{"id":5178,"date":"2014-10-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=5178"},"modified":"2014-09-30T14:12:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T18:12:33","slug":"a-month-of-spookdays-movie-monster-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=5178","title":{"rendered":"A Month of Spookdays: Movie Monster Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Whenever I see an empty peanut-butter jar, I see the head shape of Frankenstein’s monster. Yeah, welcome to my brain.\u00a0 I’ve seen several versions of the pb-jar luminaria on Pinterest, mostly with cute jack-o-lantern faces. I wanted to\u00a0 upscale that a teensy bit, using my love for iconic movie monsters. I’m thinking of doing a whole set, but for now, you just get Frank. Yes, I know the monster didn’t have a name. It’s in honor of one of my favorite all-time animations<\/a>. It’s short, click.<\/p>\n

You will need:<\/p>\n

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–Empty, clean, peanut-butter jar with lid
\n–Black Paint
\n–Decoupage glue of some sort. I use liquid matte medium from Golden
\n–Green tissue paper
\n–Glue gun
\n–Vellum or clear full-sheet stickers to print on
\n–Two twist-off plastic caps. I used water bottle caps.
\n–Corrugated cardboard scraps<\/p>\n

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Paint the lid black. I’m using cheap craft paint. It was at this point I realized I was wearing one of my favorite shirts. I changed before disaster struck.<\/p>\n

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While that’s drying, cover your jar with tissue paper. Using a brush, lay down a layer of medium. Put tissue on top, then go over the tissue with more medium. I like to tear rough pieces, and encourage wrinkles, as I like the texture. Avoid the lid threads.<\/p>\n

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I took a picture of Boris Karloff’s classic portrayal, posterized it, and erased everything but the facial features. Would you like to use it? Go for it<\/a>.\u00a0 After some fiddling with sizes, it got printed on to clear label paper (Avery 8665<\/a>–it’s kinda frosted, but I love the stuff). Because I have a lowly inkjet, I put a coat of matte sealer on the sticker before doing anything else.<\/p>\n

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Cut around the face in a natural shape (no sharp edges) and attach to the jar. Don’t worry about the edges.<\/p>\n

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They get covered with a little more tissue paper to blend them in.<\/p>\n

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Trim the bottle caps at the top and bottom edge so they fit the pb jar better. I should have done this before I painted them, so I wouldn’t have to do so many touch-ups. Do as I say, not as I do. Trim, then paint.<\/p>\n

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To create a gluing surface in the caps, I stacked and hot glued a couple bits of cardboard. Add your caps low on each side of Frank’s face, and you’re done! Stuff a few battery-powered candles in him and get spooky.<\/p>\n

Raffle<\/a> status: sure, I’ll ship Frank.<\/p>\n

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Whenever I see an empty peanut-butter jar, I see the head shape of Frankenstein’s monster. Yeah, welcome to my brain.\u00a0 I’ve seen several versions of the pb-jar luminaria on Pinterest, mostly with cute jack-o-lantern faces. I wanted to\u00a0 upscale that a teensy bit, using my love for iconic movie monsters. I’m thinking of doing a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-month-of-spookdays","category-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5178"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5474,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions\/5474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}