Hi everyone! This was my post for October on the Cricut Fanatics Blog.
I
hope you are having a great Friday! For today's project I'm sharing a
cute Halloween card I made for my grandson. He loves everything I create
for him with the Cricut, and he especially enjoys making things with
me. He calls my craft room my Making room! Anyway, on to the card.
I
started with a piece of white card stock cut 5 1/4" by 4" then covered
it diagonally with coordinating strips of washi tape. I left the pieces
long then folded the ends over the edges of the card stock for a clean,
finished look.
I
then mounted this on a piece of black 5 1/2" by 4 1/4" card stock. The
green mat is from Elegant Edges and is cut at 3.75" from a scrap of Bo
Bunny paper. The edges were inked with Walnut Stain Distress ink by
Ranger. It was adhered to the card with liquid glue. The phrase is from
the A Frightful Affair cartridge, cut at 2.96" out of orange glitter
paper from DCWV. The original image has a skull on it, but I used the
Gypsy's hide contour feature to cut only the words. The little skeleton
is from the Trick or Treat cartridge and is cut at 3.70". My little
trick for gluing all those small pieces is to pour a little puddle of
glue out (I have a small plastic lid that I use for that) then use
tweezers to pick up the small piece, dip lightly in the glue, then place
on the bigger piece. I finished him off by adding some google eyes. For
added fun, I used an Action Wobble to attach the skeleton to the card.
It was actually a little too big but I was able to trim off some of the
edges so it wouldn't be seen from the front.
Here's
my attempt at a shot of the Action Wobble in motion! Once the card was
complete I realized that I almost completely covered the washi tape
background. Oh well, I still like the look of it!
That's my project for this month, hope you enjoy it! Have a great weekend, and as always, thanks for stopping by!
Maria
