Out of Candy-Sign

I saw a similar printable online. (probably Pinterest) I was going to print it out, but I'm too cheap to use that much black ink. Ink is expensive! I have tons of paper, so I decided to do this with my Cricut. It was quick, simple and cute.

I used the following cartridges and Cricut Craft Room:
3Birds On Parade: "Sorry", "Candy"
Paper Doll Dress Up: Spider Web & Bat
Ultimate Creative Sampler: Spider
Happy Hauntings: "Happy Halloween", Pumpkin, "out" & "of"

I glued all this to a black piece of cardstock that I lightly distressed with white ink and grundge stamp.
I stuck a magnetic clip to it and will hang it on my door if we run out of candy.

Linking up at: HIMCR #121 - Use a Critter!
                        {wow me} wednesday #127

Easy Halloween Cricut Project

I added this and other paper crafts
to make a simple display on my buffet. Scroll down to see it.

Halloween is not my favoritie time but, I do like to put up a little bit of halloween decor for the grandkids. (as long as it's not real scarey) With that said, I also don't want to put in a lot of work or money into decorating for it.

I made this quick and easy objet`de art using the Cricut Word Collage cartridge in Cricut Craft Room. (aka CCR) I layered 4 pieces of paper to get this effect. The hardest part, or should I say, most time consuming part of this was, putting in all the little letter fillers.

I'm sure many of you know how to work CCR, but I'm gonna bore you with the details, just in case, like me, you are fairly new to using CCR.

If you have this Cricut cartridge, you know that in it's original state, the cut out is not set up to be a square. It is rectangular. This where CCR comes in. I wanted this to be a square that would look good matted to a 12x12 size. In CCR, I used the stretching arrow and stretched it until it was pretty much square. I'm not a perfectionist, so it's not exactly square, and I'm OK with that.  I then centered the image on the 12x12 CCR mat because I would be using the negative cut for this project.

Once ready, I cut it out of orange cardstock, I layed that over my cute printed glittered halloween paper and glued on all the tiny letter fillers. I trimmed off  1/2 inch on all four sides. Next for the black mat, I cut 1/2 inch off the top and side, then glued the the orange/print on top. Finally I glued all that to a 12x12 purple cardstock and it was done! I have it setting on an easel on my buffet displayed with candles that I decorated with Cricut cuts and paper. Easy peasy! Scroll down to see my buffet display.

Here it is in it's natural rectangular form

 

Here I stretched it. If you look at the tool bar on the right, there are the measurments.



I can't waste these perfectly good cut outs, so I will save them.

To spruce up my flameless candles, I simply cut 2" strips of paper, wrapped them around the candle and taped them. I added some spiders & webs and made the pumpkins  from CCR free cuts of the week.




I bought the cute bows for the lamps super cheap at JoAnn's.
70% off . Each under a buck, WooHoo!

My grandson photo bombed my picture! I love the expression
on his face, so I included it here.

I'm linking up at:

Challenge #183 Home Decor
{wow me} wednesday #127
 
 

Military Fighter Jet (Valentine Box)

What do you get from this trash?...

  A "Military Fighting Jet"

Valentine holder box, that's what!

We started out with a juice box container, cardboard, duct tape, plastic cup, plastic cookie box, wood skewers and stars cut from the cricut.



We ended up with a cool fighting jet complete with missiles and pilot!

Check out the missiles & the cute little pilot!

Ok, I showed the finished project, now on to the process and my story...


I used "Everyday Paper Dolls" cartridge for the pilot. I made the cockpit with a piece of clear plastic from a cookie box.
Now it's ready for Robbie to decorate.

Robbie is adding the stars; which I cut from the cricut and ran through my Xyron adhesive machine.

 

I really love how this turned out!

When he told me what he wanted me to make, all I could think was, 'how am I gonna do that?'  I had planned to make a simple quick 'robot' or 'monster' with a kleenex box. Then...I was at Hobby Lobby and they had a cute Robot kit for $3 and I bought it because I thought it was cute and would save me time. (what a slacker!) I showed it to him and his face fell, and he gave me those "eyes" as he said, "I really want a jet, pleeeeze." What else could I do, right??

I pulled up a picture of an F-16 on the computer, and the project evolved as I went. I decided to use duct tape to cover it because it was faster & easier than waiting on paint to dry. I covered each piece with the tape before I assembled the plane. I cut slits in the 'body' of the plane and slid the wings in, then used duct tape to secure them. I cut a hole on the end of the body, a little smaller than the red cup and pushed it in, and secured it with duct tape. I poked a hole in the red cup and stuck in the 'pointy stick thingy' that the F-16 had. (Believe it or not, there is no hot glue in this project!)

The next morning, Robbie came downstairs and was thrilled with the creation! After he placed his stars on, he said, "Grandma, you forgot the missiles." No, I hadn't forgotten...so off to the craft room we went, where I cut some wood skewers, painted them green and duct taped them under the wings.
Voila, a "Military Fighter Jet" was born!

Robbie's expression and his squeals of delight when he saw his plane, made all the effort worth while! 


Linking up to...

Tasty Creations Bi-Weekly Link Party No. 3

Simple St. Patrick's Day T-Shirt

I already had a blank green tee, so I asked Robbie if he wanted me to paint him up a St. Patrick's Day shirt. He very enthusiastically said YES! I asked him what he wanted it to say; and he said, "No Pinching." So, that's what I put on it. Yay, simple! I used my cricut and cut out a stencil from freezer paper. I used the Don Juan & Boys Will Be Boys cartridges. I also used a black fabric pen to outline the white lettering. I tried to write a wor freehand, but that failed, so, to cover up that mistake I painted a block and stenciled on the word 'absolutely', to emphasize there was to be NO PINCHING!  He loved it and can't wait to wear it. Score!!


I linked this to lollyjaneboutique.blogspot.com

Christmas stocking holder

This is a quick and easy project that I 'lifted' from my friend, Heather at:  acoupleofcraftaddicts.blogspot.com I saw this at her house and it was perfect for me, since we don't have a mantle.
I went to Home Depot, and got a 6ft 1x8 and had them cut it to 4ft. (that's all that would fit on my wall area) Drilled holes for the knobs, installed saw tooth (2) hangers on the back. Next, I painted the board, then dry brused a little white on the edges. For the quote, I used my cricut  and Mickey Font cartridge; cut out the wording and stuck it on the board, put on the knobs and there you go, a great solution for hanging stockings.

I found these cute knobs on clearance at Hobby Lobby ($1.36 ea.) I was able to find these letter ones that were perfect to represent our names. Home Depot has some cheap ones for a buck, which is what I was planning to use, till I found these one. I may make another one so that I can fit the rest of our family's stockings on. I will hang it underneather this one. Since it is by the front door, I'm going to use the wording,
"by the front door with care".  Then, the 2nd holder will finish off that part of the poem.

Reversible holiday decor

I saw this cute craft on a friends blog, (acoupleofcraftaddicts.blogspot.com) and loved that they did double duty! I normally don't do a lot of 'other' holiday decorating, well, because I just don't have a place to put it.
I went to Lowes, and bought a 2x4 board and they cut it for me to the lengths I requested. Sanded them a little, and my grandson and I painted the blocks of wood. Then I cut my paper, gathered my stickers and cut out my vinyl letters. I mod podged the paper onto the wood, then sealed over the top with mod podge. After it dried, I put on the lettering, and the stickers. I did the same steps on the other side, and voila a decoration that is for two holidays! If you didn't want to use vinyl, I'm sure it would work just as well with paper letters cut out and modpodged on and then sealed.

I used it for the month of February; then turn it around and...

...it's ready for the month of March