Haunted Design House Guest Designer - June-bugs, Gems and Gewgaws

 

This week I was asked to spend a little time in the dungeon over at Haunted Design House
and to be a Guest Designer.

 

This month's theme is

June-bugs, Gems and Gewgaws.

 So we were to feature insects/bugs (moths, spiders and creep-crawlies are also ok), OR gems and jewels, OR gewgaws in your creation this month. (A gewgaw is something showy and flamboyant that has little or no intrinsic value but serves a decorative purpose.) And as always, remember to keep it creepy, dark or macabre.

 

I think I accomplished this in my creation of my Red Beaded Spider.

 





I used these items to create my Red Beaded Spider:

 

24 gauge wire

bugle beads

seed beads 

1 oval  bead, about 1" long  

 

 



In this picture you can see that this is no teeny tiny spider...it is actually just as a big as my hand, even bigger if all of the legs were straight.

 



 

I think this is the perfect spot for my Red Beaded Spider to spend her nights...

sitting amongst some of my other

creepy creations.

 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Red Beaded Spider. Now I ask you to join us for the challenge over at Haunted Design House and create your own

June-bugs, Gems and Gewgaws. 

Spider Necklace - HDH #138 - Eerie Elegnace

I bought this spider pendant from Michael's a couple of weeks ago and had no idea what I was going to do with it.  I was toying with some ideas like a necklace, a hair pin and even a decorative piece on a card or layout.  After playing around with some things, I ended up in my 10 year old daughter's jewerly making supplies and made this necklace.  I really am so satisfied how this necklace turned out.  Simple, eerie and elegant...everything that the darkside of me strives to be.

Here's a look at the necklace on me:

I'm not sure if you can get a feel for the size of this pendant but I would say it is very close to the size of a silver dollar.  It has nice weight about it and will make a great addition to my Halloween collection of jewelry.

I will be entering this necklace in the Haunted Design House - Macabre Monday - HDH #138 - Eerie Elegance Challenge - You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that depicts elegance in it's most strangest of forms. You know the style we're talking about. That strange and bizarre, yet captivating and intriguing bit of oddness. Classy, but not really fit for human consumption.

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my Spider Necklace.

Kaitlyn's Halloween Spider

My 9 year old daughter Kaitlyn loves to create just as much as I do and she seems to have a knack for recycling/repurposing things around the house.   Kaitlyn happened to be going through some of my craft supplies and found a piece of floral foam that was left over from a previous project and decided she wanted to make something of it...and this is what she made!

Kaitlyn used these items to create this spider:

• floral foam
• black craft paint
• toothpicks
• black tinsel-like balls
• google eyes
• white foam sheet
• fancy fur yarn
• floss
• tacky glue

Kaitlyn painted the foam and toothpicks with black craft paint.  She glued on the little black tinsel-like balls to the ends of the toothpicks and inserted the toothpicks into the foam.  Kaitlyn then glued on the google eyes.  She then cut out 2 teeth from some white foam sheets and glued them on.  Lastly, Kaitlyn glued on the fancy fur yarn around the body of the spider and some black floss to hang it from.

We are entering this project into these challenges:

• Forever Night Challenge - Trick-or-Treat - Kids Challenge - children under the age of 18 are to create a Halloween themed project and can submit up to 3 projects (this is #3 for Kaitlyn) 
• Craft Your Passion - Kids Challenge #1 - children 16 and under are to create a Fall/Halloween project

I think she did an amazing job and best of all this was all her creation...no help needed from Mom!