Playdate with Michele & TK

Hello friends.  As you can see from the title of my post, I had another playdate with Michele two weeks ago and she had a special guest at her house...TK all the way from Washington state!  I had been commenting back and forth with TK for awhile, but had never met her in person till going to Michele's.  We played, laughed, hugged, and of course ate (I've mentioned before that Michele is a fabulous cook, haven't I?!!) just like we'd known each other forever!  Definitely a FUN day and one I'll hold close for years and years to come!

Before I share my cards that we started that day, I have to tell you that my sentiments and embellishments are not where I would have put them if I hadn't had an accident.  Yes my friends, with all my card pieces and several cards for up coming posts laying out on my desk, I had just taken a mouthful of hot cocoa and wouldn't you know it, a BIG sneeze came out of nowhere and splattered all my work with brown hot cocoa spots!  GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!  And it wasn't like I could just restamp or stencil the images I'd worked on with Michele & TK as the stamps and stencils were all Michele's and at her house!!  (NOTE TO SELF...NEVER drink hot cocoa at your stamping desk!!)  Anyway, I was able to save my cards with some strategically placed sentiments, trimming, and embellishments, so all wasn't lost!  Well except for my last butterfly card that I had brought for everyone to color...I did have to re-stamp mine as there were just too many chocolate spots to cover up on that one.  So now let's get started...

  This first card is using a stamp and die set from The Stamp Market called Peony Dreams and was stamped with Gina K Orchid inks for the peony and PFS inks for the leaves.  (If you look real close on the leaves, there are some light brown spots that are NOT planned splatters!)  I placed the die cut flower on a Mint Julip layer (PTI) that I believe is from a Poppystamps cover plate die that my sweet friend Lisa sent me awhile ago. I used a white card base underneath and then added a foiled sentiment using pink foil on black (Spellbinders) and finished with some Disco Ball sequins (Gina K).

 This card uses Altenew's Build A Garden: Pristine Peonies and as you can probably tell from the placement of the sentiment, that the purple flower took a pretty big hit of the hot cocoa!  Oh well, it is what it is!  The foiled gold sentiment is from Spellbinders (Everyday Sentiments II) and the background is using Lawn Fawn's Quilted Backdrop over a white card base.  This card was finished with a few purple gems from PFS.

This card was also from the Altenew Build A Garden: Pristine Peonies and was stenciled in light pinks and greens using residual ink from my blending brushes.  This card fared the best from the hot cocoa splatters and I only had to trim a tiny bit off the top center petal and then attached it to a white panel.  Because there wasn't much dimension with the only two layers of stenciling on this flower, I used Altenew's Beautiful Bergenia embossing folder on my panel before attaching to a black panel and white card base.  Another hot foiled sentiment and a bit of bakers twine on the side and this card was finished.

My last card is the winged wreath from Penny Black that was stamped in Versa Fine Black Onyx and then heat embossed in clear before being colored in rainbow order with my Copics.

  Here's a close up so you can see my coloring a bit better.  My sentiment was a gifted die from my sweet friend Birgit for my birthday last month and is called Mini Expressions - Stacked Make A Wish from Creative Expressions.  A few Disco Ball sequins also finished off this bright and fun card.

So there you have it...another FUN playdate with friends.  You can check out Michele and TK's posts HERE and HERE to see what they did with these same images...I'm sure they'll knock your socks off as usual!  Thanks again sweet friend for inviting me over to play with your never ending supply of "toys" and always feeding us with such YUMMY food, and of course all the laughter and hugs.  And TK, it was such a joy to me to meet you and get to know you better, and of course share hugs and laughter too!  What a fabulous day it was all around! :0) 

Thanks for stopping by today ... I love it when you do!