BLOG CANDY GIVAWAY!!!

NOTE - This contest is now closed. Thank you ALL for playing... If my winner doesn't contact me I will be drawing another name....

Well, I guess I missed getting my post up on the 1st, LOL! But, better late than never... I still haven't managed to get a pic of the candy that I am offering up, mainly because I keep adding to the pile! Right now there is a Glue Glider Pro, a super cute T-Shirt, some Cuttlebug folders and dies.... and more! I will try to get a pic of the pile up in a bit but for now I wanted to post my latest project and give you the details for my givaway!

I saw an idea on the Peachy Keen blog a few weeks ago made by Mandy Ferg. She created a big "BOO" sign with paper mache letters and Echo Park Paper's Happy Halloween line. You can find it ON SALE right now in the Scrapbook Chicks online store! Well, I LOVED the idea so I went to JoAnn's to look for some letters. Well, the wood letters happened to be on sale and I LOVED the font so I bought them! Then I painted them black. When they were dry I unsealed that pack of Echo Park Paper and got to work! *note: I still need to add the hanger to the back


This took me a L O N G time to assemble but I think it was worth it! I used my Paper Doll Dress Up and Happy Hauntings Cricut Cartridges for the cuts. The Haunted House is part of the Echo Park Papers challenge this month and I think it works so well on this project!


I hand cut the black cloud and used a circle punch for the moon. The bats, witch and pumpkin are all cuts from Happy Hauntings.


The spider web is cut from Paper Doll Dress Up and Frankenstein, his bride, the spider and the bat are all from Happy Hauntings. I used clear embossing powder on the bat and spider and added the googly eyes.


I think this one might be my favorite letter... When I was trying to decide what character to add to this one I took my inspiration from the paper, bats = Dracula! Once I had him cut I decided that he should be in a spooky graveyard. Once I assembled that I added some "stars" in the sky with my i-rock tool. It didn't seem quite finished yet so I added the two bats whose eyes are also i-rock stones. I curled the wings a bit so they would really take flight! All cuts on this one are also from Happy Hauntings

My original intent was that these would sit out on a table but once I had it assembled I saw that I liked the way it looked hanging better so I added some ribbon to hang it and I LOVE it!

Now, on to the giveaway! To qualify for the blog candy you need to make sure you are following my blog and leave a comment on this post. If you share it on your own blog or on your Facebook page you can leave a 2nd comment telling me you did with a link to the post. On Friday October 15th I will select one winner from all of the entries! I will verify the winning entry.

Another Wedding Album

My cousin Timothy recently got married so I made a simple wedding album for them. For the interior pages I used a Making Memories 8 x 8 Wedding paper pad. I used my Tags, Bags, Boxes and More Cricut Cartridge to cut the beveled tag with the blackout feature to cut all of my pages. There are 12 different papers so I turned a striped one the other direction to make a total of 13 pages (they were married on Friday the 13th). Then I cut the cover and back the the same size out of chipboard. I covered them first with black cardstock then with a beautiful white mulberry paper. I lined the inside with patterned paper. I used the Wild Card Cartridge to cut out the "Our Wedding" sentiment from mirrored paper. Then I used Paper Doll Dress Up to make the bride and groom. I enjoyed creating this album and I hope my cousins enjoy it too!

Paper Doll Dress Up

One of my very favorite cartridges for my Cricut is the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge! It has so many different features on it besides the obvious - dolls! It is also loaded with seasonal goodies too! Above is a layout done with the Jack O Lanterns (2 different ones) from the cartridge. I used 4 different orange papers to get the look I wanted. The font is the Storybook font, it reminded me of the pumpkin vines!