You can almost hear the Wurlitzer Playing.

I had 2 titles for this post.  The first one is above, the second one is "Really, what was I thinking?".  Hi everybody, today I want to share with you a project I made for the Circle Blog Magazine Challenge.  You needed to use the new Cricut Craft Room for your project.  I tried using it with my Imagine, but didn't have much luck.  It kept freezing on me, so I gave up, and connected it wirelessly to me Expression 2, and had much better luck.  In fact is was really easy.

I love Carousels, probably because all of the beautiful horses on them in various state of tossing their heads , they seem so wild and untamed.  Actually every chance I get, I ride the Carousel.  Silly I know, but it's one of my guilty pleasures.  I am probably the only woman in my 40's that still rides them.  It has to be a really cool one though before I will ride.  The smaller ones with lame horses on them just don't do it for me.  My husband just rolls his eyes, but my daughter will always ride.  I wonder how old she will be when it's just not cool anymore.  Hopefully, never.

Anyway.  I have always wanted to make a Carousel out of paper.  When I saw Noah's ABC Animals, I knew it would be perfect.

I started with George and welded a Triangle with a rectangle on both sides for tabs.  I cut 15 of these at 6.014".  I glued them all together to create the roof of the Carousel.  I then measured the roof on the underside across the bottom and cut the largest circle I could on my E2 which was 11.25".  I glued this to the underside of the roof.

Next, I cut out the horses.  I used the 3-D horse on Noah's Abc's.  I cut 5 at 5", each one from different colored cardstock.  I wanted a palomino, black, bay, white and of course pinto.  Below are the photo's of how I made the saddles.  I used Old West for the Western Saddles, and a scrap of matching cardstock for the seat.



When these were all done.  I added bridles out of ribbon and jump rings, and bling.  Several of the horses have breast collars.  Here they are all blinged out.

The pic above shows the "Mirrors" on the center pole.  I researched pics of Carousels on line, and all most all of them had Mirrors all over the place.  I put 2 on the Centerpole.  I used Fancy Frames and George.

 

The Centerpole is just rolled up cardsock.,  I needed to make the base out of something sturdy, so I cut another circle out of thin cardstock and traced on heavy chipboard and cut out with my scissors.

There is a piece under the horses hoofs, and at the very bottom of the carousel.  The one on the bottom is .25" smaller then the top.  I will tell you the reason later. 

Here is a close up of the roof. 

This pic shows where I covered the wooden dowel rods with "silver pieces" 

I did the same with the top of the Carousel.

The reason I wanted the bottom slightly smaller than the top, is because I wanted to hide a mini album in the base.

I have made these star albums before(see this post Star Album), but I googled Carousel Mini, and found a really cool blog where this person added a top to her star album.  I didn't use her pdf file, but just eyeballed it and created the album with my cricut using my dimensions.  Her blog is Andthereweretwobears.

Well I hope you like my project.  I really do.  So what should the post be titled?  Can you hear the Wurlitzer, or What was I thinking?

Halloween Castle with Mini Album

Hi everyone, long time no post. I have been here, just busy. We were in Florida at Disney World the last time I posted. We had an awesome time. We visited all of the parks, took in the Not so Scary Halloween party at MK one evening, and went to the Black Stallion dinner show the last night we were there. We all trick or treated during the Not so Scary Halloween party and came home with 10 lbs of candy. I never seen so many people in costumes in one place before.  Everyone was dressed up, I don't even know how many people were at MK that night.  But it was so cool.  We did not take any costumes with us, so I had to throw something together for my daughter. We got her face painted at Hollywood studios, and she already picked out a sundress for a souvenir. So this is what we came up with.

There were a lot of characters doing signings that night, and when we walked up to Buzz Light Year, he made a gesture like a cat and had her do the same so I could get a picture.  I thought it was pretty cool of him to do that. The Pic turned out cute.

Anyhoo, I have been creating off and on and wanted to share with you a castle I made that holds a mini album.  I got the pattern off of Laura Denison from Following the Paper Trail.  I used her pattern for the castle, but decided to use my Gypsy and cricut for the mini.  It was going to save a lot of measuring and cutting.

Here is the finished project

The Mini fits inside the castle. 

Here is the mini, it has 5 pages all with the same format.  On the back of each page is a pocket for holding a tag. 

On each page the sides flip open to reveal a spot for 3 pic, or journaling. I created this file on my gypsy using George, and Ribbons and Rosettes(this was used for the fence across the top, but you could substitute any

edge cut for the fence. 

This project was super fun to do, and if you would like the pattern could be purchased here.  I do not get any monetary gain from this, I just love her patterns.

Until next time, Beth

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.