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

Big Hugs card

One of my sons has chosen a sock monkey theme for his birthday party.  I designed this for the thank you card (had to be simple enough to make a bunch easily).  Apparently sock monkeys have made a comeback when I wasn't looking, because I was even able to find sock monkey plates, cups, and gift wrap! 

Cricut:
B is for Boy-sock monkey
Stampin Up-Big Hug stamp

delicious Autumn

We spent part of last Saturday's beautiful weather hiking in one of our local parks, which has a trail and old time village.  We had fun goofing around taking pictures, which I scrapped using the CM Cheerful Seasons cartridge.  I'd been waiting for some good pics to use with the beautiful fall cuts on this cart.

Cricut:
CM Cheerful Seasons-all cuts except bird flying
A Child's Year-bird flying
Paper-assorted CM cardstock
brown chalk ink

I'm going to link this to the Clean and Scentsible anything goes Tuesday Creative Spark.  Lots of fun projects there to look at.

I'm also going to link it to the Celebrate the Occasion challenge to use a pumpkin in a fall themed project.

Christmas with a Bell

Christmas cards-can't have enough!  This card uses the Stampin Up Holly Berry Bouquet paper and the little jingle bell from their mini catalog.  Not too complicated EXCEPT for trying to get the twine tied through the bell!!!!  Maybe I need bifocals.   However,  I persevered, and was happy with how it came out.

Paper-SU Holly Berry Bouquet, white cardstock
Ribbon-SU real red
SU scallop punch, real red button, twine, and jingle bell

The Cuttlebug Challenge blog has reopened and has an "anything goes" challenge, embossing not required!  I've linked this project to the cards there.

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

Reindeer card

I've wanted to cut the reindeer on Create a Critter since I got the cart and he turned out pretty darn cute, I think. 

Cricut:
Create A Critter-reindeer, JOY
Paper/cardstock-SU real red, gable green, early espresso, creamy caramel
Sizzix snowflake embossing folder

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.