Add a unique touch to your front door this Halloween by skipping the wreath and using a wood tray. With a mix of glitter and creepiness, this spider decor is sure to invite trick-or-treaters to your door.
Made by: Danielle Hunter
Time: 1 hour (not including drying time)
Level: Beginner
Here's what you need:
- Glue Dots® Glue Lines™
- Glue Dots® Permanent Dots™ or All Purpose Dots™
- 8 1/4" x 10 3/4" unfinished wood tray
- Deco Art Media acrylic fluid paint (metallic silver, carbon black)
- Deco Art Media crackle paste (white)
- Deco Art decoupage (gloss)
- Stampendous micro glitter (silver)
- Crafter's Square deco mesh tubing (purple)
- Fake spider
- DCWV cardstock (purple)
- Cardboard
- Pipe cleaner (purple)
- Wire
- Wire cutters
- Scissors
- Paper trimmer
- Staple gun
- Hammer
- Paint/foam brushes
Here's what you do:
Apply light coat of silver paint onto tray. Let dry.
Lightly mix together 3 tablespoons of crackle paste and 15-20 drops of black paint. Mix should be darker than silver paint.
Dab the stucco-like mixture onto tray with a paintbrush and let dry overnight.
Cut a 14" piece of deco mesh tubing and use Permanent Glue Dots® to attach it to back of tray. Secure with staples and turn project over to hammer staple ends down against the tray.
Trim cardboard and cardstock to fit inside tray (7 1/2 x 10") and attach cardstock to cardboard with decoupage.
Mix decoupage with a sprinkle of glitter and apply to front of cardstock, let dry and attach to tray with Permanent Glue Dots. Tip: Skip the homemade glitter paper and save time with glittered cardstock.
Attach spider to center of tray with Permanent Glue Dots.
Make a bow with deco mesh tubing by creating 10 loops secured together with a pipe cleaner.
Attach bow to project with wire and hang.
Happy Halloween!
~Danielle