Beware of Black Cats with Lisa

Happy Friday and 1st of September! Lisa from The Relativity of Paper with you today. I'm so excited for this time of year, the holidays, vacation, and all the time spent with family. I thought I would start September out with a little bit of Halloween fun. I created this Witches Hat using the SDS Halloween Soiree Midnight Witches Hat Box. 

The first thing I did was resize the file, the hat measures 9.25" high by 8.25" wide (at the widest point). Be sure to resize all the pieces at one time so they fit together properly. Instead of using the overlays with cutouts on the outside I removed the stars and moons to make a solid triangle, inserted inside the hat to make the star and moon cutouts on the outer layer stand out. I used EP The Apothecary Emporium Kit and Orange Glitter Paper from my stash. 

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Witch Hat String of Lights with Lisa

Hello everyone! Lisa, from In the Crafting Cave with Lisa, sharing with you today! 

Last Friday I posted the Trio of Witch Hats and mentioned using the Midnight Witch Hat from the SVG Attic Halloween Soiree Collection to decorate a string of lights. Well, I'm happy to 

be sharing that project with you today!

And one lucky person is going to win a $20 SVG Attic Gift Certificate to  get them started on their Holiday Projects! You can find all the details at In the Crafting Cave with Lisa . 
 

 Here are the lights hanging over my dining room window. I dressed them up with burlap(to cover the cord) and orange tulle and ribbon to hold the burlap in place.  

 

You may want to checkout the tutorial of the Midnight Witch Hat Box to familiarize yourself
with the pieces.

Tutorial

Once you load the Midnight Witch Hat Box cut file into your software you will need to size it to fit 6x6 paper (if you are using 6x6 papers). If you are using a different size paper the assembled hat is approximately 3in. in height.  I arranged mine to cut four hats at once.

IF YOU ARE USING DOUBLE SIDED PAPER YOU ONLY NEED ONE 

BRIM(circle). MY PAPER IS ONLY PATTERNED ON ONE SIDE SO I OPTED FOR 

TWO BRIMS GLUED TOGETHER. WHEN YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE LIGHTS YOU DON'T SEE WHITE ON THE UNDERSIDE.

 You can see my 6x6 papers lined up on my mat.

 

This is after cutting.

You will need  the strand of lights in front of you. It helps to stretch them out across 

your work area, if you have room. I used a string of 20.

First, I cut all the bases out of vellum. I started assembling these while the machine was busy cutting the rest of the hat. You can make fast work of this if you have two mats. 

I assembled the bases and set them aside. As my hats came off the machine I started gluing the two brims together (if you are using double sided paper you can skip this step). And inking the brim so no white showed. You don't have to do this, I just prefer it.

Now I have all my hats cut, the brims glued together and the vellum bases are attached to the brims.

It should look like this at this point.

(I have a tealight in this one)

 I'm ready to start assembling the hats 

around the lights. First, cut the tip of each hat off. This allows enough room for the cord.

Lay the light on the top part of the hat and assemble. 

Once you have the top of the hat assembled around the light you can attach the bottom to complete the hat. Be sure to use adhesive to hold them together. The lights will be hanging and this will ensure your hats stay together.

Now you only have 19 hats to go!

Happy Crafting! 

Trio of Witch Hats with Lisa

Happy Friday everyone! Lisa, from In the Crafting Cave with Lisa, with you today sharing 

a trio of Witch Hats. With Halloween right around the corner I thought I would get started on a few items to decorate around the house. I used the Midnight Witch Hat from SDS Halloween Soiree Collection to create these hats. I'm using battery operated votives. Another idea for this is to make them a bit smaller and put them on a string of Halloween lights.

I tried going all out with embellishments but it just seems to be a distraction for those amazing star and moon cutouts.  So I followed the KISS method(keep it simple silly) and I love the way they turned out. 

I used 6x6 papers and resized the hat to fit on the paper. I actually cut two pieces at once by laying two pieces of 6x6 papers side by side on my mat. I cut three of the inside pieces at once on a 8.5"x11" piece of vellum. 

 

You can find more details on the supplies I used on my blog, In the Crafting Cave with Lisa.

Thank you for stopping by today. I hope your weekend is filled to the brim with crafting!