Cricut Challenge - Orange and Black Halloween

Halloween is not my favorite time of the year though I do know children love to dress up and I will pass out candy to the children who come to my door.

I don't ever do anything scary- no scary movies or TV shows for me.  My children think it hilarious that I have never even watched all of The Wizard of Oz because the bad witch near the beginning of it always was so unpleasant to me,  I left the room then.  

This year,  I made a Halloween decoration because I want to use my Cricut paper cutting machine more and  I started following a blog that has a craft challenge each week.

Last week's was to use a farm animal.

This weeks is to make a orange and black Halloween project. 

Well,  I told myself when I found this challenge blog that I was going to join in every week 

but I don't like Halloween and I don't do scary 

Still,  I like what I came up with.  

recycled jars- insides are painted with a mix of craft acrylic paint and Elmers school glue

I used Cricut cartridge Christmas for the branches.

All the other cuts are from Cricut cartridge Storybook. 

The cuts are from cardstock and adhered with Mod Podge.  

This was a thrifty project- 

old jars,  paper scraps,  old candles

I did not have orange paint so I mixed red and yellow paint that I did have and got a nice enough orange.  

with candles burning inside

These are in my front window and visible from outside.  

I put the designs on both sides so they can be seen from inside and outside that window.  

This is not an original design by me- I saw many similar ones on Pinterest.  

linked to Fantabulous Monday Cricut Challenge

also to
Think Tank Thursday  at
Saving for Six   and Attempting Joyful Homemaking