Dottie's World Challenge.

I know, I know, all I seem to do these days is the Dottie challenge but I do have a good reason I promise, God only gave us 24 hours a day! How on earth are we supposed to fit everything in! I'll tell you how, you go to your boss and you say, "please boss, can I just work mornings so that I can use the afternoons to persuue my crafting dreams?" Well that's what I did and so after half term I'm hopefully going to be able to fit more in. (note that I said hopefully, LOL).

Anyhow, for now, limited blogging it has to be. It's Nicola's challenge this weeek and this is what she said;
A is for Acetate with a hint of pink!!It can be a whole acetate card,an aperture of acetate,an embelishment as long as Acetate is there some where & as October is Breast Cancer awareness month I'd like to see some pink!!!
Click the blinkie to see more...

Here's what I came up with....



A tranquil yet slightly grubby everyday house it seems.......
Arrrrrhhhhhh! Who's that looking through the window!!!!!

Eeek! Have you ever seen such a scary sight in your life? (play along with me, the kids have to think they're convincing!) LOL.

As you may have noticed all of my Halloween projects have not only used the Halloween download collection but they've all got the same product range in common; Imaginisce Hallowhimsy check it out.

Dottie's World Challenge- Geometric

We're looking for a New Guest Designer on Dottie's World this week, to be in with a chance just enter the challege as usual but BEFORE Wednesday evening. Pop over to Dottie's World for more details.

OK, so ths week's challenge was set by the lovely Adele, here's what she said;

When I first told my son that I was on the Dottie Design Team, he asked loads of questions about what I needed to do. You can now blame Jack for this week's challenge as this was all his idea...but I have stretched it a little.
Dottie goes Geometric!Jack suggested that I made a card using triangles but I am going to open up the possibilites and ask you to make creations with bold geometric shapes. This could simply be part of some patterned papers or a fancy shaped card...the choice is yours BUT I want to see some geometric shapes as a main part of your work....no cheating and telling me the brad is a circle! Don't forget it must have a Charmed download somewhere too!

So here's my example card;
Bless little George, he's trying his best to be scary, he looks like he's scared himself doesn't he? LOL. Ghostly George and his spooky friends are available to download here

I'm loving these triangular cards, you may be seeing a lot more! The papers and stickers are Hallowhimsy, take a closer look here.

Thanks for looking, have a great week.xxx

Dottie's World Challenge-Going for a Song

It was my turn to come up with the Dottie's World challenge this week and I decided to add a fun twist, we need a new guest designer to join us for the next two weeks so I've decided to open it up to this weeks challenge entrants!

Anyway, the challenge is to use the words from a song on your creatiion (asweel as a Charmed download)

Here's what I came up with....

The papers are Hallowhimsy and the image is Dracula George from the Halloween download collection. When you buy the Halloween downloads you get them in black and white and coloured which is handy if you're in a rush or if you don't like colouring in.

Dotties World Challenge

As you can see from my blog I haven't had time for much blogging recently, such is life eh? One thing I HAVE managed to do though is the Dottie's World challenge which this week was set by Nicola. She wants us to add something to our creation that can be removed, such as a tag, bookmarg etc.

Here's what I came up with.....




It's a pocket card using spider Dottie from the Charmed Halloween Download Collection.

The Papers, brads, stickers and stamps are all Hallowhimsy

Thanks for looking xxxxxx

Di Hickman - October Sketch #4

Whooooo! I bet that made you jump ay? For this weeks sketch from Di Hickman I decided to make my first ever Halloween card, I don't have any Halloween papers so being the resourcful mum that I am I made do with what I had. I used plain green, yellow and reds and gave them a make over with my blending chalks, i'm really pleased with the results, it looks like Basic Grey without the Basic Grey.

Now I hear you ask, "how does my card fit the sketch?" Right, if you look at the picture where it says 'Boo' and tilt your head to the right (lol I can imagine you all tilting your heads!) Di's sketch will miraculously stare back at you!

More Crafty Templates Designs

It was my first day back at work today (oh where did those six week disappear to?)So I haven't had chance to make anything today, instead, I've brought out some more designs using one of this months new templates from Crafty Templates. This template is called 'Cute Purse' so of course I had to make my purses cute, well, I don't normally do cute but once I got started with my funky foam I just couldn't stop. The purses do actually open up so that you can write your greeting inside.

You might recognise the robin design from my last post, again, I used the free robin template from the Crafty Templates blog.