Have an Extreme Birthday

Brenda is hosting our Little Red Wagon challenge this week and she's looking for your "Winter Blues" - the paper crafting kind! This makes for the perfect opportunity for you to pull out your blue papers, pens, markers, etc. and put together something that contains the colour blue. 

My youngest nephew had a birthday yesterday and this is the card I made for him. The last time I saw him, he had just been skiing and I was told that his "just one more run" turned in to five more runs! with the exception of the circle die (Simon Says Stamp) used for the window and the improvised snow "mogul", all products used are from My Favorite Things. 

Please pull out your blues and join this week's challenge at Little Red Wagon! There's more inspiration from the DT on the LRW blog. 

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PS If you are feeling the winter blues, try some exposure to the sun, eating healthy, getting exercise and making sure you get enough sleep each night. And if those winter blues are significantly impacting your life, please connect with your health care professional. You're important and deserve to be happy. ❤️

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Valentine's Day Wrapping Paper

Jan is hosting our challenge at Little Red Wagon this week and she's calling out a "Red Alert!'. No need for alarm though. She's simply looking for a bit (or a lot) of the colour red on our projects. 

With Valentine's Day on Friday, I decided to create some personalized wrapping paper. I used a one stamp (hugs) from Simon Says Stamp, a variety of stamps from My Craft Spot (no longer in business), and some Ciao Bella letter stamps to spell "Keith". I have a Valentine! I met Keith last year and we hit it off right away. ❤️

Please head over to Little Red Wagon to see how the rest of the Girlfriends have used red on their projects - and then get out your red paper, inks, pencils, markers, embellishments or anything else you have to create a project of your own. 

And this photo simply because I absolutely love it when I see other crafters' "outtakes" due to animals who are quite curious to know what's going on. Skimble got up close and personal to the gift! As the present didn't smell like fish, he left soon after this picture was taken.

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