Spooktacular Decor:

Spooky Town Castle

Tools:
Purple Cows 2 in 1 Combo Trimmer #1040
Purple Cows Freestyle Mouse Kit #6045
Purple Cows Hot and Cold Laminator #3026
A Purple Cows Designer Project
Hole Punch or Crop-A-Dile by Michelle Jackson-Mogford
Scissors, Craft Knife, Paper Piercer, Needle, http://mjm-thearttart.blogspot.com/
Supplies:
Purple Cows Hot Pockets 12” x 12” #4050
Purple Cows Hot Pockets 8 1/2” x 11” #4080
Purple Cows Hot Pockets 11” x 17” #4090
Imaginisce Spooky Town Collection
Cosmo Cricket Haunted Craft Kit
Bazzill Cardstock: brown, orange, blue, purple
Clearsnap Color Box Cat’s Eye Stackers: Chocolate, Blueberries
Clear Scraps XL Dots Acrylic Circle
Clear Scraps XL Dazed Acrylic Stamp Shape
GlueArts Glue Glider Pro w/ PermaTac Cartridge
Helmar All Purpose 450 Glue
Texture Stamp, Permanent Ink Pad. alcohol inks, glitter, nylon thread, Creative solutions for Hobby, School, and Home Office!
foam pads, silicon glue, Black sparkly thread, brads http://www.purplecows.net/
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Step by Step:
1. Spooky town castle a great centre piece for a Halloween table to
fill with goodies for your guests, or a great piece of seasonal home
décor filled with something like pot pourri! So to start we’ll make
the central piece. Using the guillotine on your # 1040 combo
trimmer cut 2 x 5’’ strips of a 12x12 Imaginisce spooky town paper.
Join the pieces together overlapping by ½’’ with your glue glider
pro and permanent adhesive so you have one long strip.
2. Along the top edge mark a depth of ¾’’ then ½’’ in from the left
mark a vertical line (to make ½ a turret) continue along the length
marking vertical lines but make all the rest at 1’’ intervals. Cut out
your ½ turret and then each alternate turret to the end. Make the
piece into a circle, overlapping the join ½’’ and adhering with the
glue glider pro.
3. For the right hand tower cut a strip of the Imaginisce paper 7’’tall
x 8’’ wide on your combo trimmer. Lay it right side facing you and
from the right mark a line on the top edge 2 ½’’ in and 1 ½’’ down.
Then from the left on the bottom edge mark two lines 1’’ and 2 ½’’
in and 4 ¼’’ up. With a craft knife cut the lines making very thin slits.
Roll up and stick along the join to make a cylinder.
4. For the left tower cut another trip of the Imaginisce paper this
time 6’’ tall and 10’’ wide. Laying it face up again from the right
along the bottom edge mark two lines at 1’’ and 2 ½’’ and 4 ¼’’ up
and again cut along these lines making thin slits. Again roll it up ad
adhere the join to make another cylinder.
5. For the back tower cut another piece of the Imaginisce paper 8 ½’’ tall and 6 ½’’ wide. Again laying it face up from the right along
the bottom mark two lines at 1’’ and 2 ½’’ and 4 ¼’’ up and then along the top edge mark a line at half way ( 3 ¼’’) 1 ½’’ down. As
before cut the slits and make it into a cylinder.
6. Cut 3 circles (well it’s a semi circle plus 1/8th of a circle as in the Year
diagram) 1 = 5 ¼’’ diameter 1 = 5 ¾’’ diameter and 1 = 6 ¾’’ diameter. n te e
Make these into the roofs by overlapping the edges over each other
and sticking in place.
7. Using the template make some sticky out towers, they should
measure 3’’ in height with a thin slit 1 ½’’ deep as marked. To make
them double sided cut out two little roofs and attach one front and
back.

Castle Roof Diagram

Castle “Sticky Out” Tower Template

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8. Ink all the edges of your pieces with the darkest color in the cats
eyes chocolate and blueberries stacker; don’t forget the edges of
the slits and the edges of the roofs.
9. Decorate the pieces with free hand drawn windows and doors
cut from the Imaginisce papers and add strips cut from the papers
using click blade #2804 deckle cut in your trimmer.
10. Stamp a clear scraps XL dazed stamp shaped acrylic with a
texture stamp and permanent black ink.
11. Glue the central circle to the acrylic using silicon glue.

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12. Slot the towers over the castle walls using the base slits. Slot in
your sticky out towers into the two tallest towers that have slits at
the top and glue on the roofs.
13. Further decorate the piece with images cut from the imaginisce
papers and rub ons. I added the ghost onto a strip of discarded
laminate left over from my wreath leaves and stuck it inside the
castle wall so it bobs about! The flag is cut from the papers,
attached to a cocktail stick and pushed into the top of the roof. The
tree and tombstone were cut with an extra flap that I folded back
and stuck to the base, so they stand up and the bats were stuck on
with foam pads for extra dimension.
14. Now find the perfect place to display your castle and fill it up
with goodies.

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3210 North Canyon Rd. Suite 307 Provo, UT 84604 USA
www.purplecows.net • information@purplecows.net