Little red Wagon #253 - Back To School

Good morning.

How's it going in your house?

We're finally getting back to a routine and I'm currently enjoying the peace......no TV, radio.......nothing!

Just me and the PC.

So, as it's Wednesday it's time for a brand new challenge over at........

This week, quite appropriately, Joanne would like to see a 'Back To School' card or gift.

I decided to ditch the 'apples', 'bookworms', 'schoolbus' kinda Good Luck cards as my kiddo's have reached that age where they will look at it for 2 seconds, mutter a quick thanks, then it's ditched into one of the black holes of clutter that they have carefully arranged in certain places around the house!

Totally undeserving of a unique and original creation! Lol

Nope, this time around I delved into bookmarks.

After scouring the Silhouette store I found a couple of cuddly characters, which did at least garner a few 'awwwww's' from the young un's and have been put to good use!

Totally cute and functional too.

So, off you go and get started on those Back To School projects, but don't forget to link up over on the Little Red Wagon blog when you're done.  The Girlfriends have created a little more inspiration there for you too.

I'll be back on Friday with a layout, but in the mean time I have to get my butt in gear to complete the 101 jobs that are patiently waiting for me.

Have a great day,
Jayne.x.

Little Red Wagon #220 - Inspired By Orchid

Good morning!

Here I am bright and early for this weeks Little Red Wagon Challenge.......

Rosanne is challenging us all today and she want us to be inspired by the Pantone colour of the year.........Orchid.

Now don't be ashamed if you have absolutely no idea what colour this actually is (I thought orchids were predominantly white!!), cause I'm going to make it perfectly clear.......we want to see 'purple'!

Lots of purple please and there's no denying the 'purple' on my creation.

I've been branching out with my Silhouette this last week, so this is a definite 'playing with paper' kinda card.

Here goes:

Like I said......purple!

I also won't go into how fiddly those flowers were.....but they were very fiddly.

Other than the newness of my Silhouette, everything else is extremely old stuff from my stash......especially the paper - that horrible thin stuff that no-one uses anymore and I didn't even realize I still had at the back of my closet!

So go ahead and dig into your own Wagon for some 'purply' goodness......you never know what you might find!

Just remember to link up your fabulous creation over on the blog.  The Girlfriends are waiting there with a little more inspiration for you.

I'll be seeing you soon,
Jayne.x.

Sweet.........

Good morning all.........sorry I've been a little absent this week. I've been celebrating the fact that I have family staying, who have flown in for Christmas, and therefore some company, a helping hand, and of course............babysitters! Yay!

So, Sunday has rolled around again and with it a nasty dose of snow, according to weather forecasts in these parts. Good news is though, there is a new challenge of course, over at the OSAAT Challenge Blog, the last challenge of the year. I'm sure you'll like the theme this week............everyone's favourite..........Anything Goes, and of course we have another great sponsor who will be offering a $10 gift voucher to one lucky winner...........


So on with the show......here's my DT creation for this week..............

Sweet huh? This week I got to use an image called 'Kissing Couple' from Stampin Dragon Designs, which you can find at the Stitchy Bear and I Did It Creations Store. Really cute I thought, and you've gotta love silhouette's......no colouring involved and therefore a real time saver!

Now, if you've visited my blog before, you will know that any colour paired with black is an instant hit in my book, this lovely shade of turquoise being no exception. I had absolutely no intention of using this colour (I was going to keep it solely black and white) till I was routing through my stash and found this awesomely 'blinged' 'SWEET' sentiment I'd bought from a Michaels cheapie bin months ago.............perfect..........a colour scheme was born!

Papers on here are from Queen Martha Stewart again, and I used a Sizzix die (that I haven't used forevah!) for the numerous swirls. The flower is a combination of Prima and Sandylion and the cute heart button is another I picked up from my favourite scrapbook store......Two Scrapbook Friends. The bling and perfectly matched stick pins are $ store finds......gotta love em! As a finishing touch, I added embroidery floss from my stash and doodled around the edge of the card.

I like this card, it's super cute so I think I'll keep it for an Anniversary type of thing. Hop on over to OSAAT and check out the awesome inspiration from the rest of the DT.

This card, will of course be entering a few challenges, so I'll be back later with the deets.

Have a wonderful weekend.....what's left of it, and keep warm. I promise to be back soon with a few more creations.

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Challenges entered:

Craft Your Passion Challenges - #35 Anything Goes

There She Goes - #84 Bring on the Bling

Artful Inkables - #34 Use punches and/or Die cuts

Creative Card Crew Challenge - Anything Goes

Little Red Wagon - #58 Use a Die Cut

Card Makin' Mama's - #11 Anything Goes

Delicious Doodles - #4 Recipe....use 1 image, 2 DP's, 3 embellishments

Stamp Something - Use a Digi

Craft Your Days Away - #10 Punch it out - use a punch/die cut