Sparkly Bat and giveaway!

My next Halloween craft pattern package is a pair of cut out projects. A sparkly bat, and a Spooky scene diorama.

I’ve always loved papercutting patterns, ever since 7th grade art class when I first held an exacto knife. I made one for a Christmas nativity project, I made one to hang in my entry way, and now it’s time to do one for Halloween, but this time I did it with a twist.

For last year’s snowfall tree I discovered that the fun foam you find in the kids aisle at the craft store cuts like a dream. And since paper, particularly finely cut paper, doesn’t exactly wear well, fun foam is a perfect medium for papercutting.

The hard part is getting the pattern onto the foam. But I solved that problem. I printed my pattern off the computer, and then cut it out of regular office paper with an exacto knife. I used that paper cutout as a mask to get the pattern on the foam. I sprayed the back of the paper with a spray adhesive, let it dry to tacky so I could take it off afterwards, and then rubbed baby powder over the top of the pattern.

Then I just cut off everything covered in powder.

Since it’s 3 dimensional, the foam does show any messiness, but that’s where the glitter comes in. I spread elmer’s glue all over, and then shook glitter over the top. Then I did the same thing for the other side. Once it all dries, any stray knife marks or snaggy bits are covered right up.

I just want to put them everywhere. And since I used foam and not paper, I can even use them to hang from the front porch.

This pattern is available right here, but if you’d like a chance to win a free download of this pattern package – the sparkly bat and spooky scene diorama, just leave a comment! I’ll draw a winner tomorrow at 8pm my time.

And the winner is Comment #2 Kate! email me at tresa@reesedixon.com and tell me which email address you want me to send these pdf’s to!