13 Days of Halloween – Halloween Hybrid Frame: Design House Digital

Today I’ve got a really fun and easy project for you – a Halloween frame. I used a 4×6 frame, but any size would work. First you need to get your favorite Halloween kit. I used Vintage Findings Halloween Collection by Jen Allyson.

First I’m going to show you how to make a flower embellishment for your frame. Open two complimentary papers in Photoshop in an 8.5×11 document (unless you’re lucky enough to have a wide format printer). Save them as a jpg. You’re going to print these on the front and back of one sheet of cardstock.

Punch 9 circles from that paper. I use a 2″ punch, but any size would be ok. You’ll definitely want smaller circles if you’re making more than one flower.

Fold the paper in half.

Fold it in half again.

Open it up and make two little flaps. The edges of your flaps will touch the folds.

Flip the circle over and fold flaps in again. This time the creases from your first flaps will touch the center fold of the circle. You’re going to do this with 8 of your 9 circles.

You’re going to start creating your flower on the top of your 9th circle. The easiest way to do this is to do the top, bottom, left and right petals first. Then adhere each of the pedals in between. I used a tape runner but you could also use glue.

You’ll end up with a flower that looks like this.

Set that flower aside, we’ll come back to it shortly. Right now we’re going to make a small banner. Open another 8.5×11 document in Photoshop and create some diamond shapes. Mine were 1″ wide and 3″ tall. You can make them any size you’d like, just remember that the banner pennants will be half the size of whatever length you choose. Clip your patterned paper of choice to the diamonds.

Print those out on cardstock and get to cutting. If you have a die cut machine you could also just print out a sheet of your choice of paper and let the machine do the cutting.

Cut a length of twine and attach the pennants to it. If you have a way to score the middle it’ll make folding them much easier. I just adhered the pointed part of the pennants together so that I can still move them around on the twine if I want.

Finally, print a 4×6 piece of paper to put in your frame. I chose to use one that already had a bit of embellishment to it. You’ll put that in your frame. Then adhere the flower and banner to the frame itself and you’ll have this:

I used removable adhesive because I’d like the option of using this frame again for other holidays. The edges of my twine are just flapping freely – nothing too neat for this “spooky” project. You can see that I finished off my flower with the number 13 and some black rhinestones. You could finish it in any way – buttons, skulls, pumpkins, anything!

This was such a fun and easy project! I hope I’ve inspired you to make a little Halloween home decor!