Decorating With Halloween Cards

I tend to collect cards.  Not necessarily for giving out, but for decorating purposes.  They're a great, inexpensive way to add some holiday flare to your decor.

The three cards here were all from Dollar Tree or Walmart, and cost me $1 or 2/$1.  Such a deal for a great piece of Halloween art!

I usually try to look for cards that are pretty simple in color and design, but look for whatever kind of cards fit your style and taste.  If you can't tell, I love black and orange, so those are the colors I look for in cards.  Cards come in all colors, sizes, and designs, so they are very easy to customize for your decor.

I use the cards to hang for a spooky banner, or put them in frames.  There are really endless possibilities!  Use them however you'd like.

So, next time you're out looking for holiday decor, stroll through the card isle and see what you can find.  Like I said earlier in my post, I collect cards, so I'm on the look-out for them all of the time.  Once you start looking, you'll find your collection will grow quite quickly.  I've been seeing a few Christmas items pop up in stores, so I'll be on the hunt for fun cards to use this December in my decor.

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Sticker Stencil Art For Kids

My four-year-old and I do a little "school" every morning.  He has a late birthday, and won't start kindergarten until the fall of 2015.  I know a lot of kids do two years of preschool, but we've always just done one.  I love to teach my boys at home anyway (at least during the preschool years, I'm not sure I have what it takes to always do it).

A few weeks ago while doing school we finished a page in his counting sticker book and had this left over.  I immediately thought it was the perfect stencil for a fun art project for my him.  He loves to paint, and so it's fun to find new creative ways to do it.

We took the sticker stencil, (the left over part of stickers you usually just throw away) pulled it off of the sticker page, then stuck it to a piece of white card stock.  My four-year-old then went to town painting each circle a different color.  It looked a bit messy, but the magic happened when we pulled the stencil off!  We were left with these perfectly (well, four-year-old perfect) round colorful circles.  We did have a little tear in the stencil, hence the two  conjoined pink circles, but anomalies are cool, right?  An instant, free, amazing piece of art for his bedroom! 

 We used Crayola's Washable Kids' Paint for his first project, but I'm thinking water colors would be amazing as well.

I even started experimenting myself.  I used some Mod Podge and gold glitter.  I think I need to fine-tune it a bit, but the potential it definitely there!  Stay tuned.

So, next time you buy or use a set of stickers, don't throw away the outer stencil part.  Save it for an art project for your kids, or a home decor project for yourself.

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