Spooky Tree!

Hi everyone! The challenge this month for the Cricut Circle Magazine was to create a project using Echo Park product with at least 4 cuts from our favorite Cricut cartridge! I have mentioned numerous times before that I have no one favorite cartridge - I am an addict who loves ALL of her cartridges! My favorite is usually what I am in the mood for at the moment. Since I am in Halloween mode, I thought I would choose a Halloween theme and my favorite Halloween cartridge is Happy Hauntings! For Echo Park product I chose the Apothecary Emporium line.

Anyway, I decided to make this 3-D spooky tree from the Happy Hauntings cartridge and I am soooo excited about how it turned out! Love Love Love!!!

The cartridges / cuts I used are:

Happy Hauntings

The tree was cut at 11.5". I cut it from patterned paper, chipboard and black cardstock to make it heavy enough to stand. I used a black paint dabber to finish the edges.

Ornaments - Ghosts (1.25"), Witches (1.25"), Bats (1"), Skeletons (1.5"), Cats (1.25")

Font on Banner - "Spooky" (0.75")

Pumpkin (2.25")


Poison (2")


Birthday Bash

Scalloped Banner Pennants (1.25")

Bloom

Scalloped Circle for Base (9")

George & Basic Shapes

Circle for Base (7.5")

For the grass, it was originally green and I put some in a ziploc, poured in some Tattered Angels Glimmer Glam, and rubbed the bag until the grass was thoroughly coated. You can't really tell from the photos, but it is quite sparkly!

All patterned paper used is by Echo Park from the Apothecary Emorium Collection. The banner pennant are stickers from the same collection.

Hope you like it!

#119 Pop-Up Neighborhood - Haunted House card

Hi everyone! Here is a card that I created for a couple of Cricut Circle challenges! The last challenge of the Canadian Cricut Circle Online Swarm was to create a 3-D haunted house and embellish it with Cricut cuts.

This week at the Cricut Circle Blog, they are celebrating their one year blog-iversary by hosting daily challenges. The first challenge, posted on Monday, was to create a project using one of our exclusive Circle cartridges. I chose to give Pop-Up Neighborhood a try. I have been pretty intimidated by the pop-up feature on this card, but turns out it is really not that difficult after all!

The cuts / cartridges I used are:

Pop-Up Neighborhood - house, layers, card (4"), fence (1"), note card (3")

Chic & Scary - pumpkin (.75")

Happy Hauntings - "Enter if you Dare" (3")

Other supplies:

Cuttlebug Folder - mosaic texture

Patterned Paper, Glitter - Martha Stewart Crafts

Cardstock - Core-dinations Black Magic

Stamp - Inkadinkadoo

Wire

Hope you like it!

#114 Happy Hauntings - Monster High Banner!

Hi everyone! Yesterday was my daughter's 8th birthday party. She had a Monster High theme and I had sooooo much fun preparing the decorations! Here is the banner I made:

For the zebra striped pattern and blue diamond pattern on the accordian folds, I used the Teresa Collins Black & White Imagine cartridge.

The banner flags were cut at 5" from Birthday Bash.

For the tops of the flags, I cut a 1.75" strip of pink cardstock and used the Martha Stewart Drippy Goo punch along the bottom edge.

The accordian fold rosettes were made using the Tim Holtz Paper Rosettes die.

The font is from the Happy Hauntings cartridge, cut at 2".

I found the skull image and the othe Monster High images on the internet and printed them out to put on banner as well.

The flags were then joined together with some tulle ribbon. I tied some black bows on the end and voila!

Hope you like it!

Happy Hauntings Serving Platter

Hi everyone! For my next project this evening I used this serving platter I picked up at the dollar store and cut out some vinyl with the Happy Hauntings cartridge. This was my first time trying vinyl and I really like how it turned out! It is sooooo easy to use and I am not sure why I was so scared to use it before! I am entering this in the challenge this week at Fantabulous Cricut. The task is to create a project with a Halloween theme.

Hope you like it! Happy Haunting everyone!

Eerie Halloween card

Hi everyone! Tonight I have been working on a Halloween card using the Happy Hauntings cartridge. The patterned paper is from a Martha Stewart Halloween paper pack. The embossed background was made using a Tim Holtz embossing folder. I rubbed a black ink pad over the embossed image. This card was created for a challenge at Erin Lee Creative where the theme was Halloween!

Thanks for looking and hope you enjoyed your visit to my blog!