Flying Unicorns Oct Kit of the Month - Farmer's Market and Hayrides
October also means spooky houses and Halloween frights. I did my best to spook my family with the Flying Unicorns Off the page project for the month Farmer's Market and Hayrides. . And the biggest surprise? I used FabScraps – Angelic Christmas Collection.
The purples and greens in this nontraditional Christmas Collection from FabScraps was exactly what I needed as odd as that sounds. This is what the house looked like to start.
To walk you through my creative process, I need to start at the beginning. I originally had sugarplum visions for this house. It was going to be a winter ice castle. I started well into the project and had the intricate roofing all finish and was well into creating the walls. I let a night's rest sink in and when I got up, I looked at my project and yawned. Oh dear me - not good.
Was I yawning because it was 4:30am? Heck no. That's when the best scrapping is to be had at my house. I was bored to tears of the direction I was heading. so I ripped off all my roofing and tossed out my walls. i revamped my direction and grabbed the FabScraps papers, I just knew they would save me from certain scrappy disaster.
I started on the roof first. Here is a close up of my dimensional, multi-layered roof. You will find complete and detailed instructions on how I made my roof if you scroll down .
I then decorated the sides and added embellishments. My sweet little skeletons were from a craft store in the Halloween section. The little fencing was found at a craft store in the unfinished wood section.
This little guy has a Prima Liberty rose in his pocket.
Thanks for looking. Grab your FabScraps papers at the Unicorn store today before they are gone.
For This Project You Will Need
Flying Unicorns Kit of the Month - Oct Farmer's Market and Hayride
FabScraps Angelic Christmas - I Believe Paper C61 002 (purple)
FabScraps Angelic Christmas - Festive Bells C61 004
Claudine Hellmuth Charcoal Black Acrylic
Adirondack Acrylic Paint - Silver Metallic
Stampendous Mica Flakes- Tarnished Mica
Black Spray Paint
Wooden Fence
Prima Soprano Yellow flowers - 561673
Prima Liberty Small Rose 566951
Cheese cloth
Plastic Skeleton
Cardboard
Dylusions - Black Marble Mist
Prima Clear Stamp -960810
K&Company -Tim Coffey Halloween Bone Spooky Dimensional Stickers
Darice Wooden House
Instructions
1.
House Preparation:
2.
Paint the house
black. I used both black gesso and black
spray paint.
3.
Cut walls using sheet
of FabScraps Angelic Christmas Collection – I believe paper C61 002. Lightly ink the edges of each wall. Glue the
paper to all the walls.
4.
Cut door frame and window
frames from FabScraps Angelic Christmas Collection – Festive Bells paper C61 004.
5.
Draw lines in the
shutters with a fine tip black marker and glue shutters in place.
6.
Using a texture stamp,
add some black stamping to the walls as desired.
7.
Roof/Shingle Preparation:
8.
Cut ½ in strips of black cardstock. Set half the strips aside. The second half will be backed with either
cardboard strips or dimensional tape.
These will be used to achieve a dimensional and varied look to your shingles.
9.
Cut all the paper
strips into sections varying from ½ inch up to1in. Add extra interest to your roof by cutting
the pieces on angles, adding jagged edges and making some of the shingles unique.
10.
Glue the shingles to
the roof by starting at the bottom of each roof section. Alternate by gluing a
dimensional shingle, then a flat shingle next to it. When the bottom layer is complete, add the next
layer making sure to overlap on top of the layer below it. Alternating your
shingles.
11.
Once all shingles are
on, you can fill in sparse places on the roof as desired.
12.
Glue mica chips on
roofing as desired.
13.
If cardboard is
showing on the roof, touch up with black spray paint.
14.
Finishing Touches:
15.
Paint wooden fencing with
silver paint and add a touch of black paint to distress. Glue to sides of the porch.
16.
Glue plastic toy
skeleton to the porch.
17.
Spray flowers with a
light black mist to grunge up – not totally discolor. Glue to porch and add one red rose to the
skeleton.
18.
Tuck a small plastic
skull to the floral cluster.
19.
Cut small pieces of
cheese cloth and glue to the roof and windows for spooky cobwebs.
20.
Finish by gluing bats
to the roof.
21.
Enjoy.
I came from a cherry on top to see this. Not in to Halloween all that much, but I must say all your hard work paid off. It does look like it was hard work. Very cute. Congrats. If you can you should submit it for publication.
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