Halloween Shadow Box

Hi crafters! I have a Halloween project to share today, a fun shadow box, which would also be a fun kids craft project for Halloween.

We are not going to go trick and treating this year, because of Covid. Instead, I am going to do a little ghost trail in the forest for the boys, where a friendly ghost has hidden sweets which they will have to go and look for. It will be a friendlier ghost than this one, since little brother will be scared otherwise, and I promised him that there will be no trolls. I used mainly ephemera and embellishments by Tim Holtz for this project.

I started out with a piece of cardboard from a parcel. It already had a natural shelf. Cut a corresponding piece of Tim Holtz Departed patterned paper.

Stamp the paper here and there with the SSS Crackle Background stamp.

I added Halloween Trim Tape along the shelf part.

And then used two other pieces to create the sides of the box, also adding design tape. If you don't have a similar piece of packaging, you can score and fold your own shelf and sides.

Smear Asteroid Stickles here and there on the background. These Stickles jars have larger pieces inside and I really like the effect that you get. And no glitter mess.

Sand and ink the edges of the ephemera from the Halloween Layers set. Glue the ephemera and other pieces inside the box.

The number also comes from Tim's Halloween Layers and the sentiment was stamped with the Halloween Tiny Text stamp set. I love the Tiny Text sets, with all the great sentiments. Small sentiments are my favorites.

Pieces of mummy cloth were dyed with Hickory Smoke and Pumice Stone and glued to the base. Glue pumpkins and skulls and add some glitter to them too. I also used some Dark Matter Stickles.

I added a piece of foam under the curtains, for stability, and glued them to the edges of the shadow box. The sentiments were stamped with Halloween Tiny Text on left-over strips from my Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde project.

More spider-web. I used a red version of these curtains on a Halloween shadow box project from last year, you can find that tutorial here.

I also added a few Clippings Stickers from the Curiosities book. The paper with the crackle stamping looks like an old wall paper.

Design Tape is perfect for quickly covering up edges.

My youngest have counted all the pumpkins from all our Halloween decorations. It is quite a many!

I hope you enjoyed this post and that you will have a fun Halloween, even though it might not be as usual.

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog today!  

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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