Cardboard Haunted House.

I was done with Halloween costumes 3 days ahead and thought I would rest until then. But looking at some pictures of Halloween houses, I really got itchy to make a box house.
Growing up I always wanted a doll house, and there was never a box big enough to make a house. But lucky I kept some boxes of out bathroom renovation from the Summer.
I pulled all the boxes I had and started to build the house. It was a lot of cutting, ripping a lots of glue gun.
After painting all over, I could add the details. The paper figures I cut in my Cricut, the cute Halloween faces are buttons I found at AC Moore and the drawings my son made.

My son that fits in the box is planning to give out candy from inside the house. Hopefully it will work well.

Steampunk Halloween

Because I made a jet pack steampunk style this Summer, I decided to make the rest of the outfit for Halloween.
And better than making a mechanical arm is to have a shoulder piece attached.

To start making that, I used material from last year's costume. Mega Man lost his shoes.
I used the foam that was used to make the foot part and bent in the shape of shoulders and arm piece using the heating gun.
Then glued some details around using thinner foam board and tubes from the hardware store.

And the important detail that makes it look more real: googly eyes.
Next is to paint everything in black.
Then to give the nice effect some brushes of gold.
The final part is to glue the gears and little accessories. Some of them I bought at the craft store, but most of them I made using my Cricut.
Then using the same techniques, I painted this foam hat from the craft store.
And used swimming googles, too.
Everything was completed with the jet pack.
And that is my first complete steampunk outfit.

Taekwondo Candy Tower.

Every year our taekwondo school has a picnic in the park. We all bring dishes, but this year I was lazy and just brought a bunch o candy.
But for that I had to make a little display.

I got some supplies to make the base.

And made the big base with some leftover foam board.
I covered the board in nice paper.
And started placing the candy around.
And placed the other supplies on top to fill with candy.

After I couldn't fit anymore candy, I cut some paper figures on my Cricut machine.
Making sure I made a sign on top.
I think it got to the kids attention, because there was no more candy at the end of the picnic.

That made me very happy.

Cardboard Jetpack

My son showed me a cartoon with a policeman in a Jetpack, I thought it was so cool I wish we had one. That is how I started making this one.

I started cutting out cardboard boxes to shape something like a Sci Fi jetpack.

I glued everything with hot glue and had my son paint it in black.
After the body was done, we could work on the details. I showed my oldest son how to work on Illustrator, to make me some gears.
After the illustration was done, I transfer to my Cricut machine to cut.

Then I glued to the body.
Other details were added to make look like a machine.
I went to the craft store and to the hardware store to find more details.

After more glueing and painting, the side tanks needed a top.
The only things it had the shape I wanted were plastic gallons.
This way I could connect the tubes.
But it still needed something else. So I grabbed more cardboard.
Last part was to connect everything together.
I ripped a backpack to use the straps.
So I glued in the back for my son to carry comfortably.
Now it is ready, too bad it does not fly. That would be awesome.