Construction Paper

DemonSlayerMau · Post by **DemonSlayerMau** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 7:56 pm

Anyone ever make their own decorations with good ol' construction paper? I actually did that once in my college dorm room when I was a in college. XD;

california ghoul · Post by **california ghoul** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 10:30 pm

I love making those construction paper chains that people always make around Christmas time, but for Halloween I make them in orange and black. Back when I was a kid I would make pumpkins, ghosts and Frankensteins. My mom wasn't crazy about buying Halloween decorations, so I usually had to make most of them myself, but I have to say there's something exciting about making your own decorations.
Yesterday Martha Stewart had some neat ideas for witch's broom party favors made out of a stick and some brown lunch bags. You should check it out.

california ghoul · Post by **california ghoul** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 10:33 pm

The chains I'm talking about look like this, but red and green for Christmas time and orange and black for Halloween

Alan Wake · Post by **Alan Wake** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:37 pm

california ghoul wrote:The chains I'm talking about look like this, but red and green for Christmas time and orange and black for Halloween

I do those every year, lol.

A nice little touch that always save a bit of cash.

DemonSlayerMau · Post by **DemonSlayerMau** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 11:56 pm

That's a good idea.
I know paper decorations are a great fun and inexpensive way to decorate for any holiday season.
It also makes each creation unique, and not just something bought from a store.
If you have kids you can get them involved too.
The links thing is a good idea, I didn't think of that!
I like making pumpkins, skulls....and my favorite...black cats! ^.^

Andybev01 · Post by **Andybev01** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:21 pm

This is probably only slightly associated with construction paper but here goes.

I took a .99 cent bag of fake fall leaves and scattered them all over my scanner bed, placed a sheet of colored construction paper over that for the background and scanned it at 600 dpi (any larger and the files is too big and slow to work with).

Viola!...instant fall wallpaper, or gift wrap or...?

I did this with red, yellow, brown and, orange backgrounds.

You can wrap the paper around an inexpensive glass candle holder, secure it together with double-stick tape, trim the excess from the top of the holder and they make great custom candle holders. Remember to always use care around open flames, etc.

I would have attached the large file but a shrunken version is all I could manage to get in here...

Rising Dead Man · Post by **Rising Dead Man** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:27 pm

Why not paper gravestones?

california ghoul · Post by **california ghoul** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 10:33 am

I tried paper gravestones once (when I was 10), but I put them out too early and they just collapsed cause of the morning dew.

Rising Dead Man · Post by **Rising Dead Man** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:17 pm

I meant to tape on the walls inside. It looks good if you put them in plain sight. But I put them in places where you can hardly see them. I am not doing that again this year.

DemonSlayerMau · Post by **DemonSlayerMau** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 10:46 pm

Well, what I like to do with construction paper...is make things like paper cats, skulls, bats, witches, pumpkins/jack o lanterns, things like that to put on the wall. Totally unique designs. XD;

Alan Wake · Post by **Alan Wake** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:38 pm

I tried paper tombstones, didn't really work out well...

Andybev01 · Post by **Andybev01** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:08 pm

DemonSlayerMau wrote:Well, what I like to do with construction paper...is make things like paper cats, skulls, bats, witches, pumpkins/jack o lanterns, things like that to put on the wall. Totally unique designs. XD;

Or taped in a window for very effective, inexpensive silhouettes!

DemonSlayerMau · Post by **DemonSlayerMau** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:50 pm

That's a great idea! Now if I could just convince my grandma to let me hehehe...

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