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

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.  

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.

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!

Halloween

I love Halloween (except for the prices on costumes-$40 for a kid costume!!!) and my Mini Monsters cartridge.  These pics are from last Halloween.  Sorry for the bad lighting-just couldn't seem to get it any better.  Aren't the monsters just the cutest? 

Cricut:
Mini Monsters-both monsters, trick or treat title
Paper-Bo Bunny Whooligans (from last year)
ribbon from my stash

Classroom Party (Halloween)

I made another layout for the school party pics I know will be coming up, using more of the Doodlebug Monster Mania paper.  This is for the BBTB2 challenge to use the word "classroom" in some way.  I absolutely love how the bat boy turned out with his glitter wings! 

 
Cricut:
Mini Monsters-bat boy, candy
Mickey Font-title
Plaintain Schoolbook-circle
Paper-Doodlebug Monster Mania

Added:  I won the contest!  I get a free online class from My Creative Classroom.  I'm so excited because they have all kinds of class topics, including some on how to use my new birthday Big Kick to emboss!