{"id":27958,"date":"2016-06-30T05:52:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T10:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=27958"},"modified":"2016-06-28T05:53:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T10:53:00","slug":"monster-after-dark-lampshades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=27958","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Monster After Dark&#8221; Lampshades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fishlamp.jpg\" alt=\"Fish Lamp\" title=\"Fish Lamp\" width=\"396\" height=\"198\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6841\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fishlamp.jpg 396w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fishlamp-150x75.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fishlamp-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matt Mets used paper cutouts on both the inside and outside of a lampshade to create a cute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cibomahto.com\/2008\/10\/october-thing-a-day-day-17-monster-lamp\/\">&#8220;monster after dark&#8221;<\/a> effect.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of fun with silhouettes is ripe for all kinds of customization: A crescent moon with bats that appear at night, a castle haunted by a nocturnal ghost, and lots of other now-you-see-them-now-you-don&#8217;t options.  A reverse effect might also be possible, where an innocuous-looking doorway could have spooky eyes glowing from within.  (The only caveat might be that the cutouts for the eyes may still be visible when the light is off.)<\/p>\n<p>You could do something a little more permanent using stickers or even paint, but I kind of like the idea of temporary paper cutouts that can be changed as the whim suits you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Mets used paper cutouts on both the inside and outside of a lampshade to create a cute &#8220;monster after dark&#8221; effect. This kind of fun with silhouettes is ripe for all kinds of customization: A crescent moon with bats that appear at night, a castle haunted by a nocturnal ghost, and lots of other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27959,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27958\/revisions\/27959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}