Witch Shoes and Mummy Pumpkin

Crafting takes a long time.  Especially when you are working with glues and paints that have to dry.  I've been working on my witch shoes.This pair I gave a coat of matte black paint on the inside and black gloss paint on the outside.  I wanted to make sure the original brown color of the shoe wouldn't show through the glitter I would be applying later.

Then I coated the shoes in Mod Podge (gloss), and sprinkled black glitter on them.

Then I had to wait for them to dry.

Here is what they looked like then.  I could have left them like this but the glitter was coming off and getting on everything.

So I decided to give them a top coat of Mod Podge.  I didn't want to miss any chance for sparkle so I used the glitter Mod Podge.

And here they are dry. So cute and sparkly!

The other pair just needed some finishing touches.  I added some spiky shape pieces on the back and I put glossy black paint around the top edge of the shoe to make the pieces I added look more like they belonged.  I also painted the inside of the shoes with matte black paint.

Before

After

I think it really helped them look more complete and stylish.

And I worked on my mummy pumpkin.  You have already seen the pumpkin with just the gray ribbon wrapped around it.  I glued it on the same way I'll show below.  I also glued on some eyes.  It may be hard to tell but the eyes are slightly different sizes.

I found it helpful to hold the fabric to the pumpkin while the glue dries with straight pins.  I used this Weldbond glue to be sure that the different materials would all stayed glued to each other.

So here I just started wrapping the off white fabric around the pumpkin, gluing and pinning as I went.

Making sure not to cover the eyes.

And here he is all dry and pins removed!

Happy crafting.