Sentiment As Main Focus @ Little Red Wagon

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I'm late yet again.  Hopefully in the next couple of weeks or so, things will slow down a bit and I'll be able to stay on top of things!  Imke is our host this week and she wants to see projects with the sentiment as the main focus.

This is what I did..........

I took a sentiment from Create With TLC and layered it over the clip art image of a bomb.  And that's about all I've got to say about that.

So, why not give our challenge a go this week and join us?  And, if you'd like more inspiration, be sure to check out what the Girlfriends have made. 

Also for:

Path of Positivity: celebrate something special about your friends

Allsorts:  anything but birthdays

Cardz 4 Galz:  sentiment as focal point

With A Little Help From My Friends @ Little Red Wagon

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it's Kate's turn to choose the challenge and she's continuing on with her Beatles theme and is saying, "With a Little Help From My Friends" which just means that she wants to see those project for friends.

This is what I did....

I love this image from Sherry West Art....so classy and unique.  My original plan was to do a completely black & white card, and leave the image uncoloured, but I when I found this perfect-for-this-image paper, I decided to add a bit of colour to the digi.  I added Stickles to her jewellery too, of course.  (Which, as always, doesn't really show up in the photo.)  Sentiment is from Create With Tlc.

Had a bit of a mishap this weekend....our (riding) lawnmower wasn't working so we had to borrow one to get our hayfield of a lawn cut.  (The combination of finally getting warm weather and then rain at the right time made our lawn grow monstrously in just a short amount of time.)  The one we borrowed is more like a small tractor than a lawnmower, sits a lot higher and has a very high roll bar.....something I didn't really think about while I was mowing.  When I went around our lilac tree, I ended up snagging two limbs on the roll bar, and pulling them right on top of me.  Luckily, instinct took over and as it was happening, I leaned forward and nothing hit me in the head.  I honestly don't know where that instinct came from because an instant before that I had honestly said to myself, "Why does it feel like the lilac tree is following me?"

Long story short, I ended up pinned to the seat of the lawnmower.  Perfectly all right though....a couple of scratches and just a bit embarrassed as my daughter and husband had to come lift up the limbs so I could get off the lawnmower.  My kids, knowing how much I hate the lilac tree, made various jokes about how there'd be easier ways for me to take it down without getting in trouble.  (My husband's parents used to live here, they moved two farms down the road when my husband and I got married.  The lilac tree was given to my mil years and years ago from her kids....but no one had ever trimmed it in all that time.  When I first moved in I talked about cutting it down....and I was just about tarred and feathered for even suggesting it....so I settled for trimming it....which didn't make me like it any better, just made me slightly happier because there was less of it.) 

Just to give you a visual, here's the picture my daughter took.....after she asked for, and got, permission to find the whole thing funny....

Needless to say, I stayed a good distance from all of our trees I do like, so as not to have this happen with one of them.  And, our lawnmower is now fixed, so my next time cutting the lawn will hopefully be adventureless.  (:

So, why not give our challenge a go this week and join us?  And, if you'd like more inspiration, be sure to check out what the Girlfriends have made.  

Also for:

Path of Positivity:  celebrate something special about your friends + positivity

Inkspirational:  use something gifted or free - digi was a freebie 

Crafty Calendar:  anything goes

Allsorts:  add some sparkle

Unicorn Challenge:  includes pearls/bling

TTCRD:  anything goes

Simon Says:  layer it up

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday:  anything goes

Creative Fingers:  anything goes

Corrosive:  anything goes

Stamping Sensations:  floral or fauna

International Art & Soul:  3 of something - 3 layers, 3 gemstones in two corners

Dragonfly Dreams:  flowers

613 Avenue Create:  anything goes

The Card Concept:  inspirational image - I was inspired by the colours and the flowers to make my clean & layered card.

Make It Bloom! @ Little Red Wagon

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I'm late, late, late!  And Brenda's challenge, "Make It Bloom!" is a wonderful and easy challenge so, I shouldn't have been!  Truth is, last week got a way from me a bit, and I just couldn't seem to catch up to what all needed done.  I gave myself a list of jobs to have completed before I could eat lunch today, and making and posting this card was on that list.  And, since I'm very food motivated, I got right to it.

This is what I made....

I die cut the sentiment a bit off centre, and was thinking about reprinting it, but decided I was hungry enough to be okay with it as is.  (:  Digi is from A Day For Daisies.

So, why not give our challenge a go this week and join us?  And, if you'd like more inspiration, be sure to check out what the Girlfriends have made.  

Also for:

Craft Rocket:  birthday

Moving Along With the Times:  birthday

Stamping Sensations:  floral or fauna

613 Avenue Create:  anything goes

Seize the Birthday:  faux or real stitching

Feature Fun Folds @ Little Red Wagon

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the challenge is "Feature Fun Folds!" and when I saw that I immediately groaned and thought to myself, "Who picked this dumb challenge?"  And then I realized it was me.

Bah.  Remind me to never pick this one again.  At least I'm not making the folds having to be too much fun.  All that's need is more than one fold.  The time I had trying to make something DT hosting worthy for this challenge!  I did make one card....but there were a number of things I didn't like about it so I didn't want to use it for this challenge.  (You'll definitely see it in future for a LRW challenge, just not a week I'm hosting.)  Then, after three failed attempts in which I kept scoring the paper wrong, I managed a little treat box.  I when I say little, I mean little.  I decided it was much too inconsequential to be used as a DT post, much less a DT hosting post.  (Though, if I'm running late, and don't get anything made for a challenge and the box will fit it, you know I'm gonna end up posting it.) 

I was fast running out of time, so I decided to stop trying to set THE BEST DT EXAMPLE EVER and just make something that would do, that I wasn't going to retch at when I posted it.  And, this is what that was....

I thought I was being all clever, having the image panel be able to tuck under the sentiment, therefore, having the card lay flat.  As you can see, that just made the left side pop up.  blarg

Here's a shot of the fact that it does indeed have more than one fold.  It has a whole two folds.  *tiny sarcastic yay*

I do love this image though.  That bear does look like he's feeling under the weather.  Not only does he have a hankie, he's wearing his bunny slippers too.  But, no pants.  That's okay though.  Pretty sure bears would have a difficult time finding comfy pants, and no one wants to not be able to just snuggle up all cozy when they're sick.  Bears included.  Digi is from Mo's Digital Pencil and the sentiment is from Create With TLC.

So, why not give our challenge a go this week and join us?  And, if you'd like more inspiration, be sure to check out what the Girlfriends have made.  

Also for:

613 Avenue Create:  anything goes

Allsorts:  anything goes

Creative Fingers:  anything goes

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday:  anything goes

Cardz 4 Guyz:  D is for... dots

TTCRD:  anything goes

A Place to Start:  anything goes

Dream Valley:  4 legged friends

Critter Crazy:  anything with a critter goes

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie:  inspirational photo