The Great Pumpkin Hop, Day 2

Hi everyone!  Welcome to day 2 of the Great Pumpkin Hop! If you arrived here from Theresa, aka The Scrapbooking Queen, you are in the right place!  If you want to start at the beginning to see all the fabulous creations, you can start at Amy's blog, Love to Crop.
For my project for today's post I decided to make another banner.  This was actually my first banner that I intended to make the other day but the way I did it, I was able to get two banners cut out.  Let me show you how.
Lately when I make a banner I make two parts to the actual banner, one for a background and then another sheet on top of that one. The background is essentially the "shadow".  I have then been welding the letters into the front part of the banner.  The causes the background to become the paper for the letters. You can see it here on my gypsy.

The letters are placed right in the banner piece and then I select weld to weld them together so they print out cleanly.  Once you have them printed out you also still have the letter piece which is what I used to create the banner yesterday.  I love doing it this way!

Here is the finished banner.  I also strung this one together using mandarin twine from the Twinery.

 Like my little pumpkin rosettes?  I used my Tim Holtz rosette die to cut them out and then cut out little faces with my Pumpkin carvings cartridge.  For the stems I used the top part of a leaf die I had.

Thanks so much for visiting again today! Your next stop is Brenda at http://createbyburffrau.blogspot.com/

The Great Pumpkin Hop Day 1

Hi everyone and welcome to the Great Pumpkin Hop!  I am so excited to be a part of this hop and can't wait to see all the fun creations everyone comes up with!  If you arrived here from Theresa, aka The Scrapbooking Queen, you are in the right place!  If you want to start at the beginning to see all the fabulous creations, you can start at Amy's blog, Love to Crop.
For my project, I decided to make another fun Halloween banner for one of my best friends who is coming here to visit this weekend. She has two little girls and I know they will love a cute little banner to hang at their house for Halloween.

The banner was cut using the Cricut Birthday Bash cartridge and I used mandarin twine from the Twinery to string it together. The letters are from the Cricut Carousel cartridge.

 I embossed the folders, this one with a spider web:-)

 My little pumpkin was cut with a Quickkutz die and embossed with a dot embossing plate

 This is an argyle type embossing plate

 I cut out a pumpkin face from the Cricut Pumpkin Carvings cartridge along with some faces for my little pumpkin rosettes to decorate this bag to go along with the gift.

Thank you so much for visiting today! Be sure to check back tomorrow for more some more fun!

Your next stop is Christina at http://cema1cema.blogspot.com.

Vinyl for my Ipad Cover:-)

Okay, so ever since I got my new iPad cover I have been itching to do something with it to jazz it up a bit.  I have a few rolls of vinyl so I decided to get them out and see what I could come up with:-).  

Front

 Back Cover

I thought it came out really cute!  I used my cricut for most of it, Create a Critter for the owl, Summer in Paris for the Eiffel Tower, the J I'm not sure of but it was one of my fonts, maybe Storybook?  The banner is actually a die I have from Taylored Expressions.
Let me know what you think:-)

Winner of the Peachy Keen Stamps

Happy Saturday everyone!  I am here to announce the winner of the awesome PK-690 Make a Monster Face Assortment set!   I used random.org to pick my winner out of all of the comments and the lucky winner was Cari, here is what she had to say:

Super fun and adorable!
Carri~abusybee
www.doubleclickconnections.blogspot.com

Cari, I will be contacting you soon.  Thank you to everyone sooo much for visiting me this and to Peachy Keen Stamps for letting me hijack their blog:-).  It's been such a blast!!

Peachy Keen Guest Designer Day 5

Hi all!  Welcome to Day 5 of my posts as guest designer.  I am so sad that my week is over already!  It's been so fun and even though I am sad to leave I am excited to see what our next guest designer has coming.  All week I have been wanting to do a scrapbook page using some photos I took last year of my family and I apple picking.  I had a great photo of my son in the orchard and I couldn't wait to use it:-).  He is about a year and a half here and he loved getting the apples and eating them.  It was so darn cute!

 For these cute little apple faces from the Create a Critter cartridge I used the Boy Mates faces.

I based my page on the latest sketch challenge from DCWV.  I love using sketches for my inspiration and this one worked perfect for my page!

Thanks again for visiting me this week!  Please leave a comment on this post and the post the PKS blog, to enter to win the stamps Peachy Keen Stamps has generously donated this week, the Make a Monster face Assortment stamps.  I will be announcing the winner Saturday morning so be sure to get your comments in today!