Halloween Block letters... Black and Glitter... Love it

So, I told you about the chandelier search and making them into candelabras. The helpful man also gave me a box of 2 X 4's that I teased you with. Now for the Reveal!!! So much FUn!
I love that they were cut, raw, and pretty beat up. It just adds to the whole Creepy feel and look of things.
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I took The wood, cleaned it up and painted half with the Black Valspar Semi Gloss Paint I used for my table project! I will show you that in a couple days. I then sprayed the other blocks with the Rustoleum Metallic Silver Spray Paint I got for this project.
Let them dry.
I thankfully work at a Glass shop and have the Elatable JOY of having a Professional Vinyl Cutter right there at work. So during slow lulls in the work day, I get to play around and make my own custom Vinyl Lettering. You will see plenty of it around here... Don't worry! I printed out the letters on the machine! All in White.
If you look closely though, the letters on the silver blocks are black... So to remedy printing off white letters and it not "popping" off the Silver backdrop, I just peeled all the excess off from around the letters and painted them with Acrylic paint. I let it dry thoroughly and then peeled off the letters and put on the block. The acrylic paint I had was very matte so I put the spray glitter on for three purposes. #1 Glitter is just Beautiful and adds so much! Love THe Sparkles! #2 It made the acrylic paint glossy looking #3 It served to really seal the Acrylic paint onto the vinyl lettering ensuring that it will stay on for years to come!
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Please excuse the glare... The shininess is beautiful but is hard to photograph, especially in a dark basement! THat silver IS Really shiny! Loves Loves IT!

The Glittery skull sitting on top the O is a Dollar store find... Looks cute there!

* * * Bonus * * *
I also gave this teaser a while back... fall leaves spray painted black... loverly!

I took the black leaves, Made the BOO letters out of Vinyl and put onto the leaves.
Dollar store frames... gotta love them, Combined with this really cool corrugated paper as the backdrop and voila... a wonderful masterpiece. I really like how these turned out. really simple but oh so CHIc!

You have to click on the picture to really see and appreciate what these look like! I really like this project a lot! The best part is that it was all VERY inexpensive. The Frames cost all of $3.00.
Happy Halloween! More to come so check back!

Wow, what a great boost, Thank you Roeshel

Wow, it is amazing how nice people really are in the blogging world. Roeshel came over to my blog and posted some very sweet comments. Roeshel is the author of The DIY Showoff. I love her blog and follow it faithfully. She always has such amazing tutorials and Before and Afters and it is just an amazing blog. I am new and not very confidant in my crafting abiility just yet. SO she has given me motivation to share my ideas, because I have many. So I am going to get on it and actually start blogging my projects. I have so much fun creating and working on these projects and I love to share them with friends and family and now I just think of it as expanding my crafting family!
I felt so insignifigant before, and now I am excited to share my new ideas!
Thank you Roeshel!

Halloween, Oh how I love thee....

I am getting so excited! I have 11 days to put together everything I need for my Spooky Halloween Dinner and Murder Mystery Game! I completed the invitations finally and now I just need to assign the parts and give them out to people so they have time to put their costumes together! I am hosting a dinner for ten and then we will play a Murder Mystery Game! I am So excited! I grew up on the movie CLUE so this will be so much fun to actually get to be in my own twisted tale of Murder, Intrigue and Horror!!! Mwahh ha ha!
I have decked out my pad with all things spooky and now I cannot wait to play! I am going with glamorous witch theme. Like you are walking into the home of a Witch who loves pretty shiny things! My colors are Silver and Black! Love it!
THe Menu is still up in the air, but I will figure it out. I just hope to make something that all of my guests will enjoy! I am doing Root Beer in the Witches Cauldron with Dry ice... and I have a baby cauldron to match that has the same Jolly Roger Decal. OH How I love Halloween! I will post pics of the decorations and the table soon! Prepare to be AMAZED!