How To: Creepy Lighted Halloween Portraits | We’ve been hard at work adding some spooky decor to our casa! I’m going for a haunted mansion look with subtle hints of Halloween creepiness. My friend Krysten came up with this project… she’s so creative! She found this HUGE framed portrait at a church rummage sale for $2: Is that not the creepiest thing you’ve ever seen? She found a couple of smaller frames there as well, so she printed off some creepy images she found on Google to place inside. We drilled holes in all of the eyes using a hand drill from the picture all the way through the frame backing. It’s really hard to get a good picture of this project, because it has to be light enough to see the picture but dark enough to see the LED bulbs. Now, our mantle now looks like something straight out of an old abandoned mansion. I’m linking up to: Like this: Like Loading...
Folding Trees halloween tutorial TRES the grim, grinning ghosts come out to socialize hanging a spirit in your front window what you will need:3 wire hangers1 foam head form1 pair long white gloves1 long wig1 bath towelmasking tape2 hooks2-3 pieces cheesecloth1 long-sleeved, white dress (or nightgown?)fishing wire / clear wire blue light one hanger into headtwo hangers untwisted. wrap onto head hanger (see below) ~ tape towel onto shoulders, under neck to give dimension~ stuff paper towels into glove hands, tape gloves onto hanger "arms"~ put dress and wig on~ drape cheesecloth in areas that need covering, filling. place one over head *now this is where it gets tricky: how to hang your sprite from the ceiling. because she has a foam head, you can put all sorts of things into her head from which to hang her, but you need something that will stay put. i used two monkey hooks, placed in an X. so far so good~ hang her from two hooks in ceiling, use fishing wire place blue light beneath her, pointing upwards a
★ Paper Cutting Art Tutorials | How to Cut Intricate Patterns in Paper | Projects for Beginners ★ Creative Paper Cutting and Kirigami Projects Hi and welcome to my page about paper cutting! Paper cutting involves using scissors or a craft knife to cut shapes in paper and turn it into art. There are a few different techniques of paper cutting, including Chinese, Kirigami and origamic architecture, which all sound scary, but they all vary from very basic designs for beginners to amazing sculptures and ornate artwork. This page contains links to paper cutting tutorials, projects to practice your skills, free patterns and templates, and plenty of inspirational examples of what can be achieved. This craft certainly needs patience, but the end results can look absolutely phenomenal. I hope you find the following information useful and inspiring :-) Top Paper-Cutting Books For the ultimate collection of expert advice, inspirational project examples, templates and instructions, then books like these are the best source: Different Paper-Cutting Techniques Learning to Paper Cut
Food for Mad Scientists Gross and edible... the jello brain. We tried different colors and presentations. The blue brain was lit from a tube/stand below the glass plate. The pool underneath the brain is a nice effect, but is indeed slightly melted jello... beware the hot light bulb! The year we planned the Mad Scientist Lab, we went looking for this jello mold, and found it at a local toy shop. We found additional edible body parts by poking around at various discount stores. Canning jars, glass beakers and stainless steel trays make nice serving pieces. Jeff Nishinaka :: paper sculpture Oh, my Eyeballs!! I was in one of my favorite thrift stores the other day and I had an idea! I first had thought of using some balls to make my idea but when I saw these I thought how great it would be if I could make them into lights! I found these fixtures, sorry I had taken the round white globes off to wash them but you will see them later. Then I needed to find a wooden base to put these lights on, I found this assortment of wooden items and thought they would look great stacked. Here are two of the wooden bowls stacked, glued together and a hole was drilled down the middle to put the electrical cord through. Take the end of the cord that you cut off and use some yellow wire nuts to attach the wires to the light. This was the finished globes! I used glass paint on the white globes and painted an eyeball. Here are the bases that are now painted black and purple. I tried them in the window at night to look out on all who might dare to enter!