Glam Witch Hat Home Decor

The third challenge for the Cricut Circle’s Canadian Online Swarm  is to create a home décor project using chipboard and Cricut cut flowers

Here’s what I came up with:

 

I cut the cone from the Artiste Cartridge from poster board and folded in the little scallops across the top of the cone and used this to adhere it upside down on the circle.  The base of the hat is chipboard (a cereal box) with the poster board layered on top.  It is a little hard to see, but the entire hat is covered with glitter

 

Supplies Used:
Cricut Expression & Cricut CraftRoom Application

Cricut  Close to My Hear - Artiste  Cartridge (Flower and Cone)

Cricut Craft Room Basics Cartridge (Circle)
Martha Stewart Glitter - Onyx

Silver Spider from Pier 1 Imports

Spider Web Confetti pieces from the dollar store.

Cereal Box and Black Poster Board
Feathers
Ribbon from my Stash

 

Thanks for looking.

 

Witching Hour Clock

The sixth challenge for the Cricut Circle’s Canadian Online Swarm is to make any type of project that has at least one Cricut cut and uses something old and something new.

I decided to alter a clock using the an "old" Halloween cartridge (i.e., Mini Monsters) and a new Halloween cartridge (i.e., A Frightful Affair ). 


I love the sassy witch cut from A Frightful Affair. I cut a couple of extra layers of the witch(one in a silver grey and the other in black), so that I could make the hair silver rather than black. I had to hand trim the hair and the hat from the extra two cuts. The green skin layer was actually cut from a cream piece of paper and then colored with a green Copic marker since I didn't have a suitable shade of green paper.  Lips were drawn in with a sharpie marker.

I  accented the bubbles above the cauldron from the witch cut with Stickles.

After applying the vinyl and gluing the witch cut down , I applied a couple of coats of Mod Podge to the entire clock and voila, my project was done.

Supplies Used:

Cricut Expression & Cricut CraftRoom Application
Cricut A Frightful Affair Cartridge (numbers & witch)
Cricut Mini MonstersCartridge (witching hour phrase)
10" Clock
Vinyl from my stash
Card Stock Recollections, Wausau  and AC
Stickles
Copic Marker (YG67)
Sharpie Marker (fine point red)
Mod Podge

I'm giving this clock away, so I hope the recepient likes it.
 

Trick or Treat Cat Card

The second challenge for the Cricut Circle’s Canadian Online Swarm has the following requirements:

• A card with a black cat
• Use two Cricut cuts
• Use the colors black, white and purple
• There must be stitching on the project (machine, hand or faux)

Here’s the card I came up with:

 

Supplies Used:

Cricut Expression & Cricut CraftRoom Application

Cricut Chic & Scary Cartridge (Cat)

Cricut Ribbons & Rosette Cartridge (spider rosette)

Martha Stewart Scoring Pad

Inkadinkado  Stamp - Creepy Crawly set

Craftsmart Embossing Pad

Stampendous Embossing Powder

Patterned Paper: DCWV – The Black Current Stack

Solid Card Stock Recollections and AC

Celebrate It Ribbon

Markers (to outline card stock)

Self-adhesive foam mounts

Heat set rhinestones set with an I-Rock tool

Sakura Gelly Roll pen (faux stiching)

Witch Parking Sign

It that time of year again - time for the second annual Cricut Circle’s Canadian Online Swarm.  The first challenge is to create Halloween Decor Item with the following criteria:

the project must include the following:

1) at least one Cricut Cut, and

2) the colour purple

and at least one of the following:

a) Glitter

b) Ribbon

c) Use of a Cuttlebug folder.

I decided to make a sign:

Supplies Used:

Cricut Expression & Cricut CraftRoom Application
Cricut San Serif Cartridge (font)
Cricut Pooh & Friends Cartridge (witch’s hat)
Cricut Animal Kingdom Cartridge (frog cut masquerading as a toad)
Cricut Destinations Cartridge (arrow)
Vinyl from my stash
Celebrate It Halloween Metal Sign with glitter around the edge
Sakura Gelly Roll pen (highlighting on hat and toad)
Silver grey marker (warts on toad)

My daughter just loved the sign and hopefully you will too.

Fabulous Witch Shoe Charger Plate

I know it’s only the beginning of August, but I’m starting to get excited for Halloween and couldn’t wait to work on altering this charger plate that I had picked up on clearance:

I had seen the sentiment on a couple of different projects and knew I had to use it.  I laid out all my cuts using Cricut CraftRoom, so that I could make sure all the vinyl cuts would all fit on the centre of the plate.  I also used  CraftRoom to slant the “Good Witch” to give it the feel of an italic font.

The shoe cut did not have a heel tip on stiletto, so I just cut a small piece of silver vinyl to make the tip.  I also added some glossy accent to the spider “embellishment” on the witch’s shoe to add some dimension to it and trimmed off the excess legs so it would look like the rest of the spider wrapped round to the other side of the shoe.

I’m pleased with the way this turned out.  Though, after I finished it, I thought I should have made the shoe purple and green rather than purple and orange.

Supplies Used: 

Cricut Expression & Cricut CraftRoom Application

Cricut A Frightful Affair (font)

Cricut Forever Young (shoe)

Cricut Chic & Scary (spider)

Cricut Lyrical Letters Cartridge (question mark)

Vinyl from my stash

Black Charger Plate

Mark Richards Star Crystal stickers
Black Gems from my stash

Inkssentials glossy accents

LePage Extreme Repair Adhesive

Sawtooth Picture Hanger

Thanks for stopping by to have a look. 

Halloween Costume

My hubby and I dressed as characters from the Grease movie for our annual Halloween party. 

I was a Pink Lady

 

and he was a T-Bird

For his costume, I used repositional Con-Tact paper to put the lettering and logo on his leather jacket.  The "T" was cut from Cricut Base Camp cartridge, the "BIRDS" was cut using the Cricut Sans Serif cartridge and the bird was cut from Cricut A Child's Year cartridge.

After the party, I removed the Con-Tact paper.  It did remove a little colour from the leather jacket, but nothing too noticeable.  He'll be able to continue to wear the jacket.

Here is the Design Studio cut file if you're interested.

Thanks for looking.

Witching Hour Clock

I decided to alter a clock for Halloween. (If you haven’t guessed already, Halloween is one of my favourite holidays.)

Here’s the clock:

Here's a close up of the bottom of the clock with a little less glare:

Supplies Used:
Battery Operated Wall Clock
Cricut Expression
Cricut Celebrate With Flourish Cartridge (witches)
Cricut Chic and Scary Cartridge (web)
Cricut Accent Essentials Cartridge (circle)
Cricut Ashlyn’s Alphabet Cartridge (“witching hour”)
Martha Stewart fine glitter
Halloween Confetti (ghost)
Recollection Pumpkin Stickers
Hot fix Gems
Xyron
Vinyl
Paper from K&Company and solid cardstock from my stash

Thanks for looking

Halloween Fridge

I’m decorating my home in preparation for a Halloween party we’re throwing.  I decided that my bar fridge needed something, so here is what I came up with:

I think the finger prints on the fridge that show up in the picture add to the spook factor I  (that’s my story and I’m sticking to it). 

Supplies Used:
Cricut Expression
Cricut Happy Hauntings Cartridge
White Con-Tact Paper

Thanks for looking.

Cat Halloween Card

This is a layout I created for the Cricut Circle Blog’s Blogiversary Sketch Challenge.  The challenge was with to create a project using at least 2 Cricut Cuts based on the sketch to the right.

Here’s my entry.

In the top right corner is a plastic spider that I covered in glue and then sprinkled with glitter.

The cat cut was run through my Xyron and then sprinkled with flocking powder.  The pink nose was hand cut and I added the whiskers next to the nose.  The eyes are a dollar store flower jewel petals, coloured green and black with a Sharpie.

The purple pumpkin was stamped with the sentiment and covered with UTEE.  After it was heated, the stamped sentiment was difficult to read, so I went over it with a black sharpie.

Supplies Used:
Cricut Expression

Cricut Chic and Scary Cartridge (cat and pumpkin)

Plastic Spider

Martha Stewart fine glitter

Black half beads

Xyron

Recollections Flocking Powder

White hair from an old Halloween wig (cat whiskers)

Plastic flower jewel

Black and Green Sharpie Marker

Studio G Stamp and Versafine Ink Pad in Onyx

Suze Weinberg Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel

Recollections Ribbon

Paper from K&Company and solid cardstock from my stash

Thanks for looking.

Halloween Tealight Holders: "So...What's New?"--Blog Hop Day 2

Welcome back for the second day of the "So...What's New?" Blog Hop.  Again, if you arrived here from My Mind's Dust Bunnies, you are heading in the right direction.  If not, then you will need to go to the  TX Scrapper Mom blog and start the hop there.

Sticking with Halloween, my project is a set of altered tealight holders:

I found these candle holders at Michael's on clearance at three for $1 (can't beat that) and thought they'd be perfect for Halloween.  I used Con-Tact brand paper rather than vinyl for this project because of its price and because I like the marble print on the paper.  

Supplies Used:
Cricut Expression
Cricut Chic and Scary Cartridge
Orange Glass Votive Holders
Black Marble Con-Tact Paper

I'd love for you to comment and let me know what you think of my tealight holders.

Also, I am offering a prize from my blog for the hop, but  you will have to read my post from yesterday (So...What's New?"--Blog Hop Day 1) to find out how to win and what prize is that I am giving away.

The next stop on the hop is the My Craft and Chat Cafe blog.

Halloween Card: "So...What's New?"--Blog Hop Day 1

Welcome to the first day of the "So...What's New?" Blog Hop.   If you arrived here from My Craft and Chat Cafe, you are heading in the right direction.   If not, then you will need to go there to start the hop.  I will be offering a prize from my blog, but you will have to read to the end to find out how to win and what the prize is that I am giving away.

 My project is a Halloween card.  Here's the front of the card:

I embossed the pumpkin cut and background cream paper using the Cuttlebug embossing folders. The sentiment was stamped, sprinkled with silver embossing powder and heated to melt it.  

Now onto the inside of the card:

To make the "pop-up" feature, I had welded tabs to the bottom on the boo cut to attach it to the bottom half of the card. Then, a piece from some plastic packaging was used to connect the boo cut to the ghost cuts.  Finally, a scrap piece of transparency was used to attached the ghost to the the top half of the card. 

Supplies Used:
Cricut Expression
Cricut Design Studio
Cricut Paper Dolls Dress Up cartridge (moon cut)
Cricut Chic and Scary Cartridge (pumpkin cuts)
Cricut Happy Hauntings Cartridge (ghost cuts)
Cricut Holiday Cakes Cartridge (boo cuts)
Cricut Hello Kitty Font Cartridge (tabs for boo cut)
Cuttlebug Skeleton Scroll and Distressed Stripes Embossing Folders
Craftsmart Rubber Stamps and Embossing Pad and Stampendous Embossing Powder
Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page Spider Web Edge Punch
Memento Dye Ink in London Fog (ink the embossing on the cream card stock)
Copic Markers (to outline on the Cricut cuts slightly)
White Gel Pen (dots on the boo cut)
Ric-Rac and Grosgrain Ribbon from Celebrate It
Self-adhesive foam mounts
Purple, Green, Yellow, Purple Orange Recollection Card Stock
Cream Card Stock from my stash

Well, I hope you enjoyed my card enough to leave me a comment about it. To enter the giveaway for the prize of your very own Cuttlebug Skeleton Scroll Embossing Folder on my blog, just leave a comment on this post with a guess as to how many candy pumpkins are in the jar beside the card in the above photos. Only one guess per person allowed. Closest guess without going over wins. If more than one person has the right answer, I'll randomly draw from the correct answers. Your comment must be posted before10am CST on Monday, October 10th, 2011 to be eligible. Be sure to check back on Tuesday to see if you've won.

The next stop on the hop is the My Mind's Dust Bunnies blog.

Monochromatic (Brown) Halloween Card

This is a card I created for the Cricut Circle Blog’s Blogiversary Monochromatic Color Challenge.  The challenge was to create a project of your choice using a monochromatic color scheme at least 2 different Cricut cuts.

I stamped the dress with part of an Inkadinkadoo stamp and clear embossed it to add some texture.  I also clear embossed the boots to make them look shiny like leather.

Supplies Used:
Cricut Expression
Cricut Wrap It Up Cartridge (witch cut)
Cricut Accent Essentials Cartridge (Circle cut for sentiment)
Cuttlebug Distressed Stripes Embossing Folders
Studio G Clear Stamp (sentiment)
Inkadinkadoo Snowflakes Clear Stamp (pattern on dress)
Embossing Pad and Stampendous Embossing Powder
Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page Spider Web Edge and Corner Punches
Martha Stewart Glitter in Smokey Quartz
Stampcraft Dye Ink in Coffee (ink the Cuttlebug embossing)
Ribbon flower from my stash
Copic Markers (to outline on the Cricut cuts and color the ribbon flower)
Brown Tulle from Michaels
Self-adhesive foam mounts
Cardstock from my stash

I really love the way this card turned out.  What do you think?

3D Haunted House

The fourth challenge for the inaugural Cricut Circle’s Canadian Online Swarm was to create a 3D haunted house embellished with Cricut cuts, stamps, etc .  It could be a luminary, a gift bag, a lunch bag, a treat bag, an ornament, or part of a Halloween village.

I decided to make the haunted house box from the Cricut Wrap it Up Cartridge (love this cartridge) and here it is:

 

The purple roof was embossed with the Cuttlebug Mesh Embossing Folder while the grey portion of the house was embossed with Cuttlebug Distressed Stripes Embossing Folder and inked with Memento Dye Ink in London Fog.

Any suggestions as to what I should put in it?