Halloween Ghosts decor

Easy to make Cheesecloth Ghosts

These cute Halloween Ghosts are a great project to do with your kids and make an adorable table decoration.

Supplies needed: 

Package of Cheesecloth

Liquid Fabric Starch or Stiffener 

Balloon

Empty Bottle

Wide mouth jar or bowl

Scissors

Black paper with small circle punch or google eyes

Pipe cleaners to form arms if desired.





Blow ballon up to a size that will work best with your empty bottle. This will create the head of your ghost. Wrap pipe cleaners around neck of bottle to form arms if desired.

Unfold cheesecloth and drape over bottle and balloon to estimate length of cheese cloth. Leave 3" to 4" inches at bottom of ghost to help your ghost stand when complete.

Once you have cut the cheesecloth to length, place in wide mouth jar or bowl and add a good amount of fabric stiffener to make it very wet.










Squeeze it to ensure it is completely saturated with fabric stiffener.







Carefully pull cheesecloth open and drape back over balloon and jar, shaping as desired. All to completely dry. Carefully remove from balloon and jar and add eyes.

Halloween mini album made with Sizzix Bigz die Spooky Haunted House

Working on using my Sizzix dies in a new way. I love how cute this turned out.

Here is a quick quick look at my Halloween mini album made with Sizzix Bigz die HOUSE, SPOOKY HAUNTED # 655565.
Papers mostly were created with various stamps and colored card stock. Layered accents mostly from the K & Company - Spooktacular collection. Didn't have time to add voice over to video, if you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer.




 

Mustache straws

Mustache Straws SVG

These mustache straws are fun for parties and holidays.

If you want them to standup to moisture, make them from craft foam in the color of your choice. Think white for Christmas or Over the Hill birthday! Add your own standard size straws.

SVG cutter file available for only $1.50 with the hole already there to be cut! *File sent via email.
Setup to cut 20 on 8.5 X 11

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The owl challenge

Hoot Hoot

My daughter and I had an owl challenge. Goal: make the quickest and best owl in the quickest time. Here is what I came up with in a couple of minutes. She wouldn't allow me to posts hers, although I thought it was cute. Not sure if there was a winner. :) Might be a cute addition to a Halloween layout.

Right mouse click on image and save image as. You are welcome to add my blog link to share the freebies with others, but please do not post the image or create links directly to image. Of course you cannot resell the images directly or give them out, but you may use them in your own art that is to be sold.

Spooky titles for Halloween

 Spooky titles for Halloween

Before Halloween passes I thought I would give you some titles to add to your pages or crafts.
 These eri*doodle FREE titles can be printed on letter size paper or smaller and used as is or layer them with coordinating colors of your craft or page.
Words include spooky, scary, boo and frightening. Titles include a little spider, bat and swirls.

I know not everyone participates in Halloween so this week I will also add a Fall Festival title.

You are welcome to add my blog link to share the freebies with others, but please do not post the image or create links directly to image. Of course you cannot resell the images (purchased or free) directly, but you may use them in your own art that is to be sold. These are original eri*doodle designs.

Witches pointed hats a fashion trend?

Witch it be this Halloween.

In the 15th Century the pointed hats started out as a fashion trend in London but later only the "pagani", folk women who live in the country wore them.  These wise women became known for their use of herbs in their daily lives for healing. Once witches trial started, these women fell suspect to using the "black arts". By Victorian times the hats became a common image associated with witches, which were depicted as old hags.

If you would like to use these free eri*dooodle image, right mouse click and save image as.  For FREE svg file Click here



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Broken window of a haunted house

My mind rolls around with a great number of ideas for haunted houses. My focus today is on the broken windows.

This is a great window. Once printed, you can cut out the glass part and add your own design or just use as is. The window doesn't have to be on a house at all but on a page floating along with ghosts and chandeliers. This is a great opportunity to add this eri*doodle clip art freebie to your collection. Just right mouse click and save image as.

You are welcome to add my blog link to share the freebies with others, but please do not post the image or create links directly to image. Of course you cannot resell the images directly, but you may use them in your own art that is to be sold. These are original eri*doodle designs. 

Easy to design paper piecing pumpkin

There is something about those funny shaped gourds and pumpkins you find this time of year. Each one seems to have a personality of it's own. In this lesson you will learn how to design your own paper piecing pumpkin. Yes, I said design! Don't worry, these are easy to make and I have also included a FREE eri*doodle template to get you going. These look great gathered up on a page.

What you need:
Paper or textured card stock (best). I used plain orange paper for example.
Pencil
Scissors
Scrapbooking chalks
Glue
Accessories

Step 1: Either save the template (right mouse click) or draw 4 ovals and the simple center shape, see template or photo for the example on this. They don't have to be perfect. We want each to be unique as pumpkin should be.
Get creative! Try other sizes and shapes to make a variety of pumpkins. Short, skinny, fat or round. Anything goes. It's difficult to mess these up. The only thing to remember is the center should be same height as the others or a little larger.

Step 2: Cut them out.

Step 3. Dry placement. No glue just yet. Lets get a feel for how you want to arrange them. Layer them from the ends as they will be your pieces on the bottom. Overlap them as desired. If you need to reshape any, now is the time.

Step 4. Use Scrapbooking chalk to add shadowing around the edges. I used brown here. If you rather, you could wait and glue glitter onto piece after it's assembled.

Step 5. Add glue just along edge that will be covered by overlapping piece. Remember to start at the ends and work towards center.

Step 6. Add stem and accessories such as vines or leaves.

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Meow says the Halloween kitty

Every Halloween page needs a Halloween cat. 

I also included in this FREE eri*doodle clip art download some spooky speech bubble. Just add your own word(s). Just right mouse click and save image as.
If you would like this to be a digi stamp, shoot me and email or leave a comment.
You are welcome to add my blog link to share the freebies with others, but please do not post the image or create links directly to image. Of course you cannot resell the images (purchased or free) directly, but you may use them in your own art that is to be sold. These are original eri*doodle designs.

Princess costumes a favorite

Free Printable Halloween Princess

I used to create feature pages for a newspaper. This time each year I designed a page for the top Halloween costumes. Princess costumes make it to the top choice for girls year after year. With that in mind, this morning I decided to draw for the eri*doodle blog this adorable little Halloween princess. She is available for free in both digi stamp and as clip art in color. She is about 5 inches and scales down great. Take advantage of the free downloads by right mouse clicking on the images as save image as.
As promised, I am working on making available some free cuter files soon. They will be available in SVG and knk.

 You are welcome to add my blog link to share the freebies with others, but please do not post the image or create links directly to image. Of course you cannot resell the images (purchased or free) directly, but you may use them in your own art that is to be sold. These are original eri*doodle designs.

You'll go batty in no time

Bats and free Halloween paper

  Some time ago I set out to create some original looking bats for my daughter's Halloween page. Other bats out there just didn't hold the feeling I wanted. They were either too scary or too cute or just plain boring. I wanted cute with just a tad of creepy. What I came up with was making them out of recycled film and sanded them a bit to add stress and wear. The words in the wings, somewhat unreadable added the bit of spook I was looking for. Success! I loved them so much, I scanned them in high resolution so I could print and use them some other time.
  As I thought about the blog for today, I remembered these little bats. Perfect! I have combined them into a single document and decided to offer the digital file dirt cheap. The largest bat spreads out about 5 inches, but all the bats can be printed much smaller.

For a short time, I am offering these 

text bats for .99

 File will be emailed to you shortly after payment is made or as soon as I am available to do so.

Also for coming to the eri*doodle blog today. I have a free pumpkin paper download. Yay! This page has a white background with small orange brown jack-o-lanterns. Perfect for paper piecings! Page size is 12"X12"

You are welcome to add my blog link to share the freebies with others, but please do not post the image or create links directly to image. Of course you cannot resell the images (purchased or free) directly, but you may use them in your own art that is to be sold. These are original eri*doodle designs.
 

What good is a cauldron without a witch? Lets digi stamp one.

If you enjoyed that last project, I have a little (not so little) witch to add to that page.
 Below I have added another eri*doodle FREE download. This time a digi stamp. For those of you who don't know what that is,  digital stamps or digi stamps are black and white digital images that are downloaded onto a computer where they can be manipulated before printing out. They look much like what you would get if you stamped in black ink. Images can be re-sized and manipulated in other ways and even colored if you prefer before printing it out. There is no physical stamp. A digital stamp is just the image. Can even be used as a coloring page for a child. Designed to print to letter size 8.5X11 or smaller.

If you rather just have one already colored, I have also included the eri*doodle FREE clip art version. Right mouse click to save image.

By the weekend I hope to have a source to post free SVG and KNK's on this blog. :)

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Bubble, bubble "FOIL" and trouble

So my title was a play off of a line in Macbeth. Yes, I know it's "Double, double, toil and trouble." I just couldn't resist. Seemed perfect.

In the spirit of this time of year, I have added the following foiling technique to a witch's brew of course. I ran into a little trouble while making my brew. Watch the video instructional slideshow.

You will need the following items for this project.

FREE eri*doodle cauldron printed onto cardstock
Clear Acetate, report covers work great too.
Foil from the kitchen.
Brayer to roll it down with
X-Acto or scissors
Sharpie markers in your favorite brewing colors
Rubbing alcohol 91%
Cotton balls 
Adhesive of your choice, spray is best
White or light colored pencil
Googly eyes in various sizes
Accessories of your choice

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Simple Jack-o-lantern goodie bag

Simple Jack-o-lantern goodie bag

This has happened to me on many occasions, a last minute situation that you need a simple goodie bag for the kids or work? Here is a quick and simple Halloween themed paper bag for your Halloween goodies. Would also be cute to send kids lunch in.


All you need is
The eri*doodle FREE Jack-o-lantern high resolution download.
A lunch size paper bag
A hole punch smaller than size of ribbon width
Ribbon
Scissors  
Glue stick or double side tape
Goodies of your choice.
Tag optional

Print on cardstock and cut around one of the pumpkins / Jack-o-lanterns (below)
While bag is flat, glue or double stick tape pumpkin to bag
Open bag and place goodies inside.
Fold over top of bag about 1.5 inches
Punch two holes for ribbon
Feed ribbon through holes
Attach optional tag
Tie a bow

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A little Halloween Whimsy

Whimsical tree and paper

With Halloween right around the corner I thought a bit of whimsy was in order. I have come up with four freebies for today. I know not everyone uses digital papers, but personally I have been adding them into my collection and printing them to use with paper piecings. Included free for personal use only are Halloween colors in my own personal design. Created just today! Size is 300 dpi 12"X12". Right mouse click on image as save as.

 I thought the perfect addition to the papers is this whimsical tree. Imagine hanging pumpkins, or bats on this tree, adding a fence with some trick-or-treaters running about. This tree isn't limited to Halloween, how about a winter wonderland? It was designed to be used large, but can be reduced as small as you dare. Original size is 7" wide X 10.25 tall. Great for 12X12" pages.

Whimsical Tree svg cutter file can also now be purchased from the eri*doodle blog for $4

ON SALE NOW ONLY 1.50

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