Haunted House Tutorial

1. Cover the entire house in a base color, preferably something that will match the paper.
2. Paint the roof black.
3. Add Black Soot Stickles to give the roof a shimmery shingles look.
4. Measure and cut pages from an old medical dictionary to fit on the inside walls. Apply a thin layer of mod podge and adhere the pages. Cut out the spaces for the windows/door. Do not remove the paper around the door area. Simply cut on 3 sides and paint it to make it look like a door or your house will be door-less. I added an orange pompom as a door handle.
5. Measure and trim paper for the outer shell of the house. Apply a thin layer of mod podge and adhere the pages. NOTE: It is VERY important to continuously smooth down the paper or else it will get air bubbles. Cut out the spaces for the windows/door.
6. Take some old sticker or other plastic packaging and cut out pieces big enough to cover the entire area over the doors and windows. DO NOT use a paper punch. (I learned that this jams up the punch the hard way). Attach the plastic over the windows/door on the inside. They can be distressed to make them look like old creepy windows. Glue the "door" down to the plastic.
7. Using the same method in step 5 to paper the upper portion of walls on the lid. This can be very tricky and you may need a little trial and error in order to get the right sizes. It doesn't have to be perfect...just close enough.
8. Apply fringe or ribbon around the "eaves" of the house to cover up any gaps from step 7.

Details:
These are just a few details I added to my house but you can embellish any way you like or just leave it as is.

1, Apply die cut ghost to the inside of  a window using  a pop dot.
2. Ink a piece of gauze and cut into strips to make it look like a set of curtains. Attach on the inside.
3. Attach a die cut of a cauldron using pop dots. Spray a piece of cotton with glimmer mist and attach to the cauldron to make it look like it is smoking/bubbling.
4. Add a die cut broom.
5. Poke a hole in the chimney. Take a piece of beading wire and attach die cut bats. Cut a small piece of cotton and attach all to the chimney.
6. Poke holes around the perimeter of the "yard". Attach pieces of die cut fencing to toothpicks and insert them into the holes. Spray cotton balls with glimmer mist and glue to the outside "yard" to make it look like either grass or creepy mist.