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Good Morning!

Today I am sharing a fun and easy tutorial for creating your very own spiders just like these...

Supplies:

Embossing Powders: Ebony Regular (WOW Embossing Powders)

Presidio Purple, Berrylicious by Suzy West (WOW Embossing Powders)

Adhesive: V2 Adhesive Spray and Gemstone Glue (Helmar)

Other: Black Wire, Styrofoam ball, Google Eyes

Tutorial Steps:

Spray a small styrofoam ball with V2 Vellum Adhsive Spray
Place a toothpick in the styrofoam ball and then cover with Ebony embossing powder.
Remove the excess powder.
Combine a little of Presidio Purple and Berrylicious embossing powders together and shake. Then cover the ball with the mixture.
Remove excess powder and then use a heat gun to set the powders. Note: The styrofoam will melt and shape under the heat, take caution when setting.
Cut eight black wires to 1-1/2" for the legs.
Insert four legs on one side...
Insert the remaining four wires on the opposite side.
Use Gemstone Glue to adhere small google eyes to the front of the spider.

These are perfect to do for Halloween and easy enough that the kids could help out too!

Wrote by Jamie Lane Designs

I will admit Holiday breaks, especially those that are two weeks long, tend to frighten me! It's not that I don't like spending time with the kids, because I love it (mostly :) )...it is the "Mom, I'm bored..." I just can't take. For instance, yesterday morning Gannon had a friend over for the night and when the friends Dad came to pick him up in the morning, before the door shut Gannon was in my art room saying "Ugh, I'm bored...what can I do?"...seriously, the door wasn't even closed!

I am constantly hunting for cheap activities and ones that will take some time up! I find Redbox to be a blessing as the kids love picking out their own movie and at $1, I can afford a couple each week they are off :) ! We play video and board games, try to find cheap outside the house activities such as swimming at the local high school, roller skating on the cheap days, matinee movies at the theater, and may even attempt a drive to the ice rink, and I always stock up on dollar store goodies for crafting!

This year I found a bag of multi-sized foam balls at our Dollar Tree so last night we pulled out some toothpicks, the foam balls, some scrap ribbon, old brads, and a little bit of wire and glue and off they went, creating snow buddies!