Brain Candleholder ~ Craft Klatch ~ Halloween DIY

I found a brain jello mold at the dollar store and decided to use it to make a brain candleholder for Halloween.  Halloween may be over for this year, but it's never too early to start planning for next year!

Here is the video tutorial, so you can see exactly how I made it!

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Time for a spooky Halloween coaster!  It's a Haunted House Coaster!  I used stickers to make this project.  The house was actually a paper sticker.  Because it was a layered sticker, it is almost impossible to seal it, so I didn't.  I figured if the paper areas became blotchy, it would add to the character of the old house.  

You will need:

-  Coaster mold:  http://amzn.to/2e2Du81

-  Resin:  http://amzn.to/2dRab4I

-  Stickers:  http://amzn.to/2flbzSp

-  Chunky black glitter:  http://amzn.to/2dR2uf8

-  Fine silver glitter:  http://amzn.to/2fl9yWx

-  Transparent blue pigment:  http://amzn.to/2e2CwIR

-  Transparent purple pigment:  http://amzn.to/2dR69JE
-  Green acrylic paint in different shades

Here is the video tutorial:

Directions:

1.  Mix one ounce of resin, according to the package directions.  Add a little of the transparent purple pigment and a little of the transparent blue pigment.

2.  Mix in a little chunky black glitter and a little silver glitter.

3.  Pour into the coaster mold.

4.  Pop bubbles with your lighter and allow it to sit a minimum of 12 hours.

5.  Take the haunted house sticker and trip the corners, so it fits into the mold.

6.  Stick it down.

7.  Add the moon partially behind it.  I added glow paint to the moon, but that is completely optional.

8.  With a thin brush, brush some grass blades at the bottom, so the house doesn't look like it's floating in space.

9.  Once dry, mix one ounce of resin.  Drip it slowly over the paper house and let it soak in.  Pour the remainder slowly over everything. 

10.  Slide the ghost in, partially behind the house and place the tombstone in front of the house.

11.  Pop bubbles with your lighter.  You will get A LOT of bubbles, so be sure to stay on it.

12.  Allow to cure for 12 hours.

13.  Come back and paint another layer of grass, this time covering the bottom of the house and the tombstone.

14.  Once dry, pour one more ounce of resin over all of it.

15.  Pop bubbles and allow to cure!

I happened to put it in the stand and put a light behind it.  You can see how I made the lighted base here:   

That is it!  Happy Halloween and remember:

Life's too short not to shimmer, so grab your glue gun and your glitter!™  Stay safe!

Mona

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Halloween is ever closer, to get in the spirit, I zombified some pumpkins. Obviously it works for Halloween, but if you want to decorate for the impending Zombie Apocalypse , have at it!

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You will need:

-  Green pumpkins

-  Plastic teeth:  https://amzn.to/2BKeSvd
-  Hot glue:  https://amzn.to/2SqFIQd
-  Acrylic paint (brown, black, pink, red, green, gray, purple): https://amzn.to/2CFma5o  

-  Googly eyes or other eyes:  https://amzn.to/2BONzjk
-  Bouncing eyeballs: https://amzn.to/2LEimnE
-  Optional black foam for eyebrows: https://amzn.to/2BN1PsV

Here is the video tutorial:

Start by finding some lumpy pumpkins - something with a green tinge would be best!  If you want a more permanent decoration, consider using a dried gourd.   Gourds:  https://amzn.to/2BLjfq2

Directions:

1.  Glue on eyes and teeth to the pumpkin.  I cut the teeth from some cheap vampire teeth.  I as able to cut them with scissors.  The eyes don't need to be even, you don't have to have two and the mouth can be crooked as well.  No two pumpkins will end up alike and that's the beauty of it.

2.  Once you have attached the eyes and teeth, use your hot glue to build up around the features.  It's best to watch the video to see how it was done.  I also added some drippy stuff up by the stem.

3.  Once the glue has cooled, you can start to paint.  Use a variety of colors mixed to to create bloody, rotting, bruised looking flesh.  

4.  Let it dry.  I added eye brows to one of the zombies to make him look a little angry.  You can do felt or craft foam eyebrows.  I also made smear marks in random places around the pumpkin, so the rest of it didn't look forgotten.

That's it!

Happy Halloween of Zombie Apocalypse!

Remember:  Life's too short not to shimmer, so grab your glue gun and your glitter!™  Stay safe!

Mona

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I haven't done a dollar store project in a while, so Halloween sounded like it would be a great time to do one!  I went with a skeleton theme, which would also work great for a pirate party.  

You will need:

-  Two votives:  http://amzn.to/2elWQn9
-  Here are the votives from Dollar Tree:  http://shrsl.com/lmj7

-  Two candlesticks - different heights

-  Six small plastic skeletons:  http://amzn.to/2dZxnUI

-  Gauzy fabric

-  Glue that will glue glass

-  Hot glue

-  Red nail polish:  http://amzn.to/2dUJL4D

-  Two battery operated votives

-  Various plastic bones (I took apart a leftover skeleton from a previous craft)

*I bought everything at the dollar store, so if you have one by you, be sure to check there!

Here is the video tutorial:

Directions:

I started out with items from Dollar Tree.

1.  Take nail polish and paint on the inside of the candlesticks.  Think blood smears.  Allow to dry.

2.  Glue together the candlesticks and the votives.

3.  Drip nail polish on the outside of the votives, starting at the top edge.  They should not all be exactly the same.  Allow to dry.

Keep dripping...

Let it dry and add some to the base.

4.  Take the gray or black gauze and glue and wrap it along the candlestick, using hot glue to attach it.  At the base,  cut off the excess gauze and glue on.

5.  Take the small skeletons and cut off the loops on the top of their heads.  

With the twine they came with, tie them onto the stems of the candleholders.  You need three for each candleholder.

6.  Put a dab of glue on the back of their heads to just help keep them in place.

7.  I used leftover skeleton pieces from a project last year and I put them into the candleholders, with battery operated tea lights.

That's it!  Now you have a creepy, spooky set of candleholders!

Thanks for stopping by!

Remember:  Life's too short not to shimmer, so grab your glue gun and your glitter!™  Stay safe!

Mona

Haunted Zombie House - DIY Craft for Halloween

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I wanted to show that you can use mold for different things than their original intended uses.  I used the gingerbread house mold that I used last Christmas to create a one of a kind Halloween decoration that will last for years to come!

You will need:

-  Silicone gingerbread house mold

-  Resin - I used Envirotex Lite (For more info on Envirotex Lite, go to www.eti-usa.com.)

-  Pigment dyes for resin (You can color your resin any way you prefer, but I used the pigment dyes.)

-  Acrylic paint - I used gray, brown, red and black

-  Sheet moss and Spanish moss

-  Zombie figurines - I found unexpectedly found them at Michaels

-  Base - I used a basswood base

-  Brown sand 

-  Glue - I used E6000, Elmers, Ultimate and hot glue

-  Various decorations (I used skull beads, resin tombstones, fence, fall picks, plastic spiders, skull sticker, etc.)

*I made the resin tombstones from a mold I found.  I'll have everything I can find on Amazon linked at the end, incase you want to give it a shot!

Here is the video tutorial:

Directions:

(I will try to be as complete as I can be here, but if you have additional questions, you should definitely watch the video for clarification.)

1.  Paint the walls with streaky brown and gray.  The roof I used the brown gray and black.  The front door I used the brown, the gray and the black.  I did two coats, but I made sure that I did not cover everything.  I wanted it to look like a run down house, with paint peeling.  Allow the paint to dry.

2.  Prepare your resin, according to the package directions.  I worked with four ounces at a time because I did not know how much I was going to need.  The first batch I mixed white opaque dye with black, a little bit of brown and a little bit of green.  I wanted a washed out wood look.  

3.  Pour into the walls of the mold.  Be careful that you don't cover or drip on the windows.  You do want the resin to run into the frames of the windows, so you might need to carefully help it with your stir stick.  I didn't want the mold to be fully covered with this color resin because I wanted a darker color behind it, so it would be peeking out in areas.  Any excess was put into the door mold and very little was put on the roof.

4.  Run your lighter over the resin, to pop any bubbles and let cure.  

5.  Mix more resin and add black, brown and green pigments.  

6.  Pour it into the mold - again be careful about the windows.  You want to pour very slowly and help move it around with your stir stick.  Pour the rest into the roof mold.  Allow to cure.

7.  Mix some more resin.  Leave this batch clear because it is for the windows.  Pour into the mold, making sure the windows are covered and pour the rest into the roof mold.  Let it cure.

8.  Once cured, you can remove them from the mold and it is time to put them together.  I used a combination of E6000 glue and hot glue.  I applied the E6000 to the ends of the walls and then put them together(see video above).  The E6000 takes a while to fully cure and stick, so I ran a bead of hot glue on the inside of the connecting corners, so the hot glue would hold it in place, while the E6000 finished drying.  I did the same with the roof panels.

9.  The house won't be attached to the basswood base because I want to be able to pick it up and put a battery operated tea light or something inside of it, to light it up (Do Not Use Real Candles!).  The next thing to do is find the placement on the base and mark a pencil line around it.  Drill holes in the base where you want to add picks for landscaping.

10.  Mix glue and sand (you can mix the sand and resin if you would rather).  I wanted to do multiple layers, so I decided to go with the sand.  The resin is a more durable solution.

11.  Put the Crafter's Pick Ulimate glue on the base (except where the house will go).  Then spread it around.  Mix Elmers Glue and brown sand into a chunky mixture.  Apply it to the base, where the Ultimate glue was applied.  I did a thin layer.  Let it dry.

12.  Start figuring out the placement of everything.  Glue on the figurines.  Glue in the picks.  Glue on the gravestones.  

13.  The zombies I had were set on bases.  If you have similar zombies, you don't want the bases to show.  I mixed more sand and glue and applied it carefully to the bases.  I used a stir stick, a toothpick and a skewer stick to get it all done!  Blend in the sand and make the yard uneven.  

14.  If you are using a fence, now is a good time to add it.  I hot glued mine in place.

15.  Now it's time to start the real decorating.  I did red paint smear and spray to make it look like blood smears and blood spray, on the inside of the windows.  When that dried, I watered down light gray paint and painted that on the inside of the windows, so they look dirty and so no one can see inside (nothing is going on inside).

16.  Add moss.... a lot of moss.  I added moss to the framing of the house.  Along the roof, the corners and the bottom.  I added little pumpkins I cut off of floral picks.  I added two plastic spiders to the roof.  The front door has a skull sticker.  I added moss to the roof peak and plastic skull beads along the top.  I added moss in various places around the yard, to cover up hot glue by the fence, around the gravestones.  Add whatever you can find or think would  be appropriate or fun!  It should have your personal touches, whether the paint colors or the accessories!  

17.  Lastly, it needs something to light up the inside.  There are many options.  You could drill a hole into the base and add a light kit, like I did with the cupcake.  You do want to use a low wattage bulb if you go that route.  You will also want to add some feet to the bottom of the base, to raise it up, so the cord doesn't get in the way of sitting flat.  Since this is a holiday decoration, I wanted to have the freedom to put it wherever I wanted.  I was originally thinking of using a flickering battery tea light.  I happened across a small strobe light that runs on batteries and actually makes spooky sounds.  PERFECT!!!  Place that under the house and now you have a super spooky Halloween decoration!!

Thanks for stopping by!  Happy Halloween and Happy Crafting!!

Mona

In case you missed it last year, here is a the Gingerbread Christmas House video:

Here are Amazon links to some of the products I used

 (or similar - I couldn't find the exact zombies and I would get a large or extra large base - most everything else is the same or very similar):

Halloween Bride & Groom Ghouls Yard Decoration SOLD SEPARATELY. This gruesome twosome greets Halloween visitors with eyes shining a bloody, red glow and the horror of ghoulish howls. Bride and groom zombies have built-in motion detectors and can stand on any flat surface or be staked into the ground. Bride Wears a gauze wedding gown, black faux pearls and carries a bouquet of black flowers. Measures 13"W x 7 1/2"D x 48 1/2"H. Groom Wears a black gauze cape over his shirt and bow tie and a top hat. Measures 12"W x 9 1/2"D x 50"H. Each requires 3 AA batteries (not included); constructed of plastic and polyester. For display in a covered area. Bride and groom sold separately. Novelty item not a toy.