Cricut Pillow Box - DS and George

The new Stampin Up catalog has these cute little pillow boxes all decorated for Halloween. I wanted to make some, but give them out early so I made them in Fall theme. The pattern is done with Design Studio and George, the tag I just punched out using an SU punch attached to the grosgrain with linen thread. I am attaching the .cut pattern for the pillow box. On it, you will find an extra oval, it is for scoring. The box sides will fold nicely if they are scored. The scoring is a bit awkward at first, but after a couple it will be easy peasy to see where you need to score/fold (see photo below, score about where I have drawn lines). After the first one, you can delete the scoring oval from the pattern so your not wasting paper. The final size is about 2 3/4 by 4 inchs, good size for a couple of fun size candy treats or? Happy crafting!

Pillow box link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?yntmhkoydzm

First Mate, SBSC157

Andy will definitely be a boater, just like his daddy. I took this picture a couple weeks ago when we went crabbing. I didn't include any photos of crabs....because we didn't catch anything. Thankfully, I got this adorable photo of the two of them, AND our wonderful neighbors caught their limit and gave us a bunch (better than catching it myself and having to clean and cook it!).

This sketch is from SplitcoastStampers, its is the weekly sketch challenge (SBSC157). Most the elements in it were freebies, except for the swirl paper, which is from Close to my Heart. I scanned it and then used a hard light filter with a brown background so it would match, gotta love photoshop!

Potato Bug Vs. T-Rex scrap page

After several days of tinkering with it, I am finished with this page from last weekend. Most supplies are from scrapgirls, the ribbon and grunge edge were freebies, but I don't remember from where. The background paper is the current freebie at Scrapgirls, grab it before its gone!

Paper Bowls by Martha

I've been wanting to try my hand at the inkscape program so I started with this paper bowl pattern I found on the Martha Stuart website. It was a bmp I switched to svg and cut with SCAL and my baby bug. They are cute little paper bowls, I filled these with fall leaves and added a candle. I think they would be cute in black with candy corn too....but not until next month :) I think it took me until now to use inkscape because I have the new firmware so I can't use SCAL on my expression, naturally NOW I can find a reason to need it - we always want what we can't have.

Potato Bug

There are moments in you child's life when you just have to stop and write it down, yesterday was one of those moments. I'm hoping to make this a scrap page but until then, I want to write it down so I can remember it well, it was priceless. We had just got back from the boys first soccer game and Andy decided to stay outside and bury a few dinosaurs in the front yard (so he can discover them later). In the process, he found a potato bug. Very excited he brings it over to show Carsten, I walk over and find him poking at the bug (gently) with his finger and this is the conversation that follows:

Me : What are you doing to that poor bug

Andy: I want him to curl up like an amarilla (Armadillo)

Me: I think they only do that when they are scared

Carsten: Lets scare him

Me: No, go put him back

Andy: Hey Carsten, lets scare him with a dinosaur!

Carsten: Great Idea!

They run to dinosaurs, I run to camera

Carsten : ROAR!

It didn't work, and they lost interest and put the bug back, but it was hysterical for me to watch.

Petal Card from George

I just did the DS upgrade and noticed that Wild Card is on there, so I had to take a sneak peek. Being the impatient person I am, I had to make one of the petal cards before the cartridge is out, so I made it with DS. Turns out George has a key tag that is a perfect fit - Yeah! Final size of this one is 5 x 5.

PUMPKINS Scrap page, SBSC153

I was cleaning my scrap room and ran across these photos I had taken last year. I've switched to mostly digital scrapping, but since these were already printed out I thought it would be fun to do a traditional page, it also gave me an excuse to use some chipboard letters I had in my "get rid of" pile. The background paper is from Stampin Up, the letters were outlined with black maker, and the pumpkin is from Paper Dolls (Cricut). I used the Splitcoast sketch challenge sbsc153. I'm a little behind, but at least its done before I take this years pumpkin photos!