Witch's Brew

Witch Halloween Card

I started my Halloween cards getting a head start on the holiday.

Supplies:

My Favorite Things - Primitive Pumpkin Stamps My Favorite Things - Bewitching Stamp
Zig Clean Color Real Brush Watercolor Brush Pens

Halloween Placemats

My 5 yr. old  granddaughter and I made some Halloween placemats. Here are the results.
She had the idea of the haunted house center and I had the idea of the pumpkin center.
I got all the pieces cut out and she helped me adhere them onto the paper.
We made 8 placemats. My granddaughter wanted green and purple placemats.
I wanted Orange and purple placemats. It really was fun working together with her.
I really enjoyed helping her bring her ideas with the haunted house to life.

 

 



The doilies were made with the Martha Stewart Spider circle punch.

The center is a 12" circle and the corners were an 8" circle divided into 4 corner pieces.

The Large bat is an eksuccess bat punch (shown by the pumpkin).

The bats by the haunted house are from the Martha Stewart bat and EEK punch.

The witch on the broom is the Martha stewart witch punch.

The black cat is also a Martha Stewart Punch.

The pumpkins in the corner are from a Martha Stewart large border punch.

I cut the pumpkins out from that punch.

The Ghosts are from Paper Dolls Cricut cartridge (cut at 3").

The pumpkin is from Create a Critter 2 Cricut cartridge(cut at 5").

The haunted house is from the Monster Bash Cricut cartridge (cut at 5").

I used my Xyron Creatopia to laminate the placemats.

 

~Mary



New Cricut Circle Cartridge Charmed - Making Shrinky Dinks

I recently rejoined the Cricut Circle Group. This year's newest cartridge is called Charmed.
It is used with the new universal overlay. The handbook is a new 3-1/2"x3-1/2" size.(Sold Seperately)
The new box size is 3-3/4"x4" box.

This cartridge images are designed to make charms. I received my cartridge yesterday and couldn't wait to get started making Shrinky Dink Charms.  I love Halloween images so I made these 3 charms for Halloween to test everything out. I am so happy with the results!!

 

 

These charms were cut at 4".

I used Frosted Shrinky Dink Material

I colored the Spinder and Pumpkin with Sharpie Markers

I colored the Ghost with a white colored pencil.

 

They were all cut on the Imagine machine at 4" real dial size multi cut 3.

When I cut the shrinky dink material I put the side you color face down on the mat.

 

I heated the oven to 350 degrees. I placed them on a cookie sheet with parchment paper.

I didn't time it. I just waited for them to shrink and then flatten out again.

Then removed from oven. It probably took a minute or two.

They finished out at:

Pumpkin - 2" wide - 1-1/2 Long

Spider - 2-1/8" Wide - 1-3/4" Long
Ghost - 1-1/2" Long - 3/4" wide (hand to hand)

 

I can't wait to make more charms with my Granddaughter!! I had to test it out first though.

Everything went perfectly!!

 

 

This is the packaging from the Shrinky Dink Material.

 

 

 

 

Happy Crafting!!

 

Mary





Bat and Ghost Mobile

Bat and Ghost Mobile

I made a Martha Stewart Bat Mobile. It's super easy to make.
All you need is a branch, bats, ghosts and some cheese cloth.

Supplies:

Cricut Cartridge Happy Hauntings - Bats and Ghosts
The Bats were cut at 5-1/4"
The ghosts were cut at 4-1/2" I got the idea from the Martha Stewart website.

Found here.

Martha Stewart Bat Mobile




 

Halloween Treat Bags And Candy Wrappers

Happy Halloween!!

I've been making some last minute quick and easy treat bags and candy wrappers for Halloween.

These are super easy and fun to make.

This bag was decorated with a pumpkin cute from Smiley Faces Cartridge.

I used felt fusion to decorate the bottom of the bag and ribbon to accent the top.

I put Halloween tissue paper on the inside to finish the look.

I used Micro Bags 4" x 5-1/8" . These are a perfect size for treat bags.

This bag I made a window with the Martha Stewart punch all over the page punch.

I decorated the bag with felt fusion and twine.

I framed out the window on the bag with patterned paper.

I accented the inside of the bag with Halloween tissue paper.

This bag I used the Smiley Face Cartridge for the candy corn die cut.

I accented the bag with ribbon.

This bag I also accented the inside of the bag with Halloween tissue paper.

To wrap your candy cut your paper to size for wrapping.

In this instance I cut a 6" x 7" piece of cardstock.

For these Kit Kat mini candy bars I used a 6" x 6" cardstock to wrap them.

I applied double sided tape to three sides of the paper then wrapped them.

I took my Marvy paper crimper and crimped both ends of the candy wrapper.

I accented them with patterned cardstock and ribbon.

Pumpkin Box Treat Holder

Pumpkin Box Treat Holder

Supplies:

Cricut Cartridge - Sweet Tooth - Pumpkin Treat Box - cut at 7".

Cricut Cartridge - Mother's Day Bouquet - Leaves - cut at 2".

For the stem I just rolled a small piece of paper into a tube and adhered it on with a glue gun.

Monthly Circle Challenge - Halloween Home Decor

This is my Monthly Challenge for the Circle Blog. We are to make a home decor Halloween Project.

Yellow Circle cut at 3" cat cut at 2.5"

I used Chic & Scary Cartridge

Pumpkin Cut at 3" from Chic & Scary Cartridge.

Spider Web cut at 4", Spider cut at 2"

I used the Chic & Scary Cartridge.

Happy Halloween Ghost Centerpiece and Treat Cups

                  

Cartridges used were:

Paper Doll Dress up -  Ghosts.
Small Ghosts -  4.65" Height and 2.57" Width
Large Ghost - 14.65" Height and 8.09" Width on Gypsy
Happily Ever After -3" Pumpkins
Don Juan - Weld Happy Halloween on Gypsy
Overall size of welded words - 7.54" width X 4.03 Height.
1-1/2" letter size

Instructions for the Treat box behind the pumpkins:

Treat Cup Instructions:

Cut 4 strips of paper 3" wide X 10" long, Score length wise at 1-1/2 inches
Next Score width at every 2". Cut in1-1/2" on the 3" strip of paper on the scored lines to center length of score line.
On one side. The other scored lines will be folded on the other 1/2 of the 3" strip of paper.
Fold on score lines and adhere with adhesive to form box. Embellish with Grass and Treats in box.
Instructions For making the 3D layered Pumpkins

Meow~~~~Another Kitty LO

A Halloween Kitty LO!

The One thing I Love about Cricuting Is....

I can do any Holiday whenever I want!

Cricut Cartridges:

Meow - Paw Prints and Cats

Mini Monsters - Happy Halloween

Hello Kitty Greetings - Pumpkin

Happy Crafting!

Dracula's House

I also made a coffin cut file in Design Studio for you to download.  Enjoy!

Spooky Town

Cricut Cartridges: Winter Woodland, Paper Dolls, A Child's Year

Glue Glitter: Stickles

Pattern Paper: Oriental Trading Company, We R Memory Keepers (Halloween Pack)

Cardstock: Stampin Up

Flight Of The Witches

Cricut Cartridges: Winter Woodland, A Child's year, Paper Dolls

Spider House

Cricut Cartridges: Winter Woodland; Paper Dolls

Spooky House

Cricut Cartridge: Winter Woodland, Paper Dolls

Pattern paper: Oriental Trading Co.

Punch - Martha Stewart Pumpkin Border