Love You a Latte 50th Birthday

Thought I would share my 50th Birthday layout with you.  It was a great time and I had so much fun creating this layout with my little "Starbucks" diecut.  The font is from Cindy Loo (I think).  It is a really fun font to use.  I used Cutmates paper to cut out the top layer as I find it works much better for those detailed cuts than any other paper on the market.  I used the Love You a Latte Cricut lite cartridge to cut the cup sized to fit a sticker I had been given from Starbucks.  The journaling box is from a discontinued SU paper pack and the ribbon used is also discontinued.  Hope you enjoy looking.

MCT Die Folder DT Call

Here is a fun little project I made to hold my MCT dies.  They kept getting lost in the bottom of my card box which is where I store all my MCT stamps and dies.  This will solve the problem and I had fun making it.  Hope you enjoy looking.

I cut the file folder from Graphically Speaking using the Icon feature cut at 8" which can be found on page 59 of the handbook.  I then used the stitched oval die, XL label die, curly label die, fancy frame stamp and die set to make my sentiment frames.  Stamps used were from Paper Princess, Encouraging Quotes, Whimsical Calendar Days and the Build a Banner set (this is the polka dot background you see here).  All dies and stamps can be purchased here.

Screamie Halloween Witch Box

Here is cute box I made for my secret pal using the Wrap It Up Cricut cartridge.  I am very pleased at how it turned out.  I think she will love it!  The box is cut at 8" (I did a fit to page to see how big I could make it from a 12 x 12" piece of cardstock) in green.  I then used my Gypsy to cut the rest of the layers.  The adorable spider paper is from DCWV ghosts and goblins mat stack.  The little witch is cut at 3.10" so she will fit perfectly on top of the box cutout.  (There is a layer for the box, but it is only a single layer and I wanted to have all the layers for dimension.)  To cut her layers I used Cutmates paper for the black, yellow and pink colors.  I cut her purple layer from a sheet of KP Halloween Harlequin paper I picked up at my local stamp store the other day. 

 The box is shown here along with some pumpkin boxes I made from the Happy Hauntings cartridge.  I used Peachy Keen pumpkin face parts to make their adorable faces.  All sentiments are by MCT.  The stitched oval die on the witch box is also from MCT.

Here is a close up of the details on my witch.  I doodled some lines on the broom to give it a litte more detail.  I hope you enjoyed looking.  

For those of you who haven't heard of Cutmates paper, it is specifically designed to cut in diecutting machines (the Cricut).  I call it my butter paper, because the tiniest of details cut out "like butter" and you don't get all those tears like you get from a lot of other papers.  I discovered it while I was out shopping at the beach during our annual fall beach crop.  I picked it up at  Stacy's Scrapshack .