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.

Fleur De Lis Medallion

Fleur De Lis Medallion- a versatile addition to your digital art collection. 
Right mouse click to save. Enjoy it with your scrapbooking or crafts projects. In PNG format for transparent background. 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. 

Snowman project

Snowman project

Here is a fun winter project for kids. My daughter made this in school one year. It has had a place in our Christmas tree for many years.
They are easy to make with help from an adult.

Materials
Large Popsicle stick
White and pink  paint
Black Sharpie
brown pipe-cleaner
small piece of black and orange felt or paper
scrap fabric
button
glue
White foam sheet

How to:
Paint popsicle stick white and set aside to dry
Cut white foam sheet into a circle for the head
Cut a triangle out of orange for the nose and freehand a hat out of black.
Cut and bend pipe-cleaner to form stick arms and hands
Create face with Sharpie and paint as seen.
Glue head to stick and hat to head.
Cut fabric into a strip and wrap around neck and hat as shown. Glue down add button
Lastly glue pipe-cleaner arms to back.

Block Colored Autumn Tree

Block Colored Autumn Tree

Those hand print turkeys your kids brought home from school can now find a place on a scrapbook page along with this block colored fall tree. I kept this eri*doodle FREE .png  basic to go with kids Thanksgiving art.
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. For commercial use. Please contact me.

Give Thanks tag

Give Thanks tag

Never let a day pass without looking for the good, feeling the good within you, praising, appreciating, blessing and being grateful.
Use this FREE eri*doodle tag at your Thanksgiving table tied to a napkin or glass steam. 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. For commercial use. Please contact me.

Easy to make name banner

Easy to make name banner

Every child likes to see their name. I was working on some party stuff for my niece and decided to make her a name banner also.
These can be made from paper, fabric or felt.
First, I created an eri*doodle scalloped cutter file, which you can buy here for .99

Using my cutter, cut the scalloped square out of felt. The wall-mart thin felt worked, but stiffened felt would be better.

Next I cut 2 bandanas into squares 1 inch smaller than scalloped square then cut them down further using pinking shears then sewed each square using a zigzag stitch leaving raw edge exposed.

Next I again used my cutter and cut vinyl letters out and burnished them down for good contact. I also added horses at ends to match her theme. These are simple, but you can add as much as you can dream up.

In the top corners, I folded them in half and cut a slit slightly larger than ribbon. Threaded ribbon through and tied a loose bow.  At the ends, I tied a knot to create a loop for hanging.
How adorable would this be in a baby room?