I See...@ Little Red Wagon

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it's Brenda's turn to choose the challenge and she's saying, "I See..." which means she wants to see those projects that have some sort of a see-through element.

This is what I did.....

I've got a couple of snowflakes cut from polka dot vellum and the sentiment is a sticker, which you can also see though.  Digi is from Stamplorations.

Can't say I blame Europeans for throwing our heat back at us......but couldn't you have waited until today at least?  I booked yesterday off work to go on a day trip that included a couple of hikes.....in weather where, when you factor in the humidity, it was 40ºC.  So, two hikes turned into one.....on a poorly marked trail so my directionally challenged ass got lost.  After tromping around in the bush for a bit trying to find the trail I finally admitted to myself I wasn't going to find my way back without help, so I pulled out the pocket rectangle and gps'ed my way back to the parking lot.  Man, was I gassed.  I really gotta stop thinking I'm 30 years younger.

Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian peeps!  🍁

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:  Christmas

ABC Challenge:  L is for Let It Snow

Fab 'n' Funky:  something that begins with B - buttons, black, brown

Christmas [or not] Bingo:  B - Christmas, red, plaid, digital image

Die Cut Divas:  Christmas in July

Merry Little Christmas:  anything Christmas goes

Moving Along With the Times:  use a colouring medium

Addicted to Stamps:  die cuts

A Place to Start:  anything goes

613 Avenue Create:  anything goes

Dragonfly Dreams:  masculine

Peace on Earth:  anything Christmas goes

Sweet Stampin':  anything but birthday

Crafty Catz:  anything goes

Creative Fingers:  anything goes

Cupcake Inspirations:  anything goes

Feather, Fur and Fin @ Little Red Wagon

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it's my turn to choose the challenge and I'm saying, "Feather, Fur and Fin" which means I want to see any animal or critter on your make.

This is what I did....

Another tag for the Christmas box.  The stamp is from The Cat's Pajamas, (who are no longer in business ): ).

"Feather, Fur and Fin" is a 2008 song by Danny Michel, who is from Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario.  It's a commentary, and cautionary tale on how we treat the environment.  To give you a sample, the chorus goes:  "Every little critter | with feather, fur & fin | cried to Mother Nature | to come back for them | for every piece of litter | for every little sin | She cried for all of them | feather, fur & fin."  There is an official video for the song on YouTube, but I found it quite frantic and visually hard to watch, so if you want to hear the song, I would suggest you do so however you listen to music.  Unfortunately, not much has changed since 2008 and so the song is still very relevant today.  Danny Michel has another protest-style song he released in April 2025 called "Northern Star" which very nicely captured how most Canadians were feeling at that time, as well as paying hommage to past protest songs and artists.  Song title is linked to the YouTube video is you'd like to experience it for yourself.

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:

Crafty Calendar:  all about the men/boys

Sweet Stampin':  anything but a birthday

613 Avenue Create:  anything goes

Dragonfly Dreams:  masculine

Peace On Earth:  anything Christmas goes

Crafty Catz:  anything goes

Creative Fingers:  anything goes

Fab 'n' Funky: something that begins with B - believe, brown, bow

Addicted to Stamps:  die cuts

A Cut Above:  anything goes with a die cut

A Place to Start:  anything but a card

Die Cut Divas:  anything goes

Crafty Animals:  anything with an animal goes

Critter Crazy:  anything goes with a featured animal

Tag Along:  add some text

The Little Things:  anything goes

Simon Says:  anything goes

Cupcake Inspirations:  anything goes

The Male Room: outdoors

O is for Outdoor @ Little Red Wagon

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it's Imke's turn to choose the challenge and she's saying, "O is for Outdoor" which means she wants to see projects featuring all the places that aren't inside.

This is what I did.....

As you can see, I'm featuring the great outdoors with trees and snow.  And a twine bow that I'm definitely going to trim those unruly ends of before it gets used.  I should point out, that big splat there is most assuredly from a thrown snowball during the Bush League Bandits Annual Snowball Fight and not a deposit from some large bird......despite the fact that it looks like the deposit from some large bird.

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

Dragonfly Dreams:  masculine

Crafty Calendar:  all about the men/boys

Crafty Catz:  anything goes

Addicted to Stamps:  any occasion

Creative Fingers:  anything goes

Christmas [or not] Bingo:  N - Christmas, tree, free

Merry Little Christmas:  anything Christmas goes

A Cut Above:  anything goes with a die cut

A Place to Start:  anything but a card

Peace on Earth:  anything Christmas goes

Simon Says Monday:  masculine

Sweet Stampin':  something for the boys

ABC Christmas:  L is for Let It Snow

Simon Says Wednesday:  add a sentiment

Tic Tac Toe:  patterned paper, free, twine

The Male Room:  outdoors

New York State of Mind @ Little Red Wagon

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it's Kate's turn to choose the challenge and she's continuing to have Billy Joel songs inspire the theme with this week being "New York State of Mind" which just means she would like to see those creations with urban scenes, or skylines or even travel.

This is what I did....

I used some building dies (which I think are from Taylored Expressions) and a freebie from Create with TLC to make this scene.

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:

The Male Room:  vehicles or transport

Shopping Our Stash:  up, up & away

Sweet Stampin':  Christmas in April

Peace on Earth:  inspirational image

Krafty Chicks:  masculine

Unicorn Challenge:  use dies

A Place to Start:  anything goes

613 Avenue Create:  anything goes

As You Like It:  pastels or brights - I prefer brights as I feel they make more of a visual impact.

Cupcake Inspirations:  travel

Crafty Catz:  anything goes

Simon Says:  anything goes

Tic Tac Toe:  patterned papers, layers, red

M is for Masculine! @ Little Red Wagon

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it's Imke's turn to choose the challenge and she's saying, "M is for Masculine!" which means she would like to see those masculine makes.

This is what I did.....

Yep, back to tags again.  Kraft, green and red and a handsome bear....I think I've got masculine covered.  (:

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:

Critter Crazies:  anything goes with a critter

Merry Little Christmas:  anything Christmas goes

CRAFT:  Christmas - children

A Place to Start:  no squares

613 Avenue Create:  anything goes

Crafty Catz:  anything goes

Creative Fingers:  anything goes

Addicted to Stamps:  any occasion

Crafty Animals:  anything goes with an animal

Boy Inside the Man @ Little Red Wagon

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it's my turn to choose the challenge and I'm continuing on with the theme of some of my favourite songs by Canadian artists with this week being, "Boy Inside the Man" which means I'd like to see those projects for or about men and/or boys.  

This is what I did.....

I made a birthday card for my grandbaby's birthday in a couple of months.  Digi is from Mo's Digital Pencil.

Now, a bit about the song....."Boy Inside the Man" is a 1986 song from Tom Cochrane & Red Rider.  It's about the rite of passage that covers the ages from 17 to 31 .  I've linked to a "revisited" version on YouTube as there is no music video for the song and the sound quality of the older videos are pretty atrocious.  This version stays fairly true to the original song.  If you're not Canadian, you may have heard of Tom Cochrane's (he went solo in 1991) global hit "Life is a Highway".  That song reached number 1 in Canada, number 6 on the Billboard Top 100 in the US and reached the top 2 in both New Zealand in Australia.  Can't say I'm that big of a fan of "Life is a Highway".....and that's mostly Rascal Flatts' fault.  They covered the song for the movie Cars, which was a favourite of my middlest and he went through a period where he watched it everyday for, I dunno, felt like a year. Definitely not a fan of Rascal Flatts and one of my BIGGEST pet peeves is when country singers cover rock songs.  If you're interested in checking out other songs by Tom Cochrane, I highly recommend "Big League", "Victory Day" and "Stonecutter's Arms".  Afaik Rascal Flatts kept their grubby and unnecessarily twangy mitts off those songs.

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

Crafty Catz:  anything goes

Creative Fingers:  anything goes

Shopping Our Stash:  I'm counting on you

Simon Says:  make it cute

Pick 3:  embellishments, bright colours, colouring

Just the Way You Are @ Little Red Wagon

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it's Kate's turn to choose the challenge and she's continuing with Billy Joel songs with this week being, "Just the Way You Are" meaning she would like to see those projects celebrating someone.  Pretty easy that one - you could do almost any occasion - wedding, new baby, anniversary, friendship, Valentine's Day, graduation, congratulations etc. etc. etc. Or you could do what I did....

....and go with a birthday card.  This card is for my middlest and I even got the word celebrate on there to be an Extra Good DT Member.  (:  Image is from Binary Bazar on Etsy.  I made the sentiment in Canva but got the inspiration from a stamp set I picked up at ScrapFest last year....but it wasn't the right size for the right sized balloon.  That's one of the things I love about digis/computer generated sentiments - they're the right size every time.  (Except when you print them out at the wrong size.  Which is what I did on the first printing of the bear.  But I can't fault the digi for that.  (: ) 

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:

As You Like It:  Cute or elegant?  - I prefer cute.  I find cute cards more fun and can be used for more occasion than elegant cards.

Fab 'n' Funky:  dies

The Sisterhood of Crafters:  stitching

Crafty Catz:  anything goes

Creative Fingers:  anything goes

Crafty Animals:  anything goes with an animal

Crafty Critters:  anything goes with a featured critter

A Cut Above:  anything goes with a die cut

A Place to Start:  anything goes

613 Avenue Create:  anything goes

River of Dreams @ Little Red Wagon

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it's Kate's turn to choose the challenge and she's going with Billy Joel songs this year, and first up it's "River of Dreams" which means she would like to see projects to do with nighttime or dreaming etc.

I made my very first tag for Christmas 2026.....

....and went with a snowy nighttime scene.  Got the word night as well as a tiny moon by the sentiment (that is actually on the sentiment stamp, so no extra stamping there) on there too.

Looking at it now, I wish I had taken the time to put different shades of yellow for the light in the windows rather than just slapping a rectangle of yellow cardstock on the back of the die cut.  Next time....well maybe.  Oh, and I both embossed and debossed the snowflake background and that was definitely a style decision and not because I put the tag in backwards at first. 

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.

Can You Handle the Pressure?:  anything with embossing goes - Sizzix snowflake embossing folder

613 Avenue Create:  anything goes

Peace on Earth:  anything Christmas goes

ABC Christmas:  A is for anything goes

Crafty Gals:  anything goes

Fab 'n' Funky:  winter wonderland

The Sisterhood of Crafters:  spots and dots

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie:  inspiration photo

Merry Little Christmas:  anything Christmas goes

Moving Along with the Times:  use dies

Christmas Bingo:  O - stitching, twine, patterned paper

A Cut Above:  anything goes with a die cut

A Place to Start:  anything goes

Make My Monday:  patterned paper

Simon Says:  emboss it

J for Just One Word @ Little Red Wagon

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it's Imke's turn to choose the challenge and she's on her last letter for this year - J - and she's saying, "J for Just One Word" so brevity is theme for this week.  (-;

This is what I did.....

....it's a tag!  I KNOW! (That last screamed sentence is for those who have seen my failed attempts and grumblings about past tags/tag challenges, and here I went and made a tag even though I didn't have to specifically make a tag.....what?!?!?!?!?!?!)  Tag dies are from the now closed Your Next Stamp and the other dies are from Recollections (via Michaels).

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:

Creative Fingers:  anything goes

Jingle Belles:  wrapping up

CRAFT:  Christmas

Crafty Gals Corner:  tis the season

Ellibelle's:  anything goes

Fab 'n' Funky:  Christmas

The Sisterhood of Crafters:  anything Christmas

613 Avenue Create:  sparkle (Not showing that great in the photo but the 'peace' is cut from glitter fun foam.)

Simon Says:  sparkle

Dragonfly Dreams:  tags

Peace on Earth:  inspirational photo

Crafty Calendar:  Christmas

Critter Crazy:  anything goes with a featured critter

Die Cut Divas:  Christmas

A Cut Above:  anything goes with a die cut

A Place to Start:  winter things

Neglected Stuff:  anything goes with neglected stash - tag dies

Halloween! @ Little Red Wagon

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it's Chrissy's turn to choose the challenge and she's saying, "Halloween!" which means she wants to see those projects all about that spookiest of days, October 31st.

This is what I did.....

I used a digi from The Cat's Pajamas, which sadly, is no longer in business.  ):

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:

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday:  anything goes

Fab 'n' Funky:  colours of autumn

613 Avenue Create:  anything goes

Crafty Calendar:  Halloween

Love Those Pretty Papers:  Halloween colours

Craft Rocket:  Halloween

Shopping Our Stash:  Halloween

Unicorn Challenge:  Halloween

A Place to Start:  pump it up for pumpkins

Neglected Stuff:  anything goes with old stash - The patterned papers and the witch charm are all at least ten years old.

Two Old Bats Halloween:  anything goes Halloween

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie:  inspirational photo

Christmas [or not] Bingo:  I - Halloween, orange, paper piecing

I'm Still Standing @ Little Red Wagon

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it's Kate's turn to choose the challenge and she's continuing to take us through Elton John songs with this week being "I'm Still Standing" which means she wants to see those encouragement cards.

This is what I did.....

I used a freebie from Melonheadz Illustrating and made a (fairly cas) good luck card.

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

Crafty Catz:  anything goes

Creative Fingers:  anything goes

A Place to Start:  anything goes

Simon Says:  anything goes

Slimline! @ Little Red Wagon

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it's Brenda's turn to choose the challenge and she's saying she wants to see those slimline cards.  Generally, slimline cards are 3.5" x 8.5" but I'm betting she'd be happy seeing cards that are long and slim, even if they're not exactly "right".

I've fudged the measurements on slimline cards before but this one is indeed 3.5" x 8.5".....

When I was routing around in a drawer I came across these dog stickers I don't even remember buying....so I'm thinking I've had them for awhile.  (It's better to think that than to think I bought them recently but completely forgot about it!)  I thought they'd be perfect for this.  Admittedly, this card ended up so far away from what I had originally planned that you'd need a telescope to see it.....and that's only if the curvature of the earth didn't get involved.  I mean, grey grass?  But, I quite like it, and despite changing....well everything....it came together easily so I'm happy with the result.

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:

Crafty Catz:  anything goes

Creative Fingers:  anything goes

Ellibelle's:  anything goes

Creative Animals:  anything goes with an animal

Fab 'n' Funky:  cute

Critter Crazy:  anything goes with a featured critter

A Cut Above:  anything goes with a die cut

A Place to Start:  anything goes

Neglected Stuff:  anything goes with old stash

613 Avenue Create:  anything goes

G is for Gentleman! @ Little Red Wagon

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it's Imke's turn to choose the challenge and she's continuing to work her way through the alphabet and she's saying, "G is for Gentleman!" meaning she wants to see those masculine makes.

This is what I did.....

I went with this amazing digi from Poppy Lane Digital (whose Etsy shop appears to be closed ): ) and made a birthday card.  I absolutely love this style of digi stamp.  Sentiment was made in Canva.

I need to make a very important announcement.  Even though the sentiment states "When life sends you a birthday...eat cake!" I would like to point out that anytime life sends you anything is an appropriate time to eat cake.  Got sent an email?  Cake.  Got sent to the 'next available agent'?  Cake.  Got sent a package from Amazon?  Well, hopefully it's cake, because cake.  I rest my case. 

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:

As You Like It:  favourite colouring medium - I love me my Prismacolour pencils!  Easier to control how much colour to put down and less expensive than markers.

A Place to Start:  anything goes

Dream Valley:  2 or more papers

613 Avenue Create:  anything goes

Dragonfly Dreams:  lots of layers

Allsorts:  something that begins with B - birthday, blue, blow

Creative Fingers:  anything goes

Simon Says:  anything goes

Be Krafty! @ Little Red Wagon

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it's Brenda's turn to choose the challenge and she's saying, "Be Krafty!" which means she would like to see kraft paper on our projects.

This is what I did.....

I used to use kraft cardstock a lot.....but for quite some time I haven't found kraft paper I really like.  I really like the top kraft paper (that I embossed) but I'm down to scraps, which is why the card base is a completely different shade of kraft that I'm not very fond of.  Digi is from The Cat's Pajamas, which has closed.  ):  Tag is a digi from LOTV.

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:

Peace On Earth:  anything Christmas goes

Craft Rocket:  animals

Creative Fingers:  anything goes

Tic Tac Toe:  any colour, free, sentiment

Ellibelle's:  anything goes

Allsorts:  animals

CYHTP:  anything goes using an embossing folder

613 Avenue Create:  anything goes

The Holly & Ivy:  anything Christmas goes

A Place to Start:  anything goes

Make My Monday:  snow in August

Double D:  bee happy

Crafty Animals:  anything goes with an animal

Critter Crazy:  anything goes with a featured critter

Christmas [or not] Bingo:  B - Christmas, brown, digital image 

Masculine! @ Little Red Wagon

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it's Chrissy's turn to choose the challenge and she's saying, "Masculine!" which means she would like to see those masculine makes.

This is what I did.....

To me, "masculine" for cards means clean lines and not a lot of frou-frou.  Admittedly, that's most of my cards.  Made this challenge super easy for me.  (:  Digi is from the long closed Dilly Beans stamps and sentiment tag is from LOTV.

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:

The Sisterhood of Crafters:  stripes

The Holly & Ivy:  anything Christmas goes

Dream Valley:  Christmas in July 

Make My Monday:  masculine card

613 Avenue Create:  any holiday

Peace on Earth:  anything Christmas goes

Crafty Catz:  anything goes

Creative Fingers:  anything goes

My Time to Craft:  use 2+ designer papers

CRAFT:  Christmas in July

Moving Along with the Times:  masculine

Simon Says:  anything goes

Ya Gotta Have Christmas in July! @ Little Red Wagon

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it's Brenda's turn to choose the challenge and she's saying, "Ya Gotta Have Christmas in July!", so let's see those winter holiday makes!

This is what I did....

I was doing some tidying and came across this image (from Tim Holtz) already stamped on textured cardstock, from back in the day when I did all my colouring on it, and I thought I'd give that a whirl again.  I think it works well with this stamp.  Used up some scraps for the background - go me!  lol

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:  any holiday

Peace on Earth:  anything Christmas goes

Sweet Stampin':  Christmas in July

Creative Fingers:  anything goes

CRAFT:  Christmas

Craft Rocket:  Christmas in July

Moving Along With the Times:  masculine

Crafty Gals:  Christmas in July

Ellibelle's:  anything goes

Fab 'n' Funky:  Christmas in July

Unicorn Challenge:  Christmas in July

Merry Little Christmas:  anything Christmas goes

A Place to Start:  anything goes

Dream Valley:  anything goes

Neglected Stuff:  paper scraps and pre-stamped image

Addicted to Stamps:  make your mark

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road @ Little Red Wagon

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it's Kate's turn to choose the challenge and she's continuing to take us through Elton John songs with this week being, "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" which means she wants to see yellow on your project.

This is what I did.....

Digi is from Melonheadz Illustrating.  Kinda wish I had done the sentiment as a couple of lines rather than single words now that I'm looking at it here.  But aren't those gold wings fantastic?!?  Pure luck I found them because I was looking for something completely different when I went spelunking in my embellishment drawer.  Never did find what I was actually looking for, of course.  (:

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

Peace On Earth:  inspirational photo

Crafty Catz:  anything goes

Creative Fingers:  anything goes

As You Like It:  soft or bold colours - I prefer bold colours.  They pack more of a visual punch.  (:

CRAFT:  Christmas

Addicted to Stamps:  Christmas

The Holly & Ivy:  anything Christmas goes

Crafty Gals Corner:  adorable

Ellibelle's:  anything goes

Merry Little Christmas:  anything Christmas goes

Christmas [or not] Bingo:  N - Christmas, free, dots/gems

A Place to Start:  anything goes

Dream Valley:  things with wings

Neglected Stuff:  patterned paper, digi

Allsorts:  inspired by a song

Inkspirational:  seasonal