Corrosive Halloween

Well let me tell you - this is the post that almost wasn't!

We got home from vacation on Friday evening (and I will have more vacation stories to share another day) and we went to bed at a reasonable time and all three of us woke up about 5:30 with incredible headaches, lightheadedness, nausea....very gross. So our initial thought was it was from the flight, pressure change, etc. Took some Advil, went back to bed. A couple hours later, we still all feel awful! So to make a long story a little shorter, turns out it was our furnace and carbon monoxide! There was a big bird's nest in our furnace exhaust blocking the air exchange and it was filtering back into the house. A normal carbon monoxide reading is about 9 - ours was up to about 80! Yeah, not good. So a couple hundred dollars later, a furnace guy cleaned and inspected everything, the carbon monoxide level went down and our headaches went away. And I finally felt well enough to get this card created for Corrosive Challenges - this week's theme is Halloween!

I just got this stamp while away on vacation - I couldn't resist it! It is from Eat Cake Graphics - they have some of the cutest images and sentiments and shipping is really reasonable. Oh and in case you can't read the saying, it says "Halloween Tip #63: Don't eat all the candy in your plastic pumpkin at once." Cracks me up!

Here's my Big Ideas to go along with this week's card:

*Easy background - 3 strips of cardstock run through the Cuttlebug with an embossing folder and cut to fit the card front. A little texture, quick and simple.

*Leave your Nestabilities die in place and add some pen detailing around the inner edge for a different look. I used a simple dash and dot design on this image.

I hope you'll stop by the Corrosive Challenge blog and join in the Halloween fun! There's always a goody up for grabs!

And speaking of goodies, my Birthday blog candy winner will be announced later today so check back then and see if you're a winner!