Hello - Daffodils

It's my turn to host at Little Red Wagon and this week, I've chosen "Photograph", inspired once again by a Def Leppard tune. Pretty much anything goes, I just ask that you include the inspirational photograph in your post.

My daffs are blooming. This time of year, I take a lot of photos of daffodils. I'm including the first one of the year as it inspired this week's card creation.

Please look through your own photos - or photos online - and create with that as your inspiration. Then link up at Little Red Wagon. I'm sure the Girlfriends would be delighted to have you check out their creations too! 

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Thank you

It's Brenda's turn to host this week's Little Red Wagon challenge and she's looking for fun folds. As long as your creation does not have a standard top or side fold, you're good!

I just realized as I wrote the above that my card does indeed have a standard side fold. However, it takes a turn from the typical with the front being cut to half its usual side and an extra panel used. I'm hoping that's fun enough for Brenda! The "Thank You" was cut from dies from My Craft Spot. How I miss My Craft Spot! 

I hope you'll join me over at Little Red Wagon to see the fun folds used by the rest of the Girlfriends. Once you've been inspired, please link up your own project! 

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Happy Birthday - Gromit Card

Goodness gracious, it's the final Wednesday of March. We thought spring had arrived here in Central Ontario, Canada (in fact, it was a mostly spring-like winter this year) but Mother Nature played some cruel jokes on us last week! We had a few days of snow, including a nasty storm on Friday. However, the snow has all melted again and I even noticed a couple of my daffodils just starting to poke up through the soil.

Janice is hosting our Little Red Wagon challenge this week and she's all about "Animal Antics". Basically, include an animal on your project and you're good to go!

My younger brother's birthday is next month and I've made this card for him. He loves Gromit (from Wallace and Gromit) and also loves his cups of tea each day. When I saw the Wallace and Gromit stamp set I used here (which came free in a magazine), I thought of David right away and the unnecessary purchase was made. When he was first married, their first dog was named Gromit. Actually, his name was Comet at the rescue but they immediately changed it to Gromit! 

I had a very difficult time photographing the card due to the glittery paw-print hearts panel but trust me when I tell you there are some embossed teapots and such on the right side. I was tempted to use a "Yappy Birthday" sentiment but decided against it due to the fact that Gromit is an incredibly quiet dog. Sometimes, these sorts of things matter in this head of mine!

Please head over to Little Red Wagon to see what the rest of the Girlfriends have created. We'd love to see your Animal Antics creations too! 

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Amazing, marvellous grace

Chrissy is our talented hostess at Little Red Wagon this week and she's looking for florals. You can do anything you like, as long as you include a flower or two - or more!

This time of year is important in the Anglican tradition as it's the period of Lent. Although I'm typically far more of a spiritual person than a religious person, I do become religious at Lent. This year, I've given up cream which is something I love (whipped cream on my lattes, ice cream, Irish cream, etc.). I decided I could still use hand cream though. I have no plans to ingest it. Anyway, this scripture page was made last year during my time of Lent as my word of focus was "grace". I wish marvellous was spelled correctly though. *sigh*

Please head over to Little Red Wagon to see what the rest of the Girlfriends are doing with florals. We'd love for you to join in as well!

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God Cares for the Sparrow (and Budgie)

Happy Wednesday! It's Imke's turn to host this week's challenge and Little Red Wagon and she's calling out, "Easy Peasy". She's looking for CAS projects.

Unfortunately, my son's budgie passed away a couple of weeks ago. His birds are like his kids and he takes such good care of them. I saved one of Sky's little feathers and created this very simple card which I tucked in a glass frame. I printed off the text, cut the card to size, cut a heart using a punch and then attached the little feather on the heart. My son placed the frame on his desk. 

There is a verse in the Bible about God caring for the sparrow which is why the card starts with a sparrow and then adds for the budgie too. I trust that God doesn't mind me changing things up a bit with holy scripture. 

Truth be told, when I first made the little card-in-frame for him, Jack returned it to me and told me that he wasn't sure whether or not to say anything but decided he would. I'd put the year as 2022!! I have no idea what was going on in my brain that I entered the text, centred it, made sure I liked the positioning of everything, printed it, looked it over, cut to size and then added to the frame AND took a photo, all the while never realizing I was off by a couple of years. Anyway, I'm back to the present now!!

Please head over to Little Red Wagon to see the CAS creations made by the rest of the Girlfriends. It would be great to have you join us too! 

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I Didn't Planet That Way

How is it already Wednesday again? And how is it March? The days, weeks and months seem to be flying by. 

I'm this week's hostess at Little Red Wagon and I'm continuing with my Def Leppard-inspired challenges for 2024. This time, it's "Foolin'" and I'm looking for projects with puns, jokes, funnies, etc. 

I put my card together using Lawn Fawn's Year Eleven stamps and dies which I received as part of a grab bag purchase from Simon Says Stamp a year or two ago. I've not used this set before but had it in mind when I chose this challenge. One of the planets was hand created with a circle die and then a hat from another Lawn Fawn set, Year Four (Hippo Birdie). The background was made with a variety of distress inks and then cut from a no-brand die. It's popped on the card although difficult/impossible to tell in the photo. 

Please head over to Little Red Wagon for some more smiles, chuckles and laughs! I'd love for you to join the fun too. I always love a good pun, joke or anything else that will bring a smile to my face! 

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Happy Easter

It's the wonderful Brenda's turn hosting our latest Little Red Wagon challenge and she's calling out to us to "Use a Stencil". 

I have a number of stencils in my stash although I'm not sure whether or not I've ever used this Simon Says Stamp "Oval of Flowers" before. As I've been feeling rather under the weather with headaches over the past number of days, I decided to create something fairly simple. In addition to the stencil, I used a bunny and sentiment from Reverse Confetti and a frame from My Favorite Things.

Please head over to Little Red Wagon to see how the rest of the Girlfriends used stencils on their projects. We'd love for you to join us too! 

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Happy Birthday to You

Janice is hosting at Little Red Wagon this week and she's selected "Off the edge" for this week's challenge. Jan is hoping to see elements extend off the card base or project page, etc. 

While I typically like everything contained within my card space, I have had a few instances where I've gone "off the edge". I made this card for my aunty who will be having a birthday next month. Fortunately, I have some slightly larger than A2-sized envelopes so no elements will be harmed in the posting of my card.

Please head over to Little Red Wagon to see how the other Girlfriends have gone "off the edge" - and then link up a project of your own! 

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I Really Love You

Happy Valentine's Day! May your day be full of love and blessings.

The talented Chrissy is this week's Little Red Wagon hostess and she's chosen "Valentine's Day - Show us some love" as the challenge theme.

I created a masculine card which can be used for Valentine's Day or any day really! With the exception of the tiny heart made with a little paper punch, I used a variety of My Favorite Things dies, mixing two different sets (I Really Miss You and Love) to create the sentiment. I also used an ancient Cuttlebug embossing folder for the off-white mat. 

Head over to Little Red Wagon to experience all the love there - and then join up your own Valentine's Day/Love project. 

PS For those of you who follow a Lenten practice, may you be blessed along your journey to grace and light. 💕

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Birthday Blessings Beautiful

It's the wonderful Imke's turn to host this week's Little Red Wagon challenge and she wants to see numbers. Whether it's a number for a birthday, anniversary, countdown or anything else, add it to your project!

Even though my daughter's birthday isn't until August, I decided to work ahead and make a card for her special day. I cannot believe that my girl is going to be 30 this year!! I used some of the leftover papers from last week's treat boxes. The little wooden embellishment behind the number 30 was part of a set of wooden embellishments I found in my stocking - and I'm pretty sure my daughter helped Santa find them!!

Please head over to Little Red Wagon to see how the other Girlfriends included numbers in their projects - and then link up your creation too!

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Something Special - Just for You

I can't believe that it's the last day of January. I usually find that January and February drag but time has been flying. 

It's my first time hosting at Little Red Wagon for 2024. This year, I'm using Def Leppard as inspiration for my challenges and this week, it's "Pour Some Sugar on Me", one of my favourites that always takes me back to my uni days. I recently learned that Def Leppard will be playing with Journey in Toronto this summer - but I'll be across the ocean at the time. At least I have my Def Leppard-themed Little Red Wagon challenges!

For this challenge, I'm looking for anything sweet - whether that's sweet like candy or something that you would just think, "Well, isn't that sweet" such as a cute animal or tiny little something. I made treat bags to hold some Valentine's Day sweets. The bag die is from an online discount store. I didn't have much luck with another set I purchased there but this one is fabulous! The bows, doilies, hearts and sentiments are all created with supplies from My Craft Spot. 

Please head over to Little Red Wagon to see how the rest of the Girlfriends interpreted the challenge. We'd love for you to join in as well! 

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Mum - You are So Loved

Brenda is encouraging us to put our NBUS items to good use this week with our latest Little Red Wagon challenge. Look through your stash and find something you've not yet used!

About a year ago, I purchased the "Everything Wonderful" card kit from My Favorite Things. I'm embarrassed to say that the box - along with the other items I purchased in that order - remained intact in my craft room. I'm thankful to Brenda for this challenge as it gave me the opportunity to put some wonderful supplies to use as I created a Mother's Day card for my beautiful mum. The stitched flowers are from the card kit and the little "Blooming with Love" sentiment is also from the same unused order. 

Please head over to Little Red Wagon and admire how the other Girlfriends used unused items from their stash. Then use this wonderful opportunity to put your neglected items to work! 

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Thanks

Our wonderful Janice is hosting the challenge at Little Red Wagon this week and she's saying, "Sentimental You". This means that Janice is looking for projects with the sentiment as the main focus (or a large sentiment).

I pulled out a My Favorite Things die that I used on my project two weeks ago. I also used a largish stencil which I placed in the middle of an 8.5x11 piece of watercolour cardstock and then cut the cardstock in four. This gave me four panels on which to place four "thanks" cuts in order to make four thank you cards. I think I should have used my heat gun to dry the panels a bit more before layering the sentiments. Some strategically placed black gumdrops helped with that!

Please head over to Little Red Wagon to see the projects created by the rest of the Girlfriends - and then pull out your large sentiments in order to join the fun!

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For My Sweet Friend

Hello from a very snowy Ontario, Canada! Chrissy is our fabulous hostess at Little Red Wagon and, most fittingly for me, she's chosen the theme "Still Snowing - Show Some Snow" for this week's challenge. 

Before Christmas, I saw a beautiful pillow box created by a fellow crafter. I used to make pillow boxes years ago and had, quite honestly, forgotten all about them. I decided to look for a die and found one on a discount site. I ordered the die and five others for about the same price I would typically pay for a single die. Needless to say, after eight cuts, I finally got two boxes that I am happy with. The issue was that the folds also cut so there were gaping holes instead of creases. I tried thicker cardstock, thinner cardstock, paper, spritzing the cardstock with a bit of water and, finally, using Scotch tape along all folds on the inside of the pillow box. That worked! The boxes are embossed with a snowflake folder and have been created especially for sharing hot chocolate - perfect for cold, snowy days! I also used supplies from My Craft Spot to adorn my little boxes. 

We'll see how things go with my other discount dies!!

Please head over to Little Red Wagon to see all the snowy projects there! We'd love to have you join in too!

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Thanks

Happy New Year! I hope you've all had a lovely holiday and break. I've had two weeks off, with today being my final day of holidays. It's been so nice to have the time to relax - although there really wasn't much relaxing the first week! It was enjoyable but in an incredibly busy sort of way. 

Imke is hosting our first Little Red Wagon challenge of 2024 and she's chosen the theme "What's New?" There can be many ways to interpret this - such as the new year, a new beginning, new crafting supplies, etc. 

I'm using new supplies (Santa gave me some little wooden floral embellishments) to create a thank you card for a new goat. I didn't actually receive a goat under the tree though. A goat was gifted to a family in need in my honour. What an AWESOME gift!! 

Please head over to Little Red Wagon to see the fabulous projects created by the talented design team - and then link up a "What's new?" project of your own! 

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