Surprise Kitty In Pumpkin

Here is a video of the card in action. Sorry, I couldn't get the whole card in the video :(

Hello everyone! I have a super fun card to show you today! I worked on this card for awhile and am happy to say that it turned out JUST LIKE I WANTED! YAY!

When I saw the kitty and pumpkin in the new Create A Critter 2 cart, I thought....that would look so cute if the kitty could pop up out of the pumpkin. So I combined my knowledge of the Surprise Pop Up Card and created this one. When you pull on the tag, the kitties head comes out of the pumpkin. I am working on a tutorial for all of you, but just so you know the tutorial will be for these cuts in particular. This is a custom card and if you use different cuts, the placement would be different. But it will also give you an idea of how this card is assembled. The possibilities are endless with this technique. I could see a bear coming out of stocking, a chick coming out of an egg, or a jack in the box, for example.

All of the cuts on this card are from the Create A Critter 2 cart. I cut out the moon and glittered it up. The kitties face was stamped using Peachy Keen's Misty Sue from the sampler package of faces. The sentiment on the front and tag are from My Craft Spot's Best Witches To You stamp set.
I am going to enter this into the following challenges:
My Craft Channel- Challenge #1 The Gh'oul Times
Peachy Keen- Anything Goes
Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping in!

SUPPLIES

My Craft Spot- Best Witches To You stamp set

Peachy Keen- Sampler Package Of Faces

Cricut- Create A Critter 2

Batty!

Hello everyone! Here is the card that I made for Peachy Keen's Sketch challenge this week.

How adorable is that bat?! LOL! I paper pieced the bat and stamped his face. I cut a 3/4 circle for the moon and added some star brads. I did a faux stitching line on the moon and mat and added some crinkle ribbon to it too. I used My Craft Spot's Tiny Tag Die's to create the tag and stamped the sentiment.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

SUPPLIES

My Craft Spot- Tiny Tag Dies, Ghostly Greetings Stamp Set, Midnight Black Crinkle Ribbon

Peachy Keen- September SOTM

Boo To You!

If you are looking for the Exploring Cricut Guest Designer project, please see post just below this one!

Hello everyone! It's time for a new challenge at My Craft Spot. This week the challenge is "Boo To You" Halloween themed projects. 

Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year for paper crafting. I LOVE making fun monster cards and treat containers! LOL! 

I had an idea that I wanted to have my dracula leaning out of a window so this is what I came up with. The idea sprang up after seeing THIS fabulous card by Leanne from Created By Leanne.

I created the window by cutting the fancy bottom frame from Elegant Edges and an inside panel using squares from Plantin Schoolbook. I inked the edges in white for more dimension and added the stamped and embossed sentiment. The dracula was cut from Mini Monsters and I stamped the face with a Peachy Keen face stamp. I did a white stitching line to his cape and glued him to the frame. Then I layered some vellum behind for the window. I embossed the background and added a bow. I also finished the inside of the card with matching paper and stamped the sentiment. 

I hope you all will play along this week and please don't forget to check out what the rest of the amazing DT has created. Have a great day! 

SUPPLIES

My Craft Spot- Best Witches To You stamp set

Peachy Keen- Monster Mash Face Assortment

Cricut- Elegant Edges, Mini Monsters, Plantin Schoolbook

Sizzix Diamonds Embossing Folder

Guest Designer For Exploring Cricut

Hello everyone and welcome to The Cricut Bug! Today I am Guest Designing for Exploring Cricut!

I made this fun card to show you today using the NEW Create A Critter 2 cartridge. 

All of the cuts were cut from Create A Critter 2. I cut the owl at 3 inches and "glammed" her up! I did this by covering the colored pieces with glitter and then added Glossy Accents over the top to seal in the glitter and give it lots of shine. The banner was also cut from CAC2 from the Patriotic Dog page and I trimmed it down to 3 pennants. I added a white stitching line and hand drew the "BOO". I also added some glitter to the orange. The side was embossed with the skeleton scroll Cuttlebug folder and I added glitter to this as well. The spider web is a MS punched border strip and I heat embossed the sentiment which is from My Craft Spot's Happy Haunting stamp set. 

I just want to say thank you to the awesome crafters at Exploring Cricut for letting me Guest Design for them! Please go and check out the great projects they have created! 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

SUPPLIES

My Craft Spot- Happy Haunting Stamp Set

Cricut- Create A Critter 2

Skeleton Scroll Cuttlebug Folder

Martha Stewart Spider Web Border Punch

Halloween Gift Purses

Happy Saturday everyone! Today I have some cute Halloween purse's to show you. Every year I give my girlfriends some kind of treat bag with Bath And Body Works Mini Hand Sanitizers. 

I found this idea on Pinterest and you can find the full video tutorial HERE. I did almost everything the same as her except for: the size of the square, She used a 6 inch square and I used a 6 1/2 inch square to accommodate my mini sanitizers. I still scored everything the same as she did. The only other difference was the top trims...mine were cut at 4 inches wide and I only added 1 of the purse handles instead of 2.  

These are SUPER easy to make and I think they are CAUUUTE! After I assembled the purses I added center medallions using My Craft Spot's new Tiny Doilies Dies and the Stampin' Around Fall stamp set. I think my girlfriends are going to LOVE these!

Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by!

SUPPLIES
My Craft Spot- Tiny Doilies Dies and Stampin' Around Fall stamp set

Be Thankful Candle

Hello everyone! The challenge at Peachy Keen this week is to decorate/stamp a candle. This is a candle that I stamped and decorated. I have had this candle FOREVER!!! You can tell if you look closely at it. I've never burned it, in fact it still had the plastic on it, so it was perfect for decorating for the upcoming Fall season. 

I have never actually stamped ON a candle until this project. After I finished mine, I saw the way that other people do it. They stamp their images onto a piece of tissue paper and then glue it onto the candle. I will tell you how I did mine.

I started by using my embossing heat tool and melted the surface of the candle. Very quickly I inked my leaf stamp in a dye based ink, and stamped it into the melted wax. After I stamped it, I heated it up again to help seal in the ink. This did NOT seal the ink in completely, so I used a baby wipe and blotted the surface until all the excess ink came off....otherwise, when you touched it, you would turn red! LOL!

I created the band by cutting a 2 X 12 inch strip of kraft paper and punched the edges. I also ran it through a crimper and inked it all. The tag cluster I made by stamping the images, cutting them out, and distress inked all of them. The tag I stamped using My Craft Spot's new Happy Thanksgiving set. I then added a brad through the center of the tag cluster and threaded raffia around the candle and through the hole. I tied it off and then shredded and crumpled the raffia.

I really like how this turned out! It will look great on my table this fall. Thanks for looking and have a great day!

SUPPLIES
My Craft Spot- Happy Thanksgiving stamp set
Peachy Keen- September SOTM kit

Falling Leaves

Hello everyone! It's time for a new challenge at My Craft Spot! This week the challenge is "Falling Leaves". Use a fall leaf on your project.

I made this card for my project. I cut the sunflower from Flower Shoppe and inked all the edges. I cut two leaves from Everyday Paper Dolls and inked the edges of these also. The fancy edged mat was cut from Elegant Edges using the card feature. I layered wound up twine behind the flower and layered it on the top corner of the mat. To finish I stamped the sentiment which is from My Craft Spot's Happy Fall stamp set.

I hope you all will play along in the challenge and please don't forget to check out what the rest of the DT has made. Have a great day!

SUPPLIES

My Craft Spot- Happy Fall stamp set and Traditional Brown twine

Cricut- Everyday Paper Dolls, Elegant Edges, Flower Shoppe