The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out….the mummies are wrapped tightly and the moonlight glows eerily in this slightly creepy crawly layout waiting for your little goblins 2010 photo. 
This layout was made using the new Happy Hauntings and October 31st Cricut cartridges, along with some fabulous paper by Graphic 45.
Ingredients:
Graphic 45 “Society Page” from the Communique Collection paper
Making Memories “Spider Web Toil & Trouble” paper
Black, yellow and cream/off-white cardstock
orange glitter paper
2 manilla shipping tags
cheese cloth or gauze
orange pom pom fringe
olive green glitter ribbon
Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Antique Linen and Tea Dye
Adhesive - liquid glue to attach pom pom fringe
Directions:
Using Happy Hauntings Cricut cartridge cut the following:
1. The mummy from page 32 in the handbook. Cut the base in black at size 5 1/2″ and then in off-white/cream using Layer 1. Glue the offwhite to the top of the black base cut of the mummy. Wrap the mummy in pieces of gauze or cheesecloth torn into small narrow strips and inked with Tim Holtz Distress Inks. Using the gold Copic Spica marker, lightly outline around the eyes, nose and mouth.
2. The frame(frame9) from page 46 of your handbook. Cut the base using the shift key and the Making Memories Spider Web Toil & Trouble paper at 8 1/4″ Cut the top layer using black cardstock. Cut the bugs by selecting “Layer 1″ and “shift” and the orange glitter paper. Glue the top layer of the frame to the base. Attach the bugs to the sides of the frame.
3. Cut “moonlight” at1 1/2″ - 1x with black paper which is the top layer and 1x with the same paper as the base of the frame by selecting the “shift” button - this is the shadow. This phrase can be found on page 56 of the handbook. Glue the black piece to the top of the shadow piece.
4. Cut the letters “P-r-e-s-s” using black cardstock. The font used was the ‘Spooky Font.” The “P” was cut as an uppercase letter at 1 3/4″ and the rest of the letters were cut at 1 1/4″ all as lowercase letters. Attach to the moon.
Using October 31st Cricut cartridge cut the following:
1. Cut the moon at 3 1/2″ using yellow cardstock. Ink the edges with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Tea Dye. Add random dots with the black Copic Spica marker.
2. Cut the skull and bones 1x with off-white and 1x with black cardstock – cut each at 2″. Ink the off-white piece with Tim Holtz Distress Inks in Antique Linen and Tea Dye. Run under water and smear the ink. Set aside to dry for a few minutes, then glue the off-white layer ontop of the black cutout so that it is slightly off-center to show a slight black edge. Using Copic Spica Markers, add detail to the bones with the gold marker by lightly drawing and shading around the edges to outline the bones. Add random dots with the black Spica marker.
The tags:
1. Remove the white string and replace with the olive green glittered ribbon. Tie and trim edges.
2. Ink the card edges using the distress inks.
3. Using a fine tip black marker, doodle around the border of the tag to add some extra detail.
Assembling the page:
1. Glue a strip of orange pom pom fringe to the right side of the paper.
2. Attach the frame to the 12×12 Graphic 45 paper by using pop dots around the edges making sure to leave the top and the center untouched so you can slip the tags underneath the frame.
3. Glue the moon with ”moonlight press” to the upper right corner of the Graphic 45 paper.
4 Glue the mummy so that it’s walking in front of the frame. when gluing to the layout make sure not to glue it to the frame so that you can lift the mummies body enough to slip a photo underneath.
5. Add the skull and bones to the lower left corner.
6. Slip the manilla tags under the frame where you left an opening.
The frame is large enough for a 5×7 photo OR you can use a 4×6 with a border of the background paper showing around the sides.
I am loving these new Halloween cartridges! There are so many things on each that my mind is just spinning with ideas! Now to get my hands to work as fast as my brain…!
Hope you’re all having a great day!
xKim
