Episode 13: Halloween Haunted Mansion for Silhouette and DigiPlayground.com

IMG_7894_webThis idea has been in the works for several weeks now. I’m so thrilled to finally be able to present my Halloween Haunted Village! This is made completely from SVGS files that you can purchase from my Silhouette Online Shop or DigiPlayground.com (for other cutting machines).

There are several pieces to this village. You can mix and match or purchase the entire village. Here are the pieces you can buy in this set (links for purchase available 9/21/15):

Pumpkin Mansion
Ghost Mansion
Spider House
Witch Tower
Haunted Tree
Haunted Fence
Coffin
Cat House
Tiny Bat House
Tiny Crow House
Cemetary

Most of these pieces (in particular the larger pieces) have a circular opening at the bottom so you can place an electric tealight. I can’t describe how awesome this village looks when all the lights are off and the tea lights make these IMG_7899_1_webhouse glow! If you want ALL the larger houses to glow, make sure you use, orange, white, cream, or transparent paper (like vellum) for the bases of your houses. Several of my houses (shown here) use a black or kraft paper base. These do not show the light nearly as well as the lighter based houses.

My kids were thrilled with this set! Charlie ended up playing in my office for most of the afternoon with the lights off, moving around the pieces and tea lights in this set!

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Of course, this set has a lot of working parts so there is a video on how to assemble it! I cover several of the pieces that I feel will help you. I hope you enjoy it!

Carina

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8 thoughts on “Episode 13: Halloween Haunted Mansion for Silhouette and DigiPlayground.com

  1. I bought the Halloween house on the Silhouette Shop and putting the Spider house together, it doesn’t want to fit together. I got it all together but the bottom and when I went to put it together, the bottom wasn’t wide enough. So I cut out another one and haven’t put it together yet but it doesn’t want to fit either. So, I know I am doing something wrong, I just don’t know what. Could you please help? I re-downloaded it just in case it was a bad download but still the same…

  2. Here’s my suggestion for added “glow” in the windows (with the tealights within) – cut around the windows of the background color (grey? white?) and replace that small area with vellum on the inside of the house before gluing the pieces together. It will take more work, but it will be a nice effect.

  3. Here’s my suggestion for the windows on the houses that use tealights. Before gluing the back of the house to the black front, cut out a small area of the background color (white?, grey?) and glue a piece of vellum over it. Then glue the back to the black front. I think the vellum will be semi transparent enough to show the glow of the tealight candle.

  4. I am also finding that the spider house doesn’t fit together right. The side pieces will not fit because they are too big or the part with the tea light is too small.

  5. Hi Tina, I had the same problem. After getting very frustrated I was ready to give up. So I went back to the design again and I noticed that the base is quite a bit larger than the fronts and sides. So I am going to try and resize the bases of the house and hopefully that works.I also have the ghost house which worked fine and the witch tower that I haven’t done yet. Hope this helps you.

  6. https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/1898044_10204162848826504_2243639634543595913_n.jpg?oh=cb4e3b1c6d67098256ae27ef970246da&oe=56B7C5B3

    Hi Carina, I am not sure if the link I posted to my haunted village will work, but I finished it yesterday (how fitting!). I used vellum paper in some of the windows in my houses so that the tealight candles would really “glow”. I also used some glue “strings” that come off the glue gun when applying glue as ‘webs’ for the trees. It came out really well. Everyone who has seen it is very impressed.

    Now…will you be working on a Christmas village?

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