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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Easy Halloween Décor – Repurposed Frame

I think Halloween may just be more fun to decorate for than Christmas. Less pressure but all the fun and no lights to untangle.

One of my favorite home decor projects is the repurposed frame.  I use an old frame I have around the house or a thrift store find. For this project, I used a black tabletop 5x7 frame and created a Halloween scene inside using Echo Park paper and stickers.




I used the Chillingsworth Manor collection and one of the papers in this line had October written on the B side.  I used that as my base.  To create the scene, I used a large journaling card with a haunted house and big full moon.  I messy stitched a few circles around the moon for a playful touch. Once I had the basic scene created, I added stickers on top of the journaling card.


Since I was putting the scene under the glass of the frame, I didn't want to have anything bulky on the page.  But I did create a little dimension by backing the stickers with cardstock and by using pop dots in a few places.  I also added a little spider hanging from twine, using orange licorice from Trendy Twine.  The playful skeleton from the Echo Park sticker sheet was the perfect ending touch to bring scene together.




Here's a close-up of the bottom of the frame.  This was a fun, fast, Halloween project.  My favorite kind!

Thanks for stopping by. Happy hauntings!

12 comments:

  1. i love doing this!! you really rocked it! and i totally agree with you that i love to decorate for halloween as well!

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  2. I love your scene. I've always wanted to do something like this but never have.

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  3. Decorating for Halloween is a lot of fun and I'd look forward to it even more with a fun decor piece like this to unpack every year. I love how you created the scene around the "October" paper. Will you teach me how to "messy" stitch? I have no clue. :)

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  4. This is JUST AWESOME!! I loveeeeeeeeeeeee this idea!!! And you could probably just change it out for each holiday!! So FUN!!!!!

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  5. I like your frame a lot! I'd say that decorating for Halloween is *almost* as much fun as decorating for Christmas. The tangly lights are indeed a drag, but there's nothing like opening my box of snowmen and seeing their smiling faces. :)

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  6. So fun! I love decorating for Halloween, too!

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  7. This is s utterly fabulous!! I love it, Izzy!!

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  8. Love this EP collection....very cool Halloween scene! Your seasonal crafts are always outstanding, Izzy!

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  9. Great idea. I love to make "frame vignettes for the seasons" too.
    You did a marvelous job on this one!

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