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

Play Hard!

Love the Boys Will Be Boys cart for, well, boys!  So here is a layout using some of the really adorable cuts from it.  It has great titles too!  And two fonts! (Although one of the fonts is really rather difficult to cut...)  OK, my commercial for this cart is over-I just haven't seen a lot of posts using it, when I went looking for ideas after I bought it.   And it's a really fun cart, if you have boys.  And maybe even if you don't!  Sorry my pages didn't photograph very well...you've just gotta love the lizard-he's my fave.

Cricut:
Boys Will Be Boys-all cuts, including title
Paper-Bo Bunny Ad Lib paper (LOVE LOVE LOVE that pack-have used it all up)

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.

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!

Playing in the Surf

I started this layout over a year ago, and never finished it!!!  So, the challenge at TPV to use an ocean/nautical theme got me to dig back in the box and complete it.  (Now I need to do the rest of the stack in there too....)  This uses Stretch Your Imagination and Life as a Beach.  I had not tried the silhouette cuts from SYI before this, and while they were hard to glue down, they came out looking cool.  I had a lot of pics to get on this layout!  It was a very cool cloudy day and the pics reflect that, so I struggled a bit to find paper that would work. 

Cricut:
Stretch Your Imagination-turtle, sandcastle
Life as a Beach-font
Paper-from JoAnns, don't know the line
twine, jumbo java chalk ink

Treat bag topper

I'm starting to plan for the parties at school (fortunately, I'm not in charge of Halloween!) and needed to come up with a treat bag topper that was easy to mass produce for the class.  Doodlecharms to the rescue!   I'm going to enter this in The Pink Stamper's challenge to come up with a treat container for any holiday or occasion.   I made two to show the room mom what I had in mind.

Crictut:  Doodlecharms