Halloween

Happy Monday!  We are heading into October in a day or two and the BBTB2 challenge for the next two weeks is a Halloween theme.  I am planning to send  Halloween cards with treats to my college students, so here are some cute little teddy bears all dressed for trick or treating.  I'll pop these in the mail with some yummy candy goodness.  Gotta have some chocolate in stock for late nights studying, right?  You can see the design team Halloween projects and link up your own new cricut project over at the BBTB2 site.  Have a wonderful week!

Cricut:

Teddy Bear Parade-bears

Paper-background check is The Paper Studio, all other is CTMH

Punches-Stampin Up

Ribbon-Stampin Up

Ink-Memento Tuxedo Black

Beware Halloween layout

Happy Monday!  I am hosting our BBTB2 challenge this week, so let's celebrate Halloween!  I'm all for a holiday where the primary celebration involves candy....bring it on!  Although the candy needs to LEAVE the house on November 1 so I don't snack on the rest of it.  Can anybody relate????  

We've already had some Halloween fun going to the Haunted Houses with our teens, so I've made a layout for those pictures.  My lighting was not the best for this photo, as it has been raining, so unfortunately it is hard to see, but there is a spiderweb and scary spider, black cat, and the word Beware on here somewhere.  It's just like the haunted house-it sneaks up on you, lol!!!!  All my cricut cuts are from Artbooking, cut on the real dial size.  Hope you have a wonderful week that maybe includes some chocolate goodies!

Cricut:
Artbooking-cat, spiderweb, Beware
Paper-DCWV All Seasons prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink for edging

ghouls and monsters card

Happy Monday!  It's been a busy week of work, band competitions, high school football games, and concerts!  And guess what's coming up soon?  Halloween!  And that's our BBTB2 challenge theme this week as well.  I have already taken some Halloween themed pictures, as the high school band performed their halftime show in Halloween costumes this weekend instead of their uniforms.  They had a competition going among the band for groups with the best costume theme.  My son and his friends decided to be characters from the Wii game Super Mario Kart.  Seeing him conduct the band dressed as Mario, complete with mustache, and using our Wii controller as his conducting stick was pretty hilarious, as you can see!

However, for my project this week, I made cards to send to the college kids (my son and niece), which will go in a care package with some treats.  I used the adorable monster from the Artistry cartridge with some paper from the stash.  I think it'll be a hit...card and candy!  You can play along and link up a project over at BBTB2 and see the fun design team creations.

Cricut:
Artistry-monster, backing shapes
Paper-DCVW All Seasons 2 stack prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

Halloween theme

Happy Monday!  Boy, fall is flying by-marching band season ends this weekend and leaves are falling, yet the weather cannot decide if it's Indian summer or cooler rainy fall weather.  We are having both!!!  I wore my winter coat one day last week, shorts and flip-flops another day.  My high schoolers won't leave home without their coat and

umbrellas, just in case!

Halloween is coming up in a few short weeks and we have a Halloween themed challenge over at BBTB2.  It's the perfect time to whip up a treat bag for that special someone or make a spooky themed decoration!  I will be attending an orchestra concert the night before Halloween at the middle school, with the orchestra playing in their costumes!  Should make for some interesting concert pictures, to say the least, so I made a layout.  I knew I wanted to find a way to use the Halloween word jumble from the Artistry cartridge, so I incorporated it as a design element.  Hope you will join us over at BBTB2 by linking up a Halloween project of your own this week!

Cricut:
Artistry-bat, circle, and Halloween word jumble
Paper-DCWV All Seasons prints, CTMH solids

Just Batty layout

Happy Monday!  It's very happy here in KC, since the Royals are going to the World Series again!  It's all anyone can talk about.  But since crafty things are the focus here, I'll talk about my layout instead.  Our BBTB2 challenge this week is to use a bat on a project.  Breaking out my new Artistry cartridge again, I made a Halloween layout with flocks of bats (do they come in flocks?).  I knew I was going to use that circle cut with the bats in it as soon as I looked at the cartridge.  The print paper is from the CTMH Halloween paper pack from last year.  There are more bats on display over at BBTB2 from the design team, where you can link up your projects as well.

Cricut:
Artistry-all cuts
Paper-CTMH prints and solids

Halloween layout

Happy Monday!  I'm recovering from a busy weekend of fall festivals, as Sons #1 and #2 were both performing at two different festivals with their bands.  I think I won't need to eat for a few days after eating fair food!  There is nothing like hot chocolate and funnel cakes on a crisp fall day.

It's October and Halloween is practically around the corner!  Our BBTB2 theme this week is Halloween and I have a spooky layout for you using the cricut Artbooking cartridge.  All the cuts are from Artbooking, including the frame with the fence which will be my journaling spot.  I'm especially fond of the spider dropping down from the corner web with some baker's twine for his web!  I cut everything on real dial size, since the sizing on Artbooking is designed for the pre-set layouts.  I hope you all have a wonderful fall week!

Cricut:
Artbooking-all cuts
Paper-CTMH Halloween paper from 2014 prints, CTMH solids

Skeleton gift box (for BBTB2)

Happy Monday!  Our BBTB2 challenge this week is a gift box.  Since Halloween is so close, I made a gift box for some haunted chocolate candy.  Death by chocolate, right?  (Note to self:  Stay OUT of the Halloween candy!!!!)  My tombstone box is from the Happy Hauntings cartridge, cut at fit to  page.  The skeleton is also from Happy Hauntings.  The print paper is from an old DCWV stack, plus some twine from the stash.  Check out the fabulous gift boxes over at BBTB2 and join up with a project!

Cricut:
Happy Hauntings-gift box, skeleton
Paper-Hobby Lobby solids, DCWV print
twine, brown chalk ink

Witching Hour layout (for BBTB2)

Happy Monday, everyone!  Hope you had a fabulous week and weekend!  It was certainly an exciting week here in KC, watching our Royals make an amazing Cinderella run 8-0 to a World Series berth!!!!   I am sure nothing will be accomplished in Kansas City this week but baseball, as everyone in town will be watching the games (although the BBQ restaurants will be doing a booming business!).  But on to more interesting crafty business… although I DID sketch my design for this layout during commercials in the ball games last week, LOL!  I had all my Halloween themed cricut handbooks spread out over the coffee table to peruse during any breaks in the action.

Our BBTB2 challenge this week is to use a witch's hat on a project.  Since the boys LOVE to go trick or treating, I've made a layout for my Halloween pictures.  It's always a big neighborhood party!  I used the Mini Monsters cartridge for the whole layout, including the title.  The print paper is from an old DCWV stack called All Seasons.  There are some "bewitching" projects over at BBTB2 to inspire you, so check them out and then link up a project with us!

Cricut:
Mini Monsters-all cuts
Paper-DCWV All Seasons pack prints, CTMH solids except purple paper, which is unknown

October 31st layout (for Exploring Cricut)

I have the pleasure of sharing a Halloween project today at Exploring Cricut!  I always take lots of pictures of the kids in their Halloween costumes, so I've made a layout for those pictures.  My kids LOVE meeting up with friends to go trick or treating around our neighborhood!    My teens and preteen are more into the creepy side of Halloween now, so my layout uses the cartridge A Frightful Affair to make a scary scene for Halloween.  I used a lot of cuts and they are all from A Frightful Affair.

Cricut:
A Frightful Affair-all cuts
Paper-CTMH solids, Echo Park Apothecary Emporium prints

Ghastly Poisons Halloween layout (for BBTB2)

Halloween is almost here!  Our BBTB2 challenge this week is trick or treat, selected by my awesome DT sister Jayne.  Now that my kids are bigger, I am finally able to make some creepy (as opposed to cute) Halloween layouts!

I used the A Frightful Affair cartridge to do this layout, featuring a mad scientist and witch cooking up some poison for their trick or treaters...(all the sugar from the Halloween candy is sort of like poison, lol!).   There are a few creepy mice and bats roaming around on this stormy night (it HAS to be a stormy night to make this poison, you see) to complete the scene.  And of course, we can't forget the awesome bubbling beakers of evil!  My print papers are from the Echo Park Apothecary Emporium collection from last year.

Cricut:
A Frightful Affair-all cuts (table hand cut)
Paper-Echo Park Apothecary Emporium collection prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

Check out all the wonderfully scary Halloween projects my DT sisters have made at BBTB2, and we hope you will conjure one up and join us!  

Scary Party Halloween layout (for Exploring Cricut)

I have the fun of doing the daily project at Exploring Cricut today!  It's almost Halloween-have you been able to stay away from the Halloween candy?  I'll confess I've slipped a few times and found myself nibbling on contraband candy!!!

But on to my project:  I've been dying to use the cute little Halloween teddy bears on the Teddy Bear Parade cartridge, so I cut them out for my layout (for the elementary school fall party pictures of Son#3).  The title is from Create A Critter 2.  (The word party is actually part of another title, but I just added it onto my scary title!)  I added a few other cuts from CAC2 as well.  The bat background paper is from an old DCWV stack.

Cricut:
Teddy Bear Parade-teddy bears
Create A Critter 2-all other cuts
Paper-DCWV prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

We hope you will join us with a creepy scary Halloween project!  You can link up at Exploring Cricut.

October 31 layout (for Exploring Cricut)

It's almost time for Halloween and that is our challenge theme at Exploring Cricut this week!  I have a spooky cemetery layout for today, complete with the headless horseman, a black cat, and a skeleton!   My boys are big enough to want to be creepy rather than cute with their Halloween costumes, so I wanted my layout to reflect that.    The paper is from an old DCWV stack, which got my layout started, with the creepy tree and cemetery.  I just added some spooky goodness with the headless horseman, skeleton, and black cat.  (Plus a few more tombstones and the bat.)  I used Happy Hauntings for all my cuts, including the October 31 title.

Cricut:
Happy Hauntings-all cuts
Paper-DCWV stack prints, CTMH solids

Go check all the spooky goodness from the DT at Exploring Cricut and link up something creepy and fun of your own for Halloween!

Spooktacular layout

I made this layout with my new A Frightful Affair cartridge (which I got with rewards points-yay!) for the Halloween orchestra concert, which the kids will be playing in costume.  It really could be for any Halloween event, however, minus the concert in the title of course.  I must say I absolutely LOVE the hunchback with the lantern and the gargoyle on this cartridge!  I just kept adding stuff and had to restrain myself from adding even more!  (You can never have too many bats, don't you think?-I may have to go back and add a couple more.)   I cut the tree with the ghosts in half, sort of, so it would be on both pages.  Paper is from last year's Apothecary Emporium line by Echo Park, plus lots of solid black, white, and gray card stock.

Cricut:
A Frightful Affair-all cuts
Paper-Echo Park's Apothecary Emporium line, solids are CTMH card stock

I'm linking this to the Fantabulous Cricut challenge this week:  a Halloween project with black and orange.

I'm also going to link this to the night challenge at PauseDreamEnjoy.

I just found a cool new blog, cricutfanatics, and I'm going to link this to their challenge to do a Halloween project.

Halloween treat bags

I decorated these cute little kraft treat bags that I found in the dollar bin at Target for the elementary school Halloween party, using my favorite new cartridge, Create a Critter 2.  It has so many Halloween images!  So for my bags, I cut the cricut image for each bag at 3 1/2 inches and stamped a Halloween saying from my Spook-licious My Pink Stamper set.   I'm going to fill the bags with some candy goodness (just what a bunch of fourth graders need-sugar :0!)

Cricut-
Create a Critter 2-all cuts
Stamps-My Pink Stamper-Spook-licious set
Paper-CTMH and CM cardstock
bags-Target

I'm going to link this to the Paper Playtime Say it with Sentiments challenge:  Welcome to Boo-ville!

BOO layout

I just couldn't wait to cut out some of the cute Halloween critters on CAC2!!!!!  It has a whole bunch of great Halloween cuts!  So I've got your basic haunted house, cemetery, and black cat going on for my little pirate ghost and vampire bee trick or treaters, who are floating through the neighborhood waiting to say BOO!  The printed paper is from the Doodlebug Seasons collection I got last year.  I plan to use this for either trick or treat pics or pics from the school Halloween parties.

Cricut:
Create A Critter 2-all cuts
Paper-Doodlebug Seasons prints, solids are CM and CTMH card stock

I'm going to link this to the My Craft Spot Halloween challenge this week:  Boo to You and the SOUS die cut challenge "creepy crawly".  While I think my lil' vampire bee and ghost are more cute than creepy, my sons assure me that vampire bees are definitely creepy, even when they smile.

Halloween tag mini-album

Just a super quick tag mini that I put together last night with my leftover Halloween paper and stickers, plus some cuts from Happy Hauntings!  All ready for the trick or treating pics tomorrow!!!

Cricut:
Doodlecharms-spider
Mickey and Friends-tags
Happy Hauntings-ghost, words, skeleton
various embossing folders (gotta keep giving my new Big Kick a workout :)
CM Halloween punches-little ghosts and cat
Paper-Echo Park's Apothecary Emporium paper and stickers
black chalk ink and a few pop dots

Beware

More Halloween layouts (I took a lot of party pics from the Halloween parties yesterday at school), using Happy Hauntings and the Echo Park Apothecary Emporium paper (which I found on sale).

Cricut:
Happy Hauntings-all cuts except large circle
Plaintain Schoolbook-large circle
Paper-Echo Park Apothecary Emporium paper and stickers
popdots, for some dimension on the cricut cuts

I'm linking this to the TPV challenge to create a cute or spooky Halloween project and to the Creative Sparks http://cleanandscentsible.blogspot.com/2011/10/creative-spark-no-14.html, just for fun.

BOO Halloween porch decoration

I found a black glittery styrofoam BOO that looked lonely in the dollar bin at Target and decided to add it to the Halloween display on the front porch.  Of course, it needed a little more....so I added the ghost and witch from Happy Haunting to it to make it sufficiently spooky.  The kids are going to add a little fake spider webbing to the porch also (to go along with the REAL spider webs :).    I drew the line at actual fake spiders, however.

Edited to add:  this won the Project of the Week at the BBTB2!!!!

Cricut:
Happy Hauntings-ghost, witch

I'm going to link this to the BBTB2 challenge this week to use the witch and the Fantabulous Cricut challenge to use the ghost.

Boo at the Zoo

Fun times wearing costumes at the Zoo!!!  (Plus candy, of course.)  This was super cool paper, with sort of velvety texture on the witch and haunted house, but I can't remember the line. 

Cricut:
Happy Hauntings-ghosts, caution, frame
Plaintain Schoolbook-circle

Monster Mash

For one of my kid's school Halloween party, the class is having a "Monster Mash" in the gym. Here's my layout for the pics to go on, using Mini Monsters, Formal Occasions (who knew this one had "Monster Mash"?), and my favorite Doodlebug Monster Mania paper!  I used a lot of pop dots to give it some dimension.  I was down to scraps of most of this paper, so it was a bit tricky piecing all it all together strategically to cover the holes!   I've got the black mats ready to add pics after the party.

Cricut:
Mini Monsters-the skeleton, pumpkin man, and ghost
Formal Occasions-Monster Mash title
Paper-Doodlebug Monster Mania
embossing folders, black baker's twine, pop dots

I'm linking this to the TPV challenge to use a recipe of 1 pumpkin (does my pumpkin monster count?), 2 word title, and 3 buttons. 

I'm also going to link to the BBTB2 challenge to make a Halloween layout and use purple on the project.  The spiderweb paper is purple in real life, and there are purple dots and stripes.  Some of the purple looks kind of periwinkle in the pictures for some reason.