Simply Betty Challenge # 4

For the Simply Betty Challenge #4

we were to take inspiration from this picture:

So I put Pumpkin London in the 

Pumpkin Patch waiting on her true love......

the Headless Horseman from Sleepy Hollow. 

(Tim Burton's version is my favorite)

I think they make a perfect match and I had been wanting to 

cut the Headless Horseman out ever since

I got the Happy Haunting Cartridge for the Cricut.

Everything else is cut from the same Happy Hauntings Cart:

the scary pumpkins and the frames

Now the hard part, getting pictures of my DH who 

avoids the camera like the plague.

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.

Perry, my Hero and a Beautiful Handmade Book

Our favorite cartoon right now is Phineas and Ferb on the Disney Channel.  Perry the platypus is my new hero.  So of course I had to find a cut file for Perry.

I found cut files for the whole cast at Mardenz's blog site here:

Phineas & Ferb

But perry was just perry, I wanted Perry the spy.  So I had to make my own.

For the "007" type shadow I used the blackout  base without the piecing.  I used plain Perry on the other side of the layout.  I've got to finish the eyes and texture the tails.

If you would like my Perry the Agent file you can download it here:

PERRY AGENT WITH LABELS.svg

When you open it up in Inkscape it will show up with labels on the parts, like this:

I separated the parts to be able to cut it all a once when you have the whole 12 x 12 mat covered with the different colors.  It doesn't import into SCAL 2 with the labels, so if you have a question about a part refer to the file open in Inkscape.

This weekend I received a very beautiful handmade book from Penny Duncan from our SCAL Social Connection Group Book Swap.  Decorated with wonderfully altered papers and her own cut files, it's a treasure.

Stuck on Sketches Jan 15 Challenge

I came across this challenge website  Stuck On U Sketches while on the Cricut Message boards.

All of the designer layouts were gorgeous.  I had give it a try.  I don't know what kind of style you would call this but I like it more and more.

I used the large round  Happy Birthday Penny Duncan tribute cut file made by Paul at Scale-files as my base circle for the rest of the design.

On the lower left side of the layout, I made a  "Vellma Flower".  Check out this You Tube Video for a tutorial on how to make this antique-y looking flowers.  It was really easy and it was so neat to see it develop before your eyes.

For the medium size flowers, I used the Pagoda Cricut Cart to cut the flowers and piece them together.   The title came from the song by Martina McBride, "In My Daughter's Eyes".  I thought it was a perfect fit.  The photo is of me and Katie on top of the Castle at Ruby Falls.

Fungus Layout

That sounds weird but it is really cute with bright pink and green mushroom and a little froggy.

I scraplifted this layout from Holidays with the Cricut  formaly Christmas with the Cricut.  She used papers from Jllibean and the Paisley cartridge. I loved the colors and loved the titles. I knew I had to make this layout while the iron was hot.LOL But, I can't wait to order the papers and I can't wait for a sale on the cartridge.


Sooo, I used the paper I had that most closley resembled it, which was the Sugar Plum Series by Collage Press and I went hunting online for some mushroom svg files to use with Sure-Cuts-A-Lot Program. 


I found the cutest mushrooms over at Southernbelle's SVG blog , very nice svgs over there by the way.  While cutting and pieceing the mushrooms and arrangeing them on the layout I decided I needed a frog.  


I found this prince of a frog on Yolie's blog, Just Yolie.  Lots of cute svgs over there too.  She's part of the 

SCALSocialConnection  Yahoo group,  

a great bunch of crafty (intuitve) people.  They almost have a little ESP going on over there. LOL (inside joke).  And need to thank Alicia from the group for helping me download the files.

I also used the scalop oval and flower svg file from Penny Duncan Creations, another wonderful person over at the SCAL SocialConnection Yahoo Group.  The font I used was Yikes! from Dafont.com.

I think what I like most about the layout was using Kraft paper to shadow the images.  I even tried my hand at the details on the photo mats with the ribbon tied ribbon and I used my fiskars edge punch on the other one. 

I could use some more training on shadowing letters but I am pleased with the overall layout.  But  I know one thing.......

It takes a villiage to create a layout. LOL