DIY Candy Corn Decor....

Hello, hello and Boo!  

Welcome to day one of three for the Halloween Party Blog Hop hosted by the wonderful Lori at Chouxchoux Paper Art.  For the next three days we have all kinds of fabulous tutorials, eye candy to look at and prizes to give away, so don't miss out on the fun! Okay, let's get started then with my tutorial on making fabric candy corn decor and they're cheap!

Please let me introduce you to 

Cornelia The Witch, Frankencorn and Corny The Ghost

For those of you who read my blog regularly, you'll know that I found this wonderful tablecloth at The Dollar Store and have found all kinds of ways to use the material for projects.  Here's yet another.

What do you make when you have a ping pong ball and a jiffy pot laying around in your craft room? Well, you make a body mold for fabric candy corns. Pffft,..duh! ;) I mean, isn't that what everyone does? LOL

Hot glue the ping pong to the pot and then cut enough fabric to drape over, tucking the extra material under the pot.  You'll cut the excess off later.

With a sponge brush and fairly small amount of Mod Podge Stiffy Stuff (found this at Walmart), apply over the entire surface of the material.  Next, loosely lift the material up just a a bit off the ping pong ball and then begin using your drying tool to dry the material. If you don't have a drying tool,  air drying will work fine too.   In the picture below you'll see that the shape holds very well once dry.  At this point, you can cut the extra material off to balance the base.

 

Then begins the fun part of painting your candy corns.

Do you see the lumps on the candy corns face? Those are the eyes and nose that I made using a hot glue gun. Once the glue dried, I painted over them to blend.  Later I'll use paints and Copic markers to color the eyes.

Here's Frankencorn waiting for his face and neck bolts to dry and below is the paper hat that I made for Cornelia The Witch. There's also a stencil I cut out on my cameo for decorating her body later.

Oh golly, here they are all finished up.  

And lastly, here's Corny The Ghost with his paper glasses and chain. I thought it would be fun to make him look like he was actually scared.  I made his ghost costume from the same material that I used to make the candy corn body.  

There you have it! 

Three inexpensive cute little candy corns all dressed up for Trick or Treating.

I'm linking these Candy Corns up to the Chouxchoux Paper Art Challenge.

I hope you've enjoyed your visit. I know I've loved having you here.

Here's the fun news:

Our gorgeous hostess, Lori Hairston, from Chouxchoux Paper Art will put names "in the hat" for every comment made.  So if you'd like to be eligible to win a prize or giveaway, leave a comment on each blog each day (individual blogs may have giveaways too, you never know...so don't miss out!) to get the most chances to win!!

       Winners will be announced on September 27th

Also, there's MORE FUN!!

We have an open challenge for ALL to enter.  All you have to do is submit a current Halloween or Fall card or project, post about it and link it up to Chouxchoux Paper Arts Challenge #1 where you'll find the link button!  All entries must be submitted by October 3rd and the winner will be randomly selected and announced on October 4th at 
Chouxchoux Paper Arts.

Winner receives a $25.00 Gift Certificate from the very generous Lawn Fawn!

LASTLY, I'll be giving away a surprise here on my blog, so if you like something you see on my posts, please leave me a comment and you're eligible to win. I'll announce the winner on the 27th of September as well, here on my blog!  Best of luck to you!!
Lots of ways to win, so don't miss out.

Blog List For Today:

                      Lisa Minckler  (you are here)

Mitra Pratt

Tracey Kelly

Maria Patrick

Regina  Easter

Lori Hairston

 and a HUGE thank you to our FABULOUS prize sponsors as well:

             The Funkie Junkie   $25 gift certificate

                The Cutting Café three free files of your choice

                 Lawn Fawn   pillow box and  peek-a-bat dies

 

Hugs and Happy Crafting,

Lisa xx

                               See you tomorrow for day 2....