Trick or Treating in Burton's Neighborhood of Horrific Haunts

Sounds like a ride at Disney World, looking at all of the other entries to it would be an awesome place to explore. The Burtonesque Dolls Challenge #  19 : Create a card or project inspired by Trick or Treating in Burton's Neighborhood.

I found this digi stamp at Make 'It' Crafty, and they have a challenge going on too, it's "Anything Goes Fun Challenge"  They have lots of Mushroom houses and Landscape Digis you could use with all of your character stamps. I thought this Haunted House of Rusted Tin would fit right in at Burton's Neighborhood.  I colored it with copic markers and "distressed it", I use that term loosely, with Tim Holtz distress ink. And it's not snowing, the background dots are supposed to be fog,LOL

I also used the Cracked Martha Stewart punch and the "Trick or Treat" clear stamp is from Inkadinkado I had gotten last year from Michaels.

I am also entering the Haunted House of Rusted Tin  in Haunted Design House's HDH057-Horrific Haunts. Could you imagine the echos and clanging of chains of a ghost in this house, it would deafen you.

More Halloween Cards and Challenges

It all started with one Challenge over at Simply Betty Stamps.  A One Day only Challenge to use a Non-Halloween image in a Halloween Creation.  Could it be done?  We gave it a Whirl and here are our entries.

The inside says "What's a nice GHOUL like you do'in in a place like this?"  I used School Girl Lola in a Cricut Haunted Mansion and DS used Christian Digi from Simply Betty.

and the inside of DS card just cracks me up.

I am also entering this in the Cricut Cardz Challenge # 42: make a Halloween card using the card feature on any cartridge and the Color Me Copic Challenge # 4 : Straight Hair. I need more practice coloring hair.

Beautiful and Dangerous

A layout I created for the Haunted Design House Challenge # 55 - Elegant and Evil. (but I was a couple of hours too late to post on their website, thought the deadline was at midnight on Sunday,  it's at 5:00 pm Central time, I'll have to look that one up) and I used the Very  Sketchy September Challenge from Smeared and Smudged.

With all of the cards I've been doing I thought I should do a scrapbook page.  This photo is of my daughter dressed up for Halloween and she posed for me on Papa's antique car.  I thought that was pretty elegant.

I used Tim Holtz stamps with the flowers and cut the title out from Rocker Girl Cartridge with the Cricut.

My First Halloween Shape Board Book


After seeing the Halloween Shape Book Videos by the BugJunkie, I tried to design my own using Inkscape and SCAL to cut out on my cricut.  I used Halloween  svg files provided by artists on their blog. (Credits will Follow).  Bug Junkie used a lot of shapes from the Dress Up Paper Doll cart, which luck would have it, I didn't have. Even though she used Design Studio by Cricut in her videos, there were a lot of concepts and tips that are important when designing and assembling a shape book.

(click on the picture above if you would like to download the svg file)

When I first imported to SCAL, no file was seen.  I could not figure out why my svg file would not import into SCAL.  After many attempts on trying to figure it out, I posted my dilemia on the Scalhints Yahoo Group and Penny Duncan came to the rescue and explained my errors.

I cut my page layers from cereal boxes.  They were just right in Cricut using the regular blade and setting the multicut on the SCAL to 2. Try not to cut up your biggest pieces cutting your shortest pages, save your tallest boxes for the longest pages. Yes that little tip came from experience. Oh yeah, and when cutting it out, don't forget to nudge the cuts below the Cricut margin, experience talking again. LOL

I covered my pages using assorted Halloween paper and cardstock I ran thru the CuttleBug.  My xyron 900 came in real handy gluing the papers down.  I have also altered my own pattern, as I just imagine any crafter does to suit them, I changed the pumpkin to a pumpkin svg file provided by Dustin Pike and his file can be found here.

I will bind it just as soon as my binder gets here.  I ordered a Bind It All from Zutter and it should be here soon.  More embellishments are planned and will be added when it's all together.  I'll share the finished book complete with pictures inside soon.

Shape Credits:

 Cheeky Magpie   : cat and jack-o-lantern

 Southernbelle SVGS   : tombstone

 My Cricut Scrapbooking   : ghost and witch

SVGcuts   : Barry the Bat and the Haunted house

Dustin Pike  : another jack-o-lantern

Technical Credits:

Penny Duncan from Penny Duncan Creations

The Bug Junkie