Blow Pop Witch...

The original plan was to make ghosts with the Blow Pops, but I discovered I had no white tissue paper.  So, I tried to find ideas on Pinterest. I found vampires and pumpkins... and nothing really I could use with green. The only color I had, and green ghosts are not cute. I found a cute lil witch hat  and figured i'll just make a WITCH!!!!   

Here are the Supplies I used:

Blow Pops (or Tootsie Pops)

Tissue Paper 

Punched out Flowers 

2 1/2 in circle with a 1 in circle cut out the center

Rectangular Piece Of  Paper rolled into a cone

Google Eyes 

Bling 

Ribbon 

Eye Lash Yarn 

Here she is... Really easy to do.... 

1. Cover the Blow Pop with green tissue paper. 

2. Tie a ribbon around the stick to secure the tissue paper.

3. Cut out your circles, I used my Cricut was easier. 

***optional***

Trace and Cut The Circle By Hand

4. Roll your rectangular paper into cones. 

5. Slide the circle over the cone to see where you need to cut.  

6. Leave about a 1/4  in. space extra. 

7. Once you have the excess trimmed, make 5 or 6 snips.(about 1/4in.)

8. Should look this.. .then add glue to the tabs .

9. Slide the circle over, should fit perfectly.

***optional***

Add an additional circle(brim) in the bottom to cover the tabs, the reason i say this is optional is because the hair covers it any way. 

  

10. Glue on the hat. and add any embellishment.

11. Make the ugly witch nose my twisting tissue paper with your fingers. 

***tip***

Hold one end in one hand and twist with the other, you will  get a flat side. 

looks funny but makes gluing on easier. 

***optional***

Add a green bling  to the nose, it look s like a wart. lol

12. Glue on the Google Eyes and Nose.

13. Add a dot of hot glue in the back of her head and just wrap the Eye Lash Yarn around a few times.

***tip***

Get it as close as possible to the brim of the hat. 

Add a dot more of glue to attach the end of the yarn. 

You my have to fix the fibers a little, and trim the nose but, as long as she is creepy cute that's all that  matters. 

Bugs -N- Kisses

I have seen lots and lots of ways to make cute treat bags or boxes and use Bugs -N- Kisses. All I see is spiders and other gross bugs, I wanted mine to be cute.  I'll post a link to the contest I'm entering and where to get the cut file. 

These are the boxes I made and filled them with Hershey's Kisses. 

If you want to see how I made them keep scrollin'. 

Here are the Supplies I used:

*Papers From Little Yellow Bicycle-Trick or Treat  & an old Halloween Martha Stewart Paper Pad. All other paper is Recollections card stock.

*Elmer's Xtreame Glue Stick(out of ATC)

*Stampin Up! Ink-Sahara Sand 

*Stampin Up! Stampin' Write Marker- Basic Black 

*Stampin' Dimensionals

*We Are Memory Keepers-Crop-o-dile

*Gelly Roll Pen- White 

***NOT PICTURED ***

*Cricut Explore 

*Ribbon (from stash)

*Hershey's Kisses 

*Blending Chalk 

* Scissors

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1. I cut out all the pieces with my Cricut. The Link to the file will be at the end of this post. 

I used my little test bug to hold the little pieces. 

2. I folded and glued the tops and bottoms of the boxes. 

And they looked like this... the top has like a little tap cut out to hold the bottom to remove the top. 

3.I organized the bug parts and started to ink and glue them together. I drew on the eyes with my Stampin' Write Maker. And I added a Highlight on his nose with a Gelly Roll Pen.

4. He is really cute once he is all together. 

5. I flipped him over to and added Stampin' Dimensionals , to make him pop up from the lid. I did this, so it would be easier to add the ribbon and little "bugs -n- kisses" flag. 

6. Using the Print Then Cut Feature, I made the little "Bugs -N- Kisses" flags. Was so quick and easy. I inked them up, layered them and punched a hole with my Crop-O-Dile. 

7. I tied on the ribbon and flag. Then filled up the box with kisses and little strips of curled paper.

And that was it... Sorry Some of the photos I wanted to share I couldn't get loaded. Hope you enjoy them...

Link for File 

Garden Bug Boxes and Cards

Contest Link

Harvest & Fall Design Contest My Scrap Chick

Special thanks to my friend Jennifer Laging, for encouraging me to enter the contest and inspiring me everyday!!!!  

Bugs -n- Kisses 

-Chris 

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Some Recent Projects....

I've been a busy guy cutting away with my Cricuts.... 

 Here are a few pics of what I've been working on!!!! 

Here are some cuts I made for a swap partner who had her first set of cuts lost in the mail.... 

I loved them I almost just kept them... 

I made this card for a friend, just so she knew I was there for her when ever she needed me... 

Also, made 4 of these they are all the same but with different smiles. I'd like to make something for my co-workers every Friday of October... So, yes more Halloween cuteness to come. 

I made this box using only a 4.5in. X 6.5in. piece of paper.. 

Here is the link to the great video on how its done... 

THIS IS NOT MY VIDEO... 

http://youtu.be/lPzf6VVMYDg

Baby Shower Thank You Bottle Labels

My friend and co-worker Natalie, was playing with ideas for a friends Baby Shower. 

I had to let her know how much easier it would be with my Cricut. 

I ended up cutting out 30 whales and over 100 stars. What was I thinking!!!

Once she saw how cute they where she asked if my Cricut Thing could make drink labels. 

Of course I said "YES!,My Cricut Does EVERYTHING!!!"

So I ended up cutting out 50 more whales, stars and little banners.

Here are the first set...

These are the labels, they wanted them to say Thank You!
But I thought that was just boring and the theme is Whales... So why not play with that!!!!

We're "Whaley" Glad You Came

"Whaley" instead of "Really"
(just incase you didn't get it) 

I just cut a strip of paper to wrap around the bottle. To keep it on I just used Washi Tape.
 Then just added the whale with Stampin' Dimensionals.
I love how they came out... this is just my bottle of water I practiced on that's why its half empty.


"Whaley" Glad you stopped by to check this out!!! LOL  

Print Then Cut... is here and I made magnets!!!!

Cricut has finally released the Print Then Cut  feature for the Explore. I have so many ideas for the new features. But I wanted to share the first project I made. I found an image of Ariel (The Little Mermaid), that I love, and I wasn't sure what I was going to make with it.  I was determined to make some thing with this image. I pulled out some old printable magnet sheets I had and made magnets!!! 

I had to change the shape of the image which was easy to do in Inkscape (image manipulating software). Once I had the desired shape I uploaded it into Cricut Design Space. Copy and pasted to make two and printed it out then put it in my Explore and it cut it out!!! Was so quick and easy!!! 

I used  Avery 53208 Printable Magnet Sheets.  The only negative I found was the major waste of my magnet sheet. I really don't care, I have 2 cool magnets that no one else has. Can you imagine all the other cute custom things that can be made... WOW!!!!

Here is the finished magnet, i'll probably go over it with Mod Podge, just in case it gets wet. 

Oh no my Sponge Daubers where crushed!!!

As you may have seen in a previous post I recently became a Stampin' Up Demonstrator . I opened up my kit and my Sponge Daubers were crushed!!! Oh no!!! 

Here is what they looked like... Three of them survived but two of them were just crushed. Stampin Up! is sending me replacements, and told me to toss or keep these ones. I didn't want to just toss them the sponge was still good so I got to thinking. I have a whole bag of cork screws I can use those?! So, I just took the lil sponge part off and added it to the end of the cork. They look pretty cool, and work great. Now, I need more inks!!!