Cricut Circle blog weekly challenge #42: World Card Making Day

Hello friends! I love making Halloween cards for  my grandkids! And especially easel cards! This one is for Faith! She will love it! hope you do too! I made 1 similar to this last year for my DGS and he hung it on his bulletin board and called me and asked several times "how did you do that?!!" He was only 6! He appreciates everything. And he gets so much for Christmas and his birthday and he always remembers who gave him what! even a couple years later, he'll say remember when you gave me this Nana?! don't tell him, but sometimes I don't until he reminds me! So this 1 is for Faith, it was easier because of the Imagine and Enjoy the Seasons, and it doesn't really look as scary to me but Faith will love it anyway!

My recipe:
Imagine Cricut Machine
Expression Cricut Machine
Enjoy the Seasons for the haunted house cut at 4.25" and all the layers as well
Martha Stewart halloween punches, the fence and the corners of the Happy Halloween mat
Jolee's 3 dimensional stickers for the spider and web and headstone behind fence
ImagesbyHeatherm for the trick or treaters SVG (this is one of my favorite SVG's!)
Michaels Recollections metallic paper for the mat and witch
"Raven" glimmer mist on the background paper behind the haunted house. If you click on the pic it should enlarge and then you can see the glimmer mist better. Its really pretty IRL!
Happy Hauntings cart for the phrase and shadow and the witch cut at 1".
 April showers for the cloud cut at 1"
The paper looks 2-toned orange, but its only 1 color, the color is closest to the orange on the left hand side.

Cricut Circle Blog Weekly Challenge #41: Interactive Elements

Hello Peeps!
I'm back this time with the weekly challenge on the Cricut Circle blog, Interactive Elements Challenge! The challenge is to add an interactive element to the project as well as use 2 cricut image cuts. Well, I went a little overboard! I used several carts and 2 machines!

 My Recipe:
Expression 2
Imagine
Colorbok white texture paper
Enjoy the Seasons Imagine Cart
      background leaf pattern paper
      pumpkins cut at various sizes
      leaves at various sizes

Lacy Labels for the Welcome on the fence at .9
October 31st for the Pumpkin Patch sign and the vine on the gate
Freshly Picked for the gate, I so scraplifted the gate idea. I had been dying to use the Pumpkin Patch theme since I got the Enjoy the Seasons Cart. I also want to make something with the haunted house on this cart!
Texture Imagine cart for the color on the fence! love this cart for some so many diffferent textures.

Cricut Circle MB Christmas In July Swarm!

A couple of ladies on the Cricut Circle Message Board are hosting on online swarm in conjunction with the CHA show last Saturday. Except ours is all weekend. And its a good thing they give us until Wednesday to post! I've got bronchitis and trying to finish up the Outgoing Pres' scrapbook! So I tried to incorporate the swarm into the book! I was successful so far on one challenge!
This is challenge no. 1

This is my submission

The card base snowflake silver paper is from My Minds Eye Christmas stack, the Snowmen are from Snow Angel and the background tree printed on the blue paper background is a scene from the Enjoy the Seasons cart. I used Snow-Tex from HL for the snow and covered that as well as the whole card in Sparkle Glaze. I didn't like the effect on the snow, not enough glitter for me! so I added Ultra fine Crystal snow in white from Stampendous! The whole card is really glittery snowy looking in person! I couldn't capture the glittery look on camera.

I'm not sure which challenge # to enter this into! Challenge #2 says "card, LO, 3d element that is Christmas or Winter theme". Not sure if that card and LO should have a 3d effect or it can just be a LO Christmas related? But challenge #4 says use Ribbon, fiber or twine. I used gold fiber for the string on the ornaments!

This is the one inspired by the MB! We head up the Angel Tree for Azle kids. We ensure about 500 kids in Azle get a Christmas! Its really very rewarding and its so great to see the smiles on the kids faces when they pick up the bags and/or bicycles. This page is actually the high school and church volunteers that come in and help us wrap! Yes, each gift is individually wrapped! We really need help! Its an 18 hour a day job for about 3 weeks! But worth every minute when we're finished.
The paper is from DCWV Ultimate Christmas stack. Santa's Workshop title is from Winter Frolic. The little elves are from Jolly Holidays. The ornaments are from Christmas. The bike is from Boys will be Boys. The cute little hats border I created on my Gypsy and they are from Winter Frolic.

Thanks for looking and maybe I'll see you on the circle MB!