Say It Loud! @ Little Red Wagon

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it's Kate's turn to choose the challenge and she's saying, "Say It Loud!" (Anyone else got Mike + The Mechanics singing full out in their head right now?) which just means that she wants to see those projects with big word art or large sentiments.  

This is what I did.....

Made a tall card (6") so I could feature that word art from Create With Tlc nice and big.  Snowman is from Melonheadz Illustrating...I picked him as it looks like he's basking in the adoration he's feeling from that sentiment.  I had originally went super duper cas (as I tend to do when I'm channeling cas) but it looked way too plain so I stamped on some round snowflakes in white ink....hard to see in the photo but if you look at the W & M you can see one there.  I also *finger knitted him a little scarf and added a holly brad (with the prongs snapped off) as a jaunty accessory.  If you're gonna bask, you gotta look good doing it.

Why not give our challenge a go this week and head on over to Little Red Wagon and link up?  And, while you're there, be sure to check out the wonderful projects the other Girlfriends have created.  

*Finger knitting.....at least what I call finger knitting is something I used to do a lot, absentmindedly, when I was a kid....my version is not really finger knitting compared to the tutorials you see about finger knitting these days....which to me is more like full hand knitting.  This finger knitting is just using your index finger....and is super duper easy.  It goes like this. 

Make a slip knot.

Put it on your index finger.

Loop the yarn (the piece attached to the ball, meaning not the tail of the slip knot) over index finger.

Pick the slip knot up over the new yarn and drop it off your finger while keeping the other yarn on your finger.

Pull the tail to your desired tightness.

Repeat until desired length is reached.

Cut the yarn off the ball (if necessary) and feed it through the last loop to tie off.

And that's it!  Think of all the stuff you can make with your new found skill!  Little scarves!  Snakes!  Worms!  Lowercase Ls!  Sticks!  The possibilities are endless*!  Have fun!

*as long as it's something that is a straight line*

Also for:

ABC Christmas:  W is for winter wonderland

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday:  Christmas

Simon Says:  Christmas

CAS on Friday:  use a big sentiment

Craft Rocket:  Christmas/winter

Crafty Sentiments:  anything goes

The Holly & the Ivy:  Christmas

Shopping Our Stash:  tic tac toe - yarn, stamp over 5 years old (both are), bright colours (admittedly, not a lot of the bright colours)

613 Avenue Create:  anything goes

AAA Cards:  sketch + CAS

Dragonfly Dreams:  Christmas/winter