Welcome to the 2nd annual Halloween Mantel Link Party! If you don’t have a fireplace mantel but still want to join the party, no worries! Go ahead and link up your decorated shelf, sideboard, buffet, tabletop, flat surface, etc.
I’m so excited to reveal my own mantel to you! I wish my pictures turned out sharper, but I did my best in my dark home on this very gloomy-doomy day.
This year, I was inspired by Nester’s recent book page frenzy and decided to incorporate some book page goodness into my Halloween decor. Can you believe that I’ve never decorated with book pages before? And I call myself a home blogger…PFFT! To line the back of my board and batten with book pages, I simply tore out some old book pages and secured them in place with frog tape. I love the added texture and interest it gives the wall.
Below is my cute book page bat garland. To make this, I printed out a bat graphic, cut it out, traced it onto a stack of book pages and cut through them with scissors all at once. Then, I hot glued the bats to a string of ric rac ribbon and hung them in place! Easy peasy.
The spooky trees were created from butcher paper. At first, they looked horrible and kept unraveling. But after some hot glue intervention they started to actually look like a tree instead of a wad of paper. I was going to leave the trees bare but Matt thought they’d look better with some leaves. He was right. I created some book page maple leaves and hot glued them in place.
The cute witch and birdhouse were purchased at Hobby Lobby two years ago on clearance. The crows are from the dollar store and so is the moss. Tip: I just stick the moss back in a plastic baggie when done and bust it out whenever I need to mossify something. Yes..mossify.
Don’t you just love those baby pumpkin/gourds! I find them adorable.
When I was taping book pages to the wall, my four-year old was complaining the entire time, “Mommy, pages from a book aren’t scary. They aren’t Halloweeny either! It looks like boring decorations.” I told him to trust me….and to shush. When he came home from school today and saw the completed mantel he beamed, “See Mommy, that’s what I’m talking about! Crows and bats! Those are Halloweeny.” He is such a character.
My hocus pocus sign also came from Hobby Lobby on 90% clearance a few years ago. I needed something to spookify the hearth and this was just the touch.
And one more full view for you!
Now let’s see yours! Please grab a button and link back to help promote the party and so that others can also join in the fun!
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**Party open Wednesday night at 9pm**
Those little paper trees are awesome! Good idea with the book pages on the wall! Looks great
It looks great! I agree with you, the texture of the wall with pages is neat!
Looks great Beth. I think your photos are fabulous too. I read on FB you were having troubles because of lighting. I struggle with indoor pics as well. I love your mantel, and the paper behind is great.
Totally cute! To bad I am a complete slacker and haven’t put a mantel together in ummmmm over 2 years. I’ve got issues:)
Love your mantle! Every stinking detail. Excited for the party. I’ll be there!
I’m excited, I did my mantel just for your party! Thanks for hosting!
Debbie
I think the book pages are plenty scary.
The perfect backdrop for all your other goodies. Kudos!
Beth… may I just say… it was worth the frustration for you and the wait for me! I really like it!! It’s so different and unique!! SUPER job momma!!
Beth, your mantel is awesome! It’s got such a spooky air! Thanks so much for hosting another mantel party. They’re always so much fun. ~Kerri
Love your mantel! I’m in the process of working on mine tonight. Just finished my leaf garland (with the help of my 9 yo son) and now we’re figuring out the rest. Might need to do the bat garland for somewhere else in the house because that is too cute.
Your mantel turned out so cute/cool. I can’t decide which word is better. Whatever, it looks great. Can’t wait to link up.
Love, love, love your mantel! The paper taped to the wall is just crazy awesome… I mean totally spooky ;D Never would have thought to make trees – double awesome!
Cool spookified stuff linked up! Thanks for hosting the partaaay!
I love your mantel and the trees are terrific. Everything meshes together so well. Thanks for hosting again. I love this party.
Your trees came out great! The color of the paper goes well in the whole look of the mantle. And the book pages are a really nice layer too. Well done!
I love your mantel et all!
Thank you for hosting!
Kerry at housetalkn.blogspot.com
Super cute, the paper tree and book page leaves (heart)… BUT, my favorite part is the book page background! I love the texture and look!
It turned out great!! Love the paper trees! Thanks for hosting…Man there are some talented ladies out there!
I love your Halloween Mantel. Thanks for hosting.
Thanks for hosting. Your mantel looks amazing!! So does everyone elses!
This is my first time linking up. I just started my blog last week. I’ve read the tutorials on how to link back, but I am failing miserably. Help!!!!
Love it! I love it when people use print for backgrounds. The whole thing is just precious. You are getting love, I assure you. We just don’t always have time to comment, or we think you don’t want to hear the usual, “I love it.” hehe… but we do, I promise. This mantel displays the Beth Standard of Greatness (BSG).
Love the paper branches, Beth! Thanks for hosting.
Beth- I absolutely LOVE your book page bats! Of course, the whole thing is fabulousness, but those bats are genius. Thanks so much for hosting this partay- can’t wait to see everyone else’s Halloween goodness! (I’m #58) Hope you’re having a great day!
I haven’t finished mine yet after just moving last weekend, but can’t wait to work on it this weekend and of course get it posted to the party!
Love your mantle!
I love your mantel and enjoy hopping through all the decorated mantels. I am new to blogging and I am trying to link up to your linky party. I have the link on my page but can’t get the link to work on your page. Any suggestions appreciated.
Got it. Finally figured it out. I appreciate your help.
Once again , nice work ! My four year old says, “That’s what I’m talking about!” , all the time. Must be that age .
Looks great, Beth. I love how your son was being critical of the pages . . . my kids do the same thing . . .they just don’t get it.
I’m glad to see your Bible still has a place amongst all the trickery.
xox
cheryl
I think you mantle looks great! Love the bat garland idea!xo
Love what you did and those paper trees….so creative! Thanks for hosting.
Love your mantel Beth! Those book pages look so cute…great idea:) Thanks for hosting!
I am loving that you had a little critique while you worked. So funny! The mantel looks great and your twisty trees look fab. Thanks for hosting. xoxo
Thanks for hosting, Beth. We don’t have our mantel construction completed so I linked a vignette. Your mantel looks so pretty. Cute that your little one wanted ‘real’ Halloween stuff.
Looking forward to seeing all the inspiring posts at the party.
What a great mantle! I love the book page bats. Classy yet scary! Great job!
Your mantel is so beautiful and yet so spooky at the same time! Wonderful job! Thank you for hosting!
Beth~I love the paper trees and the book bats! I also am a huge sucker for round mirrors~love! Thanks for hosting
Love how you used the book pages, it looks amazing. So glad I found this linky party, thanks for hosting it. Happy Halloween.
Love this linky party and all of the super creative ideas. I also adore your site
So many fun things to see. Happy Friday!
Finally a Halloween Blog Party. Thanks for hosting the party, I am like your kids. Loving Halloween, Kathy
Thanks for hosting, Beth! I decorated my new chalk paint dresser just for your party! Have a great weekend!
Your mantel looks amazing! Thanks for hosting – I am a little late joining!
-Shelley
Finally, Beth, I had some decent natural light! So, I am fashionably late…lol…
Thank you for hosting. I’ve visited many a creative link from here already…
I love the bat book page garland you made. I’m going to have to use that idea. Thank you for hosting the Halloween Party!
What a great party idea! Thanks for hosting. I just adore your mantel. It is so great. I did a similar buffet!
Love your mantel! Great blog party
I featured your mantel over at Lemon Drop Life! Check it out here:
http://www.lemondroplife.com/2011/10/21/best-in-show-5/
Im loving all this wonderful inspiration from these awesome mantels. I love seeing everyone’s style and take on different ideas. Thanks for hosting a great linky party.
Lisa Scrappinpinklady
A Touch of Pink
Thanks so much for hosting this wonderfully fun party. Much appreciated!!!
Happy Haunting,
M.L.