Thursday, October 17, 2013

May Arts:: Halloween Hop

**Busy day on the ol' rusty blog today.**
Please scroll down to see my Lil' Inkers Designs Holiday Release Card
and my project for The Craft's Meow October Release!**



Oooh, I just love when I can dress up a find from the Dollar Store...my kind of decorating! I spotted this styrofoam hanger along the back wall and knew that I could add some drama and dimension with a bit of May Arts Ribbon. Welcome to the May Arts Halloween Hop, where I know you will find a ton of inspiration to use when decorating for the spooky night!



This was super simple to fix up. I carefully pulled the original hanger from the sign and then looped beautiful purple translucent wired ribbon (JN67) to form a hanger. I had extra on each end and created a few bows and stuck them into the sign with straight stick pins. I then added some translucent black wired ribbon (JN10) for added interest and to tie the purple from the hanger into the black of the sign. These ribbons were both in the 7/8" inch width, which is absolutely the perfect width for making bows. Not too big, not too small, perfectly manageable.


You can find the complete list of stops below, or check out the May Arts Blog for more details! Ooh, and the best part?....May Arts is offering three spools from their Halloween Category to one lucky hopper!

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday

Thursday

Friday


26 comments:

  1. WOW - it is marvellous what some delicious ribbon can do - love your spooky sign!!!

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  2. That's styrofoam!?! Great find and you dolled it up really well!!

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  3. Amazing how adding some pretty May Arts ribbon can make a dollar store find look like it came from a high end store. Spooktacular!

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  4. Great redo on the sign. Definitely doesn't look like it came from the Dollar Store.

    Marilyn

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  5. Awesome.... I should send you a picture of our front yard... this would be good.... or for my mom's haunted house-- but it would need more blood.

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  6. Beautiful! It's a perfectly altered dollar store find!

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  7. The ribbon is the perfect touch!

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  8. Looks very elegant. You would never guess that the plaque came from the Dollar Store. Good find. Good decorating.

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  9. Love the yummy purple ribbon on your cute wall hanging.

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  10. Very spooky sign. I love the purple ribbon. It is so pretty. Great choice.

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  11. takes it up a notch. cute idea!

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  12. Like you, I love a bargain and when you can turn it into something so pretty as you did, it's just a big old bonus. Thanks for sharing.

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  13. I love the purple against the black! Thanks for sharing.

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  14. Love the purple and black. Great way to dress up your dollar store find.

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  16. Cool idea! It turned out fabulous! TFS

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  17. Your choice of ribbon is fabulous!

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  18. Great make over!
    Would make a fun
    decoration.
    Carla from Utah

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  19. Great project , love how easy this was .

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  20. I know I already commented here for the hop but I wanted to come over and SAY: HAPPY BIRTHDAY on this post too. Have a wonderful day!!!

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  21. I love signs for holiday decorating - so easy to put up. This one is super cute

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  22. Happy happy birthday.......enjoy the birthday cards created for your birthday hop:)

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  23. This is just incredible, Karen. You have such a knack for using ribbon and making it work for any project.

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  24. What a fabulous sign! Love all the yummy ribbon!

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  25. Great idea!... Love it... Fabulous! hugs...x

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