It's Haunted!!!!   OMG!   This was soooooo much fun to make – and easy enough for you to copy!  It's called Design-a-House Decor accents from the Holiday Mini Catalog (p 37).

First, I have to tell you that I was kept in suspense and couldn't wait to get my hands on this house!  It was presented on stage at convention but, we couldn't get it until Sept 1!.  OK, I was at my computer bright and early sending off my order.  Once the order arrived, I created this immediately!  One of the reasons I was so excited about this (besides that I like decorating for the holidays) is that it reminds me of my childhood.  My grandma (the one who turns 100 this year) always created Christmas villages from hardened frosting that she had on display in her front window.  I could spend hours looking at it as a child and playing with the small figurines she had around it.  I also recall that my Grandma loved to decorate for other holidays – one Halloween she had a party that involved us walking to her basement in the dark over a cardboard that snapped and crackled with each step (we were walking on macaroni!). 

Now, for the house.  I was wondering how it would go together and was very surprised at the simplicity of it all.  The house came with awesome instructions.  I put it together, put it in my newly emptied Stampin' Up! box and with a little black spray paint and drizzled dazzeling diamonds, I was set!  Wondering about the dazzeling diamonds?  While the spray paint was wet, I dropped or drizzled a light layer of dazzeling diamonds over the house to give it the irridescent look.  Easy peasy. 

Next, the decorating;  I used the bat punch again with the Wicked Fun specialty paper (117400 p 172)  (told you that you would want this – wait till you see one of the next projects!)  I strung them on some linen thread.  Covered the windows with vellum cardstock.  Used the greeting from the Grateful Greetings stamp set (116511 p 27 of big catalog), a little DSP and ribbon, cotton ball in the chimney and I was set!   I was soooo excited with the finished product!  Aren't you?  Let me know if you would be interested in a Halloween decorating class – I think I have plenty of things to put together for the class!

I paired the house with a shadow box frame that uses the definately decorative elements left over form the pumpkins I posted yesterday.  What do you think of this?

Pretty cute, huh?  OK, off to do some more creating!  See ya soon!

Tags: Bat punch, BJ Peters, Design-a-House, Halloween Decorations, Haunted House, Stampin' Up!

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