Schoolhouse Matchbook Notebook for Back To School Teacher Gift

Hi Dandi Crafters! Today I am showing off this is oh so cute little schoolhouse shaped matchbook notebook. How cute is this!??! Too cute. Over at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog they are having a Fantabulous Cricut Crawl: Button Up For School! I have been meaning to participate in a challenge over there for sometime but I have been so busy, but I decided to sit down and create a project to enter so I could participate. To participate you have to make a school themed project, use a Cricut cut, and include a button somewhere in the project.

I decided to make another matchbook notebook. I had so much fun making the last one. This one is shaped like a schoolhouse. The notebook stands about 3.25 inches high and 2.75 wide. I designed a little school house in my favorite image editing program Paint Shop Pro. I used Sure Cuts Alot to cut out the little schoolhouse and all the school embellishments. I had so much fun decorating this little school house. It is a bit difficult to tell, but the roofs are on pop dots, as is the bell. Look at the bell it has a tiny button for the bell clapper. It add so much whimsy to it. I also cut open the tiny school house doors too. I then added faux stitching for more fun!

If you pop it open you can jot down your little notes. The paper is shaped like a school house too. The matchbook notebook holds about 50 pieces of paper. I love how the paper turned out too. It has little apples all over it, so much fun. I had the pattern sitting on my computer for sometime and thought it would be perfect for this project. All the little pages are perforated for easy tear and share notes.

The reason the pages have apples all over them is to continue the apple theme that is on the back. Nothing says back to school like an apple. The apple cut is from the Cricut cartridge Doodlecharms. I LOVE that apple. It is just the most darling apple. The apple pattern paper is by Cupcake Cutiees and is paper I had left over from this project. I also decorated the back with some green grosgrain ribbon and some little red bling.I think the back is almost as cute as the front. Make sure you pop over to the Fantabulous Cricut Crawl: Button Up For School to see all the great enteries.

MyGrafico Challenge No # 66: Wild Wild West Little Buckaroo Card

Hi Dandi Crafters! Today over at the MyGrafico Challenge Blog we have wild challenge for you, Wild West Challenge that is. Today's challenge is to use some metal and our inspiration are these wild papers and stamp quotes:

The Design Team members and I used Western Bandana Papers by Cupcake Cuties. We also worked with a Wild West Stamps by Tainted Sweets. Be sure to check out all the designers at MyGrafico.

I don't have alot of metal for crafting. If I looked around I probably have more than I think I have, but when someone says, "Use metal", I don't think, "Oh I have lots of that." What I always have is aluminum foil and last time I took chemistry that was a metal...LOL Don't believe me stick it in the microwave.
Disclaimer: (Please don't really stick it in the microwave. It is dangerous. The disclaimer is there in case a moron happens by my blog. LOL hehehe) I glued some aluminum foil to card stock and cut the aluminum card stock out using my cricut. I made the sherrif's badge up on the fly, cutting it out using SCAL. The circle is just a shape that SCAL has in it. Next I ran it through the cuttlebug machine using the Perfectly Paisley embossing folder to give it some way fun texture. Wow did that liven up the aluminum card stock. I took the circle and stamped some ink on it. That was a fun effect. I then printed off some gingham card stock and ran it through the crimper. To me bandanna and gingham just go together. I have tons of gingham colors sitting on my computer. I don't buy gingham paper because gingham paper has to be the right size for each project or it looks out of place in a hurry and, two because gingham is so easy to make in whatever color you need it is really a waste of money to buy it unless of course it comes in a stack of paper. Lastly I used the cute little buckaroo stamp. Since it was a digital stamp, I dirted up the background with some grunge brushes I had. After printing it, I cut out the sentiment with the cuttlebug using the celebration stamps that came with it.

Take Out Tuesday Halloween Bat Frames SVG Download September 14

Hi Dandi Crafters! Today for Take Out Tuesday I am continuing to serve up cute Halloween Fare. Today I have bat frames for you that are so cute it's scary. LOL There is a horizontal and vertical bat frame. There are lots of things you can use these bat frames for. Both bat frames have a frame and shadow layer that can be used separately making them even more versatile.They were created in SCAL 1 so the files will work in SCAL or SCAL 2. It includes SVG format so you can use it in Make The Cut too.
You will also find terms of use and copyright in the folder. The frames as you see here are about 7.5 inches in width or height depending on whether the frame is horizontal or vertical.

The zip file includes:
•Horizontal Bat Frame(shown in Black)
•Horizontal Bat Shadow(shown in Red)
•Vertical Bat Frame (shown in purple)
•Vertical Bat Shadow(shown in green)

Enjoy today's DtsArt Take Out. I post Take Out for my followers as a thank you. You can download it on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Thursday we throw out the left overs.

Download: No longer available. Please join us next Tuesday when Fresh Take Out will be posted. Be sure to become a follower so you will not miss anymore Take Out Tuesday Freebies. Take Out is posted for my followers to download on Tuesday and Wednesday, on Thursday we throw out the left overs.

Happy Halloween SVG Download Title

Happy Halloween Dandi Crafters! I have my blog all decked out in it's Halloween Costume. Isn't it cute! I am certainly in a Halloween kind of mood lately. This week for Take Out Tuesday I had some Halloween Iron Fence Edge Punch SVGs,yesterday I changed my blog and put on it's Halloween Costume and today I am offering you a Happy Halloween SVG Title just for the fun of it. Hope you enjoy it. The Happy Halloween as shown in the sample above is about 5 inches wide. Both the SVG and SCAL Scut file are included in the folder as well as term of use and copyright information.

The zip file includes:
•Happy Halloween Shadow(shown in Black with Polka Dots)
•Happy Halloween Cut (shown in Yellow)

Thanks for stopping by the ol' blog. Since Halloween is fast approaching feel free to give me a little treat by leaving a comment.
Download: DtsArt Happy Halloween Title