#84 CTMH Artiste Blog Hop

Hi everyone welcome to the CTMH Artiste and Art Philosophy blog hop hosted by Vanessa. We are all Close To My Heart Consultants showing different ways to use these gorgeous Cricut cartridges!

For my project I made 2 Halloween Treat Holders that hold full size chocolate candy bars Mmmmmm!

I stamped both treat bags using the It's Your Day Stamp Set and I used the Cricut companion stamp sets for the Halloween Sentiments MAGIC POTIONS and the Artiste Cricut cartridge to cut the treat bags out with my Cricut. The owl is from Noah's ABC's cartridge and the toad is from Mini Monster's Cricut cartridge.

Here's a list of Close To My Heart products used from my Online Store

Baker's Twine Harvest Assortment

MAGIC POTIONS 

It's Your Day Stamp Set

Artiste Cricut cartridge

Black Ink

Autumn Terracotta INK

Kraft Cardstock

Here's the polka dot and chevron stamp set I used on my project you can purchase it for only $5 in my CTMH Store! They are 2 6x6 stamp sets for a sweet deal!

You can also get this very cool stamp set I used called Magic Potions for only $13.95 this set is also a Cricut Companion stamp.... meaning you can cut the matching die cut out with your Cricut Artiste and the stamp matches perfectly in size!

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Here is the line up in case you get lost:

Vanessa http://wwwpaperkraftsunlimiteddesings.blogspot.com

Leanne http://www.createdbyLeanne.blogspot.com

Candice http://stampinpearls.blogspot.com

Debbie http://bugjuiced.blogspot.com

Michelle http://mycreationswithmichelle.blogspot.ca

Sandra http://365daysofcricut.blogspot.com

#190 Girly Ghost Card

For today's project I made a quick and simple Halloween card using A Child's Year and Mini Monsters. I stamped a Peachy Keen face on this cute girly ghost and added chalk around her eyes to make her look a little more spooky. I stamped this adorable sentiment with Crafty Sprouts MONSTER KISSES stamps and added twine from the Twinery and used my white gel pen from Sakura gel pens.  This is our last challenge for Scrapbookaholic By Abby, the challenge is Anything Goes and we have some amazing sponsors and prizes from The Twinery and Sakura Gel Pens so be sure to come and enter our last challenge HERE!!!!

Here's the cute MONSTER KISSES STAMP SET I used!

#47 Blog Hop WINNER's!!

Hi everyone Thank you for taking the time to hop with me over the weekend I hope you all had a great Valentine's Day! Here is my Guest Designer card for Abby's SEI Challenge and her theme this week is PINK!  I cut the monster from Mini Monster's and stamped the face with PKS, the paper and the heart die cut are from SEI. The XOXO stamp is from Pink By Design. The heart embossing folder is from a Sizzix embossing folder which I embossed in the Cuttlebug. If you would like to enter in the challenge and win some SEI goodies please click HERE.

Now onto some Winner's!!

Paper Doll Blog Hop RANDOM Winner is:

BunnyFreak said...

Love both projects. That disney album rocks.
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CONGRATS Bunny Freak!! Please contact me at critterbugg365@gmail.com

My Vintage Valentine Blog Hop RANDOM Winner is:

Carol said...


Love the card, beautiful details. TFS
Carol
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CONGRATS Carol! Please contact me at critterbugg365@gmail.com

#12 Skull Tag

Hello everyone today is Friday and time for an all new challenge at my new blog called Flaunt It Friday's and this week's challenge we are flaunting the Mini Monster's cart. The cut challenge is to make a NON-Halloween project using the skull on page 65. I cut my tag from Sweet Treat's and did some embossing with my Cuttlebug and stamped the sentiment with PInk By Design Stamps. I also did some inking with black chalk ink and added some silver Christmas ribbon...yep Christmas ribbon (it was only 29 cents at M's!!) For the skulls eyeballs I put some black metallic dots. I hope you all can stop by and play along with us this week because for this months grand prize we are sponsored by one of our very own Stephanie Always Crafting she is so generous to giveaway the Birthday Bash cartridge!! You will have one week to enter the challenge at http://flauntitfridays.blogspot.com/.

Be sure to check back tomorrow morning for a very fun blog hop and my first U-Stream ever hosted by Alex You had me at Craft.

#165 Monster boy B-day card

***This is my 3rd post scroll down for more***

Here's a card I made for my little 8 year old cousin A.J. who acts like a Monster LOL! I really love the way this came out and I just want to keep this card!! The Monster is from Mini Monsters I stamped his face with a Peachy Keen Stamp and stamped both sentiments and embossed the Monster and also the white paper with my Cuttlebug. The green border paper on the left is actually a border punch that I "Hid" it is the notebook paper looking punch. I hope you enjoy my card I know I do LOL! This is my 3rd post today be sure to scroll down to see my unique Halloween card and a pretty Sympathy card thanks! I am entering in a few challenges here they are:
One Stitch at a Time Celebrations
Cards for Men Anything Goes only Male Project

#157 Witch Poison Treat Bag

Good morning or should I say good afternoon in some places! For some of you who don't know already I am part of a new Design Team called  Inking it Up Crazy Kassidy will have the designers making Fall projects with our Cricuts every 2 weeks, please stop by her blog so you can see what the other designers have made =) This week she wanted us to make a Treat Bag or Box or something to hold Halloween treats in. I knew I wanted to make a bag from Mini Monsters so I chose this one it originally had a green monster on it with wings or arms in the handbook. I hid all of the little outlines with my Gypsy and cut out the black bird with the with hat. Don't you think I thought of  aperfect sentiment to go with that bird LOL he looks like he was posioned or going crazy because of all the sugar he ate LOL! The letters are from a Martha Stewart punch that I got recently at Michaels with that 50% coupon for Martha Stewart. The letters are so teeny tiny, I really wanted to get something so I could come out with my own sentiments so keep an eye out because I have so many ideas!!! These letters are so tiny I could fit 4 letters on my pinky finger nail, so maybe about 1/8 or 1/10 of an inch.

#138 Haunted sign card

I made this haunted, spooky and scary lightpost sign for the Cricut Cardz Challenge, which is to make a Halloween card with any card feature from any cartridge. The sign is the card feature from Mini Monsters it is cut at 5x7 but I thought it was way to skinny and small so I went ahead and just glued it to an actual card and stamped the pumpkin which says "Trick or Treat" the cut him out. I also added stickles to the light and to the word scary. I used my i-rock to adhere the green bling on the front of the card.

#129 Ghouls Just wanna have fun Card

I was so happy when Christina asked me to be a guest designer for her challenge this week for the ribbon and bling theme. I was actually the first person to win her first challenge ever, you can see the winner here, I do this for fun and not for winning! I wanted to do something a little bit different this time so I made a really long 8x4 inch card and rolled some ribbon on the left side. I punched a lacy border from a MS punch and stamped the sentiment on a tag from Once Upon A Princess and added bling with my new toy the i-rock I highly recommend it!! I also added bling to the border. I cut the circle and scallop circle from AE and embossed with my cuttlebug. For the cutie Ghoul I cut her from Mini Monsters, that was my 1st monster cut out I've been missing out, the layering is easy! I added googly eyes kinda crooked on purpose she is a Ghoul afterall LOL, I inked the tag with purple dew drop chalk ink. Come join in on the fun at Card Creations and More for a chance at a cool giveaway!!

#115 Vampire Territory LO (40:31 Creations Challenge)

I made this  LO for Lauren's Halloween challenge at 40:31 Creations, this is my first time submitting a challenge at her blog....hopefully I win the awesome candy LOL!  So the first thing I did was look through my paper pile and I found this patterened paper with a haunted house and a moon design. I made this LO look like the Vampire's live there and that's why I called it "Vampire Territory".....I've been watching too much True Blood and Twighlight LOL! The word Vampire is from Mini Monster's, Territory is from Lyrical Letters, the daddy vamp and baby vamp are from Paper doll Dress up, the bats and the drippy goo are from the new October 31st cartridge. I know everyone's going to being asking how did I do that so here it goes.... The drippy goo is actually a cut that says "Velcome" it is a diamond shaped sign with drippy goo on top and botttom of it, so I used my Gypsy to weld 2 together and I scooted them both all the way up on my mat screen so it only left about 2 1/2 inches showing, but the originial size says 6 inches. The small blood droplets are from A child's year, they are rain drops and I hid the slit with my Gypsy. I hope I didn't confuse you too much, if I get enough request I will post a photo tutorial and the drippy goo.
Continuing... the "eek" sign and the "I want candy...Blood" are from the DCVW stack and I just cut out the little squares. Notice the bick of my son licking his lips that's why I crossed out the "candy" part and wrote "blood". I just couldn't stop laughing while making this layout I was evening talking in Vampire language to son while making it. I hope you like it, my husband loved it so much because I made it scary just for him and my son Aidan. This was Halloween 2008 and my son just learned how to walk a few days before Halloween perfect for Trick or Treating!

#108 Boo! frame card

For this Halloween card I cut the black frame from Hannah Montana with some green glittered Halloween paper. Boo! is from Mini Monster's , I also did a little bit of inking around the edges.

#104 Lollipop card for Cricut Cardz

I made this card for the Cricut Cardz challenge which is to make a card with any theme and only using the colors yellow, orange, blue, black and white. At 1st I had no idea what to make then I decided to make orange flavored candy....maybe because I've been eating so much candy and it's not even Halloween yet LOL!  I cut the lollipops from Mini Monsters and the scroll from christmas Cheer, I haven't really used both of those carts yet so it was nice to think outside the box LOL! I chalked the outer edges of the scroll and stamped the perfect sentiment, I had it all planned out! Then I added swirls to the center of the lollipops and stickles to the blue bows and stickles to the "Sweet" part, and tied a ribbon bow and finally I did some faux stitching to the outer parts of the card.