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Thursday, November 3, 2011

Halloween Wreath

Well, this was a last minute project that I made on Halloween! I was feverishly working in the afternoon because I had bought the wreath base and didn't want to hold onto it for a whole year before using it!

So while it's now past Halloween, I thought you might still enjoy it!

I saw something similar to this wreath SOMEWHERE on the internet! I have NO idea where, but it had the same black wreath base and had rosettes. That's all I could remember about this when I was making it! But I had already bought the black background prior to seeing the inspiration. So anyway if any of you out there in bloggy world know where I saw my inspiration, please let me know so I can give due credit! Thanks!

I made this for the Echo Park's Dots and Stripes Contest!

Recipe:

Cartridge: Happy Hauntings™ (Trick Or Treat)
Patterned Paper:

i-bond by Imaginisce™
Stickles in Orange™

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Friday, October 14, 2011

Halloween Bird House and a WINNER!!!

FINALLY!!! I told you I would make you something other than a card! And tonight I will be showing you something else as well!!! Look out now! haha.

Recipe:

Patterned Paper:

Solid Paper:

Echo Park: Apothecary Emporium: Viper Venom/Squid Ink™ (spiders)

Cartridges:

Everyday Paper Dolls™ (fence)
Designer's Calendar™ (spiders)

I made this for the Cricut Circle Magazine Challenge - Use Echo Park Paper + at least 2 Cricut Cuts (there are 5!)

I hope they like it!!!

In a couple of hours the My Pink Designer Blog Hop will be going live!!!!

But before that, I need to announce the winner of the My Pink Stamper stamps that I gave away during the Shop Pumpkin Spice hop! The winner is.......

How often does it pick #1?!? I am so excited that it chose that number! Dorcas, if you could please send me your address and I will get your information to Shop Pumpkin Spice who generously donated the My Pink Stamper Stamps: Friend-tastic™ For my giveaway! THANK YOU SPS!!!

You have one week to email me at CourtsCraftsBlog@gmail.com until I pick another winner! So email me straight away! :)

See you in a few hours for the hop!!!

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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

My Pink Designer Showcase - Cricut Banner

WELCOME to this week's edition of the My Pink Designer Showcase! The challenge for us designers (if you want to call it a challenge - I had SO much fun!) was to come up with a project that was orange, black, green, and purple and used the new Spook-alicious line!

Many of you know that there was a contest that is just ending where Provo Craft asked us to make a banner that spelled out Cricut and send it in for a chance for it to appear on HSN and therefore win a new E2 AND (if you are a Circle member) $150 credit to Cricut.com! What an AWEOME prize! So this is what I made for the contest! Wish me luck!

I wanted to use my new Apothecary Emporium from Echo Park too! I know that they have been good to Robyn and that she loves their papers and in my opinion they go hand in hand!

I crinkled the spider in my hand really firmly. It's cut out of card stock vellum. It's my newest fad! Do you see the "Boo to you!" sign? Love it! My Pink Stamper stamps made this SO much more festive!

I know the skeleton has arms and legs, but I cut them out and then liked him better without them still. I thought it kept him not quite as creepy. haha. Maybe because without arms and legs he can't get me!

I also did quite a bit of i-rocking on the bottom of the letters.

LOVE that spider stamp that Robyn includes in the Spook-alicious stamp set! It's kind of cute in a creepy way!! I inked around the edges in the same white American Crafts ink that I used to stamp the words to give it a haunted feel.

Now, I will give a design secret away. I had plans on getting that fake spider web stuff and putting it behind my letters! I wish I would have done it but I ran out of time before I needed to send this off! So don't forget to incorporate that into your Halloween projects! I am sure it will end up making it into mine! :) I thought the raffia was good enough for this one though and made it not so scary feeling!

I hope you like it! Head on over to the My Pink Stamper Blog to see what the other ladies made with the Spook-alicious stamp set! I'm sure they will be spook-tacular!