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What to Do with Cabin Fever?Turn you and your family into ghost....a winter craft.

what you will need:

portrait of your favorite persons or pet

framed glass (plastic for children craft)

contact paper with stencil blades

adults cut for kids

glow in the dark invisible dye

tacky clear glue

Adults only :etching compound

(optional gold or silver leaf)

black light

spray bottle

 

contact reverse image from portrait onto cleaned and dry glass smooth onto glass.

if using etching compound lightly dust  baking soda on the contact surface

for children mix dye into tacky glue and paint onto stencil of mist onto stencil

wait to dry slowly with a moist cloth corner rub-off the contact paper stencil

for etching compound brush on and use baking soda to control etch use gloves and eye goggle cautions

after the image settles use a light cloth corner with thinner or organic degunker

gold leaf or silver highlights and dye the rest misty visible under black light

for added frame effect use a shadow box with a glass panel at the bottom over a photo

 

for holly wood type effects use a whole pain with a black light lite room for the spook in the window

 

— IKnowNoBox, Jan 15, 2008

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Region, Country: East Coast, USA

Favorite Poets: Weird Elf, Shel Silverstein, The Poet Anonymous

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