August Stamp of the Month - What a Hoot!

This is the stamp of the month for August:

This is the silly card I made:

You can see from the top shot below that I used foam tape to make the eyes, wings and flowers stick out.  The flowers and wings have foam tape only on the top so they are raising off the page.

I USED OUR NEW MARKERS TO COLOR THE OWL!

(you can see them tomorrow with the new catty online)

I used the fat side to do his body and the small end to do the wings.

Also the flowers are with the markers too.  I used just our regular inks to stamp the image.

I just didn't color over the stamped image a lot.

I random stamped the pumpkin on the bamboo paper.

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Artbooking Made Easy - Spooky Layouts - Video!

Another great video using the Artbooking Cartridge and your Cricut:

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Mary Eisen

Artbooking made easy! Video

Check out this great video from Close To My Heart to see how easy it is to make Mini Halloween Albums!

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Mary Eisen

My Front Door

Felt like fall to me so I thought why not embrace the season and decorate (hate cold weather!).

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Mary Eisen

Batty over Halloween Decor!

 I don't have a mantel so I'm doing my couch table!

I love Halloween and dressing up and decking out the house for the occasion!  This year it's no different!  I created a coffin from our new Cricut Cartridge Artiste and then I modified the top to add texture and a pattern.

 See here is the added piece that I embossed with my Cuttlebug and then took our Daisy White pigment ink and gave it an eerie glow/dusting!

At the end of this post is how I created the top piece in Cricut Craft Room. 
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These jars are my inspiration!  I found them on SVGCUTS.com and loved them.  I bought our Magic Potions Stamp set and had to find a vessel for the stamps. When these jars came to me I had to have them too!  This is how they look (above) without the camera's flash.

 With the flash on my camera these jars glow!  It's the pigment ink showing off!

 The spider sits higher than he looks, he's raised up on 3 foam squares and I tipped his head down.  That's almost a whole pack of Black Sparkles on his body!

All of these jars open and are great for gifts or candy jars!  Even the witches shoe is a candy dish - gotta go buy candy now!

 So I laid out the coffin pieces and then using triangles from that cartridge I started following the base of the cover.

 Above is 2 triangles I'm using to cover the inside surface of the cover.  The cover I told it to DON'T WELD- so nothing would blend in with it.  The triangles were all WELD.

 Here shows the two triangles welded together.

 More triangles. . . .

And more

 (the highlighted "box" above is really a triangle, but a box would have worked too.)

 In the end I used an oval to cover the leftover holes.  When I first put the circle on top, it acted like it wasn't welding but cutting out an oval.  After clicking on all the pieces again and DON'T WELD and then clicking WELD for each piece it suddenly worked and I got this shape:

 TA DA!!!
Now, all the pieces are still separate.
I drew a box around the pieces and then clicked GROUP
so that it won't accidentally get moved and come apart.
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Thanks for looking!

August Stamp Of The Month - Wicked Blog Hop!

Can you Believe it's August???

This month's Stamp of the Month Blog Hop is Wicked! I love the stamp set!  The lady witch is neat and all the other stamps as well!  You should be coming from Sheila's Blog, if not, you can keep hopping and you will do a complete circle.

My cards are very simple because my stamps came late due to Convention - but that's totally worth it!

 

here She is!  I added some Citrus Leaf lines to fill in and as some color.

A nice fuzzy close up!

The left inside - that is a broom stamp that I added a few lines with our markers!

I added the boxes to add text later to and the little kitty - the cat's eye are green like my kitty!

The next card I used the octagon pattern to create the green edge on the bottom.
I then stamped the lines over it the pattern.

Gypsy paper, Choco ink for the colors. 

The hat I cut out because the stamp has swirls all around it.

Thanks for looking! Now leave a comment and hop over to Elizabeth's Blog for some additional great ideas for this stamp set and if you are looking to get it free or for $5, go to my webpage.

Pumpkin Toppers

Tell me they look like pumpkins!!!

I have to supply the snack for Jeanie's Preschool next week so I made these pumpkins out of cardstock to push thru the top of cupcakes. There is over 2 dozen in the picture above. Below is how I did them. You take 5 or 6 pumpkins (I used a flower on my Cricut machine and deleted the center circle from being cut out.) A smaller scalloped circle would work too. Stamp a face on all the pieces or I only did 2 sides. Take all the pieces, line them up together and fold them in half all at once - this way they will line up when you glue them together. I used Liquid Glass - loved using it - drys fast and you only need a little. Put glue on half of one pumpkin and glue another half to it. Keep folding the pieces back as you go along. In between the first two you glue, I added a piece of green cardstock for the vine or top of the pumpkin. repeat this at the last one too. I wound the green on an angle around one of the sticks.When you get to the last one, put lots of Liquid Glass in the middle. Put the pumpkin pieces together and then force a stick up from the bottom. I used Lollipop sticks I bought at Hobby Lobby. Hold together for a little while and you're done. I hope they like them. I thought it would be festive since it's so close to Halloween.

Had to Copy a little Spooky!

This is a wall hanging I saw on the CEO's blog that I had to copy!
She posted all of the ingredients and wouldn't you know it I had all that I needed to make one for myself - now that's really scary! I was actually short black waxy flax, but I sponged brown hemp to make it work.

Here is a metal tag with the center cut out and two Dementional Elements Stars sponged Sunflower Yellow!

I stamped 2 owls and layered him with foam squares. I colored in the Sunflower Yellow eyebrows and beek with a marker.

Created the flaux wood grain background and wrote on the tombstones with a marker too. I think it's close to the real thing. I was suppose to sew around the edge, but I used Simple Stitiches stamp set to make it look like I did. Other stamps: Creepy Cobwebs and Whoo Loves You. Click on the logo on the right to go to her website and you let me know if I did a good job of scraplifting!

Pumpkin Invites

Over the weekend my friend Patti needed a little help with some invites - a Couples Costume Bridal Shower to be exact! So we came up with these pumpkins. We cut them out using the Cricut. Then printed the words on with an Inkjet printer. I took Orange ink and sponged curves on them to give them some depth. This is a tester for the green ink for the stem - but it shows you what it looked like without the orange lines sponged on below:

We realized that we forgot where they are registered so we made a crystal ball out of green paper and the ball we cut out of velum paper. On a laser printer we printed off the information for the registry.
Marker in machine - we outlined them with green ink first - gives them an edge.

A whole sheet of them!

While Patti's machine was cutting pumpkins and crystal balls, mine was cutting 4 colors of paper confetti - white skeletons, orange pumpkins, black spiders, and purple moons and stars - all about an inch big - took all day! (I had the settings too slow!)

Here are just a few of them: