Carnival Lighted Sign

I made this sign based on the following inspiration:

http://ruffledblog.com/diy-carnival-marquee-letters/

The main change I made is that I didn't use hot glue to attach the "walls" on my letters to the foam letter cutouts -- I just used various strips of Scotch tape that wrap around to the back of the letter, which itself is glued to the foam wall behind it. Also I didn't bother painting those same "walls" on the letters to be silver (which is good because it would have taken forever, plus I discovered that paint tends to warp paper no matter how lightly you try to apply it). Red and white seems to work just as well as red and silver, I think. I glued the letters to the foam backing using blobs of a silicon glue that's good at gluing two uneven surfaces together. (the foam letters did get a little warped when I painted them red)

This is my result.


You'll notice that the skull and its Vincent Price laugh are eerily familiar to what I did for the Grande Athena haunted hotel, but what can I say, it's an awesome laugh.