Happy Hauntings Haunted House - 2nd Year!

I made this haunted house last year out of the Happy Hauntings cartridge.  It took a few hours to cut and assemble and I loved it so much I didn't have the heart to toss it.  I stored it in a cabinet in hopes that it would survive a 2nd year.  Guess what?  It did!  I must have used some really heavy duty cardstock!

In Arizona it gets really hot.  I think the heat melted the tape off the cardstock.  Oh well...some simple tacky tape will fix this!  Off to go do some minor repairs! 

Halloween Party Favors

We're getting ready for our Halloween party. My mom stayed over the weekend and while she was here she helped me make the party favors. I used all the cello bags (I think they're 1 inch) from stampin up and filled them with Hot Tamales, M & Ms, and Skittles. Then I cut out a 1" circle and stamped the bat from Itsy Bitty stamps and attached it to a scalloped circle.

We made 200! I'm sure the kids will love them!

My Fireplace is Haunted

Yup...it's haunted...someone call the exterminator there's spiders and rats in my house!
I made this scene from items I picked up from the dollar store. I think it ran about $20 for all of the items. Then I put together this pennant with very scary faces to really set the tone. The pennant is made from the Cricut Art Philosophy and Pumpkin Carvings cartridges.

Close up of the pennant.

Close up of the scary fireplace - Bwah ha ha ha!

Halloween Banner - Cricut Contest 2011

Here is the banner that I made for the Cricut Banner contest in September. Thanks for all of the sweet compliments on Facebook :) The instructions are below:

Instructions:

1. Cut 6 Pennants - 6" (Art Philosophy Cartridge)
2. Cut 1 of each of the following - 6" from Pumpkin Carvings Cartridge (You'll use the negative - i.e. the stuff you usually throw away):
1. Square Dracula (for witch eyes and nose)
2. Square Skeleton (for skeleton)
3. Square Happy Pumpkin (for candy corn)
4. Circle Mummy (for mummy) - cut to size
5. Circle Frankenstein (for Frankenstein) - instead of 6" use 7 3/4" for this one
6. Circle Dracula (use the eye brow for the witches mouth)
3. For Frankenstein's bolts - cut 1 Frankenstein layer 1 Italive-s at 6" real dial size from Mini Monsters Cartridge
4. From Happy Hauntings Cartridge cut:
1. For Pumpkin - cut 1 Pumpkin 2 -s at 3" for top of pumpkin and layer1 pumpkin 1-s for eyes and mouth  
2. For Witches Hat - cut 1 4" witch hat (you may want to play with the size here)
3. For Dangling Spiders - cut 6 at 1 1/2" real dial size Witchhat-s For letters - cut 1 1/2" from
5. Use Red stickles for cricut letters
6. Use Yellow, orange, and frost stickles for candy corn - I just put some random dots all over
7. Use green stickles to accent the eyes of the witch, pumpkin stem, and Frankenstein eyes
8. Use orange stickles to accent the pumpkin's eyes
9. Use black stickles to accent the dangling spider on the witches hat
10. Use black ink to distress the skeleton 
11. Thread the ribbon through the pennant holes

On a side note the Happy Haunting Cart has some really great faces on page 100 - the 3d pumpkin faces. I probably would have used these faces had I seen them in time. I could have omitted the Mini Monsters cut just by using the Frakenstein pumpkin located on this page. Oh well - live and learn.

I hope I got the measurements right - I did an awful lot of cuts and tried to inventory as I was cutting - have fun!

Here are some close ups so you can see the detail:

Halloween Boquet of Monsters

I love how this boquet of monsters turned out.  I used Pumpking Carvings and Mini Monsters cartridge to make all of the cuts. Then I stuck them in a glass vase filled with candy corn. Yum!  I'm sure it would be a hit at any party or office.