Showing posts with label Monster Template Series. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monster Template Series. Show all posts

Monday, October 27, 2008

Dracula Template is Last Freebie In Monster Template Series

Here is the sixth of my Monster Template Series. I love these movies and it has been my pleasure to introduce (or re-introduce) them to you.

Today's Monster Template is the Dracula Template and it features Bela Lugosi as the infamous vampire. There have been many versions of Dracula but nothing beats this one from 1931!

The other templates in the Monster Template Series include:





Sunday, October 26, 2008

Monster Template Series #5: Phantom of the Opera

Some people may not consider The Phantom of the Opera a Halloween horror movie (especially if they have only seen the 2004 version.)

However, back in 1925, Lon Chaney made a slient version of Phantom of the Opera and if this isn't a scarry Halloween monster then I don't know what is. The tag line when this movie was released was, "The greatest horror film of modern cinema!"

Today's digital scrapbooking freebie uses Chaney's image from the 1925 film and the "logo" from the 2004 version. Here is the Phantom of the Opera Template.

By the way, the Lon Chaney in this template is the father of the Lon Chaney in the Wolf Man Template.

Please make sure you check out the other four templates in the Monster Template Series. And come back for the last template tomorrow.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Wolf Man Template Freebie

As Halloween gets closer and closer, I am continuing to offer spooky freebies! I figure Halloween is a major picture taking time with all the costumes and parties so you will need a lot of digital scrapbooking elements, templates and what not.
Here is the fourth in my Monster Template Series. It is the Wolf Man Template featuring Lon Chaney, Jr as the Wolf Man (1941.)

This was always one of my favorites when we got to stay up and watch the Halloween Spooktacular special on tv when I was a child. It may look a little goofy to a grown up, but it was certainly "the real thing" to a 10 year old! We were so naive back then!

I used a pentagram border because it was the shape of the pentagrm in the palm of your hand that signified you would become a werewolf! Ha...caught you looking at your own palm, huh? LOL

I also used some vines for the frames to represent the wolfbane (acutally wolfsbane) mentioned in the poem from the movie. The vines don't actually look like wolfsbane, but give me a little poetic license here if you will!!!

Besides, you're still trying to get a glimpse of your neighbor's palm to check for that pentagram, aren't you LOL

Friday, October 24, 2008

Creature Feature Template Freebie

It is time for part three of my Monster Template Series. I hope you have been collecting them so far!


Did you know that movie was filmed right here in Florida? It was in a place called Silver Springs, near Ocala.

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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Halloween: I Want My Mummy Template Freebie

Today is part two of six in my Monster Template Series. Here is the I Want My Mummy Template.


Once again this template has an overlay of my favorite horror actor...Boris Karloff. Check out yesterday's Our Little Monster Template for the other Karloff template. It just can't be Halloween without Boris Karloff.

But did you know that Boris Karloff was also the voice of the narrator in the 1966 Christmas classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas?

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Freebie: Our Little Monster Template

I'm starting my Halloween templates today. The series is entitled Monster Template Series and it contains 6 famous monsters.

As usual I am including both the Paint Shop Pro version, as well as the Photoshop version of each template in its daily zip.

The first entry in this new series is called Our Little Monster and features Boris Karloff as Frankenstein. This is such a classic movie. If you haven't watched THIS version then you REALLY should!
When my son was about 13 we rented this version of Frankenstein along with the comedy version made in 1974, Young Frankenstein . We watched them back to back and I was able to show my son WHY Young Frankenstein was so funny.

Yes, even on its own that movie is halarious. BUT, if you know exactly WHY you are laughing at something it makes it even funnier. My son was able to see the original dramatic scene in Frankenstein and then see the way they made fun of it in Young Frankenstein.

It was a great "family time" activity and every year at this time he will mention something about it in passing (and that was 8 years ago) That shows me he really enjoyed what we did together.

This series contains overlays of the creatures so you don't have to worry about coloring them in exactly. These movies were made in black and white so to me the true Frankenstein or Dracula is a black and white monster! LOL

I hope you can make some cool layouts with these templates in this series! Please let me see what you come up with.