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Make Cardboard Tombstones by Vicky Smith
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Tombstones are a great way to decorate your home for Halloween. Nothing is more classic than the traditional graveyard scene, and nothing could be easier to make yourself. All you need is some scrap cardboard and painting supplies, and you'll be ready to turn your property into a spooky cemetery for the holiday. Instructions as follows: Firstly, take your newsprint and lay it out on a table. Use a pencil and a ruler to draw the shape of the tombstone that you want. A good size is approximately two feet high by 18 inches across. A simple rectangular shape is a great way to start. If you want to round the top edges, make a basic rectangle and use a plate on the top edges to trace at the corners and round it off, as shown in the illustration. Secondly, cut out the template. Take your scrap cardboard boxes, such as grocery store boxes, and break them open. Use your box cutter to cut down the corners of the box and remove the flaps, so you have even sheets of cardboard to work with. Make sure they are larger than your template. Thirdly, lay your template on the first cardboard sheet. Trace around it with the pencil. Repeat on two other sheets of cardboard. Fourthly, use your box cutter to carefully cut out the cardboard shapes. Decide which cardboard shape is in the best condition to use as the front of the tombstone. Fifthly, hot glue the front piece to one of the other pieces of cardboard. Turn them over, so the front side is down. Place the garden stakes (thin ones, if you can find them) on the bottom, almost to the corners, of the shape, so about six inches hang off the bottom of the paving stone. Hot glue them there. Sixthly, add another layer of hot glue and press the final piece of cardboard down, sandwiching the garden stakes between the two sheets of cardboard. Seventhly, apply Spackle with a Spackle knife to the corrugated edges of the cardboard, working it into the spaces. Smooth it out and allow it to dry. Eighthly, mix some black and white latex paint into a paint pan until you have a gray color that you like. Roll this color onto the back and the sides of the cubic stone. Allow it to dry. Turn it over and roll a coat onto the front of the tombstone. Ninthly, create a speckled stone look by mixing some more black paint into the paint pan to make a darker gray color. Take a dry rag and crumple it up. Dip it in the darker gray paint. Pat it onto some paper towels to remove the excess and then dab it onto the front and sides of the tombstone. Don't work it in too much; just a light dabbing in a random pattern. This will make it resemble granite. Allow it to dry. Tenthly, use stencils to create lettering on the sandstone countertop, or if you prefer you can write free-hand with a pencil. Use a ruler to make sure the lettering is straight. Write names or epitaphs, either funny or grisly. Eleventh, paint over the traced letters with black paint. Allow them to dry. Finally, let me have a conclusion. As an eminent business E-platform of promoting stone industry, we are based with the target that to assist stone enterprises to extend their overseas markets and upgrade their brands. If you are interested in us and want to consult us freely, you can also see slate countertop or become a loyal follower of us by @ https://twitter.com/stonebtb.
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