witches and ghouls

 Happy Monday! I'm getting this up a little late, as my husband and I took our first empty nester trip to NYC last week.  We did a LOT of walking and really enjoyed seeing the city!  I especially enjoyed seeing the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the MoMA.  It's kind of hard to come back to real life, lol!

 It's almost October and the BBTB2 challenge for the next two weeks is a witches and ghouls theme.  I had lots of fun making this layout and adding all the Halloween elements!  The mouse with the witch's hat in the corner from the Happy Hauntings collection was my favorite.  There are SO many fun choices for Halloween, it was hard to narrow down what to choose, but the mouse was a definite!  You can see the design team projects over at the BBTB2 site and link up a project too.  Hope you all have a good week!

Cricut:

Artbooking-spider webs, spider, title

Happy Hauntings-mouse, witches hat

Stampin Up scallop edge border punch

Paper Echo Park

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

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!

Tower of Terror layout (Disney project)

I am at Disney World today!  So it seemed appropriate to set up a Disney themed blog post for while I'm gone.  For this Tower of Terror layout (a ride in the Hollywood Studios park that I am going to ride today), I totally scrap-lifted the elevator door idea from a kit by Lynn Stuart that I saw someone making at a crop one time.  It was so clever-very impressed with her creativity!

 I used Happy Hauntings for the other page for the spooky cat, mirror, and Beware sign.  The spiderwebs are from Mini Monsters and the title font is the vampire font from Happy Hauntings.  Mickey is from Mickey and Friends, and he is psyched and ready to ride the Tower of Terror!  (Unlike me, who always gets butterflies of dread when getting on!)  Oops, just noticed part of my brick embossed background did not get stuck down well-sorry about that for the pictures!  (And yes, these are pics from 2011 that I'm still working on...)

Cricut:
Happy Hauntings-title, cat, mirror, Beware
Mini Monsters-spiderwebs
Mickey and Friends-Mickey
embossing-brick Sizzix embossing folder
brown chalk ink
paper-CTMH and CM solids

If you're interested, my other Disney projects are indexed under Disney on the right.  

treats (Halloween)

This is the last Halloween post for this year, I promise!  I had too many trick or treat pics and had to make one more layout.   The candy all has to be sorted so anything with nuts will go away to Dad's work.  Of course, some sampling of candy just seems to happen during the sorting process, so the treats title from Happy Haunting was perfect.

The BBTB2 challenge this week was to use the ghost from Paper Doll DressUp, so a spooky ghost worked its way onto the layout.  Who could resist this cute ghost begging for candy?  And then I saw the cat and vulture in the handbook, and it all came together!  I love it when that happens.

Cricut:
Happy Hauntings-treats
Paper Doll Dress Up-ghost, cat, vulture
Paper-Echo Park's Apothecary Emporium
ribbon-Stampin Up

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

A Spooky Concert

My son's orchestra is performing "A Spooky Concert" for Halloween.  They will be playing in their Halloween costumes!  I made this layout for the pics, using the Happy Hauntings cart.  I love the vampire font on this cart-perfect for the title.  There is supposed to be a cauldron with dry ice to make smoke at the concert, so I had to get the witch's cauldron on there too-love the purple drippy goo.  (Pretty sure there will be no bats or owls, BUT I just wanted them on my layout.  Artistic license, right?)  The mirror with the hand will be the journaling spot-I try to sneak one of those into every layout.

Cricut:
Happy Hauntings-all cuts except circle
Plaintain Schoolbook-circle
Paper-from my stash
embossing folder
Stickle-distressed lavender, lime green

I'm linking this to the Getting Scrappy Kooky and Spooky challenge this week.

Mini-Monster cards

I made some Halloween surprises for the guys to get with their candy stash:  a monster, cool cat, and gravestone (for my teen, who is too cool for cute now) that I made with the card feature on the Mini Monsters cart.  I had not tried the card feature, but it's easy to use and layer.  A few word additions and some pen work and I think they are a winner, at least I hope the boys think so!   (We always have a special candy stash to give the kids on Halloween, as one of my kids has nut allergies, so we trade out most of the unsafe candy received while trick or treating for nut-safe candy.  All the trick or treat candy goes straight into a bag for Dad's workplace to enjoy.)

Cricut:
Mini-Monsters-creatures and gravestone
Learning Curve-font for BOO and cool cat
Happy Hauntings-font for Zombie
Embossing with some of my Sizzix and Cuttlebug folders

I'm going to link the cat to the BBTB2, which was featuring a Halloween theme with Hello Kitty.  I don't have that cart, but this Halloween cat turned out pretty cute (I reversed his mouth so he would look happy).  I'm also going to link to Fantabulous Cricut, where the project is Purple People Eater, using purple and a monster or bug.  Forget the bug, I'm sticking with monsters!