Happy Halloween
The doors of the Wicked Witches Boutique creak open for business… step inside and behold the poisonous potions, pickled pumpkins, fine fashions, gorgeous gems, bedazzled broomsticks and haunted hats.
These idea-ology corked domes have been long time favourites of mine. I added a pumpkin and skull inside one and a spider from the adornment halloween set to the other. These spiders are so creepy I can barely hold them. The trinket pin on the end makes the perfect price stick.
Altering bottles is another favourite when it comes to the idea-ology range. I love love love the assortment of bottles available. I used bottles from the apothecary vials, tiny vials and corked vials sets. I added crackle glaze, ephemera and melted embossing powder on them to alter them. I chained a story stick around one. I pushed a nail from the vintage hardware pack into cork stopper of one bottle. I love the pieces in the vintage hardware pack and used them throughout this project.
This witches hat evolved through experimentation and a crazy idea. I used the tag press to create a hat base. It provided something to wrap the felt around and could be bent to give that unique curve to the brim. The peak is made from paper circles, cut with the paper punch that matches the tag press set and stacked on top of each other. Painted with a layer of distress collage medium and covered in black soot distress paint. A scrap piece of idea-ology mummy cloth sprayed with rusty hinge distress spray gives it a little flair. I’ve posted a short step by step HERE. It’s really easy and I have another idea for an extra home decor piece. It’s okay to continue to make halloween stuff into November, right?!
This aged mirror using the idea-ology baroque frame will surely tell you who the fairest of them all is. Pickled pumpkins and bottles, this time pungent perfume “toil number 13” …a witches favourite.
For just $1 pick up this frightfully fanciful chocker, it’s sure to take your breath away…
Cloak Couture! made to measure for the discerning witch…
Bedazzled brooms in a variety of broomstick lengths, ask about our exciting new broom accessories…
Pickled pumpkins, blended by head witch and cauldron specialist, Paula Cheney, (check out her Fall Pumpkin blog post).
Don’t forget your coupons. Sale ends Friday!
I really hope you’ve enjoyed this post. It was so much fun to make, I might have to make a series of Halloween boutiques to hang for halloween…
A big thank you to Tim Holtz, Mario Rossi and Paula Cheney for including me in the seasonal sample fun. I have loved (and am hoarding) the Halloween idea-ology and have some lovely home deco pieces to add to my Halloween decorations.
I will be back later with my completed Halloween banner, which is up, but may have to photograph when the sun scares all the vampires into their coffins and the halloween hangover sets in.
Have a safe and happy halloween.
Zoe
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