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Haunted House Shadowbox by Nichola Battilana
Filed under Art Projects, Christmas, Giveaways, Mini Haunted House Kit, Newsletters, Nichola Battilana, Sale
First a reminder: MONDAY, October 23rd is the deadline for artwork to be postmarked for the Little Ghouls ATC Swap! (Where has the time gone?!) And if you need some last minute spooky images to finish your project (though at this late date I’d suggest a digital file): a new sale!
EVERYTHING in the Halloween Collage Sheets section is on sale for 50% off! BIG section to peruse: over 160 collage sheets!
The sale ends Monday night, October 23rd! Go check ’em out.
FREE GIFT through Monday Night: Haunted House Kraft 12×12 Paper Set!
Harlequin diamonds; cat, hats & bats (!); and faux vintage ads (all printed single-sided on heavy kraft cardstock). I love the tight palette plus (of course) the images!
All orders over $24 placed Thursday through TOMORROW, October 19-23 (2017) will receive one of these paper sets FREE! More info in Thursday’s newsletter.
Haunted House Shadow Box by Design Team Member Nichola Battilana
Wow! This is such a great haunted house! Nice, sharp contrasts with all the orange and black (and a few extras like purple).
A little haunted house shadow box today. Inside a collection of spooky ooky bits…
I’ve kept the little spaces pretty simple and haven’t cluttered them up too much since they’ll be covered by the house exterior most of the time.
The papers I used for the background are the Tim Holtz 8×8 Kraft Paper Stash. I like them a whole bunch! The simple black and orange patterns are nice and functional and easy to coordinate.
If you know me at all, you know I’m a bit lazy when it comes to hinges. I’ve opted to not have hinges in this piece at all and simply use a length of ribbon that is tied around the back and hold the front of the front facade in place.
Read more in Nichola’s blog post (and see the Giveaway below for some suggestions by Nichola on other haunted house variations).
Be sure to come back and enter the Giveaway, to win lots of supplies from Nichola’s project! And check out the new glittery floral picks (and miniatures) below the photos of the creepy girl!
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Hooray for the Haunted House Shadowbox Giveaway!
See the wide photo below with a close-up of another section of Nichola’s shadowbox? I love the simplicity and the colors!
So to start off this Giveaway, all of these fab supplies from Nichola’s project:
– Small Haunted House Add-On Kit (that includes not only the shadowbox and the window trims, but also the Halloween Labels Collage Sheet that Nichola used in the photo below (the purple label) — and the black & white number “31” that’s at the top of the outside of her haunted house).
– Little Darlings Collage Sheet (creepy girl!)
– Tim Holtz 8×8 Kraft Paper Stash – Halloween
– Red Brick Wall Scrapbook Paper
– Baroque Dresden Borders – Black
– Thin Fleur Dresden Borders – Black
– Acrylic Black Standing Cat Cut-Out
AND a set of the Haunted House Kraft 12×12 Paper Set mentioned above! (You can never have too many black and orange diamond patterns!)
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To enter the Haunted House Shadowbox Giveaway drawing all you have to do is leave a comment BELOW on this blog post TODAY or TOMORROW (the deadline is 11:59 pm PST, Monday Night, October 23, 2017).
AND tell me: What will you make? Will you follow any of Nichola’s suggestions? (“Mine is filled with just a mish-mash of halloween images, but it would be a load of fun to create a themed house. A vampire abode. A monster mansion. Or maybe even include pics of your own family members in their Halloween regalia.”)
Don’t forget to leave your (hello! correct) email address, too, so I can contact the winner; your email address does not need to be made public. Note: I’m offering free shipping, too, but only within the USA. International shipping will still apply.
Please be patient! Spammers try to post crap here a lot so comments are moderated. So if you don’t see your post in the comments section, be patient and check back in a few hours before re-posting it, please!
After midnight, I’ll randomly pick the winner (via Random.org). So check your mailbox on Thursday morning to see who won and for the next Giveaway and Newsletter!
Hey, who won the Grow Where You are Planted Giveaway from Thursday’s newsletter? That would be Debi H! Congrats! Check your email for info.
I love Halloween I would make a really scary house
I love “The Originals” TV Show about Vampires, Werewolves and Witches living in New Orleans. My shadow box will be a tribute to the characters of the show. Perfect for this season of Halloween!
Definitely going all out Halloween on this one!
Great ideas from Nichola! I would like to make a Halloween shadowbox!
I love the clean and simple design of Nichola’s Haunted House and would love to make something similar.
I haven’t a clue what I would make!! lol But I do love the window trim and the shadowbox ideas. And also the Halloween papers. Hard to find in my area. Congrats to Debi H!
Think this is so cool would love to win it.x
I love the contrasting colors of Halloween. I made a Halloween tall box that opens up into 3 sections. Then on the little shelves there are all kinds of spooky things!
I have started decorating with all sorts of Halloween houses. This would fit right in. Love the window trims. Well done.
I would make a fairy-inspired spooky haunted house!
I love Halloween and would make it as “Halloweenie” as possible.
My daughters birthday is in October, when she was little we always had Halloween birthdays. Now she is 36 and I would make it for her birthday!
Her’s is cute but mine needs to be more grungy
Love the idea of using family or even BFF pics! I would keep mine pretty simple as well but maybe creep up the outside of the house a bit more.
Oh, pretty! If I one I would buy a second set and put them together for even more goodness. I love it.
Love this!! I would make frankstein house with all his favorite things!
i would love to make a Halloween shadowbox! Such great ideas!
I love Nichola’s stuff!!!! And I always love her suggestions but I think I am leaning toward Christmas now. It would make a sweet Christmas house with gnomes and Santa, angels and other Yuletide images. Lately I want to use everything as a book cover or an album cover. So it would make a sweet first Christmas album cover for somebody special
I love that haunted house and I love Nichola’s
style, great ideas!
Love ALL of Nichola’s creations but I think I would try something different. Maybe a New Year Celebration 🍾🎉✨ for the Faeries or a Christmas morning at the Faerie house! I can see the little Faeries flitting around in excitement and Paper flyong everywhere!
Maybe the Faerie Gramma will show up with a batch of her special egg nog and a fruitcake or two! TFS
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Love it!! I’d make an Addams Family house.
Great project! I’d use a mish-mash of Halloween goodies! Looks like fun!
I love Nichola’s shadowbox house. I think I would try an great something inspired by Edward Gorey…spooky but can be left up all year
love the haunted house shadow box idea very creative excellent job
I have 3 black cats so I would make a Black Cattery House!
I love Halloween! I would do a haunted house using Nichola’s design she did on front of her haunted house. Nichola’s color of the bricks and black trim for the windows and door are great! I have several tricks to make my own front of my haunted house and with battery lights inside of the house to give it a spooky glow. I’ll be delighted if I’m so lucky to win this fabulous package!
I would love to do a shadowbox version of my ancestor altar. Maybe one for the cats I have lost with each of them in Halloween regalia.
I hope to finish up my other projects in time to do a shadow box. I just love all the ideas Ive seen. I think Id like to use the Antik skellie collage guys in all the windows. They are perfect for this project.
A haunted house shadow box is the perfect use for this kit!
Love Nichola’s shadowbox. I have seen lots of shadowboxes this season and would love to make one too. >^..^<
I love the idea of a shadow box I’d have to give one a try
I absolutely love Halloween. And I really like the mushrooms in the glass dome. The shadow box is just wonderful.
A haunted house of opulent decay!
Love this haunted house and all the possibilities for finishing it…..Halloween, Christmas, toy store…..wow!
This is wonderful! I want to make one for each season.
This would be a fun addition to all the haunted houses I have. Love working with minis. The ornate window frames are so well done.
Such a fun and creative project. My granddaughter’s first Halloween so we will be going all out.
Another great and spooky Halloween project. Love it!
Nichola did a great job. I enjoyed everyone’s ideas. Lots of options not sure. I received my order and have been making little Halloween themed boxes, love the vibrant colors of the half sheet. Congrats Debi H.
I love the haunted house! I would get two and make one Halloween and one for Christmas. I love shadow boxes!
I would make a spooky witches house Muhaahahaha!
I love this shadowbox so I think I would do something similar.
Love the shadow box and I would add Dracula-Mummy-Frankenstein in the windows.
I might make exactly this!
Perfect the way it is but I may want to incorporate a
Mini album…
Me and Halloween – best friends!
The Halloween shadowbox is so amazing! It sort of looks like the haunted house my sister and I are working on
Perfect for HH Holmes’ murder castle!
I would TOTALLY do a ghost mansion! Using images printed on transparencies, I’d make a room in every box! I LOVE these projects!
I am working right now decorating our house for our bi- annual Halloween party.I am thinking about doing an area in miniature (next time) and this would be perfect to get me started.
Such wonderful inspiration always comes from the Alpha Stamps crew.Thank you.
I would have to do a Halloween shadowbox, and I think a Christmas theme one would make-up great, especially using some of the glittery floral picks!
I would love to make a scary fairy Halloween shadow box. Thanks so much for the great ideas
What a great idea, I would use it to house my Halloween minis that are waiting for a permanent home.
I would make a haunted school
Would make a haunted house with spooky little ghost children.
I would love to make a Halloween Masquerade Ball. All the monsters have to dress up as who they see as monsters. Perhaps have a cake walk and other such games. Possibilities!!!
I love this offering from Nichola! She has such a wonderful imagination….
Love love love the house front of the box. Definitely would follow Nichola’s blog to get that just right!
The Monster Mansion suggestion sounds like a ton of fun.
I love the front of the house box!
Hello there!
I guess I would go for a witchy theme, so Nichola’s suggestions would work for me like a charm! 😉
Thanks for the great chance to win these goodies.
Happy creating and happy haunting,
Birgit
That is so cute. I would love to make a haunted house witch style.
Love this shadow box & all things October.
I would create a surprising witches house, a place they go to relax
I would make an old, abandoned orphanage haunted by ghosts of children and the creepy staff who ran it.
I would love to make a witch haunted house
I’d make a sweet little haunted mansion.
What an adorable haunted house. I’d like to make a similiar house for Christmas or maybe just like this one and display all year?
Great haunted house, Nichola! I would use the creepy kids, but put the heads of some family members on the bodies!!
I would love to make a haunted house.