Fall offers fun projects

When September rolls around the frenzy begins!  

Back to school, Fall decorating, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas (did I say that?).

We still have some items for your decorating and craft projects, Let's see some now.   If you want to purchase anything, please send a message and we can invoice you and ship ASAP.

We have some of these kits ready to mail, one side says BOO and the other side says JOY, on a black and white Santa paper, flip them and you can use them through December.

$12.00 for the kit send your $ through Venmo, Zelle or Paypal.  

Questions on how to use the payment options, please ask in an email to artsociates@gmail.com.

Have fun!

Halloween History

Reminiscing about Halloweens past.

Day of the Dead card by Robin Horasanian

Journaling by Danie May

Trisha Neal  pop-up Book

Board Book by Lyneen Jesse

Skeleton Tin Jen Rothstein

Spooky Paper Flowers  Stephanie Siatta

Tag book by Kellie Green

 Katrina Rollings using our Tombstone Die

Roni Johnson Tombstone cards kit

Barbara Rankin wall hanging

Steampunk Halloween Francie Perry

Tags from Christine Telega

Halloween Hattie ATB by Becky Voth

Debi Wind Halloween Collage

Book of Spooks by Gia Lau

Tag by Daniella Hayes

Solitary Raven Card Jean Moore

Not everyone is represented since they might not have had a Halloween project.  They all did a fantastic job!    Thanks to all of our current and former Design Artists for sharing their talents with us.

Get ready for DIE CUT MANIA! 

  

Happy Halloween

I love this time of year!  

I know for a lot of people Halloween means decorating their home inside and out, but for me it is a great time to make spooky art.  DIY Design Studio has several fun Halloween collages for your art projects.

Both of my cards started out with plain card stock and a piece of punchinella.  Green ink with green paper and white ink with black paper...just to give the blank space a little texture.

I used a strip of washi tape for a background element but a strip of scrapbook paper or a piece of ribbon would also be great.  I just wanted something fun behind the main collage image.

I added a few highlights to the Halloween damsel with a white gel pen.  There is shading on the pumpkin eyes and noses.  And tracing around the skull and crossbones on her cloak and the grid on her dress really make them stand out.  

A few Dew Drops make a nice dimensional highlight.  You can also choose from the recycled glass dots for extra shimmer.  Also, see our Dew Drop glue for perfect placement.

For the card below, I used the washi tape again and also added embellishments to the skeleton's crown.

Be sure to come back again soon for another DIY Design Studio project!  Happy Halloween!

Robin scares us with her Eerie Pocket Pages

Robin used mostly Black and White to scare us today!

See the Full blog post HERE

Spooky is My Favorite Color of Fall!

Hopefully by now you have seen a few projects from us here at DIYDesignStudio relating to our favorite colors of Fall.  Well, my favorite color is anything SPOOKY.  I am a total Halloween junky.  If you have followed me for a while you already know that.  I am keeping the spooky flavor going with this project as well and created a Book of Spells.  I love making a new one every year to add to my collection of DIY spell and potion books. 
So, let me show you my process...
Get your vintage book from DIY Design Studio to being your upcycle.  Paint it black.  Mine is a huge law book.  It is 11 x 8.5 and almost 4 inches thick!  Nice big book, you know...to hold all my spells and potions.  

Next, grab the versatile Prima Relics & Artifacts skulls and angles resin blanks and give them a gothic paint job.  Then, adhere them to your book cover (I used hot glue) and add a thick layer of gesso over the entire book surface.  Leave a lot of texture in your gesso.  

I had a mini frame in my stash that was silver so I gave it a black wash, then a bit of dry brushed gold paint and added vintage text.  I then glued my Relics skull to the center of the frame (again hot glue) and added that to the book cover.  The skull got the same gothic paint job prior to attaching to the frame. 

   

I then hot glued florals to the surface.  And then, gave them a wash of watered down, very fluid black acrylic pain. 

(look at all that demension)

 

I added a bunch of washi tape here and there...that is the black and white script you see.  I also painted the word "Spells" in gold metalic acrylic paint.  I love this Prima Alchemy paint line.  I could just put that stuff on everything. 

 

And, there you go...a DIY Spell Book.  I recommend you make a bunch.  They look great all grouped together.  In another week or so all of my Halloween decor will finally come out of the garage and I will display the spell books together.  I CAN'T WAIT!!! 

Thanks so very much for joining me today. 

I hope you were inspired to make a 

spooky little something for yourself.

DIY Design Studio has everything you need to do just that.

Have a GREAT weekend!

Steph