Little Red Wagon #265 Wishy Washi

It's once again time for another challenge at......

This week Heather is our FABULOUS hostess and her challenge is called WISHY WASHI! That's right crafty friends, grab your rolls of WASHI tape and let's start creating.

I don't know about you, but I have a rather large washi stash. However it is one of those craft supplies that I use more to hold my dies in place than to actually decorate my cards and layouts. That said, I was excited for the chance to use my lovely tape to pretty up my card this week.

I created a simple card this week using a Fiskar's Stamp called LATTE LOVE. I added a small strip of pattern paper behind my image and used the washi tape to add a pop of colour to my white and black background.

Grab your WASHI TAPE and play along with this week's WISHY WASHI challenge. Link up your project over at the Little Red Wagon blog and don't forget to check out the inspiration the Girlfriends are dishing up.

Guess what? Little Red Wagon is having a Design Team call. You can see all of the detail on the post here.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous day!

Tracy

Little Red Wagon # 245 - Happy Anniversary

It's time for another fabulous challenge over at Little Red Wagon!

This week Jayne is setting our challenge and her theme is HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

For this challenge I worked with two areas that really challenge me:

1. Clean and Simple
2. Masculine

Here a simple anniversary card just right for that special man in your life. Except mine however as he would question why I was using a coffee theme to express my love, since he cannot stand the stuff. Crazy I know!

The image is Fiskars Latte Love and I paired that with some masculine papers in my stash from Kaiser Craft's Utopia Collection. The image is coloured with Copic markers. The heart was paper pieced and the entire image cut out using the fun Stitched Journalling die from Lawn Fawn.

Inside the card I used kraft card stock with additional patterned paper and another cup of coffee and my anniversary sentiment.

I hope you can join this weeks HAPPY ANNIVERSARY challenge over a Little Red Wagon. Don't forget to check out to fun creations by the other Girlfriends.

Thanks for dropping in to see me!

Perk Me Up!

The snow is really coming down and a great excuse to grab a coffee and do a bit of crafting.  I managed to get a number of cards finished, including some that are a bit more clean and simple. If you look through my cards you will see CAS is not my general style and these cards tend to take me longer than ones with layers.

I really don't know what it is about the CAS that stumps me most of the time. I always feel the need to fill all that white space with something. I figure with a bit of practice I will get better, so that is going to be my challenge to myself for this year, more CAS!

For this card I used a fun stamp set called "Latte Love" by Fiskars. The images are small and good for a simple card. 

I added simple layers to the background and on my cup with paper piecing. The sentiment is from Your Next Stamps "Hot Stuff Mugs".

Inside the card the I re-stamped the coffee cup and added a sentiment from the Latte Love set.

Supplies
Stamps: Fiskars "Latte Love", Your Next Stamp "Hot Stuff Mugs"
Paper: Kaiser Craft "Utopia Collection", kraft card stock
Card: DCWV card base (4 1/4 x 5 1/2)

Challenges:

Allsorts Challenge: # 240 Free & Easy (free of clutter and relatively quick and easy to make)
Cute Card Thursday: #302 Banish the Blue (a little coffee/latte/hot chocolate perk to kick away those holiday blues......although I am a bit blue that my Starbuck Gingerbread latte is now gone for the season)
Through the Craft Room Door: Anything Goes
One Crazy Stamper: Anything goes
Shopping Our Stash: #132 Use the Last of something (my supply of Kraft card stock and the blue card base I made 2 coffee themed cards and this beautiful blue base is now use up from the set DCWV "brights" set.

Stay warm with your favourite beverage and happy crafting.

Tracy