How To: Halloween Shadow Lanterns

Every year I love to experiment with new craft projects for Halloween. Something fun, creepy, and of course easy to make. This week I’ve been making Halloween Shadow Lanterns, you can hang them up,  cluster them on a table, or set them out down your houses side-walk. To light them you can use either real candles or to be extra safe around kids, with electric votives.

Here is how to make your Halloween Shadow Lanterns.
What you will need for three lanterns:
Black Construction Paper – 12 sheets
Tissue Paper – Multiple Colors
Halloween Laser Cut Shapes – bats, spiders, webs etc…
Elmers White Glue
Spray Adhesive
Painters Tape
Whole Punch
Metal Ruler
X-Acto Knife
Bone Folder
Black Floral Wire
Rubberized Cutting Board with Ruler Grid

Give Away Winner!

I’m very excited to announce the winner of the Inquisition Intaglio Print by Larry Vienneau, Susan of Suzees JubileeZ won with her wonderful raven inspired poem. You can find her needle felt work in her Etsy shop SuzeesJubileeZ. I was really astounded by the beauty and humor of the comments I received for this give away. Keep the comments coming with the posts ahead!

From the courtyard
The boy and I heard the cackling
off the tenements in the rough section of town
where the refugees and the pensioners lived.

We had been playing with plastic bubbles and
hiding plastic soldiers in the trees
When it started the boy imagined some
Mythical creature hidden in the clothesline
of a third floor walk up.
We saw nothing
A branch fell from high up the locust tree
And crashed on the side walk not
two feet from us
As it did a raven flew off
and perched on a building further down the street.
Lets play one more the boy said.
And one more after that.
It was an afternoon to abandon reason
Somedays all the stars just fall out the bottom of the barrel, for a bit it seems that we can’t capture them then
the children want to play and play endlessly. The raven laughs first
mysteriously, then infectiously and the barrel starts to glow again. even
in the canyons between the tenements where the bedbugs are plotting to
overtake the hill and branches are falling off spindly, but still green leafed trees, we dance in that glow.Everyday we listen for that laughter.

Ravens Call – Intaglio Print Giveaway –

Raven’s are haunting mystical beings, which have inhabited the world of myth for thousands of years.  But the crisp cool days of fall, always seems to be their time. When a raven’s cry can carry through the crisp air and right into your heart. These beautiful Intaglio prints capture ravens in all their glory. Handcrafted by award-winning Printmaker Larry Vienneau. Who’s work has been shown in the US, Canada, Russia, Hong Kong, and Uruguay as well as being included in four museum collections. These prints are absolutely striking and feel as though the ravens can simply fly from the page!

GIVEAWAY ALERT: Want to win one of the amazing Intaglio prints shown above? To enter the giveaway simply leave a comment with your favorite bird and why. The best comment wins  an Inquisition Intaglio Print. The giveaway ends Tuesday October 12 at midnight.

Photo: Courtesy of Larry Vienneau

Available at: http://www.etsy.com/shop/larryvienneau