My Fireplace at night
So to get stared I do what most people do, at least the ones I know. Which was going on pinterest and type in Halloween fireplace, they have amazing ideals on there. I was going for scary and creepy without spending a lot of money or being to scary. Because I have children and I'm also having a party soon for my sons and I don't want to scare are little guests. So one of the first picture I saw was this one and this is my inspiration.
I love this ideal and its easy. All you need for this is:
1)Your hands or your children(mine love this)
2)Black paper(I use children's construction paper $5 at walmart for , you can also use scrapbook paper) 3) scissor and tape 4) white color pencil or chalk
Its truly easy tape the black paper to the wall some where there's light you want to make a shadow on your paper .You can also use a lamp or flash light. Now have your helper make a creepy hand and trace the shadow. After you just simple cut and tape the hand on the edge of your fireplace. If you are planing on using your fire place and you don't have electric fireplace I would not do this.
Here is a close-up of what I have above my fireplace. My fireplace did not come with a man so I use an IKEA picture ledge in black, this was $15 for the 45inch one. I purchase my 4 brown picture frames at Target when they were Clarenceing them out and at Walmart about $2/$4 dollar for each. I put last years Halloween pictures of my boys when they were zombies. The white ones are from goodwill. You can truly fine a lot of inexpensive wooden frames from just about any thrift store. I took white acrylic craft paint (.50 cents at Walmart) and of course painted them. I then took bronze acrylic craft paint($2 at target) and painted along the edge and crevices of the frame to make him look distressed I used a paintbrush and my fingers to smudge it out. The best thing is if you don't like it you can just paint over with the white until you get it right the way you wanted to look.
These are the three that I placed around my house. I like using the bronze because it looks like the wood is distressed but gives it a nice shine to it. The prints in the picture frame I simply typed in the computer Halloween chalkboard art and came upon these. I then printed them out to fit the frame 8 x 10 frame and stuck them in.
All the Halloween decorations you see I purchased at dollar tree over the years. You can still find some of these things in stores today.
The deer head ($12) and frame ($5) I purchased at hobby lobby. I painted the deer head with the same white acrylic craft paint and the antlers of the deer I painted bronze with the same acrylic craft paint. Through on some spiderwebs and fake spiders, also added in the picture on the side( also from dollar tree ). And there you go my not so creepy but creepy scary Halloween fireplace mantle. Don't know if I'm truly done with it but I like where it's going. Until later happy hunting.
