It's Fall

Wow! Can you believe how quickly September has come and gone??? I sure can't. In honor of the arrival of Fall I made this card.

My card base is 4 1/4" X 5 1/2". The card base and the mat paper are both from the Recollections Spice Market collection. I cut the rust colored mat at 4" X 5 1/4". My patterned paper is from K & Co and is cut at 3 3/4" X 5". My leaves were cut with the Tim Holtz Tattered Leaves die out of an aluminum sheet using my eBosser. I used some Alcohol ink and a sponge dabber to color my leaves using Latte, Ginger, Carmel, Lettuce and Cranberry inks. My sentiment is stamped in Aged Mahogany Distress Ink.

Happy Hauntings

The new Cricut Cardz Challenge is to make a Halloween S-Fold or Z-Fold card . My card base is black card stock and is cut  to 4 1/4" X 11. I scored it at 2 3/4" and 5 1/2". Folded it in  half then folded the left front back. I added an orange mat cut at 4 1/8" X 2 5/8" on the outside and inside small flap. I then cut a black and white polka dot mat at 4" X 2 1/2" also for the outside and inside small flap. For the base inside I cut my orange mat 4 1/8" X 5 1/8" and the polka dot mat at 4" X 5". I inked the edges of all my pieces with some Tim Holtz Black Soot Distress ink.

My house is cut at 3 1/2" from the Create a Critter 2 cartridge. I cut the base from an orange yellow and the top layer from black card stock. I then painted the black layer of my house with some Onyx Pearl Liquid Pearl. My mat for the house is from Paper Trimmings and is cut at 4". I cut the base layer out of gray and the top layer out of black. I adhered the layers together and then spritzed it with some iridescent glitter dust spray. My patterned paper is from an Echo Park Apothecary Paper pack from last year.

For the inside of my card I cut just the shadow of the spiderweb mat at 2 3/4 out of white and again at 3" out of black so I would have a shadow. I cut the dangling spider off of the pieces and inked the edges of the white piece with the Black Soot distress ink. I then stamped my sentiment with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and added some doodling along the outside edge of the web. Finally I took my little black spider I had cut off the web and added it to my sentiment mat and used a white gel pen to give him two little eyes.

I hope you will play along with us for the challenge.

Happy Fall Ya'll

This little squirrel is from the Create a Critter 2 Cricut cartridge. Isn't he just too cute with his little hat?

My card is a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" Kraft card stock card base. I added a purple mat cut at 4" X 5 1/4" and then the leaf patterned mat cut at 3 3/4" X 5". My patterned paper is from a Cloud 9 paper stack I bought a couple of years ago.

I cut my little squirrel at 3 1/2" and adhered him to my card front with some foam tape. My sentiment is from a Cardz TV Stamp set and was stamped in Memento Rich Cocoa. I didn't have a button that matched my paper so I took a white button and sponged Ginger Alcohol Ink on it and let it dry. I threaded a piece of brown striped twine through the button and tied a knot. A quick easy fall card.  Thanks for visiting.

Wishing Well Home Decor Project

I have for you today a Home Decor or Gift Item. I saw this wishing well in one of the KaiserCraft Workshop magazines Kim sent me and I just had to have one. I thought this would make a cute table decoration for just about any event. You can use it as a bank if you wish. As you can see, I decided to decorate mine up for Christmas. First I painted all the areas I wasn't going to cover with paper with my Bottle Green Adirondack Paint Dabber. I then traced around my pieces onto my patterned paper and attached them to the wooden pieces with some Matte Glue N Seal. I really  like this adhesive and find it doesn't wrinkle my paper like some of the other products out there. Once I had all my pieces covered with paper I sprayed them all with some Gold and Silver Glitter Dust. WOW! Do they sparkle, love it.

I let everything dry overnight and then put my pieces all together adhering them with a little Beacon 3 in 1 Glue and the tabs to help secure the pieces together. I really like this glue thought it can be a bit stringy. It is my go to glue with nothing else will work, like when I am glue wood, or metal pieces. It is a thick clear glue and dries clear. I added some Cabbage  Glitter Tape (just ask and Kim and order this for you) along the edge of the roof peak and the top and bottom of each side. Finally I hot glued a few small roses to each side of the well.

It was a lot of fun to do and really quick and easy. I know Kim can special order one for you if you are interested.

Boo!

I made this fun Halloween card this afternoon. I started with a black card base cut and scored to 4 1/4" X 5 1/2". I added a green patterned paper mat cut at 4" X 5 1/4" and a black mat cut at 3 7/8" X 5 1/8" and then the candy paper cut at 3 3/4" X 5". I used my Fiskars spiderweb border punch to punch a piece of black paper cut at 1 1/4" X 3 3/4 and then added another strip of green paper cut at 3/4" X 3 3/4". Then I added a piece of ribbon. My patterned paper is from a Cloud 9 paper stack I have had for a couple of years.

My ghost is from the Simply Charmed cartridge and is cut at 3". I attached my ghost to my card with an action wobble and finished it with two small black buttons.

Sure hope everyone has had a great weekend.

Winter Wonderland Card

My card for you today is a 5" X 7" white card stock base. I added a black mat cut a 4 3/4" X 6 3/4". I then added some snowflake paper from the My Minds Eye Winter Wonderland  6" X6" paper pad. I then cut some white card stock to look like a snow mound and added some Flower Soft Glitter Frosting Hint of Green. I wanted to cut my pond from some of the Tim Holtz Mirror Sheets. I will tell you it did not cut well with my Cricut. I cut the pond from the Create a Critter cartridge at 1 1/2" and used my Gypsy to hide the little ripples that cut. (The pond is found under the accessory feature on the hippo cut). I used a multi cut of 4 and did that twice so 8 times but it still didn't cut. I did use the line cut by my cricut and my Tim Hotlz scissor to cut out my pond. I cut my ice skater at 4 1/2". I used paper from my stash for her. I then stamped my sentiment. Sure hope you like her. It was a bit hard to photograph the mirrored paper and it is picking up the reflection from the "white snow".

Creature Feature Card

The new challenge over at Cricut Cardz Challenge is to make a Halloween card using the card feature on any cartridge and any colors you want. This is what I came up with.

I used the Mini Monsters Cricut Cartridge for my card and cut my ghost at 4 1/2". I then cut the main layers as well so could cover my card front. I stamped my sentiment in white and added some faux stitching with a white gel pen. Finally I sprayed the whole card front with some Glitter Dust spray to give it some glitz and glimmer. Sure hope you will join us for the challenge.

A Very Merry Christmas Card

Over at Cardz TV the Design Team is have a Holiday, Pick One! Challenge. To make a project for any holiday! This is what I came up with.

My card base is white cardstock cut and scored for a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card. I added a red mat cut at 4" X 5 1/4" then a green polka dot mat cut at 3 3/4" X 5". I added another red mat cut at 3 1/2" X 4 3/4" and then another patterned paper mat cut at 3 1/2" X 4 1/2". My patterned paper and stickers for my card are all from the My Minds Eye Winter Wonderland paper pack.

And the Winner is....

The winner of my 300 Follower Giveaway is Lisa.CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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Fall Banner

So Kim recently added some great products from Canvas Corp to the store and of course I had to try some out. I got some of the mini Burlap Mini Triangles. These are just so cute and versatile. I decided I had to make a Fall Banner out of them. I started by spraying them with some glimmer mist. I used Rum Punch, Sugar Maple, Sun Sisters, and a little Coffee Shop.

I then used the Tim Holtz Tattered Leaves die to cut my leaves. (Kim doesn't have this die in the store but I bet she can get it for you.) I used my awesome new eBosser to die cut my leaves. (love that machine!!!) I used some of the Tangerine My Minds Eye paper to cut my leaves. I inked my leaves with some distress inks in fall colors.

For the word FALL I used the Birthday Bash Cricut Cartridge and the Tim Holtz Kraft Core Paper (Kim can get this for you). I cut each layer 4 times so I has some thickness to my letters. I then embossed them using the Clear Gloss WOW! embossing powder. I did embossed my letters twice. I then attached everything to my burlap triangles. I then painted some of the natural mini clothes pins with some Indian Summer Glimmer Glaze (a special order item from the store).

To finish my banner I used some gold colored hemp and hung each triangle from the hemp with the clothes pins.