Just Halloween Crafts

Guests to your home and Trick-or-Treaters will get a wonderful welcome with a wicked wreath for Halloween displayed on your front door. You may even prefer to choose to hang it up inside your home instead on an interior wall or propped up on the fireplace mantel. A decorative ring form adorned with ribbons, feathers, twigs, paper or other fun materials can make a really eye-catching centerpiece wherever you opt to place it. You can easily make your own DIY Halloween wreaths using a mesh fabric. Just below, you can see how to make your own wreath for this occasion worked from the material called Deco Mesh complete with written instructions and a video to follow.

If you want to make up a few DIY potion bottles or even an apothecary cabinet for Halloween, here's a free printable sheet of Halloween potion bottle labels that you can use. These are all square shaped designs and you can choose to cut around the black border which is nice and easy. Alternatively cut the potion bottle labels down further and just snip out the text and the images separately. The black print is over the top of a parchment style antiqued background which helps to age them somewhat. Enjoy the freebie and use it for your seasonal Fall crafts.

Making a cardboard frame, base or form for your own handmade DIY wreath craft project may sound pretty simple but there are a number of things that you may want to consider. Learn all you need to know about how to make a cardboard wreath form or frame. I'll show you how to make a really large, circular frame even when you don't have anything large and round that you can draw around.  I'll also show you how to make a cardboard wreath form that is thick enough when you only have some thin card to start with. Come and see how it is done.

Making your own wreaths for occasions such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Fall, birthdays and other events and themes is really easy once you understand how it is that you can tie or attach the tulle netting fabric to your base or frame. No matter which style of base you have for your handmade wreath – the basic principle of tying your tulle strips on remains exactly the same. You’ll learn how this is done with these step by step photos below. Your base can be as simple and inexpensive as a circle frame cut from a thick piece of cardboard (packaging such as Amazon boxes make a nice, sturdy choice) or they might be a wire frame that you’ve made yourself or bought ready-made or even a styrofoam one.