We didn’t get a chance to feature Melissa Bell’s style with you last month. We are pleased to share her post with you today (and thankful to Laura Vegas for letting us).
September was an amazing month! I had a great time being part of the MME design team. How lucky are we all to be inspired by these amazing women?! I know that they’ve inspired me. I feel very blessed that I was able to rub shoulders with them last month.
All month long I’ve been thinking about what “my style” is and what I could create to share with you all. I like to think that my style is simple elegance. I keep things pretty simple and clean, but if you take a closer look you will see small details that I like to add. I love using pearls, chalk ink, hand stitching, border punches and cutting out embellishments out of patterned paper.
I love celebrating holidays! Though I have to be honest and tell you that for the last couple of years I’ve been lazy when it comes to Halloween. My husband and I carve a pumpkin every year together and eat a Papa Murphy’s Jack-o-Lantern pizza, but that is it. I don’t even pull out the decorations most years. Ghastly I know! I want this year to be different, so I decided to make some fun decorations for my apartment using the Mischievous collection. I am loving this collection! I love the colors and especially the cute witch!
Witch Parking Sign
When I found this vinyl saying I knew it would be perfect for a sign and of course would allow me to use the cute witch!
- Mischievous 12x12 Paper Collection, 6x6 Paper Pad & Chipboard Embellishments
- Wooden Board
- Witch Parking Vinyl Saying
- Bat Rub-on
- Black Pearls
- Wooden Skewer, Rubber Band & Straw for Broom
- Black Chalk Ink
- Black Paint
- Sandpaper
Instructions for the Broom:
- Cut your skewer down to the size that you want it. I just held mine up to the witch and made a mark and then cut it.
- Gather a bunch of straw around one end of your skewer.
- Use a rubber band to hold the straw in place. Make it is as tight as you can get it so the straw won’t be going anywhere.
- Cut your straw to your desired length. I would make a cut and then hold it up to my witch and then cut some more until I was happy with the length.
Our Halloween Traditions Coffin Mini
To help me celebrate Halloween more fully I thought it would be fun to make a little mini book to fit inside this wooden coffin that keeps track of my Halloween traditions and the ones that I want to start keeping.
- Mischievous 12x12 Paper Collection, 6x6 Paper Pad & Chipboard Embellishments
- Wooden Coffin Box
- Black Pearls
- Bat & Cobweb Stickers
- Tiny Alpha Stickers
- Black Chalk Ink
- Witch Rub-on
- Fuzzy Spider
- Black Paint
Instructions for Cutting Pages to Size:
- I put tracing paper over the top of the inside of the box. (Hope that makes sense.)
- I then used a pencil and did a rubbing so I could see where the inside edge was.
- I cut out the coffin shape making sure to cut a little inside the lines so that the tracing paper would fit inside the box.
- Used the tracing paper as a stencil to cut out paper to use in the top and bottom of my coffin inside. I also used it to cut out the paper that I used on the outside of my box.
- I then took the tracing paper and trimmed down all of the edges a little more so that it fit more loosely inside the box. I used it as a stencil for my mini album pages.
I have cut quite a few pages for my mini, but I have yet to write down the traditions I want to start keeping. I would love to know what some of the traditions are that you keep to make October a fun and spooky month for you.
Thank you to MME for this wonderful opportunity and to all of you for your encouragement and comments!
Hugs!
