Two more Halloween Cards

I accomplished one more Halloween card today and found one I forgot that I made a few weeks back.

The one I made a few weeks ago is another new favorite from SVGCuts

 This card is available in the Midnight Jamboree SVGCuts set. The sentiment on the moon is from the Fright Night Phrases stamp set from MyThoughtsExactly.com (another favorite place of mine!). I used a glittered black paper that I have been hoarding for almost two years for the sky sectoin and the brim of the witch's hat. Here's a trick, to not dull your blade so fast, turn glittered paper over on your mat so the glitter is face down and flip your file so that when you take it off the mat and turn the paper over it is facing the correct way. Also, instead of trying to put enough force to cut through the glitter paper once just repeat the cut at your normal force - again saves on your blade.

The second card I finished today is the Spooky Pumpkin.

The Spooky Pumpkin Title file is available from Melissa over at Kadoodle Bug Designs.  I made a shadow layer of the pumpkin and then duplicated that shadow layer, flipped the second one and welded the two together to make the card base. The file is original artwork of Kristi W. Designs.

For the inside I again made a shadow layer of the pumpkin (not the stem and leave this time) and cut two (one flipped). The adorable little ghost is a digi stamp again from the fabulous Kadoodle Bug Designs  - you can also purchase the Spooky Pumpkin as a digi stamp or the little ghost as a cutting file. The ghost is also original artwork of Kristi W. Designs.

Well I hope you enjoyed the two new cards. Thanks for stopping by.

Kathy

Back to the Blog - Happy Halloween 2012

Life has been strange over the past year and I realized that I have done nothing with my blog during all that time. How sad :(

Well I am back, and hoping to make some great files to share with you all very soon. In the meantime I have started working on my Halloween cards for this year and decided to post the first one here. All the cut elements on this card are from Mary and Leo at SVGCuts.com

 The card foundation and vines are from the Toil and Trouble SVGCuts set . The Gothic Gate is from one of the freebie files that Mary and Leo so generously give their fans. You can download it here Gothic Gate from SVGCuts.com . The flowers are from the Elegant Witch Hat Card in the Haunted Hemlock Cards SVGCuts Kit , I just simply reduced the size of the flower pieces down (quite a bit) and then made these gorgeous dark purple flowers to go on the vines and gate. The flowers were cut from white cardstock and then colored with a few different Bic markers. I then put a few dark purple stickles on the flowers. The gate and vines were sprayed with a metallic glimmer mist.

After opening the front of the card the recipient is treated to another scene. All the elements on this section (tree, moon and bats) are from the Twilight Fairies SVGCuts Collection . There is also one of the bats on the front of the card at the top of the gate.  I noticed that I forgot to ink the edges where the panels fold so I will be sure to do that before I give this card to its recipient. :)

The middle of the inside of the card uses the SVGCuts Elegant Gothic Frame (yet another wonderful freebie from Mary and Leo!). The skull is also from the Toil and Trouble SVGCuts set . The stamp on the inside of the flaps are from a set I have had for long time and unfortunately do not have the name of any more.

I used Tim Holtz distress stickles in Black Soot and Frayed Burlap around the edges and throughout the center inside panel.

Well thanks for taking a look at my first Halloween card of the 2012 season. I'll be back soon with more posts and hopefully a few new free files.

Kathy

New Halloween Free Files

OK how about a few Halloween/Fall themed files?

Get the MTC file HERE

Get the SVG file HERE

Get the MTC file HERE

Get the SVG file HERE








Once again, I hope you find use of any of the files I have provided and if you would care to share pictures of your creations I would love to see the.

Halloween cards and Trick & Treats are done and in the mail!

I finished up my Halloween Cards, 21Treat bags and 7 Tricks and got them in the mail today (some will be hand delivered)! I realized this evening I forgot to take a picture of one of the cards that I mailed off, oh well. Here are the last of the cards, the Tricks and the Treats. Now I can start focusing on Christmas and maybe have those done before Thanksgiving :)

This little guy came from Scrappy Dew's Halloween Palz Bundle Set

Now for the funny part of this card. Notice the little area for writing is on the top? Well I had not attached the cute little guy on the front yet when I was working on the inside. I used a pop up card from SVG Cuts Premium Pop Cards Collection, got the pop up attached, and then put on the area to write on. It's all glued down and ready to go. I close the card to attach the bat and discovered I did this upside down!!! Hmmm now what to do. I carefully removed the circle pop up and put it back on the other direction and then slapped on a bunch of stickers. LOL - salvage the card!

This digi stamp (Casandra) came from Simply Betty Stamps Spooky Hallow Collection. I used Crystal Stickles at the tip of her wand to create a little "spark"

I really do love this witches hat from SVG Cuts. I forgot to put the hat band on but it still looks cute! I used Perfect Pearls (silver) on the flower to give it a little more depth.

Hoping my granddaughter likes this one in pink!

Goodie bags -- 21 goodie bags! Now you must know that a 3 year old does NOT understand why he cannot have the candy that I was putting in all these bags!

The goodie bags cut file came from SVG Cuts Sweet Treats Bag Collection. The witch I made by joining a silhouette of a witch on to a plain bag file.  The tags are from SVG Cuts as well ( a freebie file!). The candy corn is from a necklace that I found at JoAnn's for a buck! I just clipped the string and took off the wooden pieces of candy! They attached real well with Glossy Accents

This bat bag is from the SVG Cuts files. The cat peeking out of the pumpkin is another wooden piece taken from a necklace that I picked up at JoAnn's for a buck!

Here is a shot of the other bag I used, this is a scallop cut out in the SVG Cuts collection

Now the TRICKS!

Each of the kids are getting one of these!

I took a piece of printed cardstock, wrapped them around a pair (or two) of socks and taped it together. Then I stuck two Halloween pencils down into the socks and attached the little topper. The topper was cut in MTC from my gallery of basic shapes!

Lets try this again

I guess my blog had a spasm and would not let me finish the last post. So here are the last few cards for tonight.

This cute card is from SVG Cuts Haunted Hemlock Cards set. In the top picture you can see the little cat I added to the fence. I used glossy accents on the moon and the windows with moonshine in them. 

This fantastic digi stamp (Morticia) is from Simply Betty Stamps Spooky Hallow Digi collection. Thanks to some great tips from Cheri at Graphicat Creations I was able to cut all the little areas of Morticia.

A cute chipboard embellishment finished off the Morticia card on the inside.

And this cute, cute, cute witches hat card is another one in the Haunted Hemlock Cards collection at SVG Cuts. I used 3D Crystal Color Lacquer on a plain white card stock cut out of the buckle. Love the way it looks wet. Some stickles on the stars to give a little more bling. 

Well that's it for cards tonight. I hope to get these and the treat bags finished tomorrow! I have a lot more things to be working on but have to finish up Halloween goodies for the family first!

And more Halloween Cards

I have been working hard to get the last of the Halloween cards made plus a slew of treat bags. Below are five new cards -- only five more to go!!! I have 9 of the treat bags done, 12 more to go! I'll post a few pictures of those when they are done. Hope you enjoy these!

I used the same spooky tree that I got from the MTC Gallery for this one. Pretty basic with a few stickers. Haven't decided what I am going to do on the inside yet LOL. I'm interested to see what folks think about this one. 

This is Marvin the Bat, he is so darn cute. I picked up this digi stamp and two others of Marvin from The Stamping Bazaar. I fussy cut around him (leaving a little white cardstock and used my bic fine point markers to color him in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More Halloween Cards

Pictures of more Halloween Cards I made over the past few days -

For the life of me I cannot recall where I got the card front for this. It came in a set of three card fronts (the ghost, the skull and house both shown below). If anyone knows where these are from I would appreciate you letting me know so I can give credit to them for these card files! I cut the front out of orange card stock and then chalked and glossy accented the ghost. As I started to ink the edges of the orange card stock my three year old bumped into  me and I smeared black ink across the front, so I just added more smears LOL. A few blings to the front and I was happy with it.

Inside of the Ghost card is the "Boo" pop up from SVG Cuts. This is part of their Premium Pop Up Cards collection! The cat stamp at the top is one I picked up in a set of clear stamps at Joann's.

Again this came from the trio of card fronts that I cannot recall where I got it from. I love this card front. Simply cut out the main part in black and the moon piece in yellow and adhered to an orange card base! A simple pop up sticker "October 31st" and ta da!

Inside of the haunted house card is a simple dimensional sticker and scalloped frame to write on.

My 18 year old daughter will be getting this one - It is so her! LOL I stamped a spider web and spider on with "Perfect Medium" and then brushed over it with a silver "Perfect Pearls" to showcase it on the front. Again this is from the trio of card fronts that I don't know where I got them from :)

Inside of the skull card I used yet another file from SVG Cuts . This is a simple oval pop up from their Premium Pop Up Cards Collection. If you haven't checked these guys out you sure should. All their files are in SVG but they seperate everything so you don't have to do any breaking apart or such if you are a Make The Cut software user like me!

And here again is another card base from SVG Cuts. This time I used one of their Breezy Backyard Lever Cards set. The cute witch is from Rob over at Scrappy Dew . I made the "Witching You A" in MTC. If you want a file of the text let me know.  I threw on foam stickers of a bat and a cat to finish off the front.

Added some halloween paper from K&Comany and a couple of foam pumpkin stickers to finish it off.

Haunted Houses SVG and MTC files

PLEASE NOTE ALL MTC FILES FROM HERE BACK TO THE BEGINNING OF THIS BLOG WERE MADE IN MTC VERSIONS OLDER THAN 3.0 - These will work any ANY version of MTC! :)

Get the SVG file HERE

Get the MTC file HERE

I created these two haunted houses last night to use on the card posted below. Hope you enjoy them. You get both houses in the file downloads.

Haunted House Card

I got this idea from Paper Crafts Magazine Sept/Oct issue. Using an A7 card as the base I cut 1 inch circles of 7 different papers. Starting at the top of the card base I placed the first set of circles and then layered on top working my way down the card base. *I ran out of colors for the gradient scallop and had already put my E away for the night so I used some additional circles of colors I had already cut at the bottom* The haunted house is one of my files. I will post it after this post. The tree is from the Make The Cut Gallery but a popular tree punch of other tree would work just fine if you don't have MTC. The bat flourish at the top was a free file from the fabulous Mary and Leo at SVG Cuts. Please leave me a comment to let me know what you think!

Halloween Files

Trying to get ready for Halloween and some scrapbook pages: Hope you enjoy!

Get the MTC file HERE

Get the SVG file HERE

Get the MTC file HERE

Get the SVG file HERE

Get the MTC file HERE

Get the SVG file HERE

Get the MTC file HERE

Get the SVG file HERE

And last but not least - who could resist this little devil?

Get the MTC file HERE

Get the SVG file HERE