Alex and Alexa Spooky Fruit Blogger Competition

Making a pumpkin for Halloween?

Seriously, that's so last year!

Spooky Fruit is the new (orange and) black.

AlexandAlexa.com are running a Spooky Fruits competition for Blogger's to win a host of Halloween goodies.

There are 3 prizes to win.

Everything you need for a truly terrifying Halloween with the kids.

• A cutely, creepy knitted toy from Lucky Boy Sunday
• Two Halloween kids’ costumes from Lucy Locket
• Two fabulous Lego storage heads for Halloween candy
• A selection of beautiful Halloween party supplies for kids from Meri Meri
• A set of cute Halloween figurines by wooden toy suppliers Le Toy Van

(Total value £223)

We will also feature the winning spooky fruit creation on the AlexandAlexa, Life & Style.

• Two Lucy Locket Halloween Costumes
• Halloween party supplies from Meri Meri
• Le Toy Van Halloween toys

(Total value £118)

• Halloween party supplies from Meri Meri
• Le Toy Van Halloween toys

(Total value £58)

Great prizes, right? So how do we get involved?

1. Create a spooky fruit creation and share on your blog.
2. Include a link to the competition page here.
3. Tweet or email your entry to AlexandAlexa.com via @AlexandAlexa or social@alexandalexa.com
4. Closing Date: midnight (GMT) 24^th October 2013.

Full T&C's on competition page: http://lifeandstyle.alexandalexa.com/halloween-party-supplies-for-kids/ 

Halloween Card / Invite

Having (finally) linked up with Wendy at Handmade Harbour for Midweek Papercraft Party last week with my cheap weight loss tracker, I won! Woo Hoo!

This week's theme is Halloween.

So here's my entry:

I'm taking a quick craft break from studying, so it's a bit basic this week. 

I looked on Google for free Halloween scrapbook paper for ideas. I have used freedigitalscrapbooking.com before, so I looked there and found a really cute purple ghost one, from here.

Cute, right?
I printed it slightly smaller that A5, I trimmed using my cheap little cutter, I cannot cut straight!

I then glued to an A5 piece of purple card. I'm designing this as a card cum invite, but you could just use a piece of A4 folded in half for a card.

I created a banner using Word and Bleeding Cowboy font, saying Happy Halloween.
I printed and cut out, layering on top, although to be honest, I could have printed over scrapbook paper, but I liked the mix of purples.

I created a Mummy. I make a body shape in card, then covered it in strips of tissue paper bandages.
 

Next I created Daddy, (can you see where I'm going with this...?). I found a google image of a skeleton. I was going to use Mr Printable's Bag of Bones tag idea for create a skeleton, but couldn't find brads.

For Little Monster, I used a digital stamp - friendly Halloween trick or treat monster - from Handmade Harbour shop. I coloured him in using pencils, before cutting him out, and accidentally breaking his arm off. Oops!

I added my people to the card, labbelled them and added 'Come join us...'.

I think Mummy might have worked better as a print out, it's rough but you get the idea! :-)