Layered Spooky Art Journal Class
Create a whimsical spooky art journal with painted pages, collage layers, doodles, haunted details, and interactive surprises.
A Free Spooky Art Journal Tutorial
Make Your Own
Make Your Own
Monster Mansion
Paint some paper, cut a few wonderfully wonky rooflines, add windows and pockets, and build a spooky little mansion just waiting for its first monsters to move in.
Get the Free TutorialBecause Monster Mayhem is comingβ¦ and the monsters are going to need somewhere to live. π
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TUTORIAL
TUTORIAL
Come play
This is not a serious mansion.
Crooked walls are welcome. Strange rooflines are encouraged. Windows do not need to match, and you absolutely do not need an architectural plan.
The Monster Mansion is a playful little handmade art journal created from painted watercolor paper. We'll fold, cut, stack, glue, and decorate the pages until we have our own wonderfully weird little world.
Then we leave some spaces empty.
Because we don't know who's moving in yet.
Inside the free tutorial
I'll show you how I made mine.
Paint Your Papers
Start with watercolor paper and create colorful, imperfect backgrounds for your mansion walls.
Build the Mansion
Fold your pages, trim them, cut quirky rooftops, and stack everything into a chunky little book.
Add the Tiny Details
Add windows, doors, pockets, doodles and hiding places that can grow as your mansion fills with characters.
Take a peek inside
Welcome to my Monster Mansion.
Here's a little flip-through so you can see how the pages, rooflines, pockets and monsters all come together.
Make it your own
Your mansion does not need to look like mine.
This project is meant to evolve. Start with the structure, then let your mansion get stranger and more wonderful as you go.
- Add secret pockets and hiding places.
- Draw strange windows and crooked doors.
- Make signs, portraits, cobwebs and wallpaper.
- Tuck characters into rooms and behind flaps.
- Keep adding to it throughout spooky season.
Something wonderfully weird is coming
Get your mansion ready for Monster Mayhem.
This spooky season, I'm kicking off Monster Mayhem β a playful celebration of making all kinds of wonderfully weird monsters.
I'll be creating monsters, sharing the process, and inviting you to play along.
I've also been building something ridiculously fun called The Monster Machine that I'll be using to dream up unexpected monster combinations.
More on that very soon.
For now?
Build the mansion.
Simple supplies. Lots of possibility.
One playful decision at a time.
Step 01
Paint
Create your colorful mansion papers.
Step 02
Fold
Turn the papers into your mansion pages.
Step 03
Build
Stack, glue and shape your strange little house.
Step 04
Play
Add details now and monsters as they arrive.
ποΈ π» π¦
Ready?
The monsters are coming.
Make your Monster Mansion now so you'll have somewhere wonderfully weird to put them when Monster Mayhem begins.
Make My Monster Mansion β FreeFree tutorial β’ Make it at your own pace β’ Wonkiness encouraged
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