marker.

I then added some details to give the "wood" some additional dimension with my colored pencil. I proceeded to color all of the other pieces in the same way.

I then used the largest Double-Stitched Oval die from the Nesting die set. I cut it in half length wise.

I layered the dies on the bottom of my mat. The mat is the largest Stitched Scallop Rectangle from that nesting die set. I added a mat of some pink snowflake digital paper I created. I trimmed the ovals down to match the width of the pink mat paper. They made some perfect snow mounds for my background.

Here is the base of the card. As I mentioned above, it is a top folding horizontal A2 base. I then cut another mat of my patterned paper and mounted onto the base. From there I assembled the rest of the pieces onto the scalloped stitched base. Once everything was in place, I mounted that mat onto my card base. I finished it off by adding some white paint and stickles glitter glue.

Here is a look at the finished card. For the Warm Wishes sentiment, I used them from the Coffee & Cocoa Warm Wishes Die Set. I think this card turned out super cute! I know the perfect person to get this card! 

The Dies I used to create this project:

Snowman With Country Shed

Coffee & Cocoa Warm Wishes

Double-Stitched Oval

Stitched Scallop Rectangle

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Make sure to come back by each day for some more great crafty inspiration from the super talented team. Until the next time, have a wonderfully crafty day!