Halloween garage door silhouette pattern

I love Halloween, and Halloween garage door silhouette pattern been looking for an excuse to try out the Dremel tool my husband gave me. I thought an eerie Halloween scene covering my garage door would have a lot of impact. Rather than a standard cut-out pasted on, I wanted to add some extra spook factor by lighting it from behind. So a silhouette was a perfect choice.

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Halloween garage door silhouette pattern

Halloween Garage Door Silhouette by mcorbin. So my thought was, instead of using my garage door as a backdrop, I'd build a shadow box. My garage door has those little fancy windows. In a photo editing program, I combined all of the pictures that I liked that would fill the space in an interesting way. I got a copy of corel trace with my laser engraver. That allowed me to export the picture to a CAD format. In a CAD program, I scaled the size to match my shadow box dimensions. Then I sliced up the larger vector image into smaller panels that would fit nicely onto 4x8 sheets of plywood. Using the old shelving, I built a Shadowbox to fit the opening of my garage door. I had to give the white panels a couple of coats to thoroughly cover the wood grain pattern from bleeding through. NOTE: The cutouts are jagged. This was an unintentional by-product of vectorizing an image the size of my computer screen and scaling it to the size of my garage door.

It's not too difficult, but it does take some practice. Using the old shelving, I built a Shadowbox to fit the opening of my garage door. Jack Skellington or Pumpkin King are always fun and easy designs.

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I love Halloween, and I've been looking for an excuse to try out the Dremel tool my husband gave me. I thought an eerie Halloween scene covering my garage door would have a lot of impact. Rather than a standard cut-out pasted on, I wanted to add some extra spook factor by lighting it from behind. So a silhouette was a perfect choice. I'll apologize up front for the photography.

Halloween garage door silhouette pattern

Halloween Garage Door Silhouette by mcorbin. So my thought was, instead of using my garage door as a backdrop, I'd build a shadow box. My garage door has those little fancy windows.

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Then I could hardly wait for it to get dark. Attach with metal grommets, tape or magnets. I wish I knew how to get better Halloween photos at night. We thought this was easier as we could use much shorter screws. Also, our garage door is an old wooden one, and we don't mind screwing things like this into it. If you have a dark garage door try covering it with white paper first. I used 2 bulb strings of orange. Then I measured my garage door to figure out the aspect ratio. Request a Quote. When drawing my design, I considered the size of my display space a 2-car garage door , as well as the material I would be using. It's a traffic-stopper for sure. Then I sliced up the larger vector image into smaller panels that would fit nicely onto 4x8 sheets of plywood. Each side piece started as a 2 x 6 piece, cut from the other sheet. The jagged edges made it seem more "Haunty".

What about the garage door?

I had this cut into 2- 4x4 pieces at the store. I painted the frame with flat black paint, and the back panels with flat white primer. The only special thing that I did, was I built a smaller box behind the windows of the house where I installed the orange light so I wouldn't have the orange light bleeding into the background, this gave the effect of lights on in the house. Small Clay Halloween Diorama Decoration by nolan. I've included the CAD files. In a CAD program, I scaled the size to match my shadow box dimensions. Something to work on for the next instructable! A small roller will make quick work of it. After Halloween is over just wash off the hairspray with soap and water. If you have a dark garage door try covering it with white paper first. View Contest. Make your adjustments and screw the plywood pieces into the cleats. Also, the bulbs should not show when looking straight at the piece. My garage door has those little fancy windows.