Happy Halloween! (Cricut Circle Challenge)

This card was made for the Cricut Circle Blog's weekly challenge. This week vellum or plastic needed to be used in the design. Below is a Halloween card made with a vellum jar full of spiders. This idea has been floating around in head for awhile and with the challenge having to do with vellum I finally figured out how to do the jar and complete the design. The card itself is just a black cardstock. Layered on the black was a white cardstock was punched using Martha Stewart's Spiderweb edge and corner punch. Plain green cardstock was embellished with a mask made with Tim Holtz's blank masks cut into a spider web shape & green glitter mist and also with a cuttlebug embossing folder (the smaller edge pokkadot). Black and white ribbon covered some of the raised portion for a textured effect and a visual line for the jar to sit on. The jar was made with the Doodlecharms cartridge with the inside contours hidden. It was cut from vellum with some glossy accents applied to give it a shined on look. The spiders were cut at different size and some extra legs were also welded on to give the one spider 8 legs. Black sparkle fabric paint was use for their eyes for a 3-D look. The largest of the spider's legs were folded up to make him look like he was crawling on the paper and white fabric paint was to applied for his silk line. Happy Halloween was cut on yellow cardstock and orange ink was applied with a sponge for a faded, dimensional look. A few rhinestones were added for some fun bling. On the inside (sorry forgot to take pictures before I mailed the card out) There is a line of the white punched spider web again along the bottom and above it says "I hope your Halloween is crawling with fun!" Thanks for looking and wish me luck in to challenge. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!

25 Years

I made this card for my dad on his 25th Anniversary of being a Judge. (I was 6 months old when he was sworn in!) The green tile background is from the DCWV Metro stack and then just white and textured green squares cut with a 1/8 inch overlap to continue the square theme. I got the little icons at a scrapbook garage sale and wish I had gotten all the judge things. I wrote his name on the gold plate and cut the Congrats and 25 out on gold foil paper. I know 25 is the silver anniversary but the other items were already gold so I stuck with that. I put a note on the inside and my mom and I decorated his chambers that morning.

Thinking of You, Fire Flower

Here is another fire flower card. My sister really likes them. I am going to definitely be playing with some other color combinations later.

Dont Drink the Water

So not only is that the title of a favorite Dave Matthews Band song but also my new motto. I made yet another baby card. Yeesh... all of my friends are having babies lately.

To the Batcave

This card was made for challenge on the Cricut message boards. It is for my parents moving into their new house next week, was supposed to be in August but there was a "little" bat problem that took a while to sort out.