Paper CraftsNo. 6143 · The 2026 edition
Glammed Up "Starry Night" Ghost Scrape Painting
Transform a simple scrape painting into a haunted galaxy with this glammed-up 'Starry Night' ghost art.
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This project shows you how to create a spooky yet glamorous painting using acrylic paint scraped with cardboard strips. Draw ghost faces, then embellish with rhinestones to evoke a starry night sky.
You'll need
Directions
- Take a piece of cardboard and slice it into strips of varying widths; these will serve as your painting scrapers.
- Squeeze acrylic paints directly onto your canvas. Using bottles with pointed tips gives better control, but pouring straight from the bottle works just fine.
- Using the cardboard strips, drag the paint across the canvas. Overlap different colors to create blended, swirly effects.
- Once the paint is spread, use a black acrylic pen, a fine brush with black paint, or a black Sharpie to draw ghostly eyes onto the painted shapes.
- Let the canvas dry completely. Fix any mistakes by painting over them with black paint and adding a few extra strokes to blend it in.
- Stick irregular rhinestones in clear, gray, and gold above the ghosts at random. If the self-adhesive is weak, secure them with clear tacky glue.
- Finish the piece by adding moon-shaped and star-shaped gemstones to complete the 'Starry Night' look.
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