Friday 24 October 2014

31 Days of Halloween - Day 24

Thanks for visiting - hope you're enjoying the Smeared and Smudged blog hop - do remember to visit the other Wicked Bloggers who are sharing their makes - the links are all in my sidebar.  I can't believe we're so far through already!!

Today I'm sharing a witch's wand that I've made for a swap; the tags I've shown over the previous two days are some of the extras I'm putting in :o)

For the swap we were supposed to alter a toy fairy wand but I didn't have one to hand so I looked around for something else I could use instead.  I came across one of my old paintbrushes that I hadn't cleaned properly (oops) and the bristles were really hard, so not much use as a paintbrush anymore.  I decided to paint it black and then work from there.

 

The next step was to wrap it in an organza ribbon that had silver cobwebs and spiders on it.


For the end of the wand I attached a black beaded tassel and added a couple of metal charms and a skull bead into it; I also added a square cork pad on the flat bit where the bristles are, painted it black and secured a bit of black card on top which I had stamped with a five pointed star.


Thanks for reading

Stefanie xx

12 comments:

  1. Very creative and fantastic result.
    This is a magical wand.

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  2. Brilliant recycling. I've got a couple of brushes like that myself. LOL Love the bits and bobs on your magical wand. xxD

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  3. What a clever idea to use the paint brush!! Love the cobwebs and the tassel and charms all are so wonderfully beautiful!! Fabulous wand!!

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  4. I need to try this on my paint brushes. personalized brushes, totally faboo

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  5. Super clever idea to make a wand, love it!
    Love the charms, really wonderful!~kim

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  6. The perfect recycle of a paint brush otherwise destined for the trash can, brilliant!

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  7. Awesome use of retired paintbrush! Love your wand!

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  8. Fab creation! Love the idea.

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  9. Cool wand--love those charms at the end!

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  10. I think the paintbrush is three perfect wand for a crafter! Love how you've altered out and added those cool charms.

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  11. This would be the FIRST wand on the hop and a really cool one at that! You rock.

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