31 Days of Halloween - Day 21 - Frankie Door Hanger

It's day 21 of Smeared and Smudged Forum's 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop! Can you believe it?  It's going by so fast!  I love all the wonderful projects that I'm seeing on my daily hops!  Take a bow, Wicked Bloggers!

Below are all the fabulous bloggers:

Terra,Tori,Kristy,Kapree,Alison,Christine,Kelli,Windy,Susan,Alex,Monique,Jane,Sugar,Black Dragon,Lisa,Shell,Jean,Julia,Jennifer,Loren,Christy,Vee,Lady Brayton,Lindsay,Little Black Kitten,Celeste,Leigh,Pam,Donna,Valerie,Helen,Sharon,Lisa,Karen,Carolyn,Pam

By now, you know that I save - nay- seek out fun tissue boxes. The whole sides are usable for just about anything, but the overlapping sides are only partially useable. Well I liked this little guy enough to carefully take him apart and put him back together. Apropo, no?

Materials:
Halloween tissue box
Scissors
Hole punch - 1/8" - I used the small hole punch on my Cropadile
Grommets
Cropadile or grommet setter
Glitter glue - I used black to make the "stitches"
20 Gauge wire
Headpins
Wire cutters
Round nose pliers Beads

1. Cut out your focal panel and decorate with glitter glue if desired and allow to dry.
2. Punch 2 holes toward the outer edges on the top and punch 5 holes on the bottom edge.
3. Add grommets to the holes.
4. Cut a 16" piece of wire and fill half way with beads.
5. Slide all the beads to the middle of the wire and put the wire tails through the top 2 holes from back to front.  6. Use the round nose pliers to start a spiral on the wire tails and roll them up to the holes.
7. Make or buy 5 charms. If you make them, slide 2 or 3 beads on a headpin and make a large loop.
8. Slide the charms though the grommets on the bottom and wrap the wire tails around to secure.

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Roni's Halloween Charm Swap

Here is part two of Roni's charm swap - The Halloween Charm Swap!  Above are the handmade earthenware coffin bead charms that I made for the swap, and look what I received!  Yea!  I love them all!

From right to left:

Roni of Ink Stains (our gracious host) - Shrink plastic Ouija board!  How cute is that!

Olga Brock - Adorable skull bead charm!

Robin of Once Upon A Pink Moon - This one blew me away!  It's a tiny spell book with actual pages!  I opened it to show you, but it ties closed to wear as a charm.

Julie Case - A fabulous glittery bottle cap spider charm!

Caroline of Stampings and Inklings Blog - It's a shrink plastic skeleton with a key!  I just love it!

It was so much fun!  It was like Christmas here - getting all the lovely charms in the mail!  I would so do this again!

Blessings,

Candace

Charm Swap by Roni at Ink Stains

I recently participated in a charm swap for the first time and it was so exciting!  Roni of Ink Stains hosted it.  We got to choose a general charm theme and a Halloween theme so I did both!

I made 5 of the above charms with handmade polymer clay cane (one of my first) and these are the charms I received.  I'm so excited about these!  They are all wonderful!
From left to right, they were made by: Esther of Siesta Scraps Blog - Pink glitter!  I love it!
Brenda aka Stringbean 95 - Crocheted square of fabulosity!
Roni of InkStains - A vintage photo charm with yellow bead flower and bead leaves!  So lovely!
Julie Case - darling glittery bottlecap charm!
Sandie - Sweet hope charm!  Love it!
Thank you, Roni for hosting these swaps!  I'll post the Halloween charms tomorrow!
Blessings,
Candace