Halloween Jeweled Skulls

It's not too soon for some Halloween crafting is it?

Ok, good, because I put together a couple of jewel encrusted skulls and I can't wait to share:

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I found my plastic skulls at Dollar Tree, they are lightweight, about the size of a grapefruit and really easy to work with. I've been seeing lots of great ideas for these skulls on Pinterest, here are a couple:

Bookends

Sunflowers

And of course the jeweled skulls that inspired me:

Gold Mask

If you haven't been to Dollar Tree recently, go! They have a great selection of skeletal decor...if that's what you are in to 😉 I snagged a bat, a rat, a bird, these skulls, some hands, a full body skeleton and a couple of bags of little bones. I could't find the mermaid that I saw on there web page, but I'll keep looking.

(You can click here to check out the rest of Dollar Tree's online Halloween decor)

The first thing I did was to spray paint the skulls using metallic gold and rose gold. I wanted to glam them up a little bit in preparation for their jewelry 😎

What I really liked is how well these skulls took the paint; one coat was enough and it adhered well.

While my paint was drying, I searched through my craft supplies for some fun rhinestone costume jewels.

I also tried a little experiment.....

.....and applied a coat of glow in the dark paint to the eyes, nose and teeth of the skulls. I thought it would be cool if the little faces could glow in the dark but the paint did not work at all. If you have any ideas about what I did wrong or tips on how to make it work, please comment below! Thank you!

(The paint that I used was Folk Art brand and I applied one coat)

Here is how they looked after I hot glued on their accessories:

Rose gold with her medallion and crystal rhinestones.

Yellow gold with her rainbow jewels and large pearl eye.

I only added an embellishment to one eye per skull thinking that the glow in the dark paint would work and give a nice one-eyed visual in the darkness. As I said, that plan failed but I decided that I liked the asymmetry and left the eyes empty. A bit more spooky that way anyway, don't you think?

And there you have it, Halloween Jeweled skulls!

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I hope you enjoyed this how-to post, thanks for stopping by!

-Jennifer

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