Boo House

This week's challenge for Cricut Cardz Challenge was to create a halloween card using the card feature from any cartridge we desired along with any color scheme we choose.  Of course there was always the card features on the Mini Monsters cartridge, but that's too easy.  So I pulled several other carts off my shelf - looked at the options offered and when I saw the house on Wild Card I knew I had to use that one.  And after I made the house cut I was ecstatic because I didn't realize that the door would cut so that it could open and close.  Yippee!!!

So for this card, I made the following cuts:

House from Wild Card cut at 5 1/4"

Spider web from Wild Card cut at 1"

Ghosts, Cat and Boo! from Happy Hauntings cut at 1"
Spider from Designer's Calendar cut at 1"

My ghosts were cut from velum and then inked lightly with a blue ink to help them stand out on the card while remaining "translucent".  Of course the one on the rooftop shows up better in the photos than the one on the inside....Oh well.

The cat and the spider were flocked to add a little texture to the card. 

Birthday Flower

Today's card is a variation of one I made quite some time ago.  However, I changed the way that I put it all together and I like the way that this one turned out better.  The only cut for this card is the flower from the Garden of Words cart. 

I started by printing the words happy birthday across a square that I cut from a sheet of paper.  This piece was then centered on my cutting mat related to where I had the top cut placed in Design Studio.  I then cut the flower in three different sizes (sorry don't remember what they were), layered them one on top of the other and then added a flower button to the middle.  Oh, also gently lifted the flower petals up to give them more of a dimensional look/feel.

Yet another simple card with a great look.

Give Thanks

I was so hoping that my new carts (Thanksgiving and Toy Story) would arrive in today's mail so I could play with them, but it was not meant to be.  ::::::::looooonnnnngggg sigh:::::::::::::::  Oh well, at least I still had plenty of other carts to play with, right?  :o)

Since my new cart didn't come I decided to play with Create a Critter.  I cut my turkey out at 4" and flocked everything except the hat.  I also cut out an extra set of "feathers" at 4" for the inside of the card.  I ran those through with the cracked glass embossing folder, inked with pumpkin distressed ink and then glued the words Give Thanks on them for the sentiment.

Another easy enough card that I think turned out great.

Christmas Ornament

I've been on a little bit of a card making spree the past couple of days and now it's time to get some of them uploaded to my blog.  This first one is for the Santa Slackers challenge going on over on the Cricut MB.  And while I didn't follow the sketch to a tee it was the basis for this card's design.

For this one I used Joys of the Season for the ornament and verbiage.
I also used A Child's Year for the silhouette.

On the hanger portion of the ornament I painted with distressed paint and then inked with distressed ink in fire brick red.  I love the way that it added a common thread to the background paper I chose to use.

All in all a simple card, but I like the way that it turned out.

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Frolicking Reindeer

There are so many fun challenges going on this week that I'm staying busy trying to keep up with them all.  Today I found one posted on the Cricut MB titled the Santa Slackers challenge.  For this one we were given a specific card sketch and were told to make a 5 1/4" square card using Winter Woodland.  And this is what I came up with......

The reindeer were cut at 2" and I painted the antlers with white distressed paint then inked lightly with distressed ink in tea color.  I then pop-dotted them to the card to add some dimension.

The trees were cut at 4" and flocked for texture.  I also tried my hand at using flowersoft for the snow and I think I have some learning to do there. 

The cardinal was cut at 1"

I don't know that it shows up all that great but the "snow" on the ground was painted with Shimmerz in Pixie Dust to give a little bling.

Unknown Blessings

This week's cricutcardzchallenge - #40 was to create a card using scalloped circles, squares, ovals or rectangles.  I chose to go with scalloped circles as the card that I had originally created for this challenge using rectangles just didn't seem to really meet the criteria.  So I scratched it - not really, I just didn't use it for this challenge (see my Beware card below).

For this one I used:

A Child's Year for the Pilgrims cut at 3"
Accent Essentials for the scalloped circles cut at 4" and 3 1/2"
Designer's Calendar for the turkey cut at 1 1/2"

Now that you've seen my "creation" why don't you create a card of your own and come play along with us.  Just click on the link above to do so.