Marvelously Messy

Monday, October 4, 2010

Make your own Halloween Cards (simply)

What a nice, unassuming, primitive card. It's got the saltbox house, the soft wooly sheep, picket fence, and delicate painted style. The only thing missing is......

the dreaded vampire sheep of Pennsylvania!!!! They show no mercy to another of their brethren.

Here's another nice primitive card:

Aw, isn't that sweet?? Da wittle kitty and da birdie are buddies. He, he, he, he.....

But where is the little red birds partner??!!

See what a little paint can do?? This is an inexpensive way to make Halloween cards....without all the hassle of assembling them yourself. I bought these cards at a local bargain shop for ninety-nine cents for a pack of ten. What a deal!! If you do anything like this, I'd love to see it. These cards I made totally crack me up (especially the sheep).

I am sharing this post at these linky parties:
Get Your Craft On
Three Or More @ Gypsy's Corner
Halloween Party: While He Was Napping
Frugalicious Friday

DIY Fall Festival

Fall Felt Board Craft

Oh, the fun of felt material!! You can do so many things with it. This is my latest fall decor attempt...and it is multipurpose....not only is it decoration, it is interactive. Love it!! Here's what I did:

With a little help from some heat-and-bond and an old dry-erase calendar:

I ironed that felt right onto it. I used some brown for dirt/grass and some blue for the sky.

Give your dirt a little depth and add some gently rolling hills. Then, I started making the felt characters!! Munchkin was a wake and involved in the process, so of course this wasn't just a fall-themed project....it was a DINOSAUR fall-themed craft. They find their way into a lot of our crafts. :-) We got pumpkins......and, a VOLCANO!!!!

Where would the Great Valley be without Littlefoot and Petrie?? Nowhere. That's right.

That yellow swirling vortex (thanks hubby for naming it so *aptly*) is actually a round hay bale. You know you see it. Just not necessarily very well.

(Kinda looks like one of sir pumpkins eyes is getting pulled into the not-a-vortex, but that's beside the point)