Say "Trick or Cheese"

Hello!  It's been awhile!  Although I haven't been blogging, 

I have been crafting my little heart away!  =/  There are so many new products, cuts, companies and even machines to share!  I will be updating my blog and be posting to reflect all the newness.  Blogging is a great way to have a living album of your creations to look back on and refer to as needed.  I hope you will join me as I get back into the swing of things.

To kick things off, I wanted to share a Halloween card I made.  

I have heard myself say "Say Trick-or-Treat" a hundred times when taking my kiddos trick or treating.  I thought "Say trick or cheese" was a cute play on words and if a mouse could talk and trick or treat, I can imagine it saying this! =)

And when the card is opened, it holds a little "cheese"...a gift card!

If you use Cricut's Design Space and are an Access member, this card can be made for free!  Here is my Design Space file:  https://design.cricut.com/#/design/70877406.

If you aren't an Access member, the cartridges used were:

Images and Fonts Used in this Project    

Pumpkin(#M389A7) |PurchasedMini Monsters

Cheese(#M391B1) |PurchasedCreate A Critter

Say Cheese(#M3AC51) |PurchasedCreate A Critter

Trick or Treat(#M44980) |PurchasedHappy Hauntings

Masked Mouse(#M44CA1) |PurchasedHappy Hauntings

Gift Card Envelope(#M159293) |PurchasedPretty Packages

Circle(#M369879)FreeBasic Shapes

Square(#M369896)FreeBasic Shapes

Cricut Daily Challenge - 08-09-10

Today's challenge was a color combo:

I created a 2 page layout of my son. Cart used was Freshly Picked and Create a Critter, Plantin Schooldbook & Nursery Rhymes for the phrase. I sewed the edges of the frames and pages with two different stiches and colors of thread. The buttons on the overalls are brads. The "cloth" of the overalls are Bashful Blue SU DSP. And lastly, the larger buttons are created using the Martha Stewart button punch.

Cricut Daily Challenge 08-04-2010

The challenge for today was to cut out an animal and use it on your project. I created a layout using the Animal Kingdom , Everyday Paperdolls, and Create a Critter carts. I created the film look by using my Zutter binding tool to cut the holes on each side of the film strip.