With today being October 1st, we couldn't resist sharing a project for making decorative Halloween treat buckets. At just 3 1/2" deep and 4 1/2" across the top, these little guys work best as tabletop decorations as opposed to something to take trick-or-treating.
Tool wise, you'll need:
glue, an x-acto knife, scissors, tape and a pencil.And as for supplies, here are a few ideas:
Gilded Florentine paper from Italy, above, in festive harvest colors. I really like the middle one... reminds me of a pumpkin patch, and the one on the far right looks like a fall orchard. These are all available
HERE.
You'll also need a selection of
Dresden trims. The medallion shapes are for building the pumpkin medallion and the trim strips are for edging along the top of the bucket. You can find these same trims available
HERE.
We also mixed in
fancy fabric trims with our Dresdens. Wouldn't the ones below be lovely? You can find the fringe
HERE, the pom pom & loop
HERE and the lace
HERE.
And don't forget the
paper scraps! We used the large pumpkins from this German sheet, available
HERE.
In addition, you'll need tinsel sticks, non-toxic paint, and sturdy paper board (like mat board used for matting picture frames.) We also used part of a
tinsel garland to further embellish our pumpkin medallion. You'll need the following
template, too:
Click on the template to make it full size, then drag it to your desktop and print it out. It fits on a standard sized sheet of paper. Next transfer it to your board, cut it out and glue the sides so you end up with a shape like this:
Once dry, we painted the inside of ours with festive orange non-toxic paint before covering the outside in Florentine paper.
With the paper on and dry, we next applied a tinsel stick handle, gluing it to the outside of the bucket then "hiding" it under rows of Dresden and fabric trims. Last but not least came the pumpkin medallion, which we made by layering part of a tinsel garland, a Dresden medallion and a pumpkin scrap. Our last step was applying the medallion to the bucket and, voila! finished treat bucket:
This is a fun and easy project that packs a lot of decorative punch. Try painting the inside a pretty fall hue like burgundy or sunflower yellow.... Make your pumpkin medallion a witch or cat medallion instead -- and you don't have to use paper scraps, different Dresdens layered also look great.
If you're keen to have a couple of these, but aren't feeling creative, we have the ones you see here available on our website
HERE along with many more autumn inspired supplies and already made Halloween decorations.
Happy crafting! Hope you're all enjoying the fall!
A good part of today was spent organizing, something, I must confess, I LOVE doing. With an unexpected storm rolling in early bringing rain on and off, the weather was perfect for labeling, color coordinating, sorting, stacking and arranging. We thought you'd enjoy a tiny tour of our stock room:
Above, zooming in on a few drawers of vintage millinery and a group of blown glass bells. Below, carefully sorted smaller items.
A putz house extravaganza! Hard to believe these will all have new homes by December. Even harder to believe: we made each and every one of these in our studio, from scratch and by hand.
Drawers, drawers and more drawers! Everything from scraps to Dresdens and millinery flowers to mushrooms have designated places.
Each is carefully labeled for easy order filling:
