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

Bath & Body Works Halloween Candle Makeover

I don't know about you, but I have an obsession with candles.  Particularly, Bath & Body Works candles.  They are all so yummy smelling!  One thing I love about BBW candles, is the quality glassware they use to house their candles.  The labels can easily be removed to repurpose the jars and make something new.  For this makeover, I simply removed the labels and added some Cricut artwork to make them into Halloween decor.

The 3-wick candle already looked like candy corn.  I simply added a coordinating image.  Isn't she cute?  For the mini-candle, I turned it into a pumpkin and added a battery operated tealight (I had already used up the candle).  Both images are from the Cricut cartridge Mini Monsters and I used vinyl for the artwork.

Green is Good ~ St. Patrick's Day Card

I LOVE this frog!  He looks so suave and cool and happy to be GREEN! The shape card is from the Cricut cartridge Mini Monsters.  I just added a St. Patrick's hat (from Create a Critter 2) to make him ready to party. =)  Here is the design space file for easy recreation:
https://us.cricut.com/design/#/canvas/25573463

Spooky ~ My Pink Stamper Monthly DT Post, September 2011

This month for our My Pink Stamper Design Team Day, we were assigned to create with Robyn's new Spook-alicious Stamp Set.  I decided to go back to my first love and create a layout.

Materials Used:

• Cricut cartridge Elegant Edges: Page 49~ Book @ fit to page
• Cricut cartridge Mini Monsters: Page 42 ~ Spooky, Layer 1, Layer 2 x2, Layer 2 , Base Shadow all @ 4.0"; Page 74 ~ SpdrWeb2 @ 5.5"
• My Pink Stamper Spook-alicious stamp set
• Core'dinations core essentials card stock
• Cloud 9 Design Seasonal paper pad
• DCWV Midnight Spell stack
• Black stickles
• Stampin' Up black journaling marker
• Stampin' Up Whisper White craft ink
• Stampin' Up scallop punch
• Chipboard letters from stash
• Black fiber from stash
• Clear embossing powder

When browsing through the Elegant Edges booklet, I thought that the book feature on page 49 looked like a tombstone when you shifted it right side up.  Once I had selected the main shape, the rest of the page elements just came together.  I added a spider web to the background and a spider hanging from the front of the tombstone.  What do you always expect to see in a graveyard?  Why, a ghost of course!  I doodled on the ghost to make it match the designer paper and added black stickles to the web, the ghost's eyes and mouth and to the spider's legs.  For additional texture, I distressed the edges of the ghost dsp and sanded the green core'dinations card stock.  To tie in the whole page, I embossed the phrase "Spooky" in white craft ink from the Spook-alicious stamp set. 

Thank you for viewing this month's My Pink Stamper design team post.  You can purchase the Spook-alicious stamp set HERE.

Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge #16 ~ Cute As a Button Sketch

Weekly Challenge #16: Cute As a Button Sketch Challenge!
Babies are definitely “cute as a button” with their sweet little faces and tiny features. In honor of our Baby Theme, this week we challenge you to create a SCRAPBOOK PAGE or CARD using the sketch below. Your project doesn’t need to follow the sketch exactly, but it should be apparent that you used it as inspiration. Feel free to turn it on it’s side or move elements to fit what you are doing. In addition to using the sketch, we also want you to incorporate STAMPING and BUTTONS (of course!).


I created the layout solely using the Mini Monsters cart. I followed the sketch pretty closely. Most of the paper used is SU and the buttons are SU as well. I just "love" my little monster!