Halloween Cupcakes

Happy Halloween to everyone out in blog land! I made these yummy and cute devils food cupcakes with homemade cream cheese frosting. Being a huge fan of cupcakes, I love the cricut cupcake wrappers. Linking this up to www.cookingwithcricut.blogspot.com Halloween-not so spooky challenge. The frosting recipe is posted at the bottom for anyone that would like it.

I made little boxes from an scal file shared on craftedge forum and glued saran wrap on the inside window.

Here is the Cream Cheese Frosting recipe if you would like:

8 oz. package of cream cheese (make sure it is not fat free or lite)

1/4 cup butter softened (1/2 stick) (do not use margarine)

1 tsp vanilla

1 box powdered sugar

mix first three ingredients very well; slowly add in the box of powdered sugar a little at a time; mixing well after each addition.

Hope everyone has a fabulous Sunday!

2 Kool Katz

Well I am still in a Halloween mode. This layout is of my husband and youngest daughter three years ago. My husband dressed up in this red velvet pantsuit with matching hat and the platform boots from the 70's! I haven't cried with laughter like that in a long time.

My daughter had a pink feather hat and boa--too funny!

This qualifies for the Halloween-not so spooky challenge at Cooking with Cricut

Cricut: October 31st for the two black cats at the bottom-trimmed a little and gave them teal flat back pearl eyes and inked the edges with white.

Martha Stewart: arched lattice border punch on white patterned paper.

Font is Casau cut with scal and inked the edges with white and added purple flat back pearls.

The lattice work is a series of cuts with a craft knife and then folded back under each other(template from Debbie Dodd ) and added flat back pearls

I added strips of striped paper down the sides and of course more flat back pearls. I finished off the layout by inking the outer edges of black background paper with white ink.

just a close up of black cat and the lattice work.

Fish Derby

This layout is for the 10/15 sketch challenge going on over at sous. When my children we young, we used to go to the annual fish derby hosted by the boy scouts. It became a favorite family tradition for many years.

cricut carts:

acy for the fish and boy fishing

home decor for the black flourish(trimmed and angled)

sizzix: tropical paisley embossing folder

hand punch alpha's for the title

paper is all k&co

pop dots for the fish

tim holtz vintage photo distress ink and michaels dollar bin ink for edges

and a 3d fishing bobber sticker

Boo!

This layout is for the October 1 sketch challenge over at stuckonusketches.blogspot.com

I have sort of been in a Halloween mood so decided to go with that theme. My camera doesn't photograph glittery stuff very well.

This is a picture of my youngest daughter back in 1997. My sister made the rainbow brite costume and my brother-in-law and husband made all the yard decorations.

Cricut cart: storybook for the scroll work at the top and the purple scallop medallion at the bottom.

Martha Stewart drippy goo border punch on the top left corner piece

fussy cut the pumpkin and the bat from left over paper.

candy corn brad on the purple medallion and ghost brad on black scroll work from stash

black and orange stickles

patterned paper is K&Co

the "B" in boo is a sizzix alpha die and used google eyes for the "o's"

close-up of the scroll work and ghost brad
close-up of medallion. I cut this five times-once in chipboard, four times in the purple paper and then for the top three purple layers I cut off the outer ring(s) so I could ink the edges of each layer. I popped the finished piece with foam dots to give in more dimension on the page.

First Birthday, opening page, closing page and diaper cakes

Here are the final layouts for the first year albums. I finished them last Saturday and had to make a card and a diaper cake so I am just now getting to post them. The boy album and diaper cake were given to my niece this weekend and the girl one I will give this weekend.

So this layout is the First Birthday.
Paperdoll dressup for clown and bows in corners

celebrations for balloons and presents

scal for banner and "It's fun 2B1"

sizzix embossing folder on red balloon

alpha beads on banner

blue glimmer mist on clown outfit

swiss dots embossing folder on clown outfit

google eyes
the journaling tag
This is the first page when album is opened.

accent essentials for green scallop mat

scal for font

tons of flat back pearls

image is from picasaweb.google.com/achaverri15 and then cut out an oval

This is the last page in the album. I faded the image and typed over it with the Baby song poem found at dennydavis.net then mounted it on the green scallop from accent essentials.
This is the girl version and the image is from the same location as above. The closing page has this same image and the baby poem from above.

The boy diaper cake. I made a stork bundle of diapers also but forgot to take a picture.
This is the girl one. I couldn't find pink baby booties so I added more ribbon at the top and pink pom poms along the tray.

Pat's (where it's @)

This layout is for the 9/17 sketch challenge over at stuckonusketches.blogspot.com

My husband and sister-in-law went camping at a jazz festival and started their festivities at a popular hot spot.

All the paper with the exception of the solid black was from the blog candy I won over at sous a few weeks ago.

I used black glitter on "@" and the "8" ball

Tim Holtz vintage photo distress ink on all edges

Martha Stewart cornice border edge punch on small strips behind photo mats

These are 6x6 pages as I will be making my husband and sister-in-law each mini photo books of their weekend.

June thru October-First Year Albums

Decided to post June through October layouts in one post for the first year albums.

JUNE:

sketch used for this layout is by Liz Qualman; a child's year for dad and son on bottom left, plantin schoolbook for award ribbon on bottom right; title is alphabet squares from a paper punch out sheet and flat back pearls

for the girl book
the journaling tags

JULY:

For the boy page I tore two of the paper layers then inked them; a childs year for the boy in fire truck then glimmer misted; martha stewart doily lace border punch on photo corners; the journaling tag for July is the middle flag image that flips up . the image is from magic moonlight free images
the girl page-acy for children on the bottom; the blue paper was torn then glimmer misted and punched with ms doily lace border punch.

AUGUST:

boy page-a childs year for beach umbrella, and toddler; doodlecharms for photo mats; accent essentials for sun; ribbon from stash
journaling tag from a childs year
the girl page

SEPTEMBER:

For the girl page I used a doily behind photo mats that I trimmed so the flowers would be the border; a childs year for photo mats; cut two more butterflies from left over paper; flat back pearls and ribbon
journaling tag
boy page-stickled yellow dragonfly and layered on a blue one with pop dots; cut the frog next to the middle mat from left over paper
journaling tag

OCTOBER:

This is the girl page, the boy page is exactly the same minus the bow on the ghost. paper doll dress up for the ghost trick or treater, the pumpkin and the "trick or treat" bag which lifts off the page and serves as the journaling tag for this layout. I cut the fence from pddu in white paper then hit cut again but replaced blade with marker and then glimmer misted. The fence looks so cool in person! The little owl in the bottom right is from an embossed sticker sheet.
-Well off to do the double page First Birthday layouts! Thanks for looking and have a wonderful day!