Happy Haunting Halloween Banner with Pretty Petaloo Flowers

Hello, Friends!  I got the urge to create a little Halloween banner the other day, and as I was rummaging through my stash of autumn goodies, I found an oldie but a goodie from Graphic 45: Happy Haunting!  I’ve always loved the sweet vintage images and traditional color palette of this collection.  It’s truly too cute to spook!  Before you could say BOO, I was at work, cutting, sewing, spritzing, and gluing this little Happy Haunting Halloween Banner.

Now while I love making banners, photographing them is another matter entirely!  But I finally figured out that the little corner cabinet our son made me for Mother’s Day is also a great photo booth!

Creating Custom Petaloo flowers with Tattered Angels Mist

I wanted to totally load up this banner with pretty ribbons and fabulous orange flowers, but I only had two peach posies in my stash.  What to do?   I quickly realized I could custom color them with Peach Delight and Jack-o-Lantern Glimmer Mist.  Problem solved!

Even though these were not DIY flowers, I found that they took the mists very well, and kept their shapes, too.  I spritzed the large peach Botanica bloom with Jack-o-Lantern and then spattered it with the darker Peach Delight. I also spattered the cream cherry blossom on the left.  The Mini Canvas Sunflower originally had ivory petals, but not any more!  And I love the way the Fall Mix Burlap leaves anchor the flower clusters.

This wild sunflower was originally yellow.  Look how well it took the color!

I made a small banner to go between each of the large pennants.

Even the Green Darjeeling Dahlias received a light misting of orange.  I added them along with the cherry blossoms to provide some color contrast.

The ribbons I used were all from Really Reasonable Ribbon.  I’ll provide links below.

So, have you started decorating for Halloween/Fall yet?  I’d love to hear what you have planned in the comment section below.

Thanks for stopping by!

Cheerio,

kathy

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