Falling for Halloween Blog Hop Project

Welcome to the Falling for Halloween Blog Hop. Thanks for joining us for some crafty Fall or Halloween inspiration.  You should have arrived here from  Renee's i came i saw i created blog . If you missed the beginning of the hop, please go to Maria's blog to start so you don't miss any of the projects.

I am a BIG lover of the fall holidays but HALLOWEEN  is my favorite ! Maybe it is just the thought of the air finally turning cooler or the cute little kids dressed in their Halloween costumes that bring a smile to everyone's face ?  But I really think I have a passion for all the spooky images ...when at other times of the year I don't really like scary things.  And I sure can't seem to resist the traditional Halloween colors of orange, black, lime green, purple together  !

Every year I change up the Halloween decor on our entry hall table that greets people when they arrive in our home.  This year I decided to make a Halloween Table Frame to put along with some other items I bought for Halloween this year.

Using one of my favorite Halloween Cricut Cartridges ever, "Happy Hauntings", I made the frame on page 68 cut at 6".  I did make a chipboard backing and stand first so it is more substantial by using a deep cut blade on my Cricut machine.  Then I did the cuts again using cardstock to cover the chipboard.  The perfect Halloween colored glittery and shiny cardstock is from DCWV Bewitched stack.  The "Happy Haunting" phrase is on page 46 and cut at 1 1/4" and the Ghost at 2" on page 47 in shiny lime green cardstock.  The Ghost also has a black glittery backing that I offset slightly  (hard to see that in the picture).  The Orange Typeset paper is from MME Haunted 6X6 paper pad I bought at Michael's craft store recently. I used the left over chipboard cut out to put it on and added a little bit of Orange Marmalade Distress Ink on the edges. I tied some fun ribbon from my stash and added a few dangling gems for some more sparkle.  A girl can't have too much sparkle in her home, right?  LOL

Hopefully in this view you can see that the frame is made in layers using

pop foam dots to give it more dimension.

 

One of the images for the frame on the cartridge is the stand.

As I mentioned before, I not only used chipboard to the make the frame and

stand but I then covered both with black cardstock to give the frame a more finished look.

I bent the chipboard stand slightly at the score marks so that it sits correctly

on the back of the frame and adhered with double sided score tape.

 

And here is the final Halloween vignette on my hall table now. 

The great glittery lime green skull head was only $2.50 at Target

and so was the glittery trick or treat flameless candle that I put on a

crystal candle holder base for some added height.  

 

Now I just need to decorate the rest of the house so stay tuned for more Halloween Decor !

 

Thanks so much for hopping along with us.  Please be sure to check out all the participant's wonderful projects and leave a comment.  We love to know you stopped by.  I've posted the list below in case you've missed anyone. The next blog you will be visiting belongs to the very talented Khrista at Creative and Crafty Teacher Blog.

Here is the list of Blogs if you lost your way.

Maria stampcutcreate.blogspot.com  START OF HOP
Michele scrap-n-dance.blogspot.com

Paulette http://scrapalette.blogspot.com/

Cindy http://www.inlovewithpaper.blogspot.com/

Beth http://seaswancreations.blogspot.com/

Renee icameisawicreated.blogspot.com

Debbie @ www.debseclecticthoughts.blogspot.com   YOU ARE HERE

Khrista @ http://creativeandcraftyteacher.blogspot.com/

Angela @ Angie's Paper Passion

Nadia @ http://www.withglitteringeyes.com/

Donna @ http://CarolinasCreativeCropper.blogspot.com/

Diane @ http://dianesdribble.blogspot.com/

Sara @ sarawandrews.com

Michele @ www.michelegreen.com

Cricut Circle Blogiversary - Cuttlebug Challenge

I am entering another one of the Cricut Circle Blogiversary challenges...this time featuring the Cuttlebug and any two Cricut image cuts.  The prize is a Yudu Cardshop which is a mini version of the Yudu silkscreening machine and great for making cards and smaller projects.  My fingers and toes are crossed that my entry gets picked.  

I am really getting excited about Halloween this year and decided for this challenge I wanted to make a Halloween Layout page.  Cricut has several Halloween images and cartridges that I love so the decision on what to use was hard but I finally came up with a few fun images to use.

Here is the layout

I had so much fun making this layout from my stash of supplies. 

Since I first saw this silly looking Spider with the long legs from the Stretch Your Imaginations cartridge, I have wanted to use him on a project but hadn't gotten around to it until today.  I cut him out of black cardstock and then  used Ranger Paint Dauber in yellow to color his legs.  I used a black sharpie and added some stripes to make his long legs a little more comical.  Next I used a small dot Cuttlebug embossing folder to add some fun bumps to his body and highlighted a few of his bumps with green Stickles and some orange Stickles to his hat. He was just screaming that he needed googlie eyes so he got those too!  

Next I made a mat using my Cuttlebug and a Halloween embossing folder on some orange Coordinations cardstock which I then sanded to expose all the fun embossed images.  I love to do that with my Cuttlebug folders!

For the lettering I used the awesome Happy Hauntings cartridge for the "Spooky" title and the EEK! on the layout.  I also used Accent Essentials cartridge to create the circle backgrounds for the punched out pattern paper pieces that I used to make embellishments. I added a few Dress Up Buttons Halloween pieces for a final touch.  Love how this turned out.  And now I have one layout ready for some Trick or Treating photos this year!   
Good luck to everyone who enters the contest !