Halloween Altered Frames and a Scary Spooky Halloween Banner | My Mind's Eye

I have such exciting news to share today!!! I was up on the My Mind's Eye blog yesterday and again today with my Guest Designer post! Several months back they contacted me and asked me to be the My Minds' Eye October Guest Designer. Of course I said YES while jumping up and down and totally doing the happy dance!!! I have loved My Mind's Eye for as long as I can remember, so this opportunity felt like a dream come true!!!

Since I absolutely LOVE Halloween, I HAD to create a couple projects using their Happy Haunting collection to help decorate my home for our upcoming Halloween party! I absolutely love the mix of chalkboard and orange glitter that is used throughout this line!!! Besides these Halloween projects, I also created four layouts using the Cut and Paste collection. I will be posting each of those layouts separately starting tomorrow and over the next few days after, so that I can share more details on how I created each project. I will also have some FREE cut files for you to download, so stayed tuned for that to begin tomorrow!!!

This first project is a set of Halloween Altered Frames. I used an assortment of 4x6 photos frames that I already had. Some of them were already black, but the ones that weren't I gave a coat of black spray paint before I began to decorate them with the paper and embellishments from the Happy Hauntings collection. The images inside the frames were cut from the "Cards" patterned paper. I then added the stickers, chipboard and other embellishments to further decorate the frames.

Halloween Altered Frames by Juliana Michaels

SUPPLIES | My Minds' Eye Happy Haunting Collection

Patterned Paper: Happy Haunting Cards

6x6 Paper Pad: Happy Haunting

Chipboard: Happy Haunting 12x12 Chipboard Accessories

Stickers: Happy Haunting 12x12 Sticker Accessories

Brads: Happy Haunting Decorative Brads

Other:

Ranger Distress Ink in Black Soot

Assorted Black Frames with 4x6 photo opening

Black Spray Paint

Now for my second project, a Scary Spooky Halloween Banner! I created this banner, by cutting out the letters from the "Spooky" 12 x 12 patterned paper and from the same print in the 6x6 Paper Pad.

Scary Spooky Halloween Banner by Juliana Michaels

The tiny bats that I used to embellish some of the letters are fussy cut from the back side of the "Word Art" Paper in the 6x6 Paper Pad. If you look closely you can see that I stamped the images from the Happy Haunting Decorative Stamps with both grey and black ink on the "Spooky" Paper before I attached the other layers.

Scary Spooky Halloween Banner by Juliana Michaels detail

I layered the different pieces together with materials varying in height to help give it more dimension. Some of the things I used were chipboard, cardboard and double sided foam tape.

SUPPLIES | My Minds' Eye Happy Haunting Collection

Patterned Paper: Spooky, Morrocan
6x6 Paper Pad: Happy Haunting
Stamps: Happy Haunting Decorative Stamps

Other:
Grey and Black Ink, Black cording, Seam Binding, Black Fringe Ribbon, Corner Rounder and Hole Punch

I hope you liked my Halloween creations! And make sure to stop back by tomorrow for a FREE digital cutting file!!!

5 comments

IvankaOctober 15, 2013 at 8:24 AM
WOW!! Gorgeous projects! Congrats on the guest DT!
Debbie POctober 15, 2013 at 12:19 PM
Love, love, love! tfs
dstandardOctober 15, 2013 at 4:22 PM
Your projects are all too cool! Love them all!
Julie Tucker-WolekOctober 15, 2013 at 9:49 PM
I just left a comment over there and I have to say... they totally PICKED the PERFECT GUEST for that collection!! You are ROCKING the Halloween!!!!!!!
Ashley HortonOctober 16, 2013 at 12:29 AM
Awesome projects Juliana!! Love how you used the Halloween collection and your layouts on the MME Blog were all awesome!! Congrats on guest designing!!

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ~Mother Teresa

HUGS!
JULIANA