Fall wood sign

My fall mantel needed a little something and I had seen a fun sign on Pinterest that I knew would be perfect.

The wood I used were fence planks that I had cut to 24". I stained them brown and then painted a cream acrylic paint over top. Sand to bring out some of the brown. I then made up what I wanted my sign to look like in photoshop and divided it so that I could print it out in pieces. I traced this onto my wood using tracing paper and then painted in my letters with orange and brown acrylic paint. Super easy.

I am happy to share my print with you. You can download the pieces HERE

Halloween sign post

I LOVE Halloween and I love to change things up every year. I have recently moved and now have a great front yard to decorate and make spooky. I don't have much for outdoor decor so I set to work to make something fun and a little creepy. It still needs some cobwebs and a few crows and it will be complete.

I found my wood at Home Depot in their 70% off cart. They are fence planks that I had them cut to 2 feet for me. I then used a gray stain on them and let that dry. I printed out my words in Photoshop and traced them on to my wood. I then hand painted the letters in with black acrylic paint and a small paint brush you can find at Michaels. 

So ready to decorate!!! Lets get to it. 

Spell book

I created this spell book years ago but have always been asked for the pages so that others could do one. Unfortunately I had not saved my pages to share. Well a few friends recently got together for a craft night and the spell book was on of the projects they wanted to do. So I have created new pages and have them to share.

These are my new pages and you can download them HERE

To make the spell book you will need a large old book, I found a dictionary works best. These files are sized at 8.5x11 so you will need a book around that size. You are also welcome to resize them to fit your book and that can be done in Photoshop. 

You will want to age your book so take a spray bottle and randomly spray pages in the book. This will make the pages warp and look old. I also rolled the corners of the pages to make them look used. 

Next you take a brown ink pad and rub it along the sides, top and bottom of the pages to make them look dirty and used. 

I used a spray adhesive to attach my pages to my book. Just open it up to anywhere and stick them in.  I would also ink the edges of these pages to help them blend with the book.

And for the final touch take a length of black ribbon and hot glue the top of it behind the binding to create a book mark. 

The book sits open to these pages so no need to worry about what the rest of the books pages look like

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