Calling all Crafters!: October 2025

Wednesday, 1 October 2025

31 Days of Halloween - LeighSBDesigns Halloween Hop 2025 Day 1

During October you will see many Halloween-y projects on my blog as I am joining in with

LeighSBDesigns 15th Annual 31 days of Halloween Blog Hop

and 2025 Crypt Keepers Countdown to Halloween

Find Leigh's main post here

This is my 12th year in succession of joining in with 31DOH!

As I am in Australia I never know what time to post my Day 1 but eventually I will sort it out...

My daughter came across some little skeletons on insta - we made a couple each and then I completed a handful and I am sharing them for my first day of October:

I usually share a postcard from Vintage Image Craft.

And as always I like to add the skeletons hopping!

Happy Hopping!!

October Gecko Galz Challenges

Don't we all love a challenge? Gecko Galz Papercrafting has many monthly challenges...

This month the main Challenge theme is

Witching Hour

Follow the link to share your make!

October 1st - 29th.

Feel free to grab our badge, and share on your blogs.

There is only one rule, and that is you need to use at least ONE product from Gecko Galz!!

It can be one of the free products, stamps, collage images, or digital papers!! It is up to you!!
The winner will receive a $25 Gecko Galz Shopping Spree

Today I will share one of the items I have made for this challenge:

This frame has an image from Witches Way

I covered the frame with a paper from Rustic Fall Papers

I will share more on the 12th... !

But we also have challenges on the Facebook Group

These are the October challenges:

Then there are also, with freebie images, the

MONTHLY Christmas Challenge

Fantasy Challenge

MONTHLY Gothic Challenge

Find also the new tag challenge

Have Fun!

Happy Crafting!

Conjurer of Dreams October Challenges

I am sharing a little of what I have made for the Conjuror of Dreams DT.

You will see more of the things I have made with Conjurer Of Dreams images on the 21st of the month. However the optional month's challenge is Halloween Haunt

My first example is a set of Halloween Cards:

These use images from Cool Dogs with some backgrounds from Wicked Halloween Tree

I was delighted to be awarded September DT Star with my table stand below.

This used Steampunk Legacy

Have a look on the CoD site for more challenges

FREE IMAGE CHALLENGE - details can be seen HERE.

ATC CHALLENGE - details are HERE.

TAG CHALLENGE - details are HERE.

3D HAUNTED HOUSE CHALLENGE - details are HERE.

and also on the Facebook Group

Happy Crafting!

WOYWW #852

Follow the link to find out more about What's on Your Work Desk Wednesday and maybe join in... This is my post for WOYWW #852.

At the front left of my desk you can see a junk journal that I am just about to create a page using the current Conjurer of Dreams progressive challenge image.

Behind this you can see 4 little gift boxes... I was trying out a die.

The junk journal is actually my one of my Halloween projects for this year. I have been taking part in 31 days of Halloween every year since October 2014. I started blogging in January 2013 when it was a requirement of a design team I was in in Abu Dhabi. It is quite interesting for me to look back on those early posts!

Last week I mentioned that I still do some swaps with the UK Stampers Network - the occasional extra swaps as I am not able to do the local ones. Anyway the current swap is for Autumn cards. I

shared the ones I made last week. This is a taste of the ones I have received: