Haunted Mirror Halloween Decor DIY Craft
- 1 Can – Krylon Looking Glass Silver Spray Paint
- Tape
- 1 – 8″ x 10″ Picture Frame
- 1 – Image to fit an 8″ x 10″ Frame
- Choose your Image.
- Scan Image and create an Inverse Image.
- Print out two copies – 1 Original Image, and 1 Inverse Image.
- Take Glass out of picture frame. Clean Glass very well.
- Tape the Inverse Image to the front or outside of the glass (image side facing the glass). This allows you to see exactly where your image will be once it is in the frame, and will help you during the spray painting.
- Place glass image side down on your spraying surface. You can see the image through the glass.
- Shake Krylon spray paint vigorously.
- Spray the entire glass with a fine mist of paint.
- Then add more paint in small spurts, especially to the areas around your image. You want there to be enough paint to create a mirror, but with a lighter spraying of paint on top of the image so that it shows through.
- Let the paint dry for at least one hour.
- Remove the Inverse image from the front of the glass and clean glass carefully.
- Place glass back into the frame–Glass side out, Painted side to the inside.
- Load the Original Image into the frame
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Love this! It would be fun to do an ancestor wall for a party!
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Thanks, Lorelai! (love the name!) Great project for all of us lovers of Halloween-All Hallows-Samhain!
Quick note for added verisimilitude and ghostly-ness...
When printing your spooky image, print your inverse (negative) image at 100% and your positive image (what we in the TV/MoPic/Advert Industry call the "hero" image...😉) at a lesser percentage of transparency...enough to see, but transparent enough to look ghostly!
Use B&W, if possible...and if you have a vintage photo,, even better! A vintage B&W pic can be so effective when shadowed somewhat by the mirror paint.
If you want to "age down" your mirror even more, then after your mirror paint is dry, spritz your mirror VERY LIGHTLY with either black, charcoal grey or brown droplets here and there...use a sprayed toothbrush or other brush to better randomize the droplets. (As one of the tiny-handed multitude, I have some trouble doing it well using a spray can...🤭)
You can use any or all of those colors, the effect will be like an old mirror with damaged and aging silvering.
This can look terrific in an antique-y looking frame, round or oval if you can find one.
Happy Scaring! 👻💀🎃
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What is a inverse picture???
That’s what I want to know. What is an inverse picture??? Some of us would like to learn tahat.