You Put a Spell on Me

It is officially one week until Halloween and today the cards design team at Cardz TV has one last Halloween project to share with you.  This week's challenge is to create a Halloween scene. That's it - now imagine the possibilities..........

 

To create my Halloween scene, I used the Cricut cartridges Mini Monsters for the street light and sign and Autumn Celebration for my trick or treaters. 

 

For whatever reason my machine did not cut out the trick or treaters cleanly.  However, I didn't realize just how bad they cut until after I pieced my card together and took the picture.  When I was cropping and straightening the picture was when I noticed it and about cried.  Fortunately the idea popped in my head to use the street sign for my focal point and just blur the rest - and that is what I did.

 

The stamped sentiment on my sign I used one of the older stamp sets, Trick or Treat.  Since each plank of the sign was individually cut it was easy to stamp just one line of the stamp at a time in order to get the final result.

 

And there you have my take on this week's challenge.  Now be sure to check out the other great designs our team has for you this week.  Then create your own Halloween scene, link up and play along with us for your chance to win one of Mary's great stamp sets.

 

Challenge ends November 6th.

I'm also entering this into the following challenges:

Haunted Wishes at Jo's Scrap Shack - ends on October 31st

Thankful Thursdays at DL Art - ends November 5th

Haunted Mansion - Red Carpet Studios - ends November 1st

School is Cool

Happy Wednesday everyone.  I hope that your's is starting out better than ours.  We have once again begun our day with rain.  Not that I mind the rain - I just don't like having to drive in it.  :::sigh:::

Today I'd like to share a card with you that was created for the School is Cool challenge over at Cardz TV.  Our directive this week was to create a back to school card using any cartridges and colors we chose. 

I laid out several different designs until I finally decided on this one which came about as I was looking for background paper to use for the others I had in my head.  A while back I was 'RAK'd' from one of my groups and part of that RAK was this wonderful page from an old reading primer.  Seriously, how much more perfect could this paper be for back to school?  Well okay, there are probably others out there but for me this was it!

So off I went designing my new card and for this one I used:

Autumn Celebrations for the glasses (think grandparents day cut)

April Showers for the worm

Locker Talk for the book

After putting my cuts together I decided to place them on an action wobble to add a bit of fun to the card.

And now that you've seen my take on this week's challenge, why not create  your own, link up and play along with us?  You have until August 14th so get inspired.  I can't wait to see what you create.

You Did It!

It's time for another installment in the Cricut Cardz challenge series and our team has some awesome designs to share with you this week.

Of course this challenge came just in time for me because my #4 child graduates from highschool tomorrow evening.  It's amazing how quickly the time flies, but we'll have next year off and then the two years after that our last two will graduate.....

For my card this week I used:

Autumn Celebrations for the stack of books
Create a Critter for the owl
Locker Talk for the graduation cap

My background paper was some that I had left over from the graduation announcements I made last month.  It's from Sandylion and is called graduation caps - clear foil.

And now that you've seen my creation for this week's challenge hop on over to Cardz TV and take a look at all the fun designs our team created to inspire you.  Then create  your own, link up and play along with us.

Harvest Blessings

It's that time again......Yep, it's time for another installment in the Cricut Cardz Challenges and this week our challenge is all about thankfulness.  Our directive this week was to make a Thanksgiving card using any card feature of our liking.  

I chose to use the card feature from page 35 of the Autumn Celebrations cartridge.  I cut this feature out at 5".  But since I wanted all the colors of the cornucopia I cut the top layer of the card feature at 4 1/8" and hid all of the inside contours on the cornucopia.  This then would enable me to create the cornucopia to fit on the card.

I then cut the top half of the card feature in a colored paper so that I could use that to create the inside of the card.  As for the sentiment, it's in there but I had to use my handy dandy ruler to measure and decide where to place my printing so that it wouldn't show behind the cornucopia.

So now that you've seen my take on this week's challenge hop on over to Cardz TV take a gander at the other fabulous cards our Design Team members have created then create your own and play along with us by linking up.......can't wait to see what you come up with.

Trick or Treat Spooks

Today is the day that our Cricut Cardz challenge moves to Cardz TV and this week we are on challenge #91 - things that go bump in the night.  For this challenge our instructions were to make a card for "Halloween with the spookiest, scariest image you can find on any cartridge(s), and using any colors".


I chose to use:


Autumn Celebrations for my trick or treating spooks
Paper Doll Dress Up for the tree, moon and stars


The spiders are from a Studio G punch that I picked up at Walmart. 


And now that you have seen my card pop on over to Cardz TV and take a look at all the other delightfully spooky creations our DT has in store for you this week.  I promise you won't be disappointed.

Boo!

Hello everyone and thanks for stopping by.  I know I don't tell you all often enough but I really enjoy seeing you stop in to look at my projects and especially love it when you share your thoughts with me.  It's help me know that I'm on the right track (so to speak).

So today is another Cricut Cardz Challenge and this week our directive was to create a card using the card feature on any of the cartridges we desired.  Once again I chose to use the recently released Autumn Celebrations cartridge.  After all I've made a few Christmas projects so why not make a Halloween one now that it's right around the corner?

I cut my project at 4 1/2" tall.  My little monster was embossed using the swiss dots folder and his horns were "textured" using a gold embossing powder.

And now that you've seen my card take a peek at the others our design team created this week at challenge #90.  Then create your own and link it up so we can all see your creativity for this challenge.  C'mon - it'll be fun!!!!

Little Red Schoolhouse

This week's Cricut Cardz Challenge was to create a back to school card and incorporate the 3 R's:  ribbon, rhinestone and red.  I was excited about this challenge because it was the perfect opportunity to use my new Autumn Celebrations cartridge.

Using my AC cartridge I cut the school house at 4 1/2" and used a rhinestone for the door knob.  I also cut the stack of books used on the inside of the card at 1 3/4" and used a piece of ribbon for the bookmark.  The "A+" is cut at 1" and is a part of one of the phrases from this cartridge.  As you can see I also used the color red on all of my cuts.

So now that you've seen my card why don't you join in on the fun, create your card using the guidelines mentioned above, and then link up over at challenge 88.  I look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with.