Crafty Secrets September Linky Party "Time For Halloween"

Hello Friends....

My goodness, can you believe I have now been a designer

an entire month at "Crafty Secrets"...

It has been so much fun, but the month of August has certainly flown by!!

This month our theme for the "September Linky Party is"Fall & Halloween"

The challenge starts today and goes until Sept 14th....

The random winner of the challenge receives a $50 gift to the store

and ALL entrants get one $6 store coupon to use on anything!!

We also have a lovely "guest designer" with us this month

 "Glenda Brooks", make sure and visit her blog and see her wonderful creation!!

For my project I went with the "Halloween" theme and made a 

"Time For Halloween" clock!

I purchased this clock for $3.97 at Walmart..

On the back are 6 Philips head screws...

I took the screws out and the front face of the clock comes off....

and to my surprise the face is glass!!

I also removed the clock hands.

I used Crafty Secrets "Creating With Vintage Halloween CD4"

for all of my Halloween papers and figures...

I had a hard time choosing, as this CD is full of wonderful papers and images!!

The bats you see were from a punch....

Using the clock glass face as a guide, I traced a circle on my 

Crafty Secrets printed digital paper, cut it out and glued it down.

A "tip" is to run a black marker around the inside of the clock

along the edge to cover any of the white clock face underneath

that might still be showing!

 The October 31 was then added to the clock center and popped up for a more 3D look.

I decided to glue my hands down as I wanted them to stay at the midnight hour

Three glittered bats were also added to the inside..

The glass was placed back on and then the cover and it was once again screwed in place...

Very easy to do.

I wanted a more vintage look, so I printed and cut out my figures and added glitter

to various spots of each figure.

I had on hand some tissue paper garland I had purchased from Ebay and very quickly

hot glued it around the front edge.

You could also make your own by layering tissue paper, sewing down the middle and

cutting to just the stitching line on both side.  There are also special scissors that will do the

cutting for you if you prefer!

I attached my cute little vintage figures to the tissue garland

and 3 glitter bats that I had  mounted onto a spiraled craft wire.

This was a very inexpensive and fast Halloween project...

I hope you have enjoyed it enough to try one of your own

My "Tip" is to make sure you have the clock "hanging piece" at the very top

of your clock, right where the midnight hour would be. (ask me how I know this..lol)

Now, head on over to the "Crafty Secrets" blog and see what my teammates

have created...OMGoodness,...wait until you see all the wonderful projects....
Here are the direct links to their blogs:

• Kathy Clement Team Leader
• Michele Kovack 
• Sheila Rumney
• Darlene Pavlick
• Elizabeth Lincoln
• Gloria Stengel
• Diane Hover (that's me)
• Melody Clement
• Shantaie Caudill-Fowler

Before you go, ...Crafty Secrets is going entirely digital and has amazing

deals going on for HUGE packets of non digital projects, stamps, papers, stickers, etc....

go and take a peek!!  You can read about the HUGE Blow Out sale HERE

and here is a sample of the Halloween and Autumn sale packet with the link HERE

Entering the following challenges:
All Crafts Challenge .... Anything but a card
and
Left of Center .... Alter It