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.

Pink Stamper's Halloween challenge

These are the "lootbags" for my son's 10th birthday party. I figured with the party being in October that I could use creepy as a theme.



I love this skeleton from the October 31st cartridge. Everything on the tags is inked (I regret not distressing more) and then covered in "spiderwebs".

The stainless steel water bottles are from Old Navy and they are filled with eyeball gumballs.

Hop round-up for the weekend

Please comment if you know of any I have missed.

Think Pink Blog Hop This hop begins Saturday at 12am. There are 18 bloggers involved. This hop supports breast cancer awareness.

Birthday Bash Blog Hop hosted by Momo. This hop has 16 blogs. The party begins Saturday morning at 8am.

World card-making day

I had to make at least one card! This card is to enter at Fantabulous Cricut. Their challenge this week is to sew or "faux-sew" on a project. Here is mine.




All of the cuts are from Gypsy Wanderings and my sewing is of the "faux-sew" variety. ( My favourite kind of sewing)

Wow! This is my 100th post. I'm slowly learning my way...

Now I'm off to deliver the card.

One sneak peek, many hops and two Halloween parties!

I'm not a Cricut Circle member but I'm still interested in their ideas, projects and swarms. They have started a members only blog but us non-members can peek this week until it becomes log in only. Here is the link if you are curious. There are some beautiful projects posted already.

Cricut Circle

Now for the hops.

Breast Cancer awareness hop Already on

Purple scrapbooker Halloween Hop Starts today

Canadian Nickel Halloween Hop Starts tomorrow starts here

Imagine-Nation Hop with Pink Cricut Starts tomorrow

Fall hop at Always Crafting Starts Sunday

Last but not least, two blogs I follow are having month long Halloween parties! I believe they are both posting projects every day. Here are the links.

Jean's Crafty Corner

Joy's Life


Well, you know where I will be this weekend! Please comment with any corrections or any other hops I have missed. I have just compiled these from my Blogger dashboard and invitations on facebook.