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As I am a practitioner of haunting other holidays - and because I think it is only right to haunt Christmas when stores start replacing ghouls with Santa weeks before Halloween day - I like to include spooky stuff in with my Christmas decorating. I had some Das clay that I wanted to use up and figured a bunch of monster-themed gingerbread cookie ornaments would fit in nicely with all my Nightmare Before Christmas ornaments.
They were made out of Das clay (made by Prang), painted with acrylic paints, and then I used matte dimensional fabric paints to mimic decorator's icing. I'm going to use ribbon to suspend the larger "cookies" and cord for the little ornaments. I will probably remake them eventually because Das clay is very fragile and relatively heavy (neither characteristic being great for big tree ornaments).
Unfortunately the photos are not super clear (and yes I actually tried to get a little detail in like sponging and speckling on darker paint over the base coat and making fine lines with the dimensional paint), but you get the idea.
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Clockwise from the top left: scarecrow, Bride of Frankenstein, Frankenstein's monster, Cthulhu, Sam from Trick 'R Treat, and zombie. I used some shiny red dimensional paint between the zombie's ribs.
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Clockwise from the top left: devil, mummy, Dracula, witch, wolfman, and skeleton.
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Left to right by top to bottom row: ghost, Sally, Jack Skellington, cat familiar, bat, half "I love brains!" zombie, Zero, severed head #1, four pumpkins, and severed head #2. I did add shiny red dimensional paint to the torso of the half-zombie and the neck stumps of the severed heads for a little gore.
They were made out of Das clay (made by Prang), painted with acrylic paints, and then I used matte dimensional fabric paints to mimic decorator's icing. I'm going to use ribbon to suspend the larger "cookies" and cord for the little ornaments. I will probably remake them eventually because Das clay is very fragile and relatively heavy (neither characteristic being great for big tree ornaments).
Unfortunately the photos are not super clear (and yes I actually tried to get a little detail in like sponging and speckling on darker paint over the base coat and making fine lines with the dimensional paint), but you get the idea.
Clockwise from the top left: scarecrow, Bride of Frankenstein, Frankenstein's monster, Cthulhu, Sam from Trick 'R Treat, and zombie. I used some shiny red dimensional paint between the zombie's ribs.
Clockwise from the top left: devil, mummy, Dracula, witch, wolfman, and skeleton.
Left to right by top to bottom row: ghost, Sally, Jack Skellington, cat familiar, bat, half "I love brains!" zombie, Zero, severed head #1, four pumpkins, and severed head #2. I did add shiny red dimensional paint to the torso of the half-zombie and the neck stumps of the severed heads for a little gore.
I will have to try these next year...
