Trick or Treat!

Halloween doesn't feature hugely in my house these days as the kids are a little old for Trick or Treating and much more interested in visiting somewhere like Alton Towers for Scarefest, therefore I don't make many Halloween treats.  This year however, a friend of mine gave me a couple of bags of Hershey chocolates to see what I could come up with and this is the result. 
I kept it simple so that I could make several the same.  I used my new milkcarton die for the Bigshot and some scrummy pumpkin pie cardstock.  A strip of coordinating pumpkin paper from the designer paper pattern stack and a black card star. 
Hopefully it will be treats all the way, keeping those mean tricks at bay.

Birthday Gift Card Holder.

Morning, Autumn is on the way isn't it :/  It will soon be half term and I can't wait, I really need the break from everything.
Anyway!  does this look familiar?  A little while ago I shared a Christmas Gift card, seen here and while I was making it I was thinking that it would also be a very useful design for those awkward teenage birthdays.  My little cousin will be 15 next week and as I usually send him a gift card I thought I would dress it up a little this year. 

Starry

 Oh dear, something's wrong here but I can't seem to fix it. This photo is upside down!  On my computer I have turned it round but when I upload it to blogger it's always upside down again!  How's that work ??? Fortunately this design can turn almost anyway up (just as well really!)
I have to confess that I was a little concerned about this one, I'm just not sure about the colour scheme of So Saffron and Certainly Celery, maybe I would be happier if it was brighter colours; the ladies at Make Do and Send liked it so that was ok. 
I punched a star out of the whisper white base card and mounted it onto the celery base card then, using the Seeing Stars stamp set, stamped it all over with a mixture of saffron and celery stars.  For a bit of dimension I punched out some more stars from Saffron designer paper, 3d mounted them and added a few rhinestones.