Newbie, they turned out fantastic! The kids?...heck the adults will love them!

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http://s143.photobucket.com/albums/r124/rikkialittle/

Here are mine from 2007. The theme was a slightly deranged hospital, performing "facial constructive surgery" on patients in a "persistent vegetative state" if you get my drift...

This was the mailing label that went on a 6x9 manila envelope:


This was the invitation text, describing the proceedings in pseudo-medical terms:


And an X-ray of an example "patient", printed on transparency sheets, just to help the atmosphere (and get the point across that it was a pumpkin carving party.):

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Haunt pics: 2005, 2006

Rikki the font is Tim Burton's nightmare before Christmas.. Downloaded it from Goblinville.. Thanks for the postive comments.. BTW I like yours too they are really cute...

Thanks everyone!!

Newbie those are awesome!! Iwent to the dollar tree and picked some things up right after i saw your first post... If not for you I wouldn't have known they had halloween stuff out, cant beat a buck apiece for that stuff.. Thanks for the heads up.. Once again great job!

LT, those are FANTASTIC!!! I envy your creativity!

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Happy Haunting!

Thanks cerinad, thats what this place is about, sharing info and ideas

Long Tom, that invite is AWESOME! It sounds so authentic it's creepy. And the xray is the perfect touch. Love it.

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I love the x-ray! How did you accomplish this?



-Handy_Huanter

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Long Tom....what a great theme. Very original...You got to tell us how the party went. We want details!

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Thanks for the kind words, everybody!

As to how I did the X-ray, it was some fairly basic (read: newbie trial and error) work in Photoshop. I don't remember the exact details, but the general drift was this:
1) Starting with a picture of a pumpkin that I had bought the previous year and photographed (it was green and had interesting veins that I liked)
2) I erased the background of the image (probably would have been more effective to create a mask, but I don't know how to manipulate them to get an accurate shape) In so doing I left a few stray pixels lying around to look like scratches.
3) Changed the image Mode from 24-bit color to grayscale
4) Inverted the image
5) Made a copy of the layer with a heavy gaussian blur and low opacity level for the 'halo" effect.
6) Used the Burn tool to darken in the eye and mouth shapes free-hand.
7) Imported it into Illustrator to give it the rounded edges and add the text stuff at the bottom (Probably could have done that directly in Photoshop, but didn't know exactly how.)

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Haunt pics: 2005, 2006