Halloween Skeleton Hands Charger Plate

What's a Halloween dinner without

Skeleton hands?

After seeing door wreaths made with

Skeleton hands, it seemed like a

no-brainer to lay them down

as a charger plate.

I found these great flat hands at Michael's.

I cut a circle of Foamcore,

and cut out little sections of the top paper layer 

and foam just large enough for the 

hand's end piece. I just used hot-glue

to secure them to the Foamcore,

but that is only good for temporary use.

You need a strong white glue or something 

like E-6000 to hold them more permanent.

Once dry, I flipped it over carefully 

and painted the circle with black

chalkboard paint. You see why I 

cut the top paper layer only?

I then hot-glued natural tinted reindeer moss

for 2 reasons: 1) To cover the circle edges, 

and B) To give the dinner plate something to

rest in. The reindeer moss has a unique feature

of being spongy and rubbery, creating a bit

of a non-slip surface for the dish.

A clear dish is ideal,

allowing a full view of the hands,

and also any chalk writing

you choose. I saw a chalkboard charger 

example on Pinterest that said

"You have just been poisoned"...

A perfect place setting with the

placecard holder I made last week.

This could also work great under an

appetizer dish!

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Halloween Skull & Skeleton Hand Place Card Holders

I'm picturing Vincent

dining at twilight 

for an intimate gathering

with his closest friends.....

Oh the things you can do
with craft store props
and a glue gun.

A plastic skeleton hand, plastic skull, grey moss,
battery tealight, and styrofoam.

Small styrofoam disc painted black.
Hot-glue moss around disc,
and hand into top back of disc.

After hot-gluing moss around the battery tealight
last week for my Putz house,
I started thinking about other uses.
Again I painted the tealight black
before gluing the moss to it.

Cut a hole through the bottom of skull
large enough to fit over the plastic flame.
A little snug fit is better than loose and wobbly.

Using thin brown cardstock
for the place card,
I accented the name with red hot-glue
and used the same glue to attach
the card to the hand.
Just a touch of bloody macabre.

The moss ring around the styrofoam

gives you something to nestle your tealight into,

since you don't want to glue it down

or you couldn't switch it off.

(If you plan on running the tealight till it

goes out, then feel free to glue it to the base.)

A nice finishing touch to your All Hallows' Eve 

soiree at twilight.....

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2015 Spooky Halloween Putz House

I finally finished my first Halloween Putz house! 

Nothing more spooky than an old abandoned house.

I designed, hand-cut, and assembled this creation completely from scratch, 

save for a little plastic cat & a tree armature.

So very many details to this creation, but here are some of the highlights:

Roof sprinkled with Meyer Imports black mica, and little bunches of natural beige reindeer moss. The same moss has also been thoughtfully placed as landscaping.

All boards, siding, and picket fences are hand cut chipboard, then textured and painted to look like weathered wood. 

Two doors are created with poly door screen and cut to look like old torn screen doors.

Paperclay chimney rocks and tombstones are hand-formed and painted.

Paperclay tree bark is hand-shaped, textured and painted. Branches have been accented with Meyer Imports antique bronze mica flakes to mimic Autumn leaves, and have also been applied to the ground and roof. I enhanced the tree with painted hot-glue roots, to maximize the old tree effect.

Interior is painted black to provide contrast to exterior.

I've created a sliding hatch in the back of the house for easy insertion of battery lights. The hatch inside-facing is painted black to match interior.

I've customized a battery-operated tealight in black paint and covered in the same natural beige reindeer moss as the landscape. When lit inside, the only thing visible is the “flame” and the moss.

Ground cover is Terra Textures (Meyer Imports), a grey flaked mix of natural and wood materials, applied to a painted Foamcore base.

And no spooky, abandoned house is complete without a black cat! I have painted this little creature black and sprinkled it with fine black German Glass glitter, to give it sparkly fur.

I had planned on creating more Putz houses for Halloween,
but I became so absorbed in the details of this one that time disappeared.
That's okay though, because I am pleased with how this turned out.
It's now listed in my Etsy Shop!
UPDATE: SOLD!

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