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Haunted House Cloche

This is a sponsored post on behalf of FloraCraft®. As always, all project ideas and opinions are my own.
Backlit Haunted House Cloche made with Fun Foam! #makeitfuncraftsI love adding new pieces to my holiday decor each year. This year has been a little slow, and I haven’t gotten much done. But one of the projects I did complete is one I’ve wanted to do ever since I bought this cloche a year or two ago. It’s so tall and skinny, I always thought it would be PERFECT to hold a haunted house at Halloween! And thanks to FloraCraft®, and their inspirational Halloween E-Book (which is FREE to download, by the way!) I am able to mark that project from the to do list.

What was holding me back from making this haunted house in the past was figuring out what media to use. Paper is my go to, but it would need to be 3-D to stand up under the cloche. Enter FloraCraft Make It: Fun® Foam! And the example haunted houses from the Halloween booklet.

Backlit Haunted House Cloche made with Fun Foam! #makeitfuncrafts
Basic supplies:
12″x36″ FloraCraft Make It: Fun® Foam Sheet
3″ FloraCraft Make It: Fun® Foam Disk
Haunted house pattern
Foam Cutter and Foam Tools

Backlit Haunted House Cloche made with Fun Foam! #makeitfuncraftsThe Halloween E-Book is so awesome that it comes with haunted house patterns, but I designed my own since I need it to fit in a certain space. I drew it out on a piece of construction paper and made sure it would fit inside my cloche.

I cut out the house then used it as a template to trace on the foam. I also sketched out where I wanted my windows to go. Cover your work surface with some newspaper to collect the foam mess. Carefully carve out the house and the windows. The Foam Cutter makes this super simple!

Cut off a third of one of the 3″ disks then spray paint it and the house black. 2 coats should cover them nicely.

I used Zip Dry glue to adhere the disk to the back base of the haunted house and wrapped a rubber band around it while it dried. I also cut pieces of crinkled white tissue paper to cover the back of the windows, and glued them down with the Zip Dry.

Backlit Haunted House Cloche made with Fun Foam! #makeitfuncraftsTime to decorate the roof! I cut a 1 3/4″ strip of glitter cardstock then used a scallop punch along one side. The underside of the glitter paper is white, so I colored the areas that could be seen later with a black Sharpie.

Use a score board or fold the scalloped edge at a right angle. This will hang over in front of the haunted house from the roof. Also score where the top of the roof will be.

Backlit Haunted House Cloche made with Fun Foam! #makeitfuncraftsUse your adhesive to glue the glitter paper to the roof areas of the haunted house.

Where the top story of the house juts out, cut off the glitter paper up to the fold of the scalloped edge between the two orange arrows.

I also flipped out the edges of the roof to add to the whimsy of the haunted house.

Backlit Haunted House Cloche made with Fun Foam! #makeitfuncraftsTime to light it up!

I really wanted to use glow sticks for this because 1) they are super inexpensive and can be “turned on” and left all night and 2) I can change up the colors if I want (green! orange! purple! pink!).

You need 2 glow sticks and can insert them directly into the disk at the base of the back of the house. Angle them so they cover all of the windows. That’s it! You don’t need to do anything else to them. When the lights die, simply pull them out and add new ones.

And look at that glow!!

Backlit Haunted House Cloche made with Fun Foam! #makeitfuncrafts
So here is the final completed haunted house itself. You can see that it stands up perfectly all on it’s own. Now to add it to the cloche and a few final touches!

Backlit Haunted House Cloche made with Fun Foam! #makeitfuncrafts
I added a black bottle brush tree, some purple “grass” and little skulls to the base. Then I topped it all of with a few cobwebs.

Backlit Haunted House Cloche made with Fun Foam! #makeitfuncraftsI also added a few of my vinyl bats to the outside of the cloche for an extra spooky effect.

I just love how the haunted house cloche turned out! And I love that I can easily change the backlit color if I choose to do so. This is definitely an awesome addition to my Halloween decor this year! And I think I’ll be making a special spot for this little beauty on the mantel pretty soon. Keep an eye out on my Instagram to see how it turns out!

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Be sure to download your FREE copy of the 2015 Halloween E-Book! There are some seriously cute ideas in there. I’ll be creating more for sure.

 

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Jann Olson

Tuesday 25th of September 2018

So cute! Everything takes a step up when it's placed under a cloche. :) Thanks for sharing with SYC. hugs, Jann

Sheri

Monday 24th of September 2018

Totally cool! Thanks for sharing at the To Grandma's House We Go DIY, Crafts, Recipes and More Wednesday Link Party! I pinned this! Hope to see you again next week.

Kim~madeinaday

Tuesday 18th of September 2018

So cute and I love the paper trim! It's perfect. Thank you for sharing on Merry Monday! Hope to see ya next week! Kim

Carol

Thursday 22nd of September 2016

Adorable and genius!

lorraine williamson

Wednesday 28th of October 2015

love the house so cool and awesome will be checking out the book halloween is my favourite holiday zen hugs have a great weekend

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