Boo-lated Birthday Card, but wait there's more :D

 Hello everyone, today is my day to be a guest designer at the Bug Bytes!

 Ok, so it's a scary tree card, nice but...

 

Inside there is writing with a Cricut Marker... nice but wait... there's more.

It's barely visible in the picture (it glows brighter in real life). The moon and tree face glow in the dark! :D I used the Art Deco Glow in the Dark paint on the base, I think four layers would be even better, this is with two.

Using the E2 is vastly improved for using with markers, but I haven't figured out if I can move the blade and what to do when writing inside a card? Gypsy to the rescue :D. Select the card you want and arrange it on the Gypsy. Then make another layer and copy the card to that and line it up exactly. Hide the score marks and add the sentiment where you want it placed.

Using the marker layer, put the marker in the machine and hit the cut button.

After the drawing is complete, return to design.

Take out the marker and put in the cutting blade (and please use scrap paper lol). Then go to the cut layer.  Do not hit the load/unload paper button. Easy Peasy :D

Embellishment as Journaling Tag

I told you I was having way too much fun with the skew button on the Gypsy :D. I used the Shadow as the upright and the colored pumpkin as the shadow sort of a play on how the world turned upside down when Trick or Treating for the first time. I used the Shadow as a journaling tag and distressed the edges with the blade of an open pair of scissors.  The colored pumpkin was lined twice with an ultra fine line black pen. The cut is from the Mini Monsters cartridge. I used a large house cut (from the Don Juan cartridge) to convey the sense of going door to door since I didn't have a picture of that. I used the Signo Uniball Gel Pen for the journaling.

The house is outlined in Viva Decor's Hematite Glitter Liner applied thick enough that it has some depth to it. It is also applied around the photo mat but flattened out so it is almost transparent. I used more writing to ground the images to the base of the background.  I used the hide contour button to hide the eye cuts since I was using a googly eye and a Custom Eye. This picture existed as a Polaroid, and with the aid of Photoshop Elements I was able to make a larger picture and correct the color loss that was going on with the original.

A side note: I use the clear packaging the letters came in to put the letters on first and hold them against the different papers without risk of them sticking to it. Also gives me a sense of size and a chance to make sure all the letters I need will be there.

WOYWW - 72

The weeks are zipping by lol. I'm working on a couple of double duty Cricut projects. One set of 12 Coffin Boxes which will also be a Halloween Guest Designer post (which is why I needed the big 12 x 24 mat as well as gift bags for a Halloween party. The other is for a Guest Designer post featuring the Gypsy which will also be a scrapbook layout for DD's book made mostly with some scrumptious paper from the first Club Ruby Designers kit.

I popped in a lot of little tags and clips from Fabulous Findings and Printing Press to fill out the 12 x 24 paper. After that I cut off any strips of paper so very little waste. The gunmetal and Christmas stickles are from this week's Serenade cartridge series posted almost automatically except I put PM instead of AM and we had some power failures during the night.

If you want to see lots more crafty sights hop over to Julia's blog Stamping Ground. Join in if you've a mind to do so :D.