Blogtoberfest 2014 - Day 31 - Halloween and the last day of Blogtoberfest!!

Well here we are on Halloween and the last day of Blogtoberfest - a big round of applause for all those that have managed to post for 31 days, a big thank you to Shells for organising again and thank you to all my lovely blog readers who have been posting comments - I hope I haven't bored/irritated you too much by posting everyday!!

And as luck would have it I have found a Halloween themed layout that I haven't blogged before - I made this for my November page in my Document 2011 album.  My niece Milly had a horror themed 21st birthday party and everyone joined in with ghoulish fancy dress.

 

I'm not entirely sure what brand the paper is - it might be Bella Boulevard or My Mind's Eye.  The title is done with American Crafts Thickers and the paper flowers are from my stash.

I also found a card that I made for a crafty friend.  She is a digi-image (sadly the company doesn't exist anymore) and is called Red Heart Fairy but I always think of her as a vampire fairy, she does have a real vampish look about her.  The sentiment is by Lili of the Valley.

 

Blogtoberfest 2014 - Day 30 - Throwback Thursday

I made my first batch of mince pies this week and that got me thinking about the couple of layouts that I have done in the past about my mince pies.  I have always called them Cheat's Mince Pies as I use frozen pastry and for the mincemeat I buy the cheapest available and zoosch it up with the addition of cranberries, glace cherries and a generous glug of Cointreau!!

These are the ones that I made on Tuesday and they have passed the Mr P taste test!!

They first featured in my 2009 Journal your Christmas book -

 

And in 2010 I did a full size layout about them for Scrap Like You Mean It

 I used a Sarah's Cards kit - I think the papers might be Cosmo Cricket

Blogtoberfest 2014 - Day 29 - WOYWW #282

Gosh these Wednesday's roll round so quickly, I swear we only had one last week!!!

Well if it is Wednesday, it is time to pay a visit to Julia's desk and share What's on your Workdesk Wednesday.  So this is how my dining room table was looking for most of the weekend -

 I thought I would be brave and show what the whole table looks like.  I spent most of the weekend making cards for my fundraiser and did 15 birthday cards and 18 Christmas cards in the end - I will blog them all properly soon but here is a quick peek at some of the birthday cards.

And currently on my laptray is this -

A new to me Woodware stamp which I am colouring in with Promarkers

Blogtoberfest 2014 - Day 28 - Little boxes

Whilst away in the south west for a week I got to go over to Mere and take a class with the lovely Fiona from Staring at the Sea.  She showed us to how to make a lovely little box with a matching card.

We had a choice of using festive colours or more spring like ones - I opted for the festive colours.

Thank you for a lovely class Fiona.

And Fiona was on my Pass it Forward gift list so I remembered to make a little gift for her - some Christmas Yankee tealights in a little box.

 

I made the box following these instructions and decorated it with some lovely holly stamps from Crafty Impressions and SU inks Cherry Cobbler and Garden Green.  The tag was made using the Stampin Up tag topper punch.

Blogtoberfest 2014 Day 27 - Me on Monday

It was a cardmaking marathon, heating on for the first time, naughty dinner eating, Strictly watching, wine drinking, crisp eating, knitted toy sewing up, hooray for an extra hour in bed kind of weekend.  The weather was grey, dreary and damp but I didn't care as I was tucked up warm indoors manically making more cards for my fundraiser (less than two weeks to go and I managed to make another 15 birthday cards and 18 Christmas cards).

 

By contrast today is sunny and warm with blue skies and I am back to wearing a summer shirt, though I suspect as soon as we lose the sun I will have to put a cardi back on!!

Every 3 weeks on a Monday you will find me doing this - unpacking my regular Avon delivery

I'm a bing bong Avon calling lady, though I don't do a round, I just sell to family and friends.

Well I had better get on - Avon orders do not unpack themselves!!  And I need to go and give a wave to Sian (From High in the Sky) who started Me on Monday.

Blogtoberfest 2014 Day 26 - Love you to the moon and back

This is the second page that we did at Anita's September class using Authentique 'Strong' papers

I used a couple of photographs of Mr P from our 2011 Icelandic cruise.  I love the folded paper piece across the bottom but have already forgotten how we did it - ooops!!

Blogtoberfest 2014 Day 25 - Beat the Christmas Rush

It is the 25th so that means it is the day to link up with Sue's Beat the Christmas Rush.  I am killing two birds with one stone this month and combining this challenge with the Scrapology card challenge which is to make Christmas cards in Blue and Silver.

Remember the embossed silver cardstock and blue die cut snowflakes that were littering my desk for WOYWW well they became these (and let me tell you they were a right pig to photograph due to the holographic nature of the silver cardstock!!) -

I made 5 cards using two different Cuttlebug snowflake folders and then stuck various die cut snowflakes over the top mainly using  Joy crafts, Cuttlebug and Penny Black dies.  I then accented the snowflakes with clear and blue gemstones from my stash.  The sentiment is by Penny Black and I used Stampin' Up punches for the mats.

Please excuse the awful quality of the photographs I tried so many different ways of trying to get a decent picture - in the end I had to stand really far away with no flash on and zoom in :(

There is still time to enter the Scrapology card challenge as it doesn't close till 15th November.