Halloween Rosette Wreath
I know some people don't celebrate Halloween, but since my birthday is on Halloween, around here, we treat it like a National Holiday. OK, not really, but maybe it should be, haha!
I've spent the last several days making Rosettes for a bunch of projects I have planned for my Halloween decorations this year. I've had a wire wreath base laying around for a while, so I decided to use it for my first rosette project. I have to admit, I had a lot of fun playing with my Cricut Explore Machine. When it comes to making these rosettes, it will score all of your fold lines for you, which is a HUGE time saver! The only cardstock that didn't fold easily was the black glitter paper I cut. That's why you'll only see 2 rosettes from the glitter paper! All the others that I had cut are sitting in a zip lock bag, waiting to be folded, when I'm feeling EXTRA patient, lol! They may be sitting in that bag for quite some time.
I used the Artiste Cartridge to cut the rosettes and Magic Potion labels and Artbooking to cut the spiderweb, spider, and bat. You can certainly cut the circles and scalloped circles I used for the centers, but I used my punches instead, simply because I had put my machine away when I realized I needed centers! Don't you just hate it when that happens?
Here are a few pictures showing some of the details on a few of the rosettes:
In the first group of pictures, I cut some elements from a sheet of the "Scaredy Cat" paper pack to decorate centers as well as the haunted house I tucked in between a couple of the rosettes.
The last one with the little Jack-O-Lantern I cut it with the 1" circle punch, glued it inside a bottle cap, and then added a glass cover from our Base and Bling collection.
In the pictures below, I embossed the centers with white and silver embossing powders. In the second picture, even though it may be a little difficult to see, I wanted to show what happens when you use hot glue to attach an embossed image. I accidentally touched the image, and the heat of the hot glue actually re-melted the embossing powder. There is now a finger print in the image, but that's ok.
This picture shows the little bat I cut out of glitter paper. Now, let me just say, that while folding the rosettes cut from glitter paper was not fun, cutting the "flat" images was a piece of cake. Just be sure your machine is set to either multi-cut or if you have the Explore, I set my machine to poster board. Also, I used the new epoxy stars to decorate the center medallion. They started out white, but I colored them with our new Touch Twin Marker in black
If anyone is interested in the process of making the rosettes, I have taken several pictures, and would be happy to do a post showing them. Just leave a message in the comment section.
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