Thursday, October 16, 2014

Throw Back Thrusday -Altered Halloween Top Hat with Graphic 45

Welcome to Throw Back Thursday with one of my favorite Halloween projects from last year. I altered a top hat using Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells and Olde Curiosity Shoppe. I have it sitting on my inspiration shelf in my studio all year long because I love it so much. Do you have a project that you love....please feel free to share the link in the comment section, I would love to see it. So without further a do, here is my Halloween Top Hat.
I created an altered top hat that I purchased at Michaels, it was in the holiday section and if you use your 40% coupon it is a really inexpensive piece to begin with, lol, begin with is the catch phrase and you can see. I used Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells and Olde Curiosity Shoppe for my Altered Halloween Hat, covering the hat, block and birdhouse...there is a lot of fussy cutting of the paper, making rolly polly flowers and punching circles....
Did I mention circles...WELL the hat band and semi-circles on the brim of the hat are made from circles lots of 3/4" circles and glued to the hat...but don't you just love the look I know I do and those bees from the Olde Curiosity paper is so cool to use.
Here is a closer look at the left side of the Alter Halloween Hat, love the orange flocked pumpkin, skeleton hand and flocked spider web leaves, these also were purchased at the craft store.
 
 I made a pretty brown sheer bow to go along with the brown jute that I place between the brim and the hatband to give that part of my hat a more finished look. Added some of those fun rolly polly flowers, chipboard leaves  and a bit of metal to finish this side up
On the right side of the brim is another of the flocked orange pumpkins, spider web leaves and a small skeleton. I used some of the twigs that was on the blue berry stem to make the holders for my pumpkin hot air balloons, it sure give the Altered Halloween Hat depth making them float in the air, don't you think.
As we go up on the hat I had a large wood block that I had in my stash to place on the top of the hat once I had it covered and decorated it with fussy cut pieces that I had layered with pop dots from a piece of the Steampunk Spells paper. I prompt the block up with a book that I had covered int he paper. Added another flock pumpkin, skeleton hand, spider web leaves and roly poly flowers. 
This is the top of the second book that I used to hold my birdhouse up with, I added a bit of red twine and bubble from the twine so that it would hang off the book, the top has a skeleton head that was from a sheet of the Steampunk Spells paper that I fussy cut and layered with pop dots, added a metal gear to the hat and red twine bow to the neck. 
Here is a closer look at the small birdhouse that I painted the base and roof with orange paint, when dried I punched out a lot of 1/2" circles to place on the roof, added a some rolly polly flowers that I made using a 2" punch, placed a fun flocked spider and some chipboard leaves on it, along with a little crow coming to sit on his perch.
Love the lady that is on the paper collection riding a bike, I fussy cut two of them out layered them together with pop dots and added another pumpkin hot air balloon using more of the twigs that I had.

Sorry there are so many photos but photos tell a story, lol so here is one last look at the other side of the block and finished piece. 

I hope you enjoyed my Altered Halloween Hat and try your hand at altering something this week if you have never tried altering something before and remember to feel free to share your favorite Halloween project links in my comment section. Hugs Pammejo. 

53 comments:

  1. This is fabulous! It's like a wonderful mini world! You added so many wonderful altered details...too many to list here, but I absolutely love the altered staples flowers. Those are gorgeous! Thanks for inviting me to hop along. How fun!

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  2. I would say this has been a very Halloween~ish blog hop, however when I clicked on the links they took me to a signed off facebook page. I was able to get to a few of the blogs by deleting some of the web address. Fun hop though! ~ Birgit

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  3. Wow Pam! Fantastic job altering this hat! I love all the glittery pumpkins, skeletons you height you added to this piece. The colors are gorgeous and all the little details you added are amazing. Thanks for sharing! :)

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  4. OH MY GOSH! I loved looking at all the elements and paper cutting and piecing. What work went into this cool display for Halloween! I love it, and the eye of crafting is something you definitely have! I love this style but don't know if I could ever pull it off, but you have me thinking!!!!! Going off to hop with the rest.

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  5. I have no idea what is that! But I lovet :D All the details... Really great!

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  6. Absolutely awesome altered top hat. You have put so many details and embellishments that I could stare at it all day. You are one talented lady!!! I also just finished the hop, and everyone did an absolutely fabulous job.

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  7. Commented on every blog that had theirs posted. This was an awesome hop full of fun and great ideas for me to apply to my own projects.
    Kristi
    kidshomelove at yahoo dot com

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  8. I love this altered hat! So many details I am sure someone could look at it 100 times and still find something they missed. It really is an amazing project. I also finished the blog hop and commented on all blogs everyone did an amazing job. Love it Thank all of you for the inspiration!!

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  9. This project is awesome I love all the layers and the little hidden items. I am going to check out all the others Blogs for more great ideas.

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  10. This is amazing Pam! I love everything about it!

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  11. Wow wow wow this is incredible!!! I can't believe you included a box and a birdhouse on top of the hat! I love all the little details and glittery elements. The circle idea is a great one and looks really cool!

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  12. Oh Pam,...this is an outstanding hat!! I had to read a section of it over as I thought you said, brain not brim!!! LOL....so busy gawking at all the cool deatils of it! I hadn't known that one could buy a hat a Michaels! Whoo hhoo!. There are just SO MANY cool details I can't single any of them out to comment about accept that I am a HUGE owl lover and was excited to see yours! Thanks so much for sharing on this fun new hop!

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  13. Pam, this is just Outstanding, now I feel I have that Dejavu thing going on, as I am sure I have seen this somewhere else, maybe FB? anyhoo, it is gorgeous, and I would wear it any day xxx

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  14. That was a great hop! I really enjoyed all the projects. The only blog that didn't have an ATA post up was Eileen's...and I even went back later in the afternoon to check. Such a fun idea...but I think my favorite(s) are Gloria's mini and your hat. Thanks for a really fun hop!

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  15. I love your whole hat project. Steampunk Spells is one of my favorite stacks and I love all the G45 products.
    Can you tell me where you found the skeleton hands or who makes them? I am having a hard time finding them in my area.

    I am off to hop the other blogs. This is such a fun weekend!

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  16. I did hop to them all. Not sure why we had to go through Fb to get to a few but I did not mind. Eileen, the last one, has not posted yet.

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  17. Oh my good gravy, but the quality and creativity of these AMAZING projects is phenomenal! So many elements in your project ... I could look at it for HOURS! WOW! I've completed the hop and am now inspired to go and CREATE! Thanks so much to everyone for sharing their talents with all of us!

    http://lillianchild.blogspot.com

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  18. That hat is fantastic Pam! What a great job!!

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  19. Two words + FABTABULOUSLY SPOOK-TACULAR !!!

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  20. I love all your details! So much to see and take in.

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  21. Wow Pam Great Job!....love the air balloon and bird house.. heck I love it all!!!

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  22. Loved the hop Pam! GREAT job by everyone!

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  23. Pam! Oh! My! Gosh!
    excellent, wonderful, extraordinary, beautiful, stunning
    Pam this is way to wonderful! I like how you incorporated the bird house.

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  24. Fab job done by everyone!! Thank you for the blog goodness I had a great time!

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  25. OMG - this is simply the most fabulous hat I've ever seen. Every detail and nuance is just perfect.

    Did I mention, I want this hat right now????? LOL

    Brava, brava, brava!

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  26. Well, I seem to have come full-circle - and how fitting that I end up at this site to get more views of this INCREDIBLE hat!

    This was a delightful blog hop - just the right size - and the quality of work shown was absolutely outstanding - not a disappointment in the lot. Can't wait for your next one!

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  27. Love all of the details in this project, especially the tipping boxes

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  28. This is an amazing project. I am just wowed!!

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  29. OMG... So enamored with this incredible Altered Hat! Every little bit is Amazing! Came full circle and was wowed all along the way, incredible group of artists gathered here, had a problem with Jens site wouldn't load, but I already follow her so it's all good, I can catch up with her later, you ladies have really inspired me to start some paper crafting, stunning stuff created over this way! So glad I hopped on over to your Hop! Loved it TFS!

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  30. F A B U L O U S !!!!!!! This is your best ever project!

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  31. Halloween is my favorite holiday and your creation made my day. No way I could get something this detailed done for this Halloween,but I swear I'm starting next January so I can have something like this to display next year.
    Checked out your card from the 20th-I like your style.I;m following now-I think I can learn a lot here.

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  32. Beautiful project.So mich detail!Amazing.

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  33. Wonderful work, such intricate details!!! Great JOB

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  34. Now THAT's a Halloween hat! Love all the little details, and how many ways you worked in skulls or skeletons.

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  35. Love the top hat idea. Many details. So much to look at.
    Karen Seidlitz

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  36. This is absolutely amazing!! I saw it on FB and was blown away!!!

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  37. So I kind of did this backwards because I posted here first.I left lots of love because I really enjoyed this hop. Altering things has become my favorite thing to do and I learned so much along the way.I added a few new blogs to follow-but I used the Google thing so I can keep up with My Feedly. t

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  38. Hi Pam, this is a fab project!! I love all things altered and up cycled and have learnt so many tips and techniques on this hop, so thanx for that ) Am following you now on google connect, happy to connect :)
    http://www.kalasirjana.blogspot.in/

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  39. I love your creative make for this season. Thank you for compiling a wonderful blog hop.

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  40. Finished the hop and there were certainly some amazing projects!!! Thanks for the hop and the chance to win the wonderful prize.
    <3 J

    jwoolbright at gmail dot com

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  41. Oh my. The many deatial of this. I esp. love the little bird house! Great job!

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  42. So perfect, I totally love all the wonderful details you included. You have inspired me.
    ~C8>

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  43. This is absolutely amazing. Beautiful and so detailed. I love it! Thanks for hosting the hop!

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  44. Wow, all amazing stuff, I had such a great time looking at all of the stuff on the blog hop. Thanks for the chance to win.

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  45. you know i love your work, i can't remember if i made a comment prior to this, so i wanted to give you the thumbs up on your work of love

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  46. Just spooktacular... love it! Happy Hallowe'en!

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  47. That is amazing... I feel like this is such a treat to come home after trick or treating and relax with a look at the incredible projects. That top hat is amazing!

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