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Sunday, 4 October 2026

31 Days of Halloween 2026 Day 4

   

During October you will see many Halloween-y projects on my blog.

 This is my 13th year in succession of joining in with 31DOH! 

That must be an auspicious number!!

I am joining in with the 2026 Crypt Keepers Countdown to Halloween



This is my Day 4
Today I am sharing the start of my main project of this October.

6 weeks ago I was in hospital having a hip replacement and at every meal I was given cutlery in paper folders. Of course I kept them all for use in crafting. Initially I made a Poe tag booklet as a make for the Gecko Galz DT. I will share more of this on the 12th. This involved the folders being attached at their openings so that the tags could also go inside as well and they open to be decorated inside.


For my October make, I have glued the folders back to back over hinges, so that they can be decorated along the fronts, but still have openings for tags and so on at the top.


I added a front and back.
 These papers come from crafterschoice Spooky Background Paper Pack.
I am adding Halloween washi tape throughout the junk journal.


I came across this October prompt list on insta from Kia.creates


I am using these to a certain extent - the cover is 'October begins'.

My first two pages look like this:


The witch picture is a freebie from Conjurer of Dreams -
 I will add this page to the CoD October Free Image Challenge.
I added scraps of ribbon to yesterday's ATCs and placed them in the pockets. The ribbon is to help from losing them in the pockets.


The second side is also an image from Conjurer of Dreams gifted to me as a prize from Kim -
October prompt 'falling leaves'.


I usually share a postcard  from Vintage Image Craft. 


And as always I like to add the skeletons hopping!


Happy Hopping!!



Saturday, 3 October 2026

Tiny Pieces of Art - September

   At the beginning of the year I started a year long challenge courtesy of Linda Pearson on Facebook

I decided to use index cards as I had a little booklet of these in my stash. 

I like this format as I have been doing the Index Card a Day Challenge during June and July for some years now.

This is how far I had got at the beginning of the month:



This month's prompts are as follows:


Week 1


Week 2


Week 3


Week 4



Happy Crafting!


31 Days of Halloween 2026 Day 3

  

During October you will see many Halloween-y projects on my blog.

 This is my 13th year in succession of joining in with 31DOH! 

That must be an auspicious number!!

I am joining in with the 2026 Crypt Keepers Countdown to Halloween



This is my Day 3
Today I have a bunch of ATCs to share:


This first set uses the freebie ATC sheet from 
Trick or Treaters.
I fussy cut all the elements and placed the backgrounds on scraps of orange and blue card. I then added all the pieces from the sheet.




The second set of three used the freebie ATC sheet from
Monsters Under The Bed
Again I used the backgrounds on scraps of orange and blue card and then added the girls in bed images.





I usually share a postcard  from Vintage Image Craft. 


And as always I like to add the skeletons hopping!


Happy Hopping!!



Friday, 2 October 2026

31 Days of Halloween 2026 Day 2

 

During October you will see many Halloween-y projects on my blog.

 This is my 13th year in succession of joining in with 31DOH! 

That must be an auspicious number!!

I am joining in with the 2026 Crypt Keepers Countdown to Halloween



This is my Day 2
I thought I would look through my Halloween decs - I found this wreath which I decided needing revamping. The images come from Conjurer of Dreams


Conjurer of Dreams currently has an Autumn wreath challenge so I will link this there.


 I am also sharing a Halloween card as I have a swap of such cards to take part in...


I used a cream card base and layers of purple and orange card - then the image. I think it is a great image although I know some people find clowns scary.

This image was a freebie from Gecko Galz



I usually share a postcard  from Vintage Image Craft. 


And as always I like to add the skeletons hopping!


Happy Hopping!!



12 Months of Christmas Link Up October 2026

  

    

This is my DT make for the October Challenge

This month the theme is "Anything Goes Christmas"



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Today I have made a simple card using the paper from this: 


I started with a silver card blank, matted it book paper - a paper from Stampin' up. I added die cut shapes from the paper and to these I added 49&Market ephemera. I also used rub-ons from 49&Market between the shapes and more ephemera.


I added a ribbon to the tag shape.



Happy Crafting!