I’m not much for Halloween decorating. I don’t like scary movies, ABHOR haunted houses, and sleep with every light on in the house when hubby is away. I’m just not into being scared. But I am into Disney movies. Like, a lot. So when I saw this Disney villain inspired printable over at less cake {more frosting}, I fell deep in love.
Now I have never designed any kind of printable/art and have no clue what program is best to use. The only graphic I’ve ‘designed’ is my Best In Show header, and I did that in Keynote. So, I thought I’d try my hand at using that again. I wanted to incorporate the Queen of Hearts (from Alice in Wonderland) and her famous phrase “Off with their heads!” So I searched the web and found a graphic I liked, and then used the ‘Alpha’ function to mask the graphic and make it look like a silhouette. Then I downloaded a couple of spooky fonts from dafont.com (awesome resource for fonts) and slapped my words on there. And this was my result:
Sorry for the little bit of glare on the picture frame glass..curse you nighttime pictures.
Not half bad, right? Or am I just biased because this is my first graphic baby? I also printed out the one from LCMF and the pair of them now sit atop my entryway table, just daring someone to enter. Or to watch a Disney movie. Whatevs.
I picked up this cute little spider tealight holder at CVS for $2.50 and gave him a coat of high gloss black spray paint. Shiny!
And another look at the LCMF printable, just for good measure 
Oh, and those apples are straight out of our fridge. Use what ya got, I say. Booyah!
Do you guys deck out your house for Halloween? Or do you save all your decorating juice for Thanksgiving and Christmas? Can anyone give me a tutorial in printables? And if anyone wants to print my art, I’d be happy to send you the file!
Too cute, Dacia! I love seeing your ideas come to life.
I also had to laugh — I LOVE the quote “Off with their heads!” I say that myself sometimes. She is the BEST villain. Well, her and the witch from Wizard of Oz.