DIY Halloween Props - Clock from Nightmare Before Christmas

[@leak3690]

Cosplay trick: googly eyes work really well for rivets and they have a lower profile and a larger range of sizes

[@Jukejointjeze0n]

I prefer using document brads. Just have to snip off the tines.

[@Whatthafukc]

Nice Adams apple, you pile of trickery.

[@markreyes5203]

When glueing up wood, painters tape or masking tape works as a great makeshift clamp. Quick and easy and holds stronger than you think. Love the box though!!!

[@WickedMakers]

Yeah good call, thanks! 😄😄

[@NFOsec]

I concur, but I've been using magnetic corner jigs these days because sometimes tape slips. :)

[@WickedMakers]

Looking for plans and templates for this project? They’re available for purchase on our website: thewickedmakers.com/product/holiday-countdown-clock-plans/ 😀

[@poppinfresh5261]

“There’s only 365 days left till next Halloween” “THREE SIXTY FOUR!”

[@dorans799]

Awesome tutorial. Just completed my countdown clock for next year's Halloween decorations. Used thin plywood for the base and the clock. Took a long time to cut as I only had a utility knife and hacksaw to work with. I connected the wreath to the base by screwing some 2x3s into the back of the base and screwed/glued a piece of plywood from the back of the base to the back of the clock. I also added a string of purple dollar store LED lights to the wreath. Love how it turned out. This was a super fun project to do. You guys rock!!! 🎃🙂

[@DistortionsUnlimited]

Really cool idea for those of us that count down until Halloween! Wishing you the best from Distortions!

[@WickedMakers]

Thanks guys! Glad you enjoyed it! 👊🏼💀

[@wherethetatosat]

I actually liked the messy "Days till Halloween" paint job.

[@Anyankah]

I’m late to the party. It turned out great but I think I wouldn’t have touched up there letters. They looked really cool with the jagged “mess up”.

[@WickedMakers]

Thanks!! 😄

[@marcusfneely]

Love how accessible you make these effects! Love the textures! I want to make one of these!

[@WickedMakers]

Thanks! Yeah we try our best to show it in a way so you can make it as well. You definitely should! Working on the plans today. 😄

[@fawntheresa5338]

This is awesome! Tip for painting with stencils or painters tape: once you have your sticky stencil or painters tape down paint a light coat of your base color before you paint the color you want you letters or lines, this will keep your added color from leaking under the tape or stencil

[@anbu1325]

That is a great tip! Thank you!

[@Germatti13489]

They also make a hammered metal spray which really turns out well.

[@WickedMakers]

Oh that would have worked great!

[@HollywoodHaunter]

Great job guys! That turned out awesome. Fantastic idea to use those sticky Pearl's, we've seen people use googly eyes for rivets too. Hope you had a wonderful Halloween!

[@WickedMakers]

Thanks!! 👊🏼😄 Googly eyes would work great too, good call!

[@mkj5013]

Cool idea! Very jealous of your CNC machine! To help assemble the box next time, you could leave gaps in the wood clue for some quick setting CA glue to act as clamps while the wood glue sets up for a more permanent hold!

[@susanowen1709]

The paint job on this is absolutely perfect.

[@WickedMakers]

Thank you so much!

[@stillnessbetween5103]

Great work and great ideas ! For the clock hands, as they are bat wings, the small hand should have the points in the up position like the large hand. It will make it really look like bat wings.

[@DiscoveringTheArtofLiving]

Oh my gosh! I absolutely adore this! I might be able to use my Cricut Maker to cut the pieces from balsa wood!🤩

[@jannakae3845]

Really liked this project! Especially the "stippling"! Love your Videos.

[@WickedMakers]

🤣🤣🤣

[@juliephillips5848]

I absolutely love this design. That's my favorite movie. I'm going to have to create this for my collection

[@LoochGardenState7587]

We need tons more Nightmare before Christmas props and stuff from you guys would love to see it

[@kainapplekreatures5855]

I know this video is a year old and you might know this by now, but the stencil bleed issue can be solved by painting either a coat of a clear matte sealant or the background color on first and letting it dry before painting your lettering color. The first coat will bleed and plug any gaps, but won't show. With the gaps sealed with something that won't show, your lettering layers won't bleed and should look crisp. If you have any issues peeling your stencil without lettering peeling you can run a quick outline around the lettering with a craft knife. Easy peasy quick crisp letters without too much extra work!

[@RealWizardry]

Thanks guys. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this kinda make before. I’ve got a magic and illusion channel and I’ve struggled with making anything to link Christmas and Halloween but this is a great idea!

[@ScaryAF_Entertainment]

This is our favorite movie in this house! Came out great! #Stippling

[@WickedMakers]

Ours too! 👊🏼💀

[@ThatOneFemaleGamer]

For the rivets, googly eyes work well too! But whatever you end up using, putting the rivets on *before* the paint makes them stick better and you can also just spray paint everything with the base coat instead of spray painting them separately. :)

[@WickedMakers]

Nice!!! Really good ideas. 😄

[@ThatOneFemaleGamer]

@@WickedMakers I thought the pearl stickers were a really awesome idea too! Definitely using that in the future.

[@EarnieMercerDungeonstiles]

If you take a small drop of super glue you can align it up that way so it stays to form. Just a suggestion. 😜 love the clock idea.

[@janedoe6181]

I’m sad Halloween is over too! 😫 I’m out of town for a month, so I didn’t even get to decorate this year. Great project to incorporate Halloween and Christmas, which I will also be out of town for. I love that you guys tell us what you tried but didn’t really work out so well. So many channels cut out their failures. Content creators usually have better skills and equipment than us normal folks, so you already have a big advantage. I would have tried to use wood glue and wondering why I was having such a difficult time with the project. I just have one comment: it looked like the bat wing hands on the calendar clock were put on such that when close together, the bottoms of the wings are facing the same direction. I would have put them on facing different directions close together, but when they were six months apart, it would look like an outstretched, but mutated (two different wing sizes), bat.

[@WickedMakers]

Thanks!! Love the bat wing idea. 😄

[@chrisfort7340]

Awesomeness!!! Great video, very inspiring plus I too learned new art terminology.

[@loubolton9175]

you 2 make the perfect couple

[@lindastowars7346]

I LOVE THIS, FINDING SO MANY OLD VIDEOS AND THAT MAKES ME HAPPY

[@WickedMakers]

😄😄😄

[@andrewleonberger7477]

Im new to the channel. So you know this by now hopefully. Prime the wood with acrylic paint before spray painting. A light sanding will smooth out brush strokes. The spray paint will not soak into the wood, and give a cleaner finish. Paint fills in the imperfections. I like leaving some areas raw and un sanded for added effect. If I was destitute I would buy one of your shirts, but my light bill is more important. I accept donations. Thanks for the insperation.

[@BuildDadBuild]

Excellent project, as usual. Great work guys!

[@WickedMakers]

Thanks dude! 👊🏼😄

[@sweetbee52]

This is really neat! Love it. 🧡🖤❤️💚 it would be so cool if you could save the patterns in stl so it could be done with a 3d printer. The possiblities are endless. 🕷🕸🎁🌲

[@WickedMakers]

That’s a great idea! 😄

[@leticiaruelas5423]

Wooow.... This is so awesome!! I so want to try making the days for halloween.. It came.out amazing guys...

[@WickedMakers]

You totally should!!!! 😄

[@ArmouryTerrain]

since the insides are not seen and you have plenty of room, my tip is to glue cardboard inside each corner. This gives lots of surface area to stick and strength. The rhinestones look good as rivets- another source re googly eyes. This project looks pretty good.

[@Alex-wn5rc]

Wow! I love you guys so much, and think your videos are super awesome and I think you put a ton of work and detail in your creations.

[@WickedMakers]

Thanks so much! 👊🏼😄

[@AtariTiger]

I may have to do this project, but make it out of pallet wood. I'd use thin plywood for the face and back, then hide the nails with the round rivet heads.

[@bowmanemily]

I am surprised you guys don’t have a Silhouette machine to cut out your letters and stencils. It would make it so much easier! Also when you put the stencil down you go over it with the white paint (the base paint) and let that dry before painting the color for the letters. That way it seals the stencil and you won’t have the bleeding. I want to decorate my yard for Halloween and Christmas by doing a Nightmare Before Christmas theme. This clock would be perfect!

[@CBlizard]

Subscribed!! Omg I'm soooo making this for my NBC Coffee Bar!! 🧡🖤🎃

[@randywilson4529]

Cool Looking Count Down Day Clock, Love the Tim Burton Stuff myself, Awesome Job, thanks for sharing

[@WickedMakers]

Thanks! 👋😄

[@thomasmule9582]

You guys are the worst! I have projects piling up from all your tutorials, my wife will send out an APB looking for me. I want to do them all. Great videos love it all!

[@WickedMakers]

Hahah they’ll keep piling up forever.

[@manvsfishmanitoba]

I'm thinking of making one of these come Nov. 1. It'll be placed top shelf and center in my Halloween 365 craft studio!

[@Euromans_left_braincell]

One and a half month 'till Christmas! My classmates already sang Christmas songs last Friday. In the middle of the phisics class! (Don't worry, the teacher joined them😁)

[@jcmakes5977]

Great Project! What an awesome paint work you did!

[@Fouch.tv11]

love your channel! You guys should continue to make things throughout the year. Halloween may be over but not in our hearts!

[@WickedMakers]

Thanks!! 👊🏼😄

[@phunkissartisticcreations2316]

Fantastic idea guys and the weathered/metal painting technique looks amazing. Great Job!

[@WickedMakers]

Thanks guys!! 👋😄

[@suzithewitch]

Jay, you are now going to hear the words "stipple" and "stippling" a LOT over the next week or so :)

[@WickedMakers]

Hahah! You’re 100% right. 😂 #stippling

[@mallow9593]

nightmare before Christmas is my favorite movie can you make at least one more. love your videos

[@christinebrannigan1288]

That looks good

[@williepirie5329]

Due to the U.K lacking nightmare before Christmas this project is awesome 👏 thank you so much for this. Great job🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@WickedMakers]

Thanks! They didn’t release the film in the U.K.?

[@williepirie5329]

We got the movie but next to nothing in the way of collectibles and decorations

[@shannond7437]

You guys are awesome! Holiday ideas are always appreciated as it takes some of us months (or years ha) to make them!

[@WickedMakers]

Thanks!! 👋😄

[@ImDBatty1]

Now here's something I need in my tiny house! 😍 🖤🦇

[@raythefangirl1339]

I love the nightmare before Christmas so I might try to make this

[@WickedMakers]

Yessss

[@ashleysdayoff]

Can’t wait for the plans to become available! Excellent job guys!

[@WickedMakers]

Thanks!! Should be in the next day or so. 👋😄

[@mlt1992]

Circut machineee. Y’all would’ve love it

[@Lizaxoxo3]

My fav, nightmare woohoo!!! You guys rock, love this video

[@AdditionalAndrew5916]

that looks cool, but how many number blocks did you do? a block has 6 sides, but seeing how the clock is a count down, 2 slots needed digits including 0, 7, 8 and 9.

[@katinker]

It looks just like it, nice job yall!!

[@lalaLAX219]

Cool project. I hope you do more Christmas stuff

[@WickedMakers]

Thanks! 👊🏼😄

[@Yumiko_silliness]

I don’t celebrate x-mis, but I will use this for Halloween this year! Thanks!

[@nicolericcio4833]

Really awesome! Can't wait to try this.

[@WickedMakers]

😀😀😀😀

[@bonniesherrah-janssens7561]

My absolute favourite ❤

[@Everythings_Adjustable]

That looks Great Guys 👍 😁

[@franrios7869]

omgosh this is so awesome!!!! I love it🎄🎃♥

[@MyRandomLifeCycle]

This is so awesome!! I totally want to give it a try

[@leighdurrant9116]

Great project guy's 👍

[@emiltoteb]

Great video and great project. How exactly are the clock hands positioned, should they change with time, etc?

[@WickedMakers]

Thanks! We’re using the big hand for the month and small hand roughly how far through the month you are.

[@philipching]

Nice job! I'm going to download the plans and scale it for Halloween 2020!

[@WickedMakers]

Awesome, and thanks! 👊🏼😄

[@capistranogardener6100]

TIP: When using a stencil (as you did) first paint the letters or numbers the same color as the background. This will seal the stencil and prevent your final color from leaking around the stencil. Then you can paint using your final color...

[@WickedMakers]

Ahhh nice. Great tip!

[@SOnicSuper-ot9kx]

This was my favourite movie 😊😊😊🎉🎉🎉

[@Jennylouise87]

You two are adorable! Love this!

[@WickedMakers]

Thanks!!! 👊🏼😄

[@DianaHernandez-kn1ne]

looks amazing, what numbers did you put on each block? tfs

[@5fiftyshack-272]

Turned out great! Next time after you put your stencil on hit it again with the base color, let dry and then use the black. This should help with the paint bleeding.

[@WickedMakers]

Ahhh yes, good call! 😄

[@sonalpatel6119]

🥺 comforts Work

[@rebeccaaltamirano3925]

I love this! I bought your template and plan on making this as a baby shower gift. Can I ask how you got the wreath to stand at the end of the video? There isn’t a wall that I’m going to be able to hang it on at the shower. Thank you!

[@abbyc2922]

Wow this is amazing!!!!! Love this thank you for sharing 😁🎃👻

[@WickedMakers]

Thanks!! 😄😄😄

[@jennglow4647]

Very cool😃

[@tcan4959]

Great job

[@BungalowGlow]

Another creative project!!

[@melissaterry7805]

I❤ that move ❤

[@merakimemories]

this looks amazing! Thanks for the tutorial, I really want to try this now

[@thatoneginger77]

Great idea! A lot better than my paper chain countdown :-)

[@casseymont1990]

Incredible!!

[@mikereno4220]

Perfect! Thank you!

[@Jaybe05]

Wow😍 it looks sooo awesome😲😄😍💪

[@WickedMakers]

Thanks!!!! 😁😁😁

[@robynwhite9226]

Looks awesome

[@branchcore]

Totally cool, great job!

[@kozymagic424]

This is awesome! Thank you!

[@WickedMakers]

Thanks!! 👊🏼😄

[@JanK001]

Good Morning. What kind of decorative item is that on the wreath? I mean this pearl necklace? Is there a link from Amazon? Kind regards Jan from Germany

[@WickedMakers]

It was fake berries made from plastic that we found at a craft store. Might be able to look up fake berries or fake cranberries.

[@JanK001]

@@WickedMakers Thanks

[@austinhinckley6933]

Good video please make more Christmas stuff

[@WickedMakers]

Thanks! 👊🏼😄

[@SingleAngel101]

Where did you get the leaves and berries for the wreath? ASAP

[@WickedMakers]

Michaels, I think!

[@pomegranatechannel]

Lovely channel. I found your channel on the KZbin's top 30 "Creator on the Rise" channels list. I think soon you're gonna have more subscribers.

[@WickedMakers]

Thank you! Glad you found us. 👋😄

[@ronchazin7280]

Do you offer a kit with pre-cut pieces to build the clock box case?

[@loganc4233]

Love it!

[@WickedMakers]

👊🏼😄

[@mischiefbestwaifu3494]

Imma try it !

[@WickedMakers]

Nice!!

[@overcookedwater1947]

Thank you! ♡

[@Oonagh72]

I would totally make the wreath into a real clock. I would even leave the months on it.

[@DangeD11]

My life has been accomplished I can die happy now

[@WickedMakers]

🤣🤣

[@Sean-uh6te]

Tim Burton didn’t create the art work for the movie Nightmare Before Christmas. In fact, he had very little to do with the movie. His involvement was so little, that he asked Disney not to put his name on the movie.

[@nancybalasquide1234]

Would love to see somebody create Gothic style cheap ways furniture particular a Gothic fireplace

[@WickedMakers]

That'd be awesome!

[@jacksprrwb111]

I bought this but the measurements were a smidgen off. Why is the lower side around 7”?

[@WickedMakers]

Oh strange! We’ll double check everything but haven’t seen this before.

[@robhopper5729]

What font did you use for the "Days to Halloween" part?