Halloween Wreath

This Halloween wreath was made last year.  I mentioned it on my old blog but decided that I wanted to share it here - I hope you like it and hopefully it will inspire you!

*Last Year* In my quest for getting to know other bloggers in Utah and to put my shy self out there a bit I decided to join in a fun challenge hosted by Rebecca from Blue Cricket Design.  I was given a bunch of fun goodies to play with and I am excited to share with you today what I made.

Look at all the fun stuff I received.  I was most excited for the self healing
mat, scissors and Xacto knife.  Plus I am always using glue dots so I
was curious to see how the Elmers glue spots worked as well.

I decided to use some of these products for the Halloween Wreath I have been planning in my head.  Along with my wreath, tulle and some straight pins the items I used were the scissors, mat, xacto knife, glue spots and foam board.  Here is the finished product (read further if you would like to see the tutorial) - Hope you all like it!

Halloween Wreath Tutorial

Start off with a wreath form - any kind will do - I used foam.  Grab some Tulle.  I used black, purple, and orange - I used almost 2 rolls of the orange.  You will need some scissors to cut the tulle.

The Xacto scissors cut nicely.  They were sharp and PINK - I just Love Pink!

Since tulle can be a bit see through I wanted to cover my wreath form so you could not see the white.  I could have spray painted the wreath but just wasn't feeling like going outside with the spray paint.  So I covered the wreath in orange tulle.  To start I pinned some tulle on the back.  I then wrapped the whole thing and then finished off with pinning it in place on the back.

You can still see a little white of the wreath but once I cover it in more tulle
you won't be able to see any white - so I was good with this.

 Now with your scissors cut some strips of purple, black and orange tulle.  I think I cut 25 to 30 strips of each.  Then tie them around the wreath with a knot.

Lookin' good so far!

 Go around the whole wreath with the tulle.  Once your done give it a little bit of a haircut so all of the tulle knots are even around the whole thing - and don't look too close to mine because I didn't do well on this part :)

Now lets work on the spider.  I knew that I didn't want a flimsy spider so the foam board that I received was perfect for my spider.  The Elmers foam board comes folded in half like a card.  I only needed one half for this project so I decided to cut it half. 

*Confession - i have never used an Xacto knife - ever in my whole life! So I was a bit nervous that I would totally mess my project up.  I soon learned that the Xacto knife was easy to use and may become very handy on future projects of mine.

Next I cut out a spider out of vinyl so it would be easy to cut out with the Xacto knife.



After cutting I peeled off the vinyl and this is what I had left.  In some spots I did
not press hard enough with my Xacto knife so I had to recut
several spots.

I then pushed the spider out of the foam board - I think I did a pretty
good cutting job!

 Next spray paint the spider black and while his paint is still wet slide him onto another piece of paper and sprinkle with glitter.

 Let the glitter/paint dry for a few minutes and then dump the excess glitter onto the clean paper and save all that extra glitter for another project!  Then take a piece of scrap red paper and glue it behind the eyes.

I used the Elmers glue spots to put the red paper on behind the eyes.
Worked great!

 *Confession - I don't think my glitter is going to stay put.  Every time I touched the spider glitter would come off.  So if you would like to skip that part he still looks cool painted black.

Using one of my favorite tools - the Cropodile - I punched a whole at the back of the spider and fastened on some wire.  Cut a nice length of wire and wrap it around the top of the wreath to hang it.

To hang the wreath I cut a strip of black tulle, folded it in half and pinned the ends on the back of the wreath.  Now you have a nice loop to hang the wreath with.

I think it turned out so cute and my kids love it!

*Fun fact - When my door is closed and sunlight is shining through the wreath on my wall, the spiders reflection actually looks like a head with snakes coming off of it - so I have my own shadow medusa as well! :)

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