BOO! An Artiste Halloween Card

Ahhhh...it' so nice and cool out today!  A wonderful breeze coming in through the window and I had a whole day to myself in my craft room!  And even better than that, my hubby is making homemade pizzas for dinner as I type this!  yum!!

So with the cooler weather - and I am enjoying this as much as I can because I know it will be hot again - I am back in the Halloween mood!  I have been working on Halloween cards and home dec projects all day.

Here's the first card ~

The card base is from the Artiste cartridge. It is found under Accent 4, shift, button 48.  I sized the card at 5 1/2" in height and it came out to just about 4" in width.  I found an oval on the Artiste cartridge as well (Accent 2, button 6) and sized it in CCR to fit perfectly over the center of the card base.  I'm not sure who makes the striped paper I used - it was a 12 x 12 stack, but the cover had come off.  The cute ghost is from Paper Doll Dress Up and was cut at 3 1/2".  I used a black gel pen to go over the little cuts on the ghost to make his face.  I also stamped two black bats from the Creepy Creatures stamp set with black ink and inked the edges of the oval as well.

I cut the same oval I used on the card front, but this time in white for the inside.  Boo! is cut from the Artiste cartridge at 1".  It is found under Basic, shift, button 47.  I used the bats again and the little rat from the Creepy Creatures stamp set.

Super simple and, I think, super cute!!  I hope you're all having a fabulous day!  Back to work for me tomorrow.  I'm so thankful I was able to take advantage of today.  Have a great week!!

September Specials!
You are My Happy - National Stamping Month
Poster Tidings - Stamp of the Month

Santa Bear

Hi Everyone!  I have a super cute shape card to share for Christmas today.

 

I used Ribbons and Rosettes for the tree.  I sized it at 5" in CCR.  I flipped one and welded the two images together in white to create the shape card and cut another tree in green for the card front.  I cut the Santa Bear from Teddy Bear Parade at 3" and found the santa bag on Paper Doll Dress Up and cut that at 1.75"  I decorated the tree with various gems and rhinestone embellishments from my stash.  The santa bear is popped up on foam tape for some dimension.

The sentiment inside comes from a stamp set by MaymayMadeIt called Beary Sentimental.  Her stamps can be found in her Etsy shop.  Super cute!

Have a great day!!!

Linking to:
Festive Friday: holiday project with a children's theme
Jo's Scrap Shack - anything goes
CardzTv - pop it up

August Special Sweetening the Deal - spend $50 and get the August stamp of the month for FREE!!
Click here to see my 3x3 cards using this set!

Babies are a Blessing

Hi everyone!  Sorry I've been MIA the last week.  I've been busy with work and getting my home back in order and getting back into a school schedule and routine.  I'm working on getting a weekly cleaning schedule together that I can actually stick to and not be so overwhelmed on the weekends.  I'm also working on a chore chart for Max.  I'll have that project posted soon.

For today I have a baby card to share.  I love working on baby projects, probably my favorite things to make!

 

 



All the papers are from my scraps - you would think with as many projects I've done with my scraps lately the pile would be going down, but not so much!  I used Paper Doll Dress Up for the moon and stars cut a 3 1/2".  The marquee is from Storybook - I think!  And I used CCR to size it to fit my sentiment.  The sentiment is from a Fiskars stamp set called Precious Baby.

 



The teddy bear is cut from Christmas solutions at 1 3/4" and I went over the lines in the cut with a brown fine tip marker.  I also added glitter to the stars.

I added a few rhinestones to finish it off.  This is one of my favorite cards ever!  Hope you all enjoy!
Have a wonderful upcoming week!!!

Linking to:
BBTB2 - Stars and Moon challenge
Crafting By Designs - anything goes
Little Scrap Pieces - anything goes
Jo's Scrap Shack - anything goes

August Special Sweetening the Deal - spend $50 and get the August stamp of the month for FREE!!
Click here to see my 3x3 cards using this set!

Halloween Coffin Treat Box

Hello friends!  Once I started Halloween, I couldn't stop!  Doesn't hurt that my Close to my Heart order came Friday with Halloween stamps!  I'll have some projects coming soon using them!  They will be available Aug 1st for purchase out of the new catalog!!

For today, I went back to the Cricut Artiste cartridge to make another coffin treat box. I love these!!!

For this one I used black cardstock and sponged around the edges with white ink.  The box was cut at the suggested size, 7 1/2". I used CCR so there are some unusual sizes for the rest of the cuts because I sized them to fit my project. The moon is a circle cut from George and Basic shapes at 1.417 and I lightly sponged the edge with slate ink.  The bat is cut from A Frightful Affair at 1.264, sponged lightly with white ink and adhered with foam tape for dimension.

The grass is just green paper that is torn and inked with Tim Holtz Peeled Paint distress ink.  I layered the pieces and only adhered the bottom so I could slip the tombstones behind.  The tombstones are cut from Life's A Party at 1" in slate cardstock and inked with slate ink.  I used a black gel pen to write in RIP.  And finally the fence is cut from Paper Doll Dress Up, sized 1.236 out of slate cardstock.  When this fence cuts there are a lot of little lines that cut to show the aging of the fence - for lack of a better term.  But they aren't seen unless you highlight them somehow, so I went over all the little cuts in the fence with my black gel pen and then lightly inked with slate ink to soften it up a little.

I have read a lot of posts that people don't like to use CCR but I have never had the Design Studio software or a Gypsy so I really love using it.  And what I love the best is that I can save all these files to my computer so when Halloween finally comes around I can have my son pick the one he likes the best and just start cutting.  All the work I did designing and sizing is already done.

Hope you enjoyed today's project!

Here are links to the July specials & deals:
Work the workshop special - 50% off
Let's Get Patriotic stamp special
July Stamp of the Month, Sweet Life
While supplies last - great deals!

Kindergarten Graduation and Teacher Gifts

Hi Everyone!  Today is my son's last day of school and we had the classroom graduation yesterday.  So much fun!  I can't believe my baby is getting ready to go into First Grade already!

I have projects I made for the graduation and end of the year teacher gifts to share today.

First up is the classroom door:

Stepping into First Grade with Pete the Cat.  I used Cricut Cuttin' Up for the font.

Pete the Cat was a little more difficult since, of course, there's not a cartridge with Pete the Cat.  :)

I started with the cat image from Create a Critter.  The ovals for the eyes were cut using Creative Memories This & That cartridge.  The circles of the eyes were cut using Cricut Craft Room Basics.  The triangle for the nose came from George and Basic Shapes cartridge.  The shirt came from Everyday Paper Dolls and the shoes came from My Community cartridge.

I cut one shoe for each of the kids so they all had their names on the door.  The shoe from My community only has two layers, the red and white layers and they were, in my opinion, a little flimsy and I didn't like the open holes for the laces.  So to fix that, in the cricut craft room I used hide features and hid all the holes and lines that cut on the base (red) layer and cut that out in black to go behind.

This was our photo wall where the kids could get their pictures taken in groups or with their parents or teacher.  There were balloons added later but I forgot to get another picture.  I used Cuttin' Up cartridge for the font on this also.

And here is my little graduate!  He's wearing his graduation cap still that I made for all the kids.  :)

These were all hand cut.  I used 9x9 squares of black poster board for the tops and a strip of poster board 5" wide by 20" long for the bottom and secured it all together with hot glue.  You can't see it in the picture, but we poked holes in the tops of all the hats and used yellow yarn to create a tassle.

My little guy wanted to give little gifts to all of his friends and since every one of the kids in the class is now reading I thought bookmarks would be great for all their summer reading adventures!

I used Paper Doll Dress Up to cut the jumping frogs and printed 'Jump into a Book' on white cardstock.  My son signed his name to the backs of all of them for his friends.

Now for the teacher gifts.  Mrs. M is moving to a third grade classroom to teach next year and is using a Hollywood theme.  Here's what I came up with for her:

First up is a couple of bathroom passes that look like a movie award.  I used the cricut digital cartridge called Movie Night and made two of these.

The clapboard is also cut from Movie Night and I used chalkboard paper from DCWV so she can change the message as the year goes on.

These are all various cuts from Movie Night again, to be added to the behavior chart for the classroom.

This was made for one of the other mom's that asked if I would make something for her to give to Mrs. M from her daughter.

This started out as a pizza pan from the Dollar store.  I painted it black and added chalkboard paper to the center.  This way it can be used as a message board with chalk, or since it's a metal pan can be used as a magnet board to hold things.  I used the various cuts from the Movie Night digital cartridge and secured them with hot glue around the sides.  I attempted to punch a hole through the top, but my Crop a Dile wouldn't fit over the lip of the pan and so I added a large rhinestone to the front and hot glued a loop of black satin ribbon to the back so it can hang.

And lastly, I wanted a general gift that she can use in any classroom.

I had ordered these photo cubes from Oriental Trading a while ago during one of their free shipping promos. I used acrylic paint to color it yellow, then used Grade School mat stack for the pattern paper, matted on red cardstock from Core'dinations.  I used some glitter glue to add # 1 to the top.

I had so much fun doing projects throughout the year for the kids and Mrs. M is an amazing teacher.  I couldn't have asked for a better teacher for my son this year!!  My little guy and I are both hoping that he will have her as a teacher again some day!!  Hope you enjoy!  Have a wonderful day!!