Tinfoil Lids

I'm hosting this week's challenge at Little Red Wagon and, still using Elton John as inspiration this year, I've chosen the theme based on "Circle of Life". In the context of the challenge, this can be interpreted as needing to use at least one circle on your creation.

I made a card for my youngest which reads, "Tinfoil lids are notoriously difficult to read". This is often quoted at our house whenever we find something expired in our fridge. The quote is from an old Catherine Tate Show sketch. In fact, there are a few Catherine Tate quips that reduce us to laughter here. This is not actually my original card as the paper went down before I'd lined it up. As I was using my advanced tape glider, I was out of luck when trying to get the paper apart. Anyway, I printed off a second copy of the image and sentiment (done in Canva) and simply stuck it to some polka dot (tiny circles!!) paper. I'm actually happy with the simplicity despite the initial aggravation. 

Here's a video of the sketch:

The wedding I mentioned last week (of the international student couple) was absolutely beautiful! We spent over five hours decorating the hall and it was quite the transformation. Here are a few photos. 

Please head to Little Red Wagon to see the rest of the Girlfriends' projects and link up one of your own as well! 

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Congrats & Best Wishes

The wonderful Brenda is hosting our challenge this week at Little Red Wagon and she's looking for us to "Get Krafty". In other words, she would like us to use kraft paper on our projects.

On Sunday, I sat beside a young couple at church. It turns out they are getting married on Saturday! As they are both international students, and the bride lives out of town, I offered to help them decorate the hall on Friday night. I figured that I would get them a few things and made this card to add to the gift bag. The card base is kraft and the sentiment was stamped and die cut from kraft paper. The other papers are from a paper pad I purchased years (and years) ago and still have a fair number of sheets left. The mat dies and joined hearts die are also supplies from my stash that I've had for ages. I finished things off with a thin jute string bow. 

Please head to Little Red Wagon to see the other fun ways kraft paper has been used - and then pull some out to create your own project to link in this week's challenge. 

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Life Is Better With You

The amazing Janice is hosting our first August challenge at Little Red Wagon and she’s  got another Star Trek-inspired theme for us this week: Set a Course… For Home. She’d like to see buildings of any kind on our projects.

I used a background stamp from My Favorite Things to stamp the buildings, colouring in only one of them (“home”!). Then I used some circle dies from Simon Says stamp before adding a generic stamped sentiment and a little pup to finish things off. The pup was stamped and die cut ages ago so I’m not sure where he comes from. I only noticed when looking at the photo that the buildings aren’t adhered as straight/upright as I would have liked but I’m currently writing this post on a mobile device while on a camping trip so unable to fix things at this point. And honestly, I would probably end up making a mess if I tried. 

Please head over to Little Red Wagon to see how the rest of the Girlfriends interpreted the challenge. We’d love for you to link up a project as well! 

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