Hi everyone sorry not been crafting recently as DD and I have had the lurgy. I think it was just a nasty cold or viral thing as we seem to be on the mend now. I wanted to share information about a special girl called Alicia. Alicia Jackson is a 3yr old girl with a benign brain tumour who needs expensive treatment in the USA and without public generosity she may not get this treatment as up to £50000 is required. She is the grandaughter of a lady I have met on a cardmaking forum and I hope to be able to support this worthwhile cause. There is a blog here dedicated to raising money through card and craft sales and you can support her via Facebook here.

Going Buggy Blog candy

Enfys has some wonderful Martha Stewart goodies in this wonderful collection of crafty stash so get on over to her blog here and have a look. I have been following this blog for several months and there are always fun ideas and inpirations on there (I am jealous though as she gets to spend lots of time in Florida as well as in the Uk so she can buy lots of stash in the USA!)

Halloween

I am one of those who loves Halloween and have done for years! I have lived in my current house for 8 years now and have had a Halloween party every year with my kids we love it! We will definitely be 'trick or treating' again on October 31st and it's a Saturday so it will be less of a rush to get organised for all the themed food and games!

Anyway, Melissa over on MSE set a challenge to make a Halloween or Monster card and I came up with this one today.

This is the recycled swing card from last months card swop on Crafty place that went really wrong! I managed to cover up all the awful mistakes and I actually quite like it now!! I would have been happy to send this one if I had come up with this card in the first place!

On the front is a ghost that was 'squeezed' for me ages ago by Choccy (thanks hun!), stuck onto a punched scallop circle (paper form a scrapbook set in poundland, with a little bit of doodling on the outline with a black glitter pen). I used a mixture of punched and bought paper flowers with a couple of brads. On the 'backside' I used another scalloped circle run through the swiss dots folder in the cuttlebug, decorated with 2 bats cut and embossed with the cuttlebug (hadn't used it for ages so getting my money out of it again today!)Now I just need to decide who I am gonna send it to!

Two challenges in one card!

Creative Card Crew challenge this week is 'scallops'. I have used another of the scalloped cards from Craftwork Cards and a scallop circle (from a 3 " punch). The lace apple cardstock in the background looks kinda scallopy at the edges too I think!

Over on The Crafty Place TheladyBoz (aka the wife aka Jennie) set the October challenge as 'something Autumnal'. So I chose an Autumnal image coloured with promarkers and whispers pens, set on Basic grey orange/green paper, Apple green lace cardstock and a couple of orange roses (sent to me from Rusty thanks xxx) with a couple of orange flocked flower brads holding it all together!

Mega Blog Candy for Alzheimers Charity

I was perusing some new blogs and came across a link to this fab blog. Jude does crafting to raise money for Alzeheimers, she says 'This is what you will win a tote with all contents and more as items will be added the more who join in.This is my way to thank everyone of you bloggers for supporting my alzehimers fund raising whether through messages of support or craft items you have sent to me to sell at the up and coming bazaars i have planned'. I am going to look at the blog in more depth and learn about her charity work but wanted to spread the word and show off the mega candy!!

I think this runs until 29th October and if 200 people link to the candy Jude will add a 'mega craft item' so go sign up people!!

Crafty cardmakers challenge again

I decided to make another card featuring ribbons and enter it into this challenge. Unfortunately the mirror card is very reflective so the photo' is not great. It is a little out of my comfort zone as I am not usually into shiny/bright/bling in a big way but I think I have combined all of the above fairly easily!

Another challenge card!

Hi I decided to do a last minute card for the Lili of the Valley Challenge number 38 which is to make a Christmas card for a child. I used the layout from Get Sketchy, which was so simple this week and I thought it would suit my card idea. I just changed the oval shape to a circle as i really loved the little shaker circle and I thought a child would love it! The image is a die cut from Lili of the Valley (from Rainmac) and I have used some DCWV card and some other card from my stash.

I think I might need to add some shimmer or glitter or gloss to the image just to make it zing a bit more but the challenge closes today so I have to pop it on my blog!