Trick or Treat

It’s almost the witching hour and the theme for my card exchange group for October is Halloween or Thanksgiving.

Even though I have quite a few cutesy gobbler images, I wanted a scarier Halloween cut, something that said spooky. I scoured my Gypsy and mycutsearch.com (I think that’s what the new name is) and I decided on the Pumpkin Carving cartridge.

I had to cut the image 3 times so it's a very thick cut:

1.      Black cut image

2.      Yellow cut image hiding windows

3.      K & Co with just the outline

The rectangle was inked while still in the metal die for depth and the zig zag was inked after it was cut.
I found the “Trick or Treat” poem online and used Microsoft Word to print it using A Lolita Scorned font from dafont.com.

Thanks for looking!!

Cricut cart: Pumpkin Carving Seasonal “spooky house” cut twice. Yellow layer is with hidden windows.

Metal Die Cuts: Spellbinders Nestabilities (largest) Reverse Wonky Rectangles; Quickutz Zig Zag Edges

Ink: Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink around edges of paper

Paper: Black & yellow Recollections paper for Cricut cut; K & Company Tim Coffey Designer pad (behind the Cricut cut and with the Reverse Wonky Rectangles; Recollections Simply Autumn pack (left with Zig Zag Edges and right (red leaf) base; craft colored Recollections paper for card base.

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

My monthly card exchange theme for September was to make gift tags – at least two, any occasion or a card that is a Gift Card Holder.

I wasn’t interested in making gift cards after making the bookmarks a couple months ago and decided to go a different direction this month. After scouring the internet for an idea, I stumbled across this great tutorial Christmas Card Money Holder, I slightly bent the theme this month by making cash gift card holders. The inside has a perfect sized pocket for a few bills. Thanks to Christina for this great and simple tutorial.

I used the Santa Claus from the Simply Charmed cartridge to create this cute Christmas cash holder. I hid the face cuts so I could use a Peachy Keen stamp for Santa's face. The snowflake is a Spellbinders die and Santa was pop dotted on top of it.

Cricut cart: Simply Charmed page 64 Santa with all layers

Manuel Die: Spellbinders Shapeabilities - Create A Flake One

Stamp: Peachy Keen Stamp - PK-490 Everyday Character Face Assortment

Paper: all Recollections solid cardstock was used for the card base, Santa & snowflake; patterned paper is American Crafts – Hollyday paper pad  

Don't Worry...Bee Happy...

My monthly card exchange theme for July was to make Pet Card, new pet, pet sympathy, etc. or any theme card with an animal cut on it.

Pet sympathy really wasn’t up my alley so I decided to do an animal card. So maybe bees aren’t technically animals per se, I didn’t care. I had this idea in my head for a few months and wanted to make a bee card.

I think it turned out really cute.
The bee is cute from Sentimentals Cricut cartridge. I had some coordinating ribbon which I layered under the Spellbinders die. I dry embossed the octagon with a Darice folder and lightly rubbed a VersaMark pad on the raised edges. I applied a generous amount of UTEE on the raised areas and heat embossed it. I think the imperfections make it look that much more authentic. I also used another We R Memory Keepers corner chomper for the edges. I'm really loving them.

PS - I'm playing with watermarks and haven't perfected them yet.

Cricut cart: Sentimentals page 45 all layers.

Manual Die Cuts: Spellbinders Scalloped Octagons (I don’t remember if was large or small)

Embossing Folder: Darice Honeycomb folder – heat embossed raised edges

Paper: Ki Memories, Inc Fancy Free paper pad (patterned), Recollections blue, yellow, black and mustard cardstock.

♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪...Happy Birthday To You...♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪

My monthly card exchange theme for April was Mothers Day or Birthday. I chose birthday and went with an older Cricut cartridge that I haven't used in a while. I had a lot of fun making this card and learned not to emboss vellum with an intricate design again.

Cricut cart: the word birthday came from page 73 of Simply Sweet
Embossing folder: vellum - Darice Sheet Music
Paper: 8 1/2 X 11 Recollections Cupcake Cuties stack and coordinating solids from Recollections
Manual die: vellum - Spellbinders Nestabilities Reverse Wonky Rectangle Die
Extra: Uni-Ball Signo Broad in silver to emphasize the music notes from the embossing folder
            Rhinestones were used in the dots for the i and !