Make It Stitched! @ Little Red Wagon

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it's Brenda's turn to choose the challenge and she's saying, "Make It Stitched!" which just means she would like to see stitching on your creation.

Lately, for some reason, I've been making card for younger kids.  Not sure why, I don't have any young kids to give cards too.  Well, that's not exactly true, I do have a number of under 10 great nieces & nephews.  Thing is, no one on that side of the family is really interested in cards.  But, that hasn't stopped me from making card for.....well.....to sit in my baskets of made cards.  I did see that my local scrapbook shop is gathering cards to donate to our armed forces, so I'm definitely going to get some of my cards together for that.  I might get all my cards to fit in one basket then!

Anyhoo, this is what I made.....

As you can see, I have two stitched square die cuts on there.  I absolutely love the stitched shape dies.  An easy way to add some oomph to a clean & layered card.  Digi is from Drawn By Krista (who I believe used to be Drawn With Character).  She's got a lot of amazing images.  This one caught my eye so I decided to buy it, even though, as I said before, I didn't actually need it.  After I added the sentiment to the image in Word, got it printed out, coloured it up, and was just about to put on the card, I realized that the critter looks more like a dragon than a dinosaur.  And then I might have said, "Well, f@#k."  But, when I went back and looked, I saw that the image is called Happy Birthday Dino, so I decided it was a dinosaur after all.

I'm impressed that the picture I took this evening, in artificial lighting, turned out as good as it did.  I was going to take a photo this morning but our new kitten was asleep on my lap when I thought to do it, and I wasn't gonna wake him up.  We adopted him from a local rescue, and he's just the sweetest.  Here's a picture of him....

Of course I'm totally biased, but isn't his half 'stache just the cutest thing?  He's estimated to be about four months old, so not a kitten kitten, but not a cat either.  My daughter and I take turn stealing him away from each other.  (:

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

Addicted to Stamps:  birthdays

Fab 'n' Funky:  birthdays

Simon Says:  anything goes

Through the Craftroom Door: anything goes

Use Your Stuff:  birthdays

Watercooler Wednesdays:  anything goes

Harvest Time @ Little Red Wagon

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it's Sandy's turn to choose the challenge and she's saying "Harvest Time" which means that she wants to see fall themed cards. Very fitting!

Now, when you see this you might think I went a little outside the box.....

...but I actually didn't, I followed the challenge more closely than normal coz....

....that's what my oldest was doing this weekend. Now, if he happened to come across a happy, dancing cob of corn on this combining travels....well....yeah, I'm betting he'd just suck that sucker up right into the bin with the rest of the non-sentient cobs. And if I expressed dismay about that he be all like, "What? Gotta get that 10ø." Sentimental, my oldest isn't.

I must say, I love this digi though.  With the freebies I have accumulated, I don't often purchase digis but I snatched this one up 'specially for this challenge.  It was too fun and too perfect not to!  It's from Drawn With Character.

Why not give our challenge a go this week and head on over to Little Red Wagon and link up?  And, while you're there, be sure to check out the wonderful projects the other Girlfriends have created.

Also for:

Dream Valley:  add a sentiment
Star Stampz:  harvest
Aud Sentiments:  bingo + sentiment - patterned paper, digi, faux stitching
Tic Tac Toe Challenge:  tic tac toe - vibrant, circle, stripes
Addicted to Stamps:  make your mark
Crafty Calendar:  autumn colours