Quick Halloween Sign.

Hi everyone, today is my day to be a guest designer on Shesasassy Lady.  I wanted to show you a quick Halloween sign I made.  I got the idea from a wooden sign I saw at Hobby Lobby.

You will need:
Ribbon
Circuit Expression
Cardstock(I used regular, glittered, and shimmer)
Happy Hauntings Cart
Oct 31
Heritage
George, or any cart with an oval
Glue
I also used my Gypsy, but after I got it done, I realized you did't need one

I started with Heritage and cut the scroll sign at 11.39 high using glittered black cardstock.

I started with the oval from George at 7.24, using shimmery cardstock and placing the following cuts inside of the oval, I cut the house from Oct 31 at 3.39

The Bats from Happy Hauntings at .30

The moon from Oct 31 at 1.12.

In hindsight, I could have just cut the oval by itself, and then in black cardstock cut the House, Bats and Moon, and glued them on top of the shimmery instead of trying to place the cuts within the oval.  After I got it all together, I realized I made this harder than it needed to be.

Using Happy Hauntings, I cut both of the above pumpkins with their layers in various sizes.

The owl and it's layers is from Happy Hautings cut at 4.18.

Like I said, you really didn't need your Gypsy, I just started placing the items I wanted to cut on the screens and sized them to each previous layer.

Here is the completed project.

When I put the above pumpkin together with his layers, the whole time I kept thinking of the line from the movie Toy Story, when Mrs. Potato Head was packing Mr. Potato Head's butt, and said he needed his "Angry Eyes".  Boy this pumpkin sure has Angry Eyes.

I wished I would have cut the scary top layer in black instead of grey.  I am not liking this too much.

Thanks Sheila for having me as a guest designer today,  Beth.

Trick or EEK! Halloween Mantel Decoration

Hi everyone, today I wanted to share with you a Halloween decorating project  I did for the Cricut Circle Blog magazine Challenge.  I used Happy Hauntings, Lacy Labels, and Wall Decor and More. 

I bought some cheap picture frames and M's and using my Gypsy and my Expression, cut the frame for the large picture.  I had to piece it together.  Using Happy Hauntings, I cut the skeleton heads to fill in the blanks around the frame. 

I saw the idea for the glow in the dark eyes on the Martha Stewart website.  I used my expression and cut the eyes, traced around them on the glass with glue and added glitter.  After that dried, I added glow in the dark glitter for the whites. I repeated this for the smaller frame

I bought some cheap nested paper mache coffins at M's and covered the largest with Hocus Pocus from Pink Paislee.  I cut the bats and skeleton using my expression.  I glittered the little bat bodies and the skeleton.

The rat is a dollar store find, and what a find it was.  It Squeeks, an added bonus.  It drives the dog wild. 

I cut the bats in various sizes and used pink rhinestones for their little beady eyes. 

Lacy labes was used for the banner for the circle and the green scalloped backing.  I used Happy Hauntings for the font.  I love this font, this is the first time I used it. 

The spidey cut was great. 

Here is an up close of the coffin

Thanks so much for stopping by today, Beth.

Cricut at the Fair.

Hi everyone, it has been super busy around here this week.  Our County fair has been going on and my daughter shows her dog in Dog Club.  We showed last Friday, Saturday, she rode on the Dog club float on Sunday, she showed Wednesday and then had 2 classes yesterday.  One of the classes was Dog Costume Class.  The theme this year was book characters, she chose Charlotte's Web.  She was responsible for making her costume, and with a little of mommy's help, this is what we came up with.

She is Wilbur and Gavin the dog is Charlotte.  We pulled out the Expression and using Old West, Happy Halloween, and A Country Life, she cut the boards, feed sack, ribbon, spider's web, the words SOME PIG, and the vegetables for the feed trough hanging on the back of the wagon. 

To get the web that big, it had to be cut at 28" wide and manipulated using the Gypsy.  The boards were cut at 24" long and we did 3 full mat's worth.

There were some very cute costumes in class, including,

Lucy and the Lion from Narnia

The Daschund was Lucy, it was too too cute.

There were also 2 sets of Thing one and Thing two from the Cat in the Hat, and a Princess and the Frog.

There was about 10 entries in the whole class.  My Daughter took first.  Once again, thanks Cricut for coming to the rescue.  You can't beat if for costume classes.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Beth

Halloween challenge over at Erin Lee Creative

Erin is having a halloween challenge on her blog, and this is what I created for it.

I purchased 2 very cool cricut carts, Happy Hauntings and October 31st.  I love Halloween, and these carts have so much potential.

I started with a 12x12 frame and a piece of 12x12 cream colored cardstock.  With a clear swirly stamp, I stamped in orange and black swirls over the carstock.

With October 31, I cut the tree, house, fence, and owl.  Using my Gypsy, I also took the house and using hide contour on the house, I deleted all of the inside cuts on the house so I could have a solid  orange background for the black house to be mounted on.  With Happy Hauntings and vinyl, I cut the words happy halloween and put on the outside of the glass.  The tree was cut to a height of 11", and the house was cut at 6.5.  I put my pressure on medium for the cuts because they were so intricate.  I love how the fence turned out, its so delicate.

Until next time, keep crafting.

Beth