ACY Halloween Card

A simple halloween card. I used A Child's Year cartridge for the witch image. This is cut at 4 inches. I used black cardstock for the main image and shadowed with yellow. The background is a piece of black cardstock and orange patterned cardstock. Used white gel pen around the edge of the black. Used fiskars border punch on edge of orange paper. The lettering is a font on my computer and cut out with SCAL. The pumpkin in the corner is from the same cartridge cut at 1 1/2 inches. Backed with a yellow tag. Inked all the edges of the orange cardstock and pumpkin. Enjoy!

Fall is in the Air

Today's card is using the Cricut and the SCAL software. The leaves are a free cut file from http://www.svgcuts.com/ I cut them out at 1.5 inches. I used red,orange,green and yellow cardstock for the main leaf. I used brown cardstock for the stem and veins. I then used the shadow feature and cut the shadow out in black to stand out a bit. The lettering is a font on my computer cut out using SCAL. I welded each word which is easier to handle. I also shadowed the lettering and inked each word. I used pop-dots on the words and went around the edge with a glitter pen. The background is paper from Sam's Club. Enjoy!

Owl Happy Birthday Card

For this card I used scrapes of paper laying on my craft table. I put 2 orange pieces together and where they meet I put a thin strip of leaves pattern paper across to cover the seam. I inked all the edges of the paper with brown ink. The owl is from one of the Disney cartridges. It was cut awhile ago I think Happily Ever After? I think 4 inches. The dark brown part of the owl I went around with a white gel pen. The lighter brown I went around with a brown marker. I put Black Diamond stickles on the inside of the eyes and Cinnamon Stickles on the outer part of the eyes. Yellow stickles for the beak. The Happy Birthday is from a See D's Birthday stamp set. Stamped with orange ink. Enjoy!

Candy Corn Card

For this card I used Doodle Charms Cartridge. I used Design Studio and the hide feature. On the halloween candy I hid everything but the candy corn. I had to make it about 10 inches to get it to the size needed to make a card. The card is 4 1/2 inches high and 3 1/2 inches wide. I cut out 3 pieces of candy corn in yellow, orange, and white. I cut those apart and embossed each section with a different embossing plate from Fiskars. I inked all the edges with a brown and then black ink. I used my paddle punch to make the holes for the ribbon. I tied the ribbon into a bow. The ribbon came from A.C. Moore. The Trick or Treat came from PC Crafter Autumn Days by Laurie Furnell. Enjoy!

Haunted House Card with cut file

I used the Wild Card Cartridge. The House Card. I also used design studio to cut everything out. I also used George and Basic Shapes and Paper Doll Dress Up. I cut the house out in orange and then I used George to cut planks for the outside of the house. For around the window I used smaller planks to look like they were nailed to the house. The skeleton is glued inside the card so you see him when the card is opened. I don't know the measurement but I will put the cut file up later. I used Peachy Keen stamps on the pumpkin and the ghost looking out the window. It is a large card. I inked all the planks to give a wood look. This has many possibilities. Let me know what you think. Enjoy! Here is the cut file: http://www.mediafire.com/file/niymdxnkdtj/halloween card.cut

Witch Hat

For this card I used a free witch hat cut file from svgcuts.com. I cut the hat out using SCAL and my cricut at 2 1/2 inches in black. I used Popcorn pens to give the textured look. I covered the hat with the black pen and then used my heat gun to puff the ink. I used purple and yellow for the decorative part. The background is hand stamped using Studio G stamps. The pumpkins I went around with a fine tip brown marker. The words are stamped with brown ink. I went around the edge of the card with orange ink. The hat is matted on purple 3x3 inches and then mounted on black 3 1/4x 3 1/4 inches. On the purple cardstock I stamped small hats in a darker purple around the witch hat. Inked the edges with brown ink on the purple cardstock. Enjoy!

Pumpkin Face Card

For this card I used Stretch Your Imagination Cartridge. I cut the pumpkin out at 3 1/2 inches on blackout. I also cut the layers. I drew the face on the pumpkin and I used chalk to make the lines in the pumpkin. I used green stickles for the vine and cinnamon stickles for the stem. The ribbon is just a left over piece on my table. The pumpkin border is a studio G halloween stamp and the saying on the top is from that same set. I embossed the black cardstock with Fiskars texture plate (Dots). Inked the edges with Chalk ink (Green Moss). Enjoy!

Week 2 of the 100 Cricut Cartridge Giveaway!!!

Here is the word from the Cricut Message Board:


Help us celebrate our 100th Cricut cartridge—Winter Woodland! That’s right, we reached 100 cartridges. As a thank you for our great Cricut community members we want you to celebrate with us. So, we’re giving away 100 cartridges over the next five weeks (20 per week). Here’s how it will work. Each week we will be posting a thread. When you respond to the thread you will be entered to win. You can enter once by replying and you can enter a second time by posting on your blog about the celebration and linking back to the cartridge product page. Here is the link to include in your blog. Once you’ve posted on your blog with the link back you can post again to this thread. http://www.cricut.com/shopping/ProductDetails.aspx?id=361&s=1&sc=2
Thanks for your continued support.
Good luck to everyone who enters.

Colors of Fall Card

For this card I used Stretch Your Imagination. The leaves were cut at 1 inch and the squirrel was cut at 2 1/2 inches. I cut the whole layer with grey cardstock and the acorn I cut in 2 different browns. I inked everything with brown ink and went around the edge of the squirrel with a fine tip brown marker. I used pop-dots to layer the acorn and the top of the acorn. The leaves were cut with red,yellow, orange and green cardstock. I used a green pattern paper on one side and an orange paper on the other side and cut one edge with the tresding water fiskars punch. I put goggle eyes on the squirrel and red, yellow, orange and green stickles on the leaves. The wording is computer generated using Die Cuts with a View Quote Reference Book 1 with CD. Enjoy!

Halloween Cat Card

For this card I used Wild Card Cartridge The Stitched Card. I cut the card out at 5 1/2. I also cut the card liner at the same size. The cat is cut at 1 3/4 inches real dial size from the Paper Doll Dress Up Cartridge. I used orange stickles on the circle part of the flowers. The paper is from Sam's Club I bought awhile ago. White gel pen to accent the cat. The words from a downloadable kit from Scrapnfonts.com This is a simple and quick card to make. Enjoy!

A New Cricut Contest

Found this contest and thought I would share it with you:
According to the rules you must copy the bold text below and answer the questions on your blog and then send a link to your post via email to info@todaysmama.com with "Cricut Meme" in the subject line.
If you win you can choose a Cricut Machine or all four of the newly released cartridges - what a great prize.
You have to copy all of the text below and answer the questions - so here goes!!
This is contest entry for those crazy folks at TodaysMama and Cricut.
Be sure to check out Cricut's cool new cartridges and the chance at $30,000 in travel for you and your friends at the Great Gypsy Escape site!
Great Escape Meme
1. If you could escape to anywhere in the world where would it be?
2. What song do you play when you are by yourself in the car?
3. If you had a night to yourself, and money was no object, what would you do?
4. What is your guilty pleasure?
5. What is the farthest place you have traveled away from your home?
6. Last book that you couldn't put down?
7. When you want to escape into another time, what movie do you watch?
8. What is your favorite local escape?
9. How do you escape on a budget?
Best food you've ever had while on vacation.
Now I will copy and paste the questions again and answer them.

1. If you could escape to anywhere in the world where would it be? England
2. What song do you play when you are by yourself in the car? Take It On The Run-REO Speedwagon
3. If you had a night to yourself, and money was no object, what would you do? Go to the craft store and buy all the goodies I've been eyeing.
4. What is your guilty pleasure? Dove Milk Chocolate
5. What is the farthest place you have traveled away from your home? Florida
6. Last book that you couldn't put down? Halloween Party- Agatha Christy
7. When you want to escape into another time, what movie do you watch? A Christmas Story
8. What is your favorite local escape? Rose Tree Park
9. How do you escape on a budget? Go to the Pocono Mountains
Best food you've ever had while on vacation. Southern Fried Chicken
Good luck to everyone who enters the contest!

Witch's Shoe/boot with cut file

I saw this in Paper Crafts Magazine and decided I needed to make one. I made an .svg file with the pattern to make the card easier to cut out. Using a machine to do the cutting is easier and faster. I used purple for the shoe and cut green stripes and then used purple glitter to glam it up. I used black ribbon on the top and the heel of the shoe. I used orange dots (Skittles on the Cricut Message Board) to look like buttons. I used orange paint on clear skittles and they came out great. I think it came out cute for my first attempt. Next time I think I will use patteren paper.

Here is the cut file for the witches boot, this card opens from the side not the top like others have made.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/iicmy0ygzjj/WitchesBoot.svg

Witch Card

I used my new cartridge A Child's Year for this card. The witch is an icon. I cut her out at 3.5 inches and covered her with versa mark ink and then extra thick embossing powder to make her shiny. Background paper from a paper stack that had different holidays. Tied ribbon around the card and put a small stamped greeting on the front. Simple and quick to make. Enjoy!

Simple Red and Black Halloween Card

For this card I used my drippy goo .svg file and a free bat file from svgcuts.com. I cut the drippy goo out using my cricut and SCAL program ay 2 inches. I used red for the base and black for the shadow. I cut the bat out at 5 inch wide with the keep proportions button on. The stamped image came from a dollar stamp at Micheals last year. I used the new white embossing powder I just bought. Enjoy!

Halloween Cat

The cat is from a free cut file from www. svgcuts.com/blog/ I used wild card cartridge for the card.The cat is cut at 2 inches using Sure Cuts Alot. The card is cut at 5 1/2 inches and the liner is cut the same. Make sure you do not used real dial size. Happy Halloween is cut at 5 inches. I used the stitched card with the liner. I used the center cut out on the inside of the card and glued the cat to that paper. The wording is from the cartridge also under phrases. inside I went around the paper with a white gel pen and I used chestnut roan ink on the edges of the paper. Ignore the date on the picture it's wrong. Enjoy!