Pumpkin Carving!

Obviously, I've been posting way to much this week, but I still have so many cool Halloween projects to post about and need to get them all in by Sunday!!!

One of Mr. Woodsy's favorite things to do during the month of October is carve pumpkins. Typically he will carve anywhere from 3-5 pumpkins. But this year due to our extremely warm weather in the South he only had a chance to carve one pumpkin! I knew I wanted a small pumpkin for my skeleton pumpkin holder and I knew I wanted the skeleton cut out from the Pumpkin Carving Solutions Cricut Cartridge!

If you love to carve pumpkins, please go invest in a deluxe scraper scooper. We bought one after Halloween last year and Mr. Woodsy literally did one spin around our small pumpkin and he had ALL the guts out of the pumpkin. Never once had to pull the guts out with his hands... no mess or fuss! Super easy, clean, and convenient!

Mr. Woodsy had scene some black pumpkins that I sent him on the Martha Stewart site and he was determined to paint at least one pumpkin black! So he did... He used a basic black flat water based latex paint (like you would use to paint on the wall). He painted it evenly once and let it dry.

Once it was dry, he cut a hole at the top and scooped out the guts.

I cut out the skull and cross bones at around 4.5 inches and then we taped it onto the pumpkin. Mr. Woodsy traced the pattern, then began cutting. 

Here is the finished product!!!

Halloween {Heat-N-Bond} Shirt

Ever since I first experimented with heat-n-bond and my cutting with my cricut I knew I wanted to make my nephew a shirt... since Halloween is quickly approaching I made him a Halloween shirt to wear to school!

I purchased a toddler shirt (size 2-4) from Hobby Lobby for $2.50, used some remnant Halloween fabric, heat-n-bond, my cricut, and both the Happy Hauntings Cartridge & the Pumpkin Carving Solutions Cartridge! 

I followed my directions that I wrote up here for the heat-n-bond.

Here is the finished project, and a happy baby to boot! 

Modeling his shirt from his crafty Aunt! 

He was loving the spiders... he couldn't stop laughing at them! 

Skeleton Paper Towel Cap

I was up to no good the other week, and as I worked on the awesome apothecary bottle I had an "aha" moment. As I pulled the large skeleton cut out off my cricut mat I saw the eyes, nose, and stitched mouth sitting there and I knew I needed to make it into something cool. I remembered I had this useless glass candle piece that came with one of the candelabra's I bought a while back at the thrift store and that's when I went digging around for it. I found it, pulled out the modge podge, and created a little skeleton face. For some reason I decided to let it dry on top of the paper towel holder. I came back to check on it and I fell in love with even more than what I first thought of this great idea.

{Sneak Peak} Apothecary Bottle

I found this gem at the thrift store the other day for $3.99. As soon as I saw it I instantly knew it was a great investment and had potential. I envisioned a few cut outs from my cricut and some mod podge. I'm so happy with how it came out. I can't wait to show everyone the rest of the bottles I'm working on {post to come next week}!