Hello friends! Happy Monday! Happy Halloween Week! Can you believe it? Just like every year, I ran out of time to make all the Halloween projects I wanted and intended to make.... So this might be my last Halloween post for this year! If I find time, I'll try to post one more thing but there's no guarantee! LOL. The weather finally changed here in Sacramento over the weekend and it was in the 70's all weekend. Perfect!! It's been so hot and I've been so ready to wear a sweater. Fall is here I hope! I got a super cool new Halloween sweater that I need to wear this week!! I spent a big part of the weekend organizing my new makeup desk! It's been something I've wanted for years, and we finally made it happen for me! (My early birthday present)... We removed this huge chaise lounge chair in our master bedroom and we bought me a beautiful farmhouse desk to fit in that space. It's perfect!! One fact about me: I love makeup and beauty supplies almost as much as I love art supplies... It's the same thing, kind of. Makeup eye shadow palettes are just like water color palettes and applying makeup is like painting a picture!! Right? Any other makeup junkies out there? I bought a beautiful and super cool makeup mirror using my credit card points so now it's all set up. It makes me super happy.
Okay...on to the project for today! I made some cool, vintage-y, spooky paper medallions/rosettes! I absolutely love this kind of project where I can mix and match papers and elements and textures. I will use these to tie on a package or I will hot glue some ribbon on the back and hang them on door knobs, etc. I used mostly papers, stamps, stickers and other elements from my extensive Tim Holtz collection! I also used some of my favorite Papertrey Ink supplies. A lot of the things are out of stock now (they're older supplies) but really you can use whatever you have in your stash to recreate these! Just play and have fun!!
Here are my final three rosettes... Everything was made with Tim Holtz Halloween Paper pads, black cardstock, cream cardstock and orange cardstock. I embellished using stickers, ideaology charms, paper banners, glitter and stamps!!
I have this little bottle of old silver glitter and it's the perfect touch for these kinds of projects! In this one, I edged the text circle with the glitter. The pumpkin is from the Snarky Cats Halloween stamp set and I used Distress Inks to watercolor it. The tiny banner was free hand cut with detail scissors. The bat is a Tim Holtz charm.
For this one I splattered glue and glitter all over it!! I used a big silver owl charm (Tim Holtz) as the center piece of this one. Lots of die cut stitched circles....and again lots of paper. I also splattered white paint and Hickory Smoke Distress Ink liberally over lots of the pieces. I used an old out of production SIzzix Die for the two small rosettes. The large one I made by trimming paper and scoring with my Scor-Pal.
I used one of my favorite ever dies (Parisian Lace from PTI) to make a black doily for this one. Then I used spiderweb stickers and number stickers and a spider charm to decorate it! I used a long banner die (PTI) to make the banner going across it.
Here's a close up of that yummy glitter!!!
Here are my 'naked' rosettes! These are SO easy to make! If you have a medallion/rosette die, it cuts the strips for you and score them... But if you don't, you can still make these! Cut paper strips and then on your Scor-Pal score every 1/4 inch across. Fold all the score marks and then glue the ends together. To hold it together I like to die cut a circle to glue it onto. This also serves as your base/foundation for all the other goodies.
Use any papers for this! SO much fun to experiment. I love how the diamond harlequin one turned out!!
The next photos are all close ups of the various elements on each rosette.
Thanks for coming by to check out my spooky post for today! I hope I've inspired you to create! And I hope you have a happy and fun week ahead! Happy Halloween!! This year has been a weird one, but here we are at the end of October. We made it this far. XOXO
CLICK HERE or on the graphic below to see the supplies for today's projects. (Affiliate Links Used). I did my best to find as many products as I could. Again, these projects used a lot of old supplies from my stash. Get creative!
Wonderful rosettes. I love the retro Halloween look!
Posted by: Rosa M. Vasquez | 10/26/2020 at 08:05 PM
These rosettes are so fun and festive... I think that bat would be perfect on the toe of some really classic heels. Lovely all. I am finally using up some of my Halloween paper from about 5 years ago and looking forward to picking up some new ones, (on sale I hope!!) Great job dear lady!
Posted by: Anne Sturgeon | 10/26/2020 at 05:44 PM
Yep, I LOVE my make-up too & think of it as "art" also! LOL You WON'T catch me outside without my make-up!!! I'm also a girl who needs electricity & running water! ;)
Your Halloween Rosettes look SO WONDERFULLY VINTAGE!!! NICE TOUCHES TO EACH, Wanda!!! Do you make these for other holidays too? SUCH A BEAUTIFUL JOB!!! ;)<3
Posted by: Becky Green | 10/26/2020 at 02:19 PM
Very cool idea, Wanda!
Posted by: Connie | 10/26/2020 at 10:24 AM
Love your Rosettes. And I love all your vintage Halloween decorations.
I also am a makeup junkie. For years I didn't wear much due to my job, but now that I'm retired - I love all the beautiful eyeshadow palettes out there. It is like craft supplies - paints, inks, color etc. I do try and keep my makeup age appropriate however, but yet fun and pretty.
Posted by: Marie | 10/26/2020 at 09:21 AM
PERFECT! It's all in the details! Love them!
Posted by: Frederica S Bond | 10/26/2020 at 08:48 AM
A Halloween feast for the eyes, Wanda! So many cool ideas, have to jot them down! Gorgeous richness in each one!
Posted by: Nancy Penir | 10/26/2020 at 06:07 AM