Eerie House hanger 🌙🪾

Hi everyone! I'm excited to share this cute little Halloween hanger today, featuring a house from the Tim Holtz Ghost Town 2 set and texture galore! 🤭

I'm always looking for ways to add depth and really separate my layers, so the baseboard frames are just perfect for tucking things behind--like these cool fairy lights! That GLOW 🤩 Honestly, the lights are a bit tricky to incorporate I find, but they really enhance this project, well worth a few extra steps! ✨

Let me take you through how I created some individual elements and the assembly!

The Base…

Started with a mini clipboard base (sans clip, obvs), added some texture-embossed papers (used Tim's Dotted folder), and trimmed the edges

Next, added chunky grit paste to the edges and front, painted with Lost Shadow, and punched holes in the paper over the existing clipboard holes

Rubbed black soot over the texture, set two eyelets with my crop-o-dile tool, and added hinge clips/chains for my hanger

The Crackly Frame

Started by painting my baseboard frame with lost shadow, then added a thick coat of rock candy clear crackle over the top

Positioning my clipping stickers, crackle is dry before I added the black crayon

Brushed on the black soot crayon with a distress brush, then wiped back with a damp cloth

Added some mounting dots and taped on fairy lights to the backside

The House

Cut a few layers of the house from the Ghost Town 2 set and made a few of my own adjustments

Painted with black soot

Rough cut a piece of clear acetate and inked with Latte before gluing to the back side

Added a coat a rock candy clear crackle, brushed on white distress crayon

Assembly + Finishing Touches

Tried to capture all the elements used 

(sometimes things get sneaky thrown in last minute)

And the final pictures one more time...

Okayyy, that's a wrap! I hope you liked my project, it sure was a fun one to make, thanks so much for visiting!

Happy crafting!

xx Erin

Tim Holtz Products Used

Surfaces... mini clipboard, mixed media heavystock paper, clear acetate

Mediums... matte medium, grit paste, rock candy clear crackle, mica flakes

Dies... Ghost Town 2, Ghost Town, Alphanumeric Tiny Type Lower

Embossing Folders... Dotted

Distress Paint... Lost Shadow, Black Soot, 

Alcohol Ink... Latte

Ideaology... baseboard frames, clippings stickers, hinge clips, metal ruler, metal gears, clothespin, hardware heads

Other supplies... eyelets, crop-o-dile, skinny sticky tape, fairy lights, bigShot, glass mat, cheesecloth, mini clamps

Embrace the Change Leafy panel 🍁

Hello hello crafty friends! Was feeling so inspired by these gorgeous late-summer nights, so finally scratching my Tim Holtz itch! I made this glossy leafy panel with tons of texture and vivid colors, I do hope you like it 🍁☺️

Check out that gloss 😳

A few more details of how this project came together 💥👇🏻

The Background...

Started with a 5x7 thickboard rectangle panel and glued down a bunch of leaves cut from the 3D Impresslit Leaf

Left the collage medium a bit chunky in some places for extra texture

Painted with a base coat of gesso and Black Soot Distress

Decided to trim the edges all flush, um why is this so slick ✂️😱

Painted over the black with this warm gradient... just, yesssss 🎨😍

Lightly inked the raised background, composition check-in (still deciding what colors I want the leaf/words to be)... The white needs to be more yellow 🧐

Next, my fave part— couple layers of ground espresso archival ink over the top of the texture to really make the leafy outlines pop 🍿 Thin coat of Glossy Accents! Also punched a hole in each corner with my crop-o-dile, then added the eyelets and hinge clips/chains for the hanger

The Text Elements...

First, covered a quote chip with a piece of heavystock paper embossed with the Foliage 3D folder. 

Cut EMBRACE letters from the Labels type, also painted a few mounting dots

Cut 2 sets of "the" from "together" in the Handwritten Love font set, painted one set Ground Espresso, one set Antiqued Linen

Used the Ideaology Typography 2024 letters to spell out CHANGE, painted the edges with ground espresso. The letter fronts are painted with antiqued linen with a caramel alcohol ink gradient. Glued the letters over a clear acetate strip

Assembled all pieces and glued over some cheese cloth bits, also added the "Lesson 175" clip from the clippings sticker book

The Leaf...

I cut several pieces of chipboard with the Bigz die, glued the layers together. Also cut one leaf from a leafy-embossed heavystock piece...

Covered with a generous coat of matte medium and Antiqued Linen distress paint...

Painted the edges with ground espresso and then used my finger to rub it over the raised texture

I decided to add a bit of red paint to the center to tie in with the background. Next, I shaped my leaf and added a few inked chains, then glued it down over some bits of Espresso-stained cheese cloth

And that’s my creation! Thanks so much for stopping by and happy crafting 💕

x Erin

Tim Holtz Products...

Surfaces... 5x7 Etcetera thickboard panel, mixed media heavystock paper, chipboard, clear acetate

3D Embossing Folders... Impresslit Leaf, Foliage Large

Mediums... Matte Medium, Glossy Accents

Distress Paint... Walnut Stain, Ground Espresso, Antique Linen, Black Soot, Aged Mahogany, Candied Apple, Crackling Campfire, Rusty Hinge, Brushed Corduroy

Archival Ink... Walnut Stain, Ground Espresso

Alcohol Ink... Caramel

Dies... Bigz Tattered Leaf, Alphanumeric Label, Handwritten Love

Ideaology... large hinge clip, chains, clippings sticker book, remnant rubs, typography 2024, small key

Other Supplies... Big Shot, glass mat, cheese cloth, Crop-o-dile, eyelets