Ma'am. Step away from the contact paper.
Monday, October 5, 2009 at 9:10AM 
Could someone please, please, come over here and put away this roll of vinyl? I really do have some other stuff to get to. But I couldn't help myself yesterday when I started decorating for Halloween and decided that our pictures looked a little out of place.
So I held up a sheet of acetate over the pictures to get a sense of scale. And I drew a mustache here, a cape there...a few masks. Then I traced everything onto contact paper (excuse the drawings--18 month-old on lap while attempting).
I topped them with another sheet of vinyl and did some trimming and some sticking (more on Con-Tact paper crafts here and here). Now the pictures are ready for Halloween.
I saw a clever post last year where you use a grease pencil to embellish your pictures. That was my original plan. But then I realized that drawing directly onto my picture glass would absolutely guarantee a 30 minute Windex frenzy right before guests arrived for Thanksgiving dinner. So this works for me--after Halloween, I can just peel off the cut outs.
More Halloween stuff coming up--Happy Monday!
Halloween, decorating | in crafts, kids 
Reader Comments (8)
Oh my goodness that is so cute and so funny. I bet the boys loved it. Great idea.
Very cute! What an easy way to add a little fun!!
What a cute idea!!!
Fabulous idea! We have all these family pictures going up the stairs and black mustaches are just what they need.
That is hilarious and very clever!
pk @ room remix
oh my goodness how adorable!!
Love contact paper! I posted today on painting it with chalkboard paint instead of painting straight onto canisters so that I could remove it later.
That is too funny and such a great idea! Thanks for sharing.