{"id":2781,"date":"2018-08-18T09:58:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2018-08-18T10:21:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T17:21:55","slug":"cardboard-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/2018\/08\/cardboard-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardboard Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We love to use ca<strong>r<\/strong>dboard to create different shapes and backgrounds for the Halloween house.\u00a0 So, finding large, free cardboard is always par<strong>t<\/strong> of the design process.\u00a0 Once we have our cardboard (thanks to those who helped us get some great, large, flat cardboard!), we need to figure out which pieces will work for different parts of the design.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_01.jpg\" class=\"gallery_colorbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2779\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_01.jpg\"  alt=\"\" width=\"1109\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_01.jpg 1109w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_01-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_01-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_01-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_01-135x80.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1109px) 100vw, 1109px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To begin, I measure each piece of cardboard and take down its dimensions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_02.jpg\" class=\"gallery_colorbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2778\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_02.jpg\"  alt=\"\" width=\"1109\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_02.jpg 1109w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_02-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_02-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_02-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_02-135x80.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1109px) 100vw, 1109px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then, I make a quick version of each piece in PowerPoint (yes, PowerPoint &#8211; it is great for quickly creating shapes that are to scale).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_03.jpg\" class=\"gallery_colorbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2777\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_03.jpg\"  alt=\"\" width=\"1109\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_03.jpg 1109w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_03-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_03-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_03-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_03-135x80.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1109px) 100vw, 1109px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After that, I transfer those shapes into Photoshop (scaled to the correct proportions for the house) where I can move each piece around to determine the best place to use it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_04.jpg\" class=\"gallery_colorbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2780\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_04.jpg\"  alt=\"\" width=\"1109\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_04.jpg 1109w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_04-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_04-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_04-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018_02_Cardboard_Management_04-135x80.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1109px) 100vw, 1109px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A little bit of extra work, but it really helps us use each piece&#8217;s si<strong>z<\/strong>e to fit right where it w<strong>o<\/strong>rks best.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love to use cardboard to create different shapes and backgrounds for the Halloween house.\u00a0 So, finding large, free cardboard is always part of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[21,53,19,68,31,52,30,26,242],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2018-house","tag-build","tag-cardboard","tag-design","tag-diy","tag-halloween","tag-house","tag-how-to-make","tag-photoshop","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2788,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions\/2788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}