Haunted Village

Happy Wednesday!!  The past few week's I've been busy making a few Halloween decorations.  My absolute FAVORITE is this haunted village:

I saw this village at Crafty Sisters and LOVED it - So I set out to create my own.  The cost of this project was less than $10!  These little houses are just unfinished birdhouses from JoAnns - each one was $1.  I bought a few packs of halloween stickers (from Target and JoAnns), some glitter glue, a dowel and a doll-house sized fence.  The black craft paint, and witch hat supplies (felt & netting), scrapbook paper and 1x3 I already had on hand.

My first step was to cut a few different lengths of the dowel rod and a base from the 1x3 for each of houses that I intend to elevate.  Step two was paint everything black using craft paint.  Here's everything painted black:

Then came the fun part - embelishments!  I used LOTS of glitter glue (especially on the roofs) and everything else are Halloween stickers and scrapbook paper.  To add a more village feel, I also made a few little doors out of cardstock and included a bit of fence.  And to add the spooky, I found great bat and ghost stickers at JoAnns that I just hot-glued to wire and then hot-glued the wire to the house/base.  It turned out so great that I think a Christmas version is going on my to-do list :)