What's coming up next ...

Hi all! I just noticed that I let a whole month go by without posting ANYTHING! That's never a good thing in the life of a crafter! But, I have been very busy. With moving and then working part time at my daughter's school (teaching PE ... being outside all day is very draining! I need to take a nap when I get home! LOL). But I wanted to give you all a little heads up on things to look forward to in the coming month.

Mini Paper Bag Album:
All my friend Lynn had to say to me was "Hey, do you know how to make a mini album?" and I was hooked!!! My daughter's teacher's son is either turning one or just turned one so I decided to make her a mini album to put all her photos in. So far, it's pretty bare, but I'm working on it a little each day.

Haunted House Cake:
My daughter's school is holding a Halloween Carnival on the 29th and each class is tasked with putting together a themed basket for raffle (we picked "Around the Campfire". The whole class smells like marshmellows!) and also entering a cake for the cake walk. I volunteered to make the cake and have decided (because I'm a glutton for punishment) to make a three tiered haunted house. I spent all day yesterday doing "sugar work" (well, not in the traditional sense of the term ... I was color flowing, but that sounds hokey!). I only got half of what I needed shaped and then I came home after having dinner with family to find tiny kitty footprints all through out the pieces. Lucky, I made extra! Phew!

So, needless to say that there will be lots of pictures of both coming up as they are completed!

Thanks for stopping by! :P

Happy Housecreeping!

How cute is this??! My friend ordered the Happy Hauntings cartridge for her Cricut and surprised me with the cutouts for not only the house but some trees as well! I accessed the booklet for the cart on Circut's website and proceeded to put it together. I totally recommend using a scoreboard to prescore your lines before bending only because some of the hash marks can get a little confusing if you're not sure where to fold. I also used my alcohol inks to color some acetate to put behind the windows so that when I place a light source in the house, they will glow. (Like in the second picture, I just held it up to the window to show you all how pretty it looks when it glows). Thanks for looking.
Materials Used:

• Cricut Cartridge - Happy Hauntings
• Cricut Expressions (unless you want a smaller house)
• Black cardstock
• Tim Holtz Andirondack Brights Alcohol Inks - Sunshine Yellow
• a sheet of acetate
• Martha Stewart Scoreboard
• eXacto knife and cutting mat (to get those pesky window pieces that refuse to come out)
• Tape
• Glue