Friday, September 10, 2010

Halloween Card

Halloween is my 2nd favorite holiday after Christmas. I just got my Happy Hauntings Cricut cartridge in the mail th other day and had to play. I LOVE this image of a spooky graveyard and knew it would be perfect for a gate-fold card. BUT, because the image is longer than it is tall, I had to make a "landscape" type of gate-fold. I used the "fit to length" feature on my Cricut, and set the length to 5.5". Gate is cut from Basic Black, gravestones from Basic Gray, and grass from Mellow Moss. Moon is Summer Sun, just a circle punch with a partial circle out of that. Sign is Only Orange. This cut comes with a "Beware" to fit on the sign, but at that size it was just too small for me to punch out successfully, so I used "Rebuffed", a free font. On the inside I used several other cuts, printed "M. T. Tomb" on the headstone for the same reason as above. It is a little too high, but, oh, well. I think I'll send this to my old college roommate; I think she'd get a kick out of it! All CS is SU, purple is the old Eggplant Envy, which I love because it is a good Halloweeny purple. Thanks for looking!

6 comments:

Chris said...

ok, this is fabulouS! that gate is so cute, love this card!

Banu said...

Amy....Superb card. I loved all the details in this card and that gate that opens like that. Just awesome.

Angela said...

Amy, you are the "Cricut Queen"! That gate is awesome and how clever to do the gate-fold card. I need to be more creative with things like that....

Jen said...

Very cool! I love seeing what you do with the cricut...awesome!

Rebecca said...

Your cricut has more than paid for itself with all your fabulous creations. How creative this one is! And perfect Halloween colors!

keypusher said...

Are you sending it to Julia?