Harvest Blessings

Good Morning!  Happy Wednesday.

It's my design team day at Cooking with Cricut.  This week our recipe included following a sketch and including a scarecrow, crow, or hay in our design. And, of course, including a Cricut cut.    My Cricut cut is the pumpkin from Paper Doll Dress Up.  I did some accenting with Copic Markers and added some rafia bound to look somewhat like a haystack and some leaves from my die cut stash (that means I'm not sure of the cartridge they came from LOL).  The image is a digi from Digital Delights by Louby Loo.

I'm going to enter this card in the Heart Song Inspirations Harvest challenge and also Celebrate the Occasion's fall challenge.

I hope you'll visit Cooking with Cricut, take a look at the sketch, and then see what the other design team members have cooked up for this challenge. I'm sure you'll want to play along.

Hugs and Happy Crafting,

Larelyn

Spooky Time!

It's time to find your favorite ghost because it's Spooky Time at Fantabulous Cricut.

For Challenge Me Monday #83, the design team was asked to create something spooky and include a ghost.  For my card, I used the window frame from the October 31st cartridge.  I wanted the yellow background so I copied the image on my Gypsy and then used the hide contour so that I would have a blackout image.  The ghost if from Paper Doll Dress Up.  I heat embossed the stamp and added the sparkly fence border from a K&Co border set.

I hope you'll join us this week.  Just link your project, including a Cricut cut, to the Challenge Me Monday post at Fantabulous Cricut.

Hugs and Happy Crafting,

Larelyn

Altered Soda Bottles and More

I've been working on Halloween treats for some special kids in our lives.  The bucket is for our "almost" grandson, who is 9.  The bag is for his sister, a little more sophisticated at 14.  The altered soda bottles are for our two neighbor kids. 

I used Cricut Vinyl for the bucket images cut from Pumpkin Carvings, Paper Doll Dress Up, and Lyrical Letters.  I found that I had to set my blade and pressure at 2 so that I didn't cut through the vinyl backing.

I used Basic Grey Element Stickers for most of the decorations on these soda bottles.  I also used the MS DrippyGoo punch on the paper border.  I hope they have fun trying to figure out how to get the goodies out of the bottles!

And for my teenager, I found this great paper by My Mind's Eye that only needed her name and some ribbon added.

It's always fun to do something a little extra for those special kiddos in your life.  I hope they enjoy their treats.

Hugs and Happy Crafting,

Larelyn

Halloween Cards

I'm trying to finish up some projects that have been ignored for awhile so I thought I'd share some pre-blog cards from my files.  I'll start with Halloween cards.  I made a Halloween card when I attended my very first card class - that's where my love for cardmaking began and it just keeps growing!

This was my first challenge card.  The spiders and sentiment are from Lyrical Letters and the Cuttlebug folder is Pumpkin Harvest sanded and inked.  There are jewels on the spider bodies.

This was the first time I welded anything.  At the time, I used Design Studio to copy and weld the spiders, ghosts, jack-o-lanterns, and fence.  All the cuts are from Paper Doll Dress Up and the sentiment is a heat embossed stamp.  I also used the MS Drippy Goo border punch.

These are all stamped images that were heat embossed.  I love using layers of papers!

Another first - the first time I used velum (the bat images are a part of the velum) and the first time I set eyelets.  The sentiment was cut from  patterned paper and then outlined with stickles.

In the next post, I'll share some Autumn cards.  Hope you'll vist again.

Hugs and Happy Crafting,

Larelyn