If it hasn’t already been made quite obvious by my activities of the last week, Halloween is hands-down my favorite holiday. Maybe because it’s also one of the craftiest. Everyone will take a knife to a pumpkin, get all Project Runway-ed out on their costumes and decide it’s totally okay to hang orange plastic buckets in their trees.
Fully immersed now in this rich abundance of traditional imagery—it’s crazy, really, a holiday where everything from candy to cats to carnage is fair game—I realized I’ve really been missing out on a chance to make Halloween cards. Armed with scissors, office supplies, two shopping bags and a big bottle of Mod Podge, I set out to bring Halloween to life. Er, death. Here, a few favorites.
It’s amazing how a few scraps of paper can be so frightening.
An ode to the greatest candy known to mankind.
All my used tissues from being sick sure did make good ghosts! Oh come on, I’m kidding. Or AM I?
You’d be surprised how difficult it is to construct a convincing witch.
Next year I’m making all my jack-o-lanterns out of paper. The margin for error is much more acceptable.
