Happy Halloween

Boo-tiful Banner

I wasn't planning on making a Halloween banner but I have seen so many beautiful/creative/detailed ones posted. I felt that with a black fireplace, I really should make one...







All the paper is Core'dinations. I crumpled up the letters and sanded them. The pumpkin ridges were created using the line in my round coffee table! I used my bone folder and then sanded the ridge.

I am entering this at Fantabulous Cricut for their Halloween challenge this week.

Birthday card - OUAP cartridge

I love how this card turned out. I used some embossed paper from my stash for the background. The sentiment is layered 3 times and the gift is merely a rectangle with a ribbon!

Cross-country layout

This is my son's second year of fall cross-country meets. His school walks to a nearby beautiful, tree-filled park. The students run races against other community schools. I enjoy watching the meets and feel so proud of my son.

Last year, my layout for these races was all done with the Sports Mania cartridge. So this year, I wanted something different. A layout that shows the lovely fall we are having as well as the awesome meets.




I am entering this layout for the following challenges:

1. Falling Leaves at Fantabulous Cricut

2. Anything but a card at Made by Momo

3. Sports theme at My Creative Time

Cricut Circle blog is still available to non-members

I clicked on the link for the members only Cricut circle blog today and it's still open to the public. Yay! Check it out while you can...

Cricut Circle Blog

There is a ton of Halloween inspiration and lots of photos from the Cricut swarm in Utah.

Weekend hops Oct 15th

Here is the list I've compiled...

Spooky Blog Haunt goes from Oct 15th - 18th and includes 31 blogs!!

Christmas Punky Teens Release blog hop runs from 8am until 5:30pm on Oct the 15th. The prizes are all 6 new digis.

Monster Mash hop begins Friday the 15th in the morning and runs until the 18th. I count 10 blogs along the way and the grand prize is a Scrap 'N Tote.

"Fun-mare" Before Halloween Blog Hop begins Saturday the 16th and you can hop until Sunday the 17th. Sorry I don't have any other deets:(

Breast Cancer Awareness/Girl Power Blog Hop includes 10 blogs and the hop begins Saturday the 16th and is open until Sunday at 11:30pm. Oh My Crafts is sponsoring this hop with gift certificates and pink ribbon die cutters.

So many hops... and I don't have a lot of time this weekend with DS's hockey tournament, DD's activities and hopefully an all day crop for me!

Pink Stamper and Gypsy challenge

The Pink Stamper has a challenge this week to make something cute and there is a Gypsy challenge this week to make something layered. I hope this card will fit the bill for both!




I welded this coffee pot with my Gypsy to turn it into a shape card. ( I know, I'm addicted to shape cards.) The stamps I bought without a package from a yard sale but they are all super cute "coffee and tea" sentiments.