We’re halfway done with October already! Can you believe it? Just a couple more weeks until Halloween, for those who celebrate it. I love Halloween more now as an adult than I ever did as a kid. There are spiderwebs draped all through my house, and a spooky village set up near my front door. Fun stuff! I used the Mysterious Melancholy kit for a few hybrid projects around my own home.

MM Garlands

Garland Detail

I made these garlands to hang on the bookcases on either side of my fireplace. Following the idea here, I just printed out lots of fun Halloween fonts onto the papers from the kit, mixing and matching. Then I used one of these glue pens to outline the letters, then sprinkled them with black glitter. I printed, then mounted Amanda’s black damask paper behind each letter and cut it out with a scalloped scissor, making a black scalloped border around each letter. Then I simply stapled each letter to a 6′ length of black polka dot ribbon, and hung them above my bookcases, embellishing with more black ribbon, some berry garland, and a silver beaded garland. Easy, and fun for the kids!

I also made these spooky skeleton canvases:

MM Canvases

I bought some plain 6″x8″ canvases (very cheap!) at my local craft store. I cropped 3 different 6″x8″ pieces from the skeleton paper in the kit and printed them out. Then I coated each canvas with a layer of Modge Podge, stuck on the paper, and gave it one more coat on the top. Took 5 minutes to do all 3!

To help you get started with your own Halloween hybrid projects, we thought we would share a bit! Emiko Designs has made this lovely freebie that coordinates perfectly with our Mysterious Melancholy kit:

Mysterious Melancholy Freebie

You can download it here, and enjoy! We’d love to see what you create with this collab kit. Be sure to post in our gallery!

Speaking of gallery… You can actually scrap with the kit as well! Here are some fabulous pages I found floating around in the gallery today:

failure, by crystalbella77

batman, by Carina

Love is, by trinad

Happy Halloween, by Yvette

and how fun is Femme Fatale, by Erika???

Here’s to a fun, festive, spooky Halloween!

Cheers!

Amy Huthchinson