- 3 unfinished wood birdhouses {$1/each @ Joann Crafts}
- 3 unfinished wood candlesticks {(2) 3″ and (1) 6″ height}
- 4 medium sized wood base circles
- Paint: Black spray paint, acrylic paint, Foam brush
- Glue: Decopauge, Spray adhesive
- Scrapbook paper in Halloween colors and/or prints
- Miscellaneous Halloween accessories, Silver glitter
Take a peek at these bad boys un-accessorized:
Ohmygosh, we tend to distress EVERYTHING… it absolutely drives our mother nuts, lol, but alas we couldn’t resist. We brushed a light coat of black acrylic paint here & there, all over the birdhouses and touched up any missed spray paint:
We added a brown glittered owl to add to the center of a paper accordion flower, an orange plastic spider got a coat of brown acrylic paint and was smothered in gold glitter and we polished off the look with a cute 4-pack of crows for under $1 with a 40% Michael’s coupon. We had everything else on hand so we spent less than $5 on the whole project. Sweet!
We ♥ how they turned out!
Very cool project. And easy to do. Thanks for sharing!
Visiting from SITS today.
Love these! You should enter your photos from this project into Craftbaby’s Halloween Decor Challenge! 🙂
http://www.craftbaby.com/contests/32/halloween-decor
Stopping by… thanks Candie! (:
How adorable!!!! I love them!
My daughter and I spent yesteday afternoon making these fun birdhouses and while we waited for the Mod Podge to dry we made the Rolo cookies. We love the results of both!!! I just discovered your blog the other day and will be following from now on.
Double LJ project!? LOVE hearing that!! (:
Can you tell me how you cut out the scrapbook paper so precisely? I’ve got the first steps finished, but I can’t figure out how you traced any of these because they have so many parts sticking out. I’m a perfectionist, so I want it to fit just right. 🙂 Thanks!
X-Acto knife! At Walmart in the Elmer’s craft section, worth the money!
Totally cute! I am featuring this at somedaycrafts.blogspot.com.
Your spooky birdhouses are too cute! And I love the cupcake liner wreath!
I love your haunted birdhouses. Such a cute idea and very well done!
Thanks, Jen!! You’re a sweet friend (:
So seriously cute and creative. Love, love, love.
Thanks, Dawn! So sweet of you!
Those turned out great! I’m currently working on my own haunted birdhouse village. I assemble mine differently with dowel rods but love how you used the candlesticks.
Oh how fun! Can’t wait to see your version!! (:
I adore these! And love the cost too! Such a fun, unique way to decorate for Halloween. I just may actually try these. 🙂
You can do it, Dezi! 😉 LOL!
I love these!! So clever and spooky!
Kim~
Thanks, Kim!! They’re pretty fun to make!
Another awesome project!! Love these little birdhouses. I hope you will add these to my Wickedly Creative Halloween Ideas Party!
http://www.itsybitsypaperblog.com/2012/09/2012-wickedly-creative-halloween-ideas.html
Love this idea! Very clever and original for Halloween!
I love these birdhouses. I always see those unfinished little houses at the craft store and want to buy them but just dont know what to make them into and now I know… or some holday variation of these. They are adorable!
Thanks! We are suckers for $1 items!
So wonderful! I found your blog from the DIY Dreamer BlogLovin Blog Hop! So jealous!! Loving your blog!! Im your newest follower on BlogLovin!! Feel free to follow back!! Have a great weekend!
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I love your blog! All you fonts are so cute! You’re amazingly creative!
~Jeneka
Loveforbuttercups.com
Aww thanks, Jeneka! How sweet of you to say (:
ps: Your name ROCKS!
So cute! You girls make it look easy. 🙂
Lol, they ARE, Liz! And we included the tut so get to craftin (;
You girls are just so stinkin’ creative! Love these!
We heart you, Katie! XO
We love the little Halloween houses at our house too! My daughter and I decorated some last year, and I think we had too much fun. I love how you put them on candlesticks… where do you get unfinished wooden candlesticks?
Hi Melanie! We use craftparts.com! Love them!
Love the birdhouses and the eerie eye chart. Would love a copy of it but when I clicked on the link I am taken to the site Box and I logged in but can’t seen to find where to download it. Thanks for sharing!
Let us look in to that! (:
Hi Leigh Anne! Sorry about that- I’ll check the link. Here is it raw: https://www.box.com/s/g3jz0di83l6o91kl58sg
Thanks for stopping by 🙂
So cute! So Cute, So CUte!!!! Pinning and stealing.
Thanks, Tara! Steal away!!
Oh yeah. I love love love these…I’m definitely makin’ ’em…;) You guys rock.
Thanks, Miss Mags! You rock too 😉