This Halloween Ball turned out fantastic! I have hints and tips and pictures of what NOT to do to make this Halloween Ball. FYI I had to make about four of these before I got it all right. You won’t have to though because I’m going to warn you not to make the same mistakes I did.
With the light inside of it this looks AMAZING! The pictures don’t even capture how good it looks! It takes a lot of patience to put this together but when it is done, WOW.
And I have some pictures of what I did with the cutouts at the end.
What you will need
- Orange and Black cardstock
- Vellum
- glue gun
- liquid glue
- a small battery operated light
- lots and lots of patience
- Download File
Paper Selection
I stuck to the standard Halloween colors. You could make this all one color, too. Patterned paper looks nice but when it is dark and you light it up you can’t really see the pattern. The vellum needs to be light. I tried black vellum and it didn’t glow well.
Cutting the Halloween Ball Luminary
Assembly
This is where it gets tricky. The first thing to do is re-crease the score lines. Then you want to attach the vellum to the back of the circles. The “Happy Halloween” is the only one where you have to be careful about which side at this point. Make sure the vellum is inside the folds. I glued the vellum with tape glue on the cardstock so that the glue isn’t visible.
Next fold the creases on each circle opposite the vellum. I attempted to do this the other way so that the tabs tucked in. That Halloween Ball Luminary was a disaster.

You can see the gaps and uneven pieces. If I had more patience maybe I could get it to work but that is NOT me.
Gluing
Finishing
What to do with the Cutouts
I used the cutout pieces to make cards. Here are some of them. They are attached to marbleized cards that I will post how to do someday.