31 Days of Halloween - LeighSBDesigns Halloween Hop 2025 Day 28

     

During October you will see many Halloween-y projects on my blog as I am joining in with

LeighSBDesigns 15th Annual 31 days of Halloween Blog Hop

and 2025 Crypt Keepers Countdown to Halloween

Find Leigh's main post here

This is my 12th year in succession of joining in with 31DOH!

As I am in Australia I am 18 hours earlier than Leigh at the moment!! 

I usually share a postcard  from Vintage Image Craft. 

Gorgeous illustration explaining a Halloween game from the past. Postcard circa 1910!

In September I altered a plastering float that I found in a charity shop.

However I found that because I had to hang it from the handle it didn't hang well and it annoyed me! 

I decided to repurpose it putting the decoration in one of my junk journals - it came off very easily!!

This time I decided to lie it on its face with the handle up. I then used this to attach a strip of torn corrugated card. I dripped ink along some of the corrugations and add a bit of distressing. The next step was to add fibre and the toadstools I had painted.

My next step was to add a collage of images from BeeArty (fussy cut from a paper), Gecko Galz, Conjurer of Dreams (all just printed and fussy cut), Smeared ink (no longer trading - coloured with markers and fussy cut) and Leigh (printed, coloured with markers and fussy cut):

Stack of Pumpkins

Grimm Reaper

In this picture I was just auditioning them... 

When I was happy with the positions I stuck them in palce and added the BOO - these were metal seat letters from an old stadium that I painted with neon orange.

This was the final result:

And here it is on my old sewing machine with some more ephemera.

I will add this to Leigh's linky!

 I always like to add the skeletons hopping!

Happy Hopping!!