Halloween Signs

This Halloween I wanted a majority of my decorations to be inexpensively home made. For my first project of the season I made two signs to display around my condo. Hope you enjoy!

Here are the finished products:

Materials needed:

• Canvas(es) - I got mine from Michaels, they were buy one get one free.
• Acrylic letters
• Paint- any colors of your choosing.
• Paint brush
• Red crayon and lighter- if you want to add the dripping blood effect. (optional)
• Paint Pen (optional)

Cost : around $15 for 2 signs.

"BEWARE" SIGN STEPS
(beware: this craft is incredibly easy!)

• Step 1: Paint the entire surface with the color you want the letters to be.

• Step 2: After the color for your letters has dried, place the acrylic letters on the sign in the pattern you decide.

• Step 3: Paint the entire canvas (including sides and letters) with your chosen background color.

• Step 4: After the background color has dried, peel off the acrylic letters and reveal your Halloween term.

• Step 5: (Optional Blood Effect) Safely heat a peeled red crayon with a lighter and drip the wax down your sign (tilting the sign works best.)

"EAT, DRINK AND BE SCARY"

 

• Step 1: Place the acrylic letters for your phrase on a canvas.

• Step 2: Paint about 2/3 of the canvas (including sides and letters) with a choosen color.
• Step 3: Paint the other part of canvas (including sides and letters) with a different color

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• Step 4: After the paint has dried, peel off the acrylic letters and reveal your phrase.

• Step 5: (Optional) I felt like the sign needed some glitter or something to make it pop but I only had a silver paint pen on hand so I colored only the bottom letters to make them stand out.

The Basics

My name is Kelli McDaniel. I just turned twenty one over the summer and have just begun my senior year at the University of North Florida and life is good. Besides the fact that I am still unsure of the career path I want to follow when I graduate in the spring, but hey, I have 9 months so ill figure something out. Im trying to make some changes in my life this year. I want to give more and take less. I want to put myself in a place where I am able to thrive and grow. Im trying to make plans now that will impact my life and future positively.

  I lived eighteen years of my life in South Florida, Jupiter to be specific (the city not the planet,) but I am enjoying being a current Jacksonville resident. I work as an educational aide at the Disability Resource Center on campus and I love it! The people are amazing and I am learning a lot about myself and others in the process. I have the two most incredible and generous parents in the world, seriously I do, and I was lucky enough to have an older brother to always help guide and annoy me through life. I’ve always felt that he was always more of a left brain thinker, while I am more of a right. I always have been creative, random and intuitive. When I was a kid I claimed to be in the Civil War and provided my listeners with details from the gruesome battles. And if I wasn’t declaring to fight for in a war I was changing my name to Halloween, Easter, or whatever else popped into my brain at the moment because Kelli just never sat well with me.

 I’ve always been a fan of the holidays, especially Halloween. This blog will be dedicated to an inexpensive, DIY Halloween (and eventually other holidays) filled with crafts, recipes, reviews, and all other things scary and spooky that go bump in the night. If you are struggling to revamp your holidays this blog will provide the relief you are searching for!