Display some killer Halloween artwork you've found or created yourself.
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By Raven
#86709
Another Minion sent me this idea from Pinterest. If you are not on Pinterest, go sign up now and search for Halloween things. There is a TON of idea's. Anyway, I had the materials already to make these so I tried one out. I'm just going to link the original blog post so you can see theirs because I can't for the life of me take a cool picture of the finished product.

http://dollarstorecrafts.com/2013/10/ma ... dlesticks/

The difference in mine from the original is I didn't have glass ornaments, but plastic non breakable ones (that sounds like a challenge!). I have them for a completely different project for Christmas I will hopefully be doing. I already had some of that overhead projector paper stuff (helps when your husband works at a University). The ornaments I have are a lot bigger than the ones in the original and I had to enlarge my skull. I also did not "smoke" the inside of my ornament since they are plastic. I figured (thankfully before I tried) that they would melt or something equally distressing would happen. The image is inside the ball which looks better in person. I don't even know why I'm posting these pictures, go look at the original link. :P

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This is it resting on a tapered candle holder. It was a day of crafts so there is a lot of crap around it. You can kind of see, if you use your imagination, that they would look pretty cool and spooky with some candle light. If I had a fog machine I would probably put one in the middle of all that swirling fog. Anyway, there are much cooler pictures in the link and they provide the patterns to download although if I make more of these I think I will look for even creepier images.

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By amandap80
#86780
I love those, I think I may give these a try myself!
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By monstermash
#86787
Very nice. I've had the crafting bug over the last week and this has just added to it. I may have to try this or at least hash together something similar.
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By vibhandaka
#86916
That looks awesome and once I read the directions, it doesn't look nearly as difficult as I had imagined. I wish I had more room, so I could make all the crafts I want!
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By monstermash
#86923
vibhandaka wrote: I wish I had more room, so I could make all the crafts I want!
Amen to that. I never seem to have enough space.
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By Raven
#86950
vibhandaka wrote:That looks awesome and once I read the directions, it doesn't look nearly as difficult as I had imagined. I wish I had more room, so I could make all the crafts I want!

There is never enough room. My entire guest bedroom is filled with my various crafting items. I go into a panic whenever someone is coming to stay overnight at my house.
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By staticfurball
#87028
Thanks for the link Raven I'd LOVE to try this. I might be cool to use a drill to hollow out the base of the wooden candlestick so you can add a glow stick inside but out of view......
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By Raven
#87035
staticfurball wrote:Thanks for the link Raven I'd LOVE to try this. I might be cool to use a drill to hollow out the base of the wooden candlestick so you can add a glow stick inside but out of view......
That is the most awesome idea I've ever heard!