Witch's Brew

 Witch Halloween Card

I started my Halloween cards getting a head start on the holiday.

Supplies:

My Favorite Things - Primitive Pumpkin Stamps
My Favorite Things - Bewitching Stamp
Zig Clean Color Real Brush Watercolor Brush Pens

Halloween Placemats

My 5 yr. old  granddaughter and I made some Halloween placemats. Here are the results.
She had the idea of the haunted house center and I had the idea of the pumpkin center.
I got all the pieces cut out and she helped me adhere them onto the paper.
We made 8 placemats. My granddaughter wanted green and purple placemats.
I wanted Orange and purple placemats. It really was fun working together with her.
I really enjoyed helping her bring her ideas with the haunted house to life.



The doilies were made with the Martha Stewart Spider circle punch.

The center is a 12" circle and the corners were an 8" circle divided into 4 corner pieces.

The Large bat is an EK Success bat punch (shown by the pumpkin).

The bats by the haunted house are from the Martha Stewart bat and EEK punch.

The witch on the broom is the Martha Stewart witch punch.

The black cat is also a Martha Stewart Punch.

The pumpkins in the corner are from a Martha Stewart large border punch.

I cut the pumpkins out from that punch.

The Ghosts are from Paper Dolls Cricut cartridge (cut at 3").

The pumpkin is from Create a Critter 2 Cricut cartridge(cut at 5").

The haunted house is from the Monster Bash Cricut cartridge (cut at 5").

I used my Xyron Creatopia to laminate the placemats.

~Mary



New Cricut Circle Cartridge Charmed - Making Shrinky Dinks

I recently rejoined the Cricut Circle Group. This year's newest cartridge is called Charmed.
It is used with the new universal overlay. The handbook is a new 3-1/2"x3-1/2" size.(Sold Separately)
The new box size is 3-3/4"x4" box.

This cartridge images are designed to make charms. I received my cartridge yesterday and couldn't wait to get started making Shrinky Dink Charms.  I love Halloween images so I made these 3 charms for Halloween to test everything out. I am so happy with the results!!

These charms were cut at 4".

I used Frosted Shrinky Dink Material

I colored the Spider and Pumpkin with Sharpie Markers

I colored the Ghost with a white colored pencil.

They were all cut on the Imagine machine at 4" real dial size multi cut 3.

When I cut the shrinky dink material I put the side you color face down on the mat.

I heated the oven to 350 degrees. I placed them on a cookie sheet with parchment paper.

I didn't time it. I just waited for them to shrink and then flatten out again.

Then removed from oven. It probably took a minute or two.

They finished out at:

Pumpkin - 2" wide - 1-1/2 Long

Spider - 2-1/8" Wide - 1-3/4" Long
Ghost - 1-1/2" Long - 3/4" wide (hand to hand)

I can't wait to make more charms with my Granddaughter!! I had to test it out first though.

Everything went perfectly!!

This is the packaging from the Shrinky Dinks Material.

Happy Crafting!!

Mary





Make Your Own Journaling Tags

I decided to try my hand at making some journaling tags for a layout I am working on.
I wanted to pass the information along to you so you can get some ideas and try some yourself!
I'm not one to put journaling on my layouts. But, I want to change that and incorporate it in a fun way. I used my CTMH stamp sets and Cricut Cuts.

Here's some of what I came up with. I can't wait to use them on some layouts!

Supplies:

CTMH Stamp sets used:
S1109 - Limited Edition for the lines.
C1526 - Spellbound Cricut Workshop Holidays for Happy Halloween.
C1522 - Creepy Creatures Holiday

~Mary

Bat and Ghost Mobile

 Bat and Ghost Mobile

I made a Martha Stewart Bat Mobile. It's super easy to make.
All you need is a branch, bats, ghosts and some cheese cloth.

Supplies:

Cricut Cartridge Happy Hauntings - Bats and Ghosts
The Bats were cut at 5-1/4"
The ghosts were cut at 4-1/2"

I got the idea from the Martha Stewart website.
Found here.

Martha Stewart Bat Mobile

Trick Or Treat Teddy Bear Card

I found some time to use the new Teddy Bear Parade Cricut cartridge.

This cartridge is so cute! I know I will get much use out of this cartridge.



Supplies:

Cricut Cartridge - Teddy Bear Parade - Bear cut at 4-1/2"



Martha Stewart Punches - Ghost corner punch and Trick or Treat bag punch.
The mat is 4-1/2 x 5-1/2
The gems are studio G embellishments.

Mary

Halloween Treat Bags And Candy Wrappers

Happy Halloween!!

I've been making some last minute quick and easy treat bags and candy wrappers for Halloween.

These are super easy and fun to make.

This bag was decorated with a pumpkin cute from Smiley Faces Cartridge.

I used felt fusion to decorate the bottom of the bag and ribbon to accent the top.

I put Halloween tissue paper on the inside to finish the look.

I used Micro Bags 4" x 5-1/8" . These are a perfect size for treat bags.

This bag I made a window with the Martha Stewart punch all over the page punch.

I decorated the bag with felt fusion and twine.

I framed out the window on the bag with patterned paper.

I accented the inside of the bag with Halloween tissue paper.

This bag I used the Smiley Face Cartridge for the candy corn die cut.

I accented the bag with ribbon.

This bag I also accented the inside of the bag with Halloween tissue paper.

To wrap your candy cut your paper to size for wrapping.

In this instance I cut a 6" x 7" piece of cardstock.

For these Kit Kat mini candy bars I used a 6" x 6" cardstock to wrap them.

I applied double sided tape to three sides of the paper then wrapped them.

I took my Marvy paper crimper and crimped both ends of the candy wrapper.

I accented them with patterned cardstock and ribbon.

Pumpkin Box Treat Holder

 Pumpkin Box Treat Holder

Supplies:

Cricut Cartridge - Sweet Tooth - Pumpkin Treat Box - cut at 7".

Cricut Cartridge - Mother's Day Bouquet - Leaves - cut at 2".

For the stem I just rolled a small piece of paper into a tube and adhered it on with a glue gun.

Ghost Centerpiece and Treat Cups

                  

Ghost Centerpiece and Treat Cups

Supplies:

Cartridges used were:

Paper Doll Dress up -  Ghosts.
Small Ghosts -  4.65" Height and 2.57" Width
Large Ghost - 14.65" Height and 8.09" Width on Gypsy
Happily Ever After -3" Pumpkins
Don Juan - Weld Happy Halloween on Gypsy
Overall size of welded words - 7.54" width X 4.03 Height.
1-1/2" letter size

Instructions for the Treat box behind the pumpkins:

Treat Cup Instructions:

Cut 4 strips of paper 3" wide X 10" long, Score length wise at 1-1/2 inches
Next Score width at every 2". Cut in1-1/2" on the 3" strip of paper on the scored lines to center length of score line.
On one side. The other scored lines will be folded on the other 1/2 of the 3" strip of paper.
Fold on score lines and adhere with adhesive to form box. Embellish with Grass and Treats in box.

Halloween Cat Layout

Halloween Cat Layout

Supplies:

Cricut Cartridges:

Meow - Paw Prints and Cats

Mini Monsters - Happy Halloween

Hello Kitty Greetings - Pumpkin

Dracula's House

Dracula's House

 Supplies:

Cricut Cartridge - Winter Woodland - House

Cricut Cartridge - Paper Dolls - Dracula, Bats

Pattern Paper - We R Memory Keepers (Halloween Pack)

Stampin Up - Cardstock  

I'm Spotlighted In The Cricut Chirp This Week!!!

My Spooky Town is spotlighted in the Cricut Chirp Newsletter!
That means I won a free Cricut Cartridge!!

Here's the link to the News Letter:  http://www.cricut.com/newsletters/volume.aspx?ID=202
(The link no longer works due to updating their website)

Spooky Town

 Spooky Town

 Supplies:

Cricut Cartridge - Winter Woodland - House

Cricut Cartridge - Paper Dolls - Ghost, Spider, Witch

Cricut Cartridge - A Child's Year

Glue Glitter: Stickles

Pattern Paper - Oriental Trading Company

Pattern Paper - We R Memory Keepers (Halloween Pack)

Stampin Up - Cardstock 

Flight Of The Witches

Flight Of The Witches

Supplies

Cricut Cartridge - Winter Woodland - House
Cricut Cartridge - A Child's year
Cricut Cartridge - Paper Dolls - Bats, Cauldron

Spider House

Spider House

Supplies:

Cricut Cartridges - Winter Woodland - House

Cricut Cartridge - Paper Dolls - Spiders

Ghost House

Ghost House

Supplies:

Cricut Cartridge - Winter Woodland - House

Cricut Cartridge - Paper Dolls - Ghosts and Bats

Pattern paper: Oriental Trading Co.

Martha Stewart Pumpkin Border Punch