Every year we add to our Halloween party props. This little project was in the back of my mind for some time. It also appealed to me because Little Tomato could use it as a bookshelf in her Cupboard Under the Stairs reading nook. The bookshelf was a basic $20 shelf found on Amazon HERE.
The fabric of the shelf was a cheap plastic-like white fabric. I purchased some thick black fabric yardage and used the ‘plastic’ fabric as a template to sew the new black panels.
The two solid side panels were an espresso colored laminate, so I painted them black to match the fabric as well. This provided the frame for the bookshelf.
The decorative Quibbler scroll at the top of the bookcase was freehand drawn onto a scrap piece of insulation foam. Insulation foam is pink, so the material needs to be primed prior to sketching and painting.
Once the paint was layered to my liking on the scrollwork, the spectrespecs were sketched and cut out of a smaller scrap of foam. They were painted and adhered to the base scroll sign, to add three dimensionality to the sign. The completed foam sign was mounted to a piece of black foam core board, and adhered to the backside of the bookshelf.
Once completed, it needed magazine props to look like a display. I found example Quibbler covers online & printed them onto cardstock. These were mounted to scrap cardboard to give them depth and rigidity. They can be easily stacked & moved out of the way when Little Tomato wants to store her books in the shelf too.
And here is the completed bookshelf in her reading nook - her own little cupboard under the stairs!
