{"id":5766,"date":"2014-10-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=5766"},"modified":"2014-10-24T18:48:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T22:48:04","slug":"a-month-of-spookdays-framed-monster-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=5766","title":{"rendered":"A Month of Spookdays: Framed Monster Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So I was wandering the dollar store, and I grabbed a bag of large glass cabochons. The kind most people put in vases. Me, I thought: monster eyes!<\/p>\n

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They were not all of equal clarity, so I placed them over some finely detailed paper, and chose the best.<\/p>\n

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Next, I grabbed an eye graphic off Pixabay<\/a>, and changed the color to make it more seasonal. I printed it on glossy photo paper, and hit it with some matte sealer because I have a mere inkjet, and didn’t want anything to run.<\/p>\n

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I used a tiny amount of Glossy Accents on the back of the cabochon, and applied the eye. I pressed and kept pressing to work out as much air as possible, though there wasn’t much to begin with. Hard to photograph, but it makes a pretty cool monster eye.<\/p>\n

Now, what to do with it?<\/p>\n

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I know! How about a low-rent version of this awesome Jimmy Pickering<\/a> piece?<\/p>\n

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I gathered a frame I’d been wanting to use. Don’t have to do a thing to it, I love it as is. Now, I could go all polyclay, but I was aiming for quick and dirty, so I went with purple felt.<\/p>\n

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I cut a slit in the felt, enlarging it until it fit over the eye to my satisfaction. I fastened it open over the eye with Scortape.<\/p>\n

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Next, I used hot glue to add folds for the top and bottom lids.<\/p>\n

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I glued it to the backing cardboard and trimmed, then put it back in the frame. It went in much more easily than I expected.<\/p>\n

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Voila! This took me about an hour. They eye is 1\u00bc”, so you can see the whole thing is pretty small. Very easy last-minute craft for a little bit of creepy!<\/p>\n

Raffle<\/a> status: yes, I can mail this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I was wandering the dollar store, and I grabbed a bag of large glass cabochons. The kind most people put in vases. Me, I thought: monster eyes! They were not all of equal clarity, so I placed them over some finely detailed paper, and chose the best. Next, I grabbed an eye graphic off […]<\/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-5766","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\/5766","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=5766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5779,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions\/5779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}