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Hello strange creatures, monsters and otherworldly beings,

today's crosswords called for the furniture of the day, necessary for any everlasting nap. And what else could it be other than - a coffin? And since it is Halloween it was time to make a whole collection for my colleagues at work. You see, I simply love them to death! :biggrin:


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Now then. Everything started with Ravensblight's magnificent deluxe coffin templates which you can find here.

I chose the Mahogany version and assembled a prototype to see how the parts go together:

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The model is very well designed and comes with very cool textures. Ray even added a padding to the inside:

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The double lamination makes the model stronger than usual but I needed even stronger card to make the coffins sturdy enough to fulfill their purpose.

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So I transferred the pattern onto thicker card and made a stencil. I resized it to a size of 18cm.

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I re-arranged the pattern to make cutting and assembly easier.

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Then I traced the pattern onto heavy cardstock and began assembly.

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As a side effect this procedure allowed me to save paper. Each coffin would have needed three pages of paper which would have resulted in 48 pages in total for this project. The way I did it only required a total amount of 5 pages (two pattern pages and three additional pages for decoration).

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This is the first of 16 coffins. In order to make the collection more attractive I chose three different colours to make them:

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Now it was time for decoration. I thought it would be a nice gimmick to have a corpse inside each coffin and luckily Ray provided one complete with a quilted blanket. I resized it to fit with the new pattern.

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The outside was to feature the golden handles from the original template. I isolated them and printed them on a separate page. After cutting them out

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they were glued around the bottom halves of the coffins. I used a paper strip as a guide to determine the position of the handles.

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With the addition of the handles the bottom halves were finished. Now I was able to turn to the decoration of the lids.

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Several square pieces were cut from leftover card (three pieces for each coffin).

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At a local store I found these adorable ghosts made of felt. A clear thread was knotted to one eye.

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Each thread was glued to one of the card squares.

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There were three different lengths for the threads (3.5, 5 and 6.5cm).

The template for the lid got some holes to add position marks.

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These were used to add a cross to the surface. The cross was made of two golden sticker borders.

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The lids were turned around and the ghosts were added to the inside. The short-threaded ghost was glued into the middle, the others were attached randomly. Each lid got three ghosts with different lengths.

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The lid was turned around again and six nails were painted on using a golden marker:

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The body was filled with sweets:

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So many coffins! :)

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Once you lift off the lid

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the ghosts begin to float!

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And when you finish the sweets you uncover the dark secret of the coffin:

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The Haribo man whose cold bones are crushed, grinded and boiled into gelatine to create new gummy bears!!!

BOO! :D
 
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All coffins were then prepared for transport, and what would be better suited than my good ol' trusty coffin box which was used to transport the very first Halloween gift I made for my colleagues 9 years ago! :)

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When I made the box I knew that I would put a series of coffins inside some day - and now this day had come.

We had an absolute blast when we came together at work. The coffins were gone in no time and I think I have to make two more. At the office they even started to trade the sweets! :biggrin:

And if you ask me what will happen to the prototype coffin - it may be transferred to another location, too. Good ol' Frank has gratiously taken care of it:

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Thanks for watching! :)
 
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These look AMAZING! You did a FANTASTIC JOB on this project! I hope that everyone liked them!
 

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Thank you very much! :)

One of the best side effects was this: I had so much leftover black card from previous prjects in my stash and I did not know what to do with it. There were many pieces of various sizes which were too small for any bigger project, however, here I was able to use ALL of them to build the walls of the caskets. Even the new card I bought was used with almost no excess (one sheet of 50x70cm card is enough to make six coffins). :)
 
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