Hey Eighteen25 readers! I’m so excited to be back again for this years Spooktacular September! My name is Ellie G and I blog over at Less Cake {more frosting}. I love being creative, drinking Diet Coke, eating sugary snacks, and going to Disneyland. I have been a LONG TIME fan of the Eighteen25 girls. They are so amazing! One of my everyday reads.

I can’t believe Halloween is upon us. I just barely got the swimsuits washed out for the last time. Nevertheless, I’m ready to go. This time I went to the craft store. Okay. To be honest it was the Hobby Lobby. I might want to move in there. Just sayin’. I have decided that I want to attempt a primarily Black & White Halloween this year. So I knew I needed a few new things to fill in where I’ll be editing orange decor. I looked through the Halloween stuff. And just couldn’t find what I wanted. You’ll never guess where most of my projects came from….the Christmas aisles! Yep. I was raiding the stuff right next to Rudolph. I think it’s gonna be a secret between just you and me. Black is VERY “in” for Christmas decor. So I had lots of things to choose from. Bonus!

We’re gonna do “Oh Christmas Tree”, Halloween style. If Jack Skellington can do it….so can I! Start with a can of spray paint primer and a can of Glossy Black. (I also used some gray). Then get:

• Grapevine Tree Form
• Terra Cotta pot
• Styrofoam Ball
• Clearance Vase
• Sticks from a tree. No leaves.

Spray paint everything. Prime first. You’ll never regret it.
 
 

Tree #1 is a Halloween topiary.

• Get a dowel and stick it into the base of your spray painted ball.
• Hot glue it so it doesn’t wiggle.
• Then take it outside and spray paint the dowel. (doing it in this order also gets the glue on the base sprayed. Just makes it super clean looking)

Buy some inexpensive plastic beading. Where? You guessed it. Christmas aisle.

• Hot glue the first few beads and let it dry well. (this will make your life easier….I promise)
• Then wrap the beads around the circle, gluing as you go.

• I spray painted my pot black first, and then put some vinyl decorations on it.
• Then I sprayed again in white.
• When the vinyl is removed, you have a perfect little decoration on your pot. It’s fabulous!

Tree #2 will be made with your sticks.

• Get your spray painted sticks and put them into your spray painted vase.
• Secure them in some floral foam. Preferably with some hot glue. They like to move around.
• Find some small black ornaments to glue in the branches. (these are glittered styrofoam balls. Where? Say it together, class……THE CHRISTMAS AISLE!)

  Tree #3 is your grapevine one.

• It just needs to be sprayed.
• And wrapped with a few of your left over topiary beads. Easy Peasy!

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I'm Jen Sedillo, one of the bloggers behind Eighteen25. I love creating and crafting, reading good books, visiting new places and being with family!

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Hey all you eighteen25 fans! (which would include me….since I’m kind of an eighteen25 groupie.) My name is Lara. But most my bloggy buddies know me as “Ellie g” at Less Cake {more frosting}. Lots of people ask me why I blog under a different name. And the real answer is: I had taken an Ambien when I set up the blog. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Let this be a lesson to you, children….
Okay, let’s get to it! I must start out by saying. I don’t really like Halloween.Well, that’s not true. I don’t like SOME aspects of Halloween. I detest anything remotely scary or gory, or creepy in any way. My Halloween celebrations, to this day, consist of watching Halloween cartoons, (Peanuts, Charlie Brown, Garfield) and eating candy. I don’t do Haunted Houses. (except the one at Disneyland) And I DON’T do scary movies. One movie I WILL do is Disney’s “The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad.” We watched it every year on VHS as kids. We’d get in our jammies and make popcorn, and snuggle up for our annual showing. (I admit I kinda miss the days where shows weren’t always “on Demand”. It made things special!) I also have to say, that it’s borderline scary for me. C’mon! The Headless Horseman is a creepy guy! (Good thing the movie has that funny little plump girl, in the blue dress, to keep me laughing) Since I love this movie, (keep in mind–DISNEY version…not scary version) here’s my homage to one of my favorite Halloween cartoons. This is one of my favorite techniques for creating custom art pieces. Yours will look different. That’s what makes it so great. In fact, I couldn’t make 2 identical ones if I tried. You must start out with some kind of canvas. I used to buy new ones with 40% off coupons at craft stores. Lately, the 80% off section at Hobby Lobby has become my headquarters for canvas. I think I paid $3.69 for this one. (Originally $45)

**Make sure it’s the kind for white shirts, or it won’t work.

**You must flip your picture to print out backward. (especially if it has words)

**Bold shapes work best, and words (if you want them legible) should be fairly big and chunky. (I didn’t care if this one was really rough looking)

**The iron-on paper works best on a HARD surface. So if you can, put a book or a block of wood up inside the back. That wasn’t a possibility for me this time, and it still works fine. You just have to press hard and be patient.

**Slowly peel up the backing paper. Some of your transfer material won’t stick. But as long as most of it does…keep peeling. If not, iron some more.

The result is ALWAYS original. And in this case, it is perfect for a not so scary Halloween celebration. As Braum Bones warns us in his tale to Ichabod:

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I'm Jen Sedillo, one of the bloggers behind Eighteen25. I love creating and crafting, reading good books, visiting new places and being with family!

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Latest posts by Jodie and Jen (see all)

• Our Friday Five 9.30 - September 30, 2022
• Our Friday Five 12.3 - December 3, 2021
• Composition Book Christmas Planner - November 28, 2021