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crafting, Halloween, holiday, tutorial · August 23, 2010

spooky tree door hanging

I am so glad I have been seeing a lot of Halloween goodies on other blogs so I don’t have to feel so self-conscious posting this. 🙂

I love Fall and Halloween so I have had this project on the brain for a few weeks and finally finished it this last weekend. It won’t go on my door until October but I couldn’t wait to make it!

As you can tell I seem to really like framed door hangings. Like this one

and this one

And now…my Halloween framed door hanging. A spooky black tree of twigs.

It was fun scouting out branches with my boys and it came together easily in an afternoon.

1. Find an empty, glassless, backless frame. They are pretty common at garage sales and are cheap cheap. I got mine for 25 cents.

2. Go on a walk and find some dead branches.

3. Cut the branches into pieces and play around with them until you can make a spooky tree. I used a small Leather man saw thingy. No big equipment needed for this project.

4. Paint everything black. {I ended up adding two more branches to this mix}

5. Place them in your frame so you can plan how to glue it in.

6. Then coming from behind the frame, glue the branches in with hot glue. Trying to hide the glue as much as possible, glue them to the frame and together with dots of glue so it holds firmly.

7. Staple or glue on a black ribbon to hang it from.

Done! A different kind of Halloween “wreath.” You could add embellishments or little things to hang from the “tree.” I like it plain though.

I think it will look even better next to dried cornstalks from our garden and large orange pumpkins. Can’t wait!

I posted this project here:

and The Idea Room {button code wasn't working}

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  1. sisters4saymoreismore says

    August 23, 2010 at 9:01 PM

    i LOVE this!!! i am totally doing this one! all my halloween decorations are black and romantic-spooky… this will go perfectly!

    ~selina

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  2. Stephanie D. says

    August 23, 2010 at 11:25 PM

    Unfortunately my door is a darker blue-gray and this wouldn't show up well at all. Drats. It's so much more elegant than my usual wreath:
    http://scrapsbystephanie.blogspot.com/2008/10/later-halloween-eve.html

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  3. Family Valois says

    August 24, 2010 at 12:13 AM

    I like this very much!

    Reply
  4. Tori says

    August 24, 2010 at 4:47 AM

    Umm seriously love it~ you are soo creative!

    Reply
  5. Alexis says

    August 29, 2010 at 3:29 AM

    Genius idea…

    Reply
  6. Amy @ Chicy-Creations says

    August 29, 2010 at 4:03 AM

    Love it!

    Reply
  7. Lorie says

    August 29, 2010 at 4:15 AM

    Oooooooh! I LOVE this!! Thank you so much for posting it on Show and Tell Saturday!!

    Reply
  8. queen bee tracy says

    August 29, 2010 at 8:01 PM

    First time reading your blog (thanks Lorie @ Be Different…Act Normal) and I am in lerb, lerb, lerb with the spooky tree! Thanks for coming up with, and sharing such a fun project. Have a fabulous day!

    Reply
  9. - Brittany says

    August 31, 2010 at 2:34 PM

    So simple and so spooky fabulous! Thanks for sharing.

    Brittany
    http://www.prettyhandygirl.com

    Reply
  10. Jenny @ Embellishing Life says

    September 3, 2010 at 2:23 PM

    I really like this! Have to add to my list of things to make.

    Reply
  11. Jess says

    September 8, 2010 at 11:11 PM

    I shared this idea on my blog. I hope that's ok. Here's the link if you are interested: http://allforthispenny.blogspot.com/2010/09/twiggy-inspiration.html

    Reply
  12. Pam Emerson says

    September 26, 2010 at 5:01 PM

    Ooh! If you had a dark colored door, you could paint it all white! I love how cheap, easy, and elegant this looks! Thanks for the great idea!

    (dropping in from The Idea Room)

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  13. Sara {Sara's Closet} says

    September 27, 2010 at 3:59 AM

    I luuuuuuv this! so original and creative =)

    Reply
  14. Jes says

    October 1, 2010 at 5:39 AM

    LOVE this!! Like SO sooo much!!

    I had a 'halloween tree' last year and loved it, and this is like another way to enjoy/use it! 🙂

    Reply

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