How To: Create A Paper Craft Haunted House

How To: Create A Paper Craft Haunted House

How To: Create Your Own Halloween Tableware

Hello, I am so excited to be back creating blogs for Craft Store Direct!

To get us into the Halloween spirit, I am going to show you how to create a spooky haunted house table centrepiece, ready for all those Halloween parties.

Craft Materials Used:

12″ x 12″ Cardstock in Halloween Colours (I am using 22gsm)
Double Sided Tape or Glue
Silhouette Adhesive-Backed Cardstock 
Acetate or Stencil Material (for the windows)
Battery Lights
Silhouette Curio (A Silhouette or Brother ScanNCut Digital Cutting Machine is also fine)
Silhouette Curio 8 x 12 Cutting Mat

Step 1: Choosing Your Design

I love this spooky trend and have always wanted to create a 3D paper craft piece for the table.

Having looked in the Silhouette Design Store, there a handful of spooky houses but I went with the Large Haunted House. This design also came with the ghost, bats, pumpkin and tomb stone.

I then pulled it into Silhouette Studio from my library by double clicking on the file.

Step 2: Cutting Your Design

After opening the file onto the mat, the design appeared slightly larger, so whilst the files were still grouped together, I resized it, so the largest piece fit nicely with the cut parameters.

Firstly, ungroup the files by right clicking.

Have a look at the final design in Silhouette Design space and work out what pieces you want in each colour and sort the cut pieces out.

Place the first colour of card onto the mat.

Click on the SEND in Silhouette Studio.

Change material to show: Cardstock, Textured – Heavy (80lb) and change blade accordingly.

Then click SEND.

Cut out each piece of cardstock using your digital cutting machine.

Step 3: Putting Your Design Together

Now is the fun bit, putting it all together!

Once you have purchased the file from Silhouette Design Store, you can then head over to YouTube and have a look at the designer’s tutorial on how to put the Haunted House together.

I had great fun! I even used some inks to put some “old” shading onto the sides of the building, used glittery card for the spooky ghost and added battery twinkle lights to give it that added spooky theme. To do this, I just added some holes and slits to feed the lights through each window.

For the windows themselves I used the Silhouette Adhesive-backed Textured Cardstock and found that the Silhouette Stencil Material made great glass.

Make sure that you have plenty of imagination and double sided tape!

CraftStore Direct Blog Created By Vickie McHugh

I have really loved creating this spooky centrepiece, it’s great to be back and crafting again!!

What Silhouette crafts have you been making recently?

Your in for another “Trick or Treat” for my next blog….. So stay tuned for those last minute Halloween Ideas.

Please don’t forget to tag myself and CraftStore Direct on Instagram, I would love to see your masterpieces @the_craft_exchange @craftstore_direct #cuttingmatters

– Vickie x

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Design Used:

Design Used: Large Haunted House – Design ID – 382168

Design Store Artist: Lori Whitlock
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