Certain calories shouldn't count

You know what I mean but that, right?  There are certain times and situations when what you consume should have a zero calorie balance and should have no ill effect on your body (or in my case specific areas of your body like your fl"ab"s).  For example, birthday cake.  You should get to eat as much of your birthday cake in a sitting as you want without gaining a single ounce.  Or anytime anyone (like your grandma or your great aunt) says, "Eat this, it's good and I made it specially for you" and you don't even like whatever is made but you gotta eat it or risk offending them.  That shouldn't count either.

Another thing that shouldn't count is if someone messes up a restaurant order.  Like if you go to Tim Hortons and order a "chai tea latte, one sweetner, bag out" and when you're driving away you realized that they messed up your order, again, and you ended up with some sort of coffee (blech) drink (you think the "bag out" request would at least clue in the employee that tea was what I was going for) with something floating in it and you take the lid off and see that it's whip cream and while you don't drink the coffee (blech) you do lick all the whip cream off the lid, well,  those calories shouldn't count at all either.  [And, you shouldn't have to be at all embarrassed when you realize the people in the vehicle beside you watched you lick that lid clean the whole time you were stopped at that red light.  That should be another rule, when you're in your vehicle you are invisible to the outside world.  Then we could really get into our impromptu car concerts when one of those 80's hair bands songs (I'm totally thinking Twisted Sister here) comes on the radio, couldn't we?]

And what does this have to do with my card?  Nothing.  But my last non-dt post was short and boring so I couldn't do that again and I really had nothing craft-related to say.  Anyhoo, here's my card.

Now, I generally don't show multiple photos of my card, I figure subjecting you to them once is enough. I am going show you another pic as I don't think the layout of this comes across in the first one.

I got meself an acetate window going on there. Digi is a freebie from Birdie Brown.

For:

Birdie Brown:  use November freebie
Addicted to Stamps:  Christmastime
Christmas Card Challenges:  paper piecing
Stamptacular Sunday:  winter bliss (stamp)
2 Sisters:  winter wonderland
Pink Gem Challenge:  paper piecing
Challenge Up Your Life:  first snow
Love to Create:  non-traditional holiday colours
Paper Playtime:  anything goes
Creative Stamp Friends:  x-mas
Creative Card Crew:  anything goes
Scrap-Creations:  Merry Christmas
Dream Valley:  non-traditional Christmas
Moving Along With the Times:  3 elements beginning with the same letter (snowman, snowflake & sentiment)

Trim the Tree @ Little Red Wagon

This week at



Tammy wants us to "trim the tree" which is pretty self-explanatory. And any tree will do, you don't have to use a Christmas tree. And I'm glad 'cause I used a.....

....bird tree. Pretty cool graphic, eh? It's from Graphics Fairy.

So, why not head over to Little Red Wagon and enter the "Trim the Tree"challenge? And be sure to check out the fabulous projects the other Girlfriends have done.

Steampunk Santa

'Cause he's just perfect when you don't want to go all cutesy.

Digi is from Make It Crafty.

For:

Just Us Girls:  photo inspiration
Moving Along With the Times:  let's go dotty
Scrap-Creations:  winter
Ladybug Crafts:  snowflakes
Bearly Mine:  snowflakes
Divas By Design:  2 or more patterned papers
My Sheri Crafts:  tis the season
2 Sisters:  winter wonderland
Digi Chick:  photo inspiration
Addicted to Stamps:  Christmastime
Bunny Zoe's:  winter
The Squirrel and the Fox:  anything goes (Ladies, I apologize for originally omitting the link!)

Boy Oh Boy @ Little Red Wagon

This week at



it was my turn to pick the challenge so I thought we could go masculine this week and I chose "Boy Oh Boy" as the theme.

I took a break from Christmas cards and made this.....



congrats card as I needed, well, a card to congratulate someone.

So, why not head over to Little Red Wagon and enter the "Boy Oh Boy "challenge? And be sure to check out the fabulous projects the other Girlfriends have done.

Halfway Inspiration @ UnstampaBelles

Well, we're halfway through the month again so it's time for a bit of inspiration from yours truly for November's challenge at UnstampaBelles.   This month the challenge is "Monochrome" so we want to see projects that are different shades/hues of ONE colour. Just remember - no stamps (unless they are sentiment stamps with less than four words).

I did brown last time and I was almost going to go with brown again but I decided to switch it up a bit and I went with.....

.....pink! 'Cause pink is a pretty awesome Christmas colour if you were to ask my opinion my the subject. Btw, that bling is pink even though it looks slightly orangey.

So, why don't you shove those stamps aside for just one card and enter the "Monochrome" challenge at UnstampaBelles