House Zombies

Check out her fun and easy tutorial on how to make House Zombies! What a great way to decorate for a party, or to give a few trick-or-treaters pause before walking up to your door.

Go read the full tutorial over at Tried and True

I do love this idea. In fact, we have a similar decoration, of a ‘hanged’ man which hangs in our windows… there are tons of things you can do with this silhouette idea, so use your imagination!

Creepy Cherubs

Materials:
ceramic cherub (thrift store/dollar store), Sculpy, Oven, Spray Paint (Black & Gray), Acrylic Paint (red & black)

Instructions:
1. Using Sculpy, form two small horns and attach to head.
2. Create and attach points to tip of wings (you could also cover the feathers completely to make the wings look more leather-like).
3. Form and attach a pointed tail to the rear of the cherub.
4. Bake according to instructions.
5. Allow item to cool completely and apply a solid coat of gray spray paint.
6. Lightly spray black paint from a distance of about 18 in. This will created a speckled effect.
7. While item dries completely, dilute black acrylic paint with water.
8. With a sponge, drip the black paint (very watery) over the cherub to create a streaked look. Continue until satisfied.
9. Paint eyes red.
10. Stand back and enjoy your little Creepy Cherub!

This was one of the winners in the contest last year and a personal fave of mine! Thanks for letting me repost it here! (Text and pics belong to Gerbera Designs. Link to original)

Have a great Halloween project to share with us? Let me know!

Carve Your Face

This one from Wisdom of the Moon is just fabulously done! Yup, that’s her face, and she carved it. She has a very detailed tutorial so you can put your own face on a pumpkin, too. And if you don’t follow her blog, check it out… she’s got some great stuff there. You can win your own carved stamp if you hurry! (Great, now I’m messing up my chances of winning!)

Link to Pumpkin Carving Tutorial

How about Funny!?

Josh Pincus is Crying has some really fun ones he’s done in past years!

(Check out his art while you’re over there — especially if you like illustrations and obscure stories of dead celebrities!)

My favorite is this one <–  Pie Anyone?

More funny pumpkins from other sources to check out:

• Hamburger Pumpkin
• Drowned Pumpkin
• Territorial Pumpkin

Really Geek Out! Pumpkins to bring out your inner Nerd…

• The Nerd-o-Lantern
• Robot Pumpkin – too cute!
• The Cylon Pumpkin from the masters at Evil Mad Scientist
• Check out their Snap-o-lantern, too.  (Nerdy due to the fact it’s a robotic pumpkin.)
• At MAKE:  Too Cool!  the Death Star!
• and.. The Honkin Pumpkin
• and.. The Automatonic Gourd
• Yoda Pumpkin (via Craft)
• Get a scanner kit from the Evil Mad Scientists to make your own Cylon pumpkin

Wanna Go Classy?  Check out these ideas…

These Holey pumpkins look simply lovely in groupings!

How about gilded pumpkins?

How about some lovely stenciled pumpkins?  How to is here at BHG..

And more just good ‘n creepy!

Incredible creepy pumpkin carving tutorials at Villafane Studios!… this guy is GOOD

Not a pumpkin, but a melon brain! (Instructable)

A creepy Cenobite pumpkin… eww!  And check out all the others at Extreme Pumpkins… the 2008 winners are awesome.

Last years ideas from Martha Stewart are worth revisiting – Owls, Black Cats, and more are here.  Carving tips too.  And love her or hate her, she has some great stuff!

More Inspiration:

• Jack-o-lantern Roundup at Superpunch

Hope you enjoy this jack-o-lantern idea post… More will be forthcoming, of course, as we get closer to the big day!

If you missed it, Dabbled got hacked. Be sure to read the post from earlier today with things you should do as a reader to make sure you didn’t get infected, or if you have your own site, the signs to check for to make sure you weren’t hacked as well…

Halloween is the favorite holiday around here, so stay tuned for lots of fabulous halloween food, costumes, ideas and so much more. I’m trying to decide if we’re doing a contest this year–it was great last year. You guys up for it!?

Here at Dabbled we’ll have lots of new (and old) stuff, but here are a few other sources you should check out!

To start you off, check out some of these great compilation posts at Superpunch:

• Jack-o-lantern Roundup
• Halloween Food Roundup

And here’s a roundup of tips from the always clever Parenthacks

• Parenthacks halloween tips

If you’re feeling competitive–or just want some good ideas– try the Make mag Halloween Contest, or check out their recent Halloween Posts

And Dollar Store Crafts has an excellent Halloween decor Roundup.

You can always check out what we did at Dabbled last year (and this year), too:

(or see some of the related posts, below!)

Have a Halloween related tutorial you’d like to submit? Email Dot [at] dabbled [dot] org!