Halloween frame with a fun surprise!

This post is brought to you by Plaid and BluePrint Social, but all ideas and opinions are my own.

 

I got a fun package in the mail….full of Apple Barrel Multi-Surface Acrylic Paint

• Same results as the Original Apple Barrel paint with the added value of multi-surface coverage
• Indoor/outdoor and dishwasher-safe
• Satin Finish
• Great for tin, terracotta, paper mache, canvas, wood, plaster, rigid plastic, fabric, concrete, glass, and ceramic!

I love that I can jump between painting wood to painting something else all using the same paint! And it’s gloriously thick and covers like a dream! I had this wood frame I picked up for 50 cents at a yard sale…

and turned it into this…

I loosy goosey covered it with clover field green and outrageous orange paint

 

and after it was dry I went over it with black and dark granite . There was no rhyme or reason to my painting…just gray here, black there. after THAT dried…I took some sand paper and sanded some spots. It adds a real fun distressed look–and the pops of green and orange really show through!

Then comes the fun part…

Mod Podge Glow in the Dark–It totally makes your crafts GLOW! (For extra glow, just add more coats) I didn’t even know it existed!! life changing!! I blobbed it on the corners (I was going for dripping blood effect)

 

It dries clear–but since my coats were big and blobby you can see some of the mod podge! It looks like spiders webs/dust on the frame so I’m totally okay with it!

I painted a piece of cardboard to put in the frame

So during the day you have a cute sign…but when the lights go out….ekkkkkk!

 

(p.s. This stuff glows AMAZING–but its the hardest thing to get a picture of! I only took about 200! and these blurry ones are the best I could get –mental image of me crouched in my closet with the door closed taking photo after photo)  

 

You can swap out the picture for a picture of your kids–or whatever you fancy!

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