Halloween Door Hangers (as seen in Crafting Ireland magazine)

When going through my Halloween projects for the current Paper Issues "Halloween" issue, I realized I had never shared my Halloween door hangers from last year. I had shown a peek when that issue of the magazine came out last fall, but that's it.

Our family loves decorating for Halloween. But sometimes those decorations can get pretty expensive! In the past, I have enjoyed using recycled materials and my scrapbook supplies to make some inexpensive decorations for our house.

For this project, I am recycling some cardboard that came in one of my scrapbook packages. The cardboard made great bases for my door hangers.

I decided to make four different hangers, so I cut the cardboard into 4 6x6 squares. I thought we could keep one and then share the other four with our neighbors.

I covered each base with a piece of Halloween themed patterned paper. I believe I used a Pink Paislee line for these.

My next step was to embellish each square using all sorts product. This was the fun part! :) I like to do a lot of layering on pieces like this.

Here is a close up.

After each square was done, I grabbed some twine and my heavy duty hole punch. That is basically all I use my Cropadile for. Punching holes :)

To keep my holes even, I used a ruler to line them up. But you can always just eye ball it if you feel comfortable doing that.
Once I punched the holes, I threaded each end of a piece of twine through the front of each hole and tied large knots in the back. I recommend using a piece of tape to secure the knots so they won't slip through.

I would recommend putting mod podge over the patterned paper and flatter elements before adding the other items.

Nice and simple! Like little mini layouts :)
Blog friends - I will be making the rounds visiting blogs either today or sometime this weekend. Had quite a night last night. Erin has been sick off and on since Monday night and I think a trip in to the doctor may be on the agenda today. Plus, Evan had the mother of all nose bleeds last night. He gets them occasionally due to allergies, but this was the worst ever. It lasted at least a half hour! I came close to calling the doctor, but thankfully it stopped.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!