Crazy Card Party Challenge #1 - Celebrate!

Hello there!

I'm pleased to welcome you to the Crazy Card Party.

A few of us decided to create this blog to inspire ourselves to craft and you are welcome to play along.

Our first challenge is 'celebration'. I created this card to remind us to celebrate everyday!

Head over to Crazy Card Party to see what the other 'party-ers' have created, we hope you join our party!



Supplies used: Spring Fling by Teresa Collins; Stamp/tag die - PaperTrey Ink

Little Red Wagon #219 - All Occasion

Happy Wednesday from the deep freeze!

Temperatures have been down to -23 celsius(with wind chills even colder) for the past two days which is actually a great reason to stay inside and create cards.

And this week's Little Red Wagon challenge is to make an all occasion card.

I kept things clean and simple with a thinking of you sentiment card that can be used for any occasion.

So stay in where it's warm and join us over at Little Red Wagon with your creation!




Supplies used: Whisper Print Daisy - stamp by Memory Box; Everyday Eclectic-paper by Echo Park; Enamel Dots - My Minds Eye; Twine- American Crafts

Little Red Wagon #218 - New Beginnings!

Happy New Year!

I'm back with the first Little Red Wagon challenge of 2014 for which Jayne has selected the theme of 'New Beginnings'.

And in addition, very fittingly, I am debuting my new blog theme and name 'Playing With Cards'.

My blog will now be solely dedicated to featuring my card creations.

Along with changes at my blog, Little Red Wagon has undergone some changes too with the debut of a new blog theme.

We also bid a sad farewell to Regan and Tammy but welcome Tracy and Jodi.

Given this week's 'new' theme, I have created a card using Webster's Pages New Year New You paper:

So if you can, please join us at Little Red Wagon with your 'new ' card creation.

Little Red Wagon #217 - Anything Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!

 Even though it is a holiday I am still posting a challenge this week and of course, it is for anything Christmas.

 I created a card using felt that I've had in my wagon for awhile:

So if you have some time over this holiday season, please link up your Christmas creation  over at Little Red Wagon, we love to see you play along.

12 Days of Christmas Cards - Days 11 and 12

Well, what a day!

Earlier a 6 hour power outage due to an ice storm then tonight a rush around the grocery store to finish the list before their generator quit.

But home to a couple of glasses of wine and finally a bit of time to share my last two days of Christmas cards.

These are two of my favourites.

The first, a mix of kraft, burlap and glitter using a  stocking die cut by Memory Box.

And the second uses cream with a soft blue ornament(using my Mom's Stampin' up punch).

Hope you escaped the worst of this winter weather!

Thanks for stopping by.

12 Days of Christmas Cards - Days 9 and 10

Hi all!

I'm back today with two more Christmas cards.

The first uses only cardstock with a die cut ornament.

While the second uses patterned paper with a little stickles added to the fur trim.

Thanks for stopping by!

12 Days of Christmas Cards - Days 6 and 7

Well, I need to step it up with  my 12 days of cards as I'm running out of time before Christmas!

So here are a couple of other designs.

This first card highlights the patterned paper and uses an ornate buckle cut from a Memory Box die.

This second uses a smaller pattern balanced with cardstock and ribbon.

So what do you think, which is your favourite?

Thanks for stopping by!

Little Red Wagon # 216 - Non-traditional Christmas

Well Christmas is almost here!

And this week at Little red Wagon, Regan brings us the challenge of a non-traditional Christmas theme.

I created this card using tones of brown with cream:

So please dig into those wagons for those non-traditional colours and create something Christmas'y'.

Then link up your creation over at Little Red Wagon.

Thanks for stopping by!

12 Days of Christmas Cards - Day 5

Good morning!

I'm back with my day 5 card!

This card relies on the paper pattern( Winter Fun by Carta Bella) along with a few snowflakes for impact.

And it fits perfectly with the Let it Snow theme(CFC123) over at CAS-ual Fridays.

Thanks for stopping by!

12 Days of Christmas Cards - Day 4

Hi there!

I'm back with another card in my days of Christmas series.

This one is features an ornament made from a Stampin'Up punch I borrowed from my Mom, along with some embossing.

More cards to come soon.

Thanks for stopping by!

Little Red Wagon #215 - Holiday Birthday

This week's Little Red Wagon challenge is brought to you by  Tammy whose birthday was yesterday.

Happy birthday Tammy!

And appropriately she chose a holiday birthday theme.

I kept my card pretty simple with holiday colours  and some sequins and twine too!

Hopefully this inspires you to join us at Little Red Wagon with your holiday birthday creation!

Thanks for stopping by!

12 days of Christmas Cards - Day 3

Today I'm showing a variation on the card I shared yesterday but with the added touch of vellum to the cardstock and glitter paper.

And here is with both a blue background and a white background.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stay tuned for day 4 coming soon.

12 days of Christmas Cards - Day 2

I'm back with day 2 of of my 12 days of Christmas cards.

This card features glittered paper by Stampin Up combined with cardstock and a bit of bling.

Clean and simple but clearly makes a statement!

Have a great Sunday!

12 Days of Christmas Cards - Day 1

I thought I better get started on my 12 days of Christmas cards before I run out of days before Christmas!

For day 1 I'm sharing two versions of the same card, one with gold and one with silver.

Dee gave me a few metallic doilies that I used as a starting point. I added embossed Christmas trees in silver and gold as well as a small tag to complete them.

And I'm submitting the gold and white card into the gold and white challenge over at Daring Cardmakers just under the wire!

Thanks for stopping by!

Little Red Wagon # 214 - Here Comes Santa

Happy first Wednesday of December!

As the countdown to Santa's arrival is well underway, over at Little Red Wagon Jan is challenging us to create anything featuring Santa.

And although I know Jan doesn't particularly like making tags, perhaps these cute Santa tags will change her mind:

And hopefully it inspires you play along and link up your Santa project over at Little Red Wagon, we love to see what you create.

Christmas Tag - featuring Kelly Panacci products

I`ve been such a bad blogger lately!

It`s not that I haven`t been doing blog worthy things, I certainly have, from scrapbooking, baking, decorating, shopping weekends away, attending a cooking class and of course, tag making.

With all these activies the blog has fallen to the bottom of the pile but today I want to share a tag I made.

I recently attend Cropfest, it was such fun, and I made this make and take tag as offered by Kelly Panacci featuring some of her products:

Isn`t it sweet?

While at Cropfest, I also won a subscription to Canadian Scrapbooker magazine and have already received my first issue, thanks Canadian Scrapbooker!

I'll be back soon to share the tags from my 5th annual tag swap and will also be starting my 12 Days of Christmas cards posts!

Thanks for stopping by.

Little Red Wagon # 213 - Off The Edge

Hey all!

It's time for another Little Red Wagon challenge.

This week Joanne wants us to create something with an element extending off the edge.

I've been enjoying creating Christmas cards recently and created this card that features a tree extending off the card base:

Hopefully this helps to inspire you to play along with us at Little Red Wagon this week.

We love to see what you create!

Little Red Wagon #212- Folded

Happy Wednesday!

And it is time for another Little Red Wagon challenge.

This week Joanne wants us to feature an accordion fold.

I used folded paper on this card:

Please link up your folded project at Little Red Wagon, we love to see what you create!

Little Red Wagon # 211 - Trim

Time for another Little Red Wagon challenge!

This week Jayne wants to see trim on our project.

I created this card featuring a piece of lacey trim:

So dig into those wagons and link up your trim adorned creation over at Little Red Wagon.

We'll be sure to pop by to see what  you have made!

Little Red Wagon #210 - Christmas tags

This week it's my turn to set the challenge at Little Red Wagon and I would like to you to dig deep into those wagon, find those those Christmas themed supplies to create some Christmas tags.

Here's a few I've created to help inspire you:

Please link up your tags at Little Red Wagon, I can't wait to check them out!