the mambi blog: holidays

paper mache haunted house

Let's keep the Halloween projects coming! This haunted house was creatively decorated by one of our talented designers, Suezi Gurzi. She used a paper mache house from Hobby Lobby.

Suezi covered the house with our new Halloween paper pad and stickers...also available at Hobby Lobby.

Attach paper to the house using any form of adhesive you like. Mod Podge, Xyron, craft glue, scrapbook adhesive, etc.

Cover one entire side with paper, let dry and then cut out windows using a sharp craft knife.

Don't worry about perfection...once everything is all dry, lightly sand all the edges with sandpaper and then apply ink to the edges with an ink pad. This will give it a purposefully weathered look.

Enjoy!

Oct 3, 2012 11:01:19 AM | holidays, papercrafting

Spooky antique bottles

It's October 2nd and that means that I can now put up my Halloween decorations. I was really feeling it a couple weeks ago but decided to hold off until it was officially October.

SO...now I can show you one of the projects that I was working on a few months ago. (side note: it's really hard working months, sometimes years, ahead...i want to share everything but can't)

I LOVE collecting antique bottles from flea markets. I have many of them that serve no other purpose than making me happy when I look at them. But then I had an idea. I used our new Halloween paper pad...

...to create creepy little labels for my bottles. I just cut up one of our all over prints and ran the pieces through the Xyron machine. I used repositionable adhesive so that I could remove the labels after Halloween and use the bottles year round.

What I love most about this project was how much I got from just a couple sheets of paper.

Oct 2, 2012 12:42:02 PM | holidays