She's Crafty: Halloween Rules Art- thrift store frame update

Looking for a fun and inexpensive Halloween Home Decor piece? It's so easy to update a thrift store frame to make a Halloween Rules Home Decor piece for Halloween. Read on and I'll show you how!

Halloween Rules Wall Art. How to turn a thrift store frame into holiday home decor

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I love decorating my home with hand crafted pieces, especially for the holidays. I especially love cheap and easy home decor pieces. This project is definitely both of those!

I picked up this frame from the thrift store. It's solid wood that was already painted black. The front was in pretty decent shape- even a bit distressed, just the way I like it.

The back of the frame had previously been pulled apart. The cardboard was held on with duct tape.

I took off the duct tape and pulled out the few remaining staples with needle nose pliers.

I used hot glue to hold the glass onto the wooden frame. Once the glass was placed back inside the frame, I put another line of hot glue around the outside of the glass- just to make sure the glass stayed on the frame well.

I found a design in the Silhouette store and cut it from black vinyl with my Cameo. I pulled off the outer vinyl then weeded the insides of the letters with a weeding tool.

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Tips for using vinyl

Tape backing to surface. The backing piece has a tendency to curl making it difficult to weed and use transfer tape. So if you tape it to your desktop, it is much easier.

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Use clear contact paper for transfer tape. Contact paper is much less expensive than transfer tape and works just as well!
Use a scraper to apply vinyl. After laying the vinyl on top of the glass and before removing the contact paper, use a pan scraper on top of the contact paper to burnish the letters onto the glass.

Pull the contact paper diagonally. After the letters are good and stuck to the glass, the contact paper can be removed. Pulling it diagonally helps the vinyl to stay attached to the glass.