Halloween Tombstone Mini book, Witch, Graveyard, Background Scene

Hello Readers,
It's Wednesday
and I am so excited about my post today
and for the next few weeks!

Hey returning designers,

do you remember the cool stuff we

got from Gina's Designs?

I was sooo jealous when I saw what you received 

and then tried to figure out what to do with what I received!

A TOMBSTONE with a fence!

Well, it is now time to share with you my take 

on this tomb stone, I have waited for Halloween to come closer
so I could use this fun chipboard cutout from Gina"s Designs.

Here are my pieces.

The tombstone, 2 fences, and a base.

I painted the fence and base black,

I then glittered the fence with black glitter and glue.

Then I covered the tombstone with Black glitter trees.

Here are the beginnings of the tombstone scene.

After I had it glued together I thought,

mmmm, I have enough room inside the fence to create a book.

So here is the project completed.

I will use 3 posts to show you all the steps to get

to this cute Halloween scene starting with the 

Tombstone.

Here is the completed Halloween scene.

Inside the tombstone garden area is the Wicked mini book 

I created.

Close up on the book inside the fence. and the decorated fence.

Close up of the front of the book.

When you take the book out of the fenced in area,

here is what the finished tombstone looks like.

Soooo Halloween!

I chose only 4 colors to work with on this book.

Black, orange, white, and grey.

So, I went through my Halloween file and pulled out anything I had in just those 

colors, I also pulled out my black and white file,

so I could integrate any papers that may work with just

those colors.

You may not use all the things you pull out,

but it is so helpful as you work your project to pull everything 

out that could be used on your project, having it all close

to your fingers and inspiring you to design a great project.

I also purchase a Halloween embellishment every year that is 

new to the industry, Usually, it is an EK Success embellishment 

that is very 3 dimensional.

Here on the front of the fence is the white pumpkins, 

(I purchased them several years ago)

They just work so good throughout the whole project.

I also chose papers that make you feel like you are in a graveyard.

Glitter Black Trees is one of my single favorite papers 

for Halloween.  This paper has been with us for years

and is a Halloween staple in the Robin's Nest Halloween grouping.

Black Glitter Trees is covering the tombstone and

 is the cover for the mini book.

I also embellished the tombstone with

Black 6mm dew drops

Black diamond drops

Orange Glitter Crackle CS (rosette)

I cut out the lettering on Cricut.

Isn't that so funny!

I maybe should add a R.I.P. too.

Of course we need a witch for this tombstone.

Here are the products I used to create her.

Black burlap

orange and black stripe ribbon

Black sparkle ribbon for her boa

Gina's Designs dress form (very thick wood)

Black thin ribbon

Our witch is such a fun addition to our Halloween scene.

I cut the burlap into a strip and gathered the top edge,

I also sewed a orange and white ribbon around the bottom edge of 

her dress.  Then I tied the dress onto the dress form after I painted

it black.  I tucked a corset into the top of the dress 

and glued it onto the dress form.

I forgot to tell you that the corset and the dress form are also

from Gina's Designs.  

I used the black sparkly ribbon as a boa,

added a few spiders, a Robin's Nest hat sticker

and a few brads to the dress as embellishments.

She turned out pretty cute!

Here she is in front of the Wicked mini book.

I will show the mini book in one of the next 2 posts.

So here again is the finished Halloween scene.

Tombstone scene, with a

Wicked Mini Albun

a witch

and a framed back ground behind the 

Tombstone.

Are you getting ready for Halloween?

This really makes me want to pull down those 

stored away boxes and bring out

Halloween!

Robin's Nest Papers and Embellishments are found

on our website

www.robinsnest-scrap.com

Ciao,

Robin

Halloween Tablescape

I love to set the table for special occasions,

and for everyday.  So I am always

trying to come up with new ways to

set our table.

I love to shop the second hand stores to find new (to me)

dishes to have to set new tablescapes.

It sometimes is hard to find really good finds,

but just recently I found some black dishes.

Perfect, I thought, for

Halloween!

So here is my tablescape for Halloween.

I found  diamond shape fabric at JoAnns,

I just bought 2 yards and put it on top of a white 

tablecloth.

Then under each of my plates I put a sheet of 

black glitter spiderweb cardstock

found on our website

www.robinsnest-scrap.com

A princess pumpkin for my centerpiece on the table

topped with a black crow and black and orange diamond ribbon.

I bought 4 white plates at the dollar store and colored them in 

black felt pens to make the diamond plates.

In my garden I grew these cute mini white pumpkins.

White charger plates and black dinner and salad plates were found

at the second hand store.

I added a 'O" tag in black for O'Crowley.

The white and gray salad plate is from my mother's

china that our family would eat off on special occasions

.

This turned out to be such a cute tablescape.

It makes the kitchen/dinning area feel so festive!

Hope you have a fun Halloween.

It's just so fun to have this in the house!

See how fun just a piece of 12x12 paper can add to you 

tablescape!

Have a great October!

Ciao,

Robin

Halloween Tombstone Scene

Hello Robin's Nest Readers!
It's Wednesday again,
and I am sharing with you more of our
Halloween scene.

Halloween is close!

The background of our Halloween scene.

I used Haunted House Cardstock

12x12 sheet chipboard

12x12 frame sprayed black

I then added Orange 6mm dew drops

Black 6mm dew drops

Black diamond drops

Orange tear drops

a few glitter bats

and a few white pumpkins.

And here is my background to the Haunted House 

Halloween Tombstone mini book scene.

Here it is as the background of this cute Halloween scene.

Next week is our Wicked Mini book,

I honestly cannot wait to share

this with you!!!!

Find all the Robin's Nest Products on our website

www.robinsnest-scrap.com

Happy Halloween!

Ciao,

Robin

Halloween Tombstone Mini Book

Hello again,
Robin's Wednesday.
Sharing the Tombstone Mini Book with you
for Halloween.

The tombstone sat on a table as I looked at it for several days

in my bedroom, I would walk by it

and think,  I have all this space between the 

fence and the stone!  What am I going to do with it?

Then the ahah moment came.

A mini book!

I wanted to have a book without rings in the binding.

So it was quite a thinking process to get to this point.  Seriously,

I'm not kidding, you probably had this figured out 

weeks ago, but me, well, it took me a while to get here.

Here is the finished book inside the Tombstone Graveyard
with the fence.

To start the book,

I traced the shape of the tombstone, then cut the bottom off shorter,

so the book is the shape of the stone, and yet you can 

see the tall stone behind the book when it sits in that open space.

Then the back of the book is also short.  It takes 3 pieces 

next to each other to create the book.  The book is cut from

black distressed chipboard. 

This chipboard comes in 12x12 sheets and you can easily

one book from one sheet of 12x12 chipboard.

Then the binding edge of the book is cut out of black bat glitter

cardstock, then both edged cut with a border punch.

These 3 pieces are glued together to form the outside shape 

of the book.

I glued with extra heavy glue tape these 4 pieces together.

This is the base for the outside of the book.

Here are all the finished pages glued to each other.

I took a 12 x12 sheet of Robin's Nest printed cardstock

and folded it in half, traced my pattern, then cut out the page

with the fold in the center of the sheet so it will open up.

This is the back side of the book with all the finished pages

 before I glued it into the base of the book.  Easy!

Here is the book with the binding base glued together.

Now,

The front cover of the Tombstone book.

I used Black Glitter Trees CS as the cover

Then cut out the Wicked from my Cricut welded the letters

together from Glitter Orange Crackle CS.

I used EK Embellishments

with Gina's Designs Doilies

Black 6mm dew and tear drops

Orange Crackle Glitter CS for the rosette

and book pages.

Here the book is sitting inside the tombstone graveyard

so you see the rosette on the book and the rosette on the graveyard fence.

Here is the binding of the book, I placed an eyelet in the edge of

the book and brought all the ribbons through the eyelet

to let them hand down the edge of the book.

Here is a video of the finished book.

My first video for the blog!

I ran out of memory on my card by the last page,

but you can see the page.

I used so many elements, made lots of tags, journaling tags,

and pockets, you need to watch the video to see 

all the fun elements of the book.

Enjoy!!!!!

Products for this book can be found on the 

Robin's Nest website.

www.robinsnest-scrap.com

Just look for the Halloween line.

Have a Happy Halloween season!

Ciao,

Robin

I apologize the pictures aren't that great,

only have the small camera with me today.

Here are the pages in my book,

they are shown and described much better on the

video.

Happy Halloween.