Halloween Pages

So I tend to scrap mostly chronologically, though I do jump around a bit.  I have special albums for special occasions and then I have a yearly family album.  The family album I keep chronologic but I am way, way behind.  I am finishing up 2006!  The three snow days we had this week helped.  We stayed home-no school, no dance or gymnastics-and played the Wii and scrapped.  I finished some Halloween pages.

Love these pages!  The cuts are from Happy Hauntings, Oct 31st and the crescent moon on the hat came from George and Basic Shapes.  I did not record the sizes I used.  The paper is all DCWV.  I love, love, love the fonts on HH and the frames.  I freehand cut my picture to go in the frame and messed it up so you could see a little of the yellow under it, so I traced around the edge with gunmetal Stickles and it covered up my mistake.

The other pages use K and Company paper.  The cuts came from Wild Cards and Create a Critter.  I used the suede/velvet paper for the dark brown on the monkey.

The pumpkin frame was cut from Wild Cards and I stamped the sentiment in white ink.

I made the banana my journaling box.  I raised the peel up with foam tape and the banana easily slides in and out so I had plenty of room.

Thanks for looking!

Christmas Dress layout

I appreciate the weekly challenges on the circle blog because they force me to complete at least one project a week!  I start classes again tomorrow so I don't know if I will have time each week, but over my Christmas break I did get a lot done.  This week we had a sketch to follow and we had to incorporate stamping and buttons.  Here's what I came up with:

I used several carts.  The star border came from Winter Frolic, cut at 3 1/4.  Christmas was off Beyond Birthdays, cut at 1 1/4.  I finally used my Don Juan cart (got it with Reward points!) to cut out dress, at 1 1/4, using the Under Pressure feature.  I wanted chunky letters so I could stamp them using a Stampin Up background stamp, posy.  I stamped with a Martha Stewart glue pad, then sprinkled with black fun flock to mimic the flower pattern on my daughter's Christmas dress.  The stamped letters are my favorite part of the layout.  The flowers are flower3 from the wedding cart.  I had saved the buttons off an old coat and had my husband cut the shanks off so I could glue them on.

Thanks for looking!

Ice Skating

Here is my entry for the latest circle challenge.  We had to use metal,white paint and a snowflake cut to create a winter feel.  I have been dying to do the eyelet laces on an ice skate so I figured this would be a good incentive, since eyelets are metal.  All cricut cuts are from Winter Woodland.  Paper is DCWV and CM.  The two photo mats are sized to hold 4x6 photos.  The journaling space was run through the cuttlebug with the snowflake embossing folder (don't think it showed up in the picture).  I will print my journaling in black ink on the silver background.

For the pond, I used DCWV glitter paper covered with the plastic cut from the shell the cricut cartridges come in.  I smeared some white paint to give it an icy feel.

Weekly Circle Challenge

I can't believe I haven't posted since October!  I was going crazy trying to finish my autograph books before our Disney trip and I did get them done.  They were well worth the work.  I haven't taken pictures to upload yet, but I promise I will.
In the meantime, here is the project I made for the weekly circle challenge.  This week's entry had to be in a shape other than a square or rectangle, include a number and bling, and have the usual two cricut cuts.





The crown card was cut from Birthday Bash at fit to page, which ended up being 5 3/4.  I used the gold paper from the DCWV Christmas and Winter combo cardstock stack.  The silver came from the new DCWV Shimmer stack.  Princess was cut from Once Upon a Princess at 1 inch out of DCWV shimmer paper.  The 4aday originally said "queen" but I just cut that part off. I cut that phrase at 1 1/4.  Instead of using this as a card, it is going to be the journaling box on a page of pictures from the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique.