I knew once I started I wouldn’t be able to stop with the easels ideas!
Again using an easel from the Chalkboard Place Card packs from Home Bargains (4 in a pack 99p) …….
I started by colouring the white edging orange with a Sharpie pen as well as the easel bar black, but that wasn’t really necessary as I got in to the project.
Once I had worked out roughly where all the embellishments were going to go I added the writing using a white Posca pen.
Next came the wooden laser cut embellishments (eBay), either coloured with Sharpie pens and then a layer of Ranger Glossy Accents or for the skeleton and web white Ranger Glossy Enamels .
I decided to use green Dovecraft 3D Enamel Effects (£1 The Range) on the bar I had already coloured black to add more dimension and texture.
When the oozing green slime had dried I could use more of the embellishments and start titivating the easel ……….
……. like adding green eyes to the bat and a skull bead to the top of one of the easel legs .......
……. plus tiny coloured stars and clusters of white dots wherever I could fit them in.
I might make a few more of these to use as place settings for my annual Halloween Sleepover Party for Iris and Bertie. I have a few more ideas for other designs along the same theme as I have quite a few wooden embellishments left over from last year that really need using up. Happy days!
