Happy Witch Door Greeter

Oh, my gosh! I have been painting up a storm

and I have soooo many projects to share with you!!!

I'm currently working on about twenty-five

projects ... simultaneously.  Which means I'm jonesing

for my immediate gratification!!  A day (or even

two) may pass without my completing a single project,

and then ... voila!!  Twenty-five projects completed at once.

Anyway ... this project is something I decided

to make WHILE I was recycling last year's craft show

snowmen into scarecrows and Santas:

I'm missing approximately 60 photos that I took

with my phone, that didn't automatically update to

my Google album.  I'm not sure how to fix

that at the moment, so please excuse the steps

not accompanied by photos.  :)

Last year's snowmen,

with all accessories removed:

Jump forward to base coating a 1" plug nose

and the face with purple acrylic paint,

the top and bottom base coated black

then coated with black glitter paint:

Use eyebrows and a crooked smile

to make these Witches happy!

 Here's a neat trick to give

your witch face a wart (or two!):

I've been calling these carpet tacks.

Clearly I've been wrong all these years.

It says so right on the package:

CUT TACKS

What evs.

 

Painting a spiderweb is simple!

Pick a starting point to be your vertex

and paint diagonal straight lines outward like so:

Ugh!! Seriously??

I'm having flash issues with

all my pics now.

~ Big Frown :( ~

 

Next, connect the diagonal lines with

short curved lines:

At this point I sealed the paint with

a satin finish acrylic sealer.

Next, I painted wood star cutouts

with orange and green paint, and then

coated them with orange and green

glittery paint:

To finish, tie a large scrap of black tulle

around the picket at the top

of the witch's face:

Use hot glue to attach the tulle knot

to the picket, and to attach the

glittery painted star to the tulle:

I took the extra precaution
of tapping a 5/8" nail into the center
of the star to secure it.

 

Now prop this Happy Witch by your

front door to greet Trick-or-Treaters!!!

Aw! Now that I look at her, she
needs a little something more.  Hmm.
Also, I wish I had corrected the
flash on these pics ...
I'm getting wrinkles having to squint
my eyes to see her face.

Oh! I also made some miniature Witches!!

I snipped the prongs off of
some eyeball brads and hot glued
them to the bows.
Hee Hee

Made some Frankenmonsters, too:

 

~ Peace and Happy Halloween Characters ~