Children’s Halloween Banner

I was so excited when a package from Oh My Crafts full of these lovely items appeared on my doorstep as part of their Bloggers Craft Challenge. With such a variety of fun products, my daughter Lily and I have visions of many a craft project, but were specifically inspired by this Halloween paper by Michelle Coleman.

I’ve been wanting to do a Halloween banner for ages and loved that these paper cut outs would be the perfect size.  My trusty helper assisted me in cutting them out and then it was on to decorating.
To decorate we used buttons, flowers, and lots of little trinkets from an embellishment set. The crafting tape provided by Oh My Crafts worked perfectly to get everything in the right place.

To personalize it to our family, we decided to do thumb print monsters using some leftover paint I had from another project. Stamp ink would have worked better, but it was a make it work moment! After the paint dried, we each drew our own monsters onto the thumb prints.

We ran into a minor snafu when my three year old refused to have anything to do with the thumbprints. Instead, he decided to paint his card. Everyone is allowed their creativity, eh?

Next we hole punched the cards and strung our ribbon through. Voila – a simple, personalized Halloween banner for our stair railing.

Next up, I need to decide on a fabulous way to use the plate from the Blogger’s Challenge Kit.

Working on the banner got me in the mood for Halloween decorations! I found some fun inspiration poking around Oh My Craft’s web-site. Check it out:

Loving these Martha Stewart Creep Candelabras. 

We do a murder mystery party for Halloween and these would be the perfect touch!

Love me some glitter! This  Martha Stewart Carnival Glitter 
may find its way on to my pumpkins this year.

Oh My Crafts also has several classes each week. You can even learn how to make these darling witches feet!

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(just save me some of that Martha Stewart glitter!)

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What do you think I should do with my gorgeous plate?

*I received a craft kit to complete this post, but I was not compensated in any other way. The creation and opinions are my own and my five year olds :).