Spring Playdate with Michele

Hello friends.  Have you been wondering if Michele and I don't have playdates anymore?  It sure seemed like it to us!!  Winter is LONG here in West Michigan and it was a really snowy and COLD Winter this year, so needless to say, that hour drive just didn't happen!  Finally though, we got together last week, and it was a wonderful reunion as always...we talked and talked in between stamping, LOTS of laughing, and Michele made her wonderful white chicken chili for lunch!  I tried a new recipe for dessert (Strawberry Oatmeal Bars) and they were ok, but not sure I'd make them again!  I'll go back to something tried and true next time!! Haha!!  Anyhow, you came here to see cards, so let's get going here!

I brought my new SB's Daffodil's & Tulips press/foil plate and we each made a couple cards using it.  I pressed mine using Delicata Gold ink and then filled everything in with the stencils and pinks and green inks.  I ended up fussy cutting a portion of the right side of the image and then using foam tape placed it over a background done with SU!'s retired En Francais background stamp and more Delicata Gold ink.  

    I finished with a few PFS gold glitter gems and a sentiment that Michele had given last year. I think it might be from a SB's set.  

Another card using the SB's Daffodil's & Tulips set and this time I pressed the image using Delicata Silvery Shimmer ink, and then stenciled the leaves and flowers with purples, yellow/orange & green inks (mostly residual inks from my blending brushes...I never wash my ink blending brushes!).

I used Kristina Werner's A2 Thin Frame dies for the black frame and the sentiment and then finished with SSS's Cream Puff Embellishments.

My 3rd card uses a WF set from Michele...NPC - Peony.  I love how this stencil set has a stencil that will color your background...it adds such a bold POP of color!  I used all C&9 inks for the peonies, leaves and background.  I matted it with black and attached (with foam for some dimension) to a embossed background from Michele (pretty sure it's a SSS ef).  The sentiment is another from Kristina Werner's A2 Thin Frame Dies.  I finished with a small butterfly from SSS's Flourish Butterfly Trio and a few Cream Puff embellishments from SSS.

 My last card uses the same WF NPC Peony stencil set and more C&9 inks.  I used SSS's Teardrop Pinpoint Frame Dies to cut out my stenciled piece and then added foam tape behind it before adding to a SSS Tiny Flora EF layer and then a white card base.  I sprayed the whole card with Sheer Shimmer Sparkle spray for a nice all over sparkle and then finished with another press plate sentiment from Michele (and Spellbinders).

Once again, we did more talking and laughing than creating, but we just always finish up the cards we started at home, so it all works out perfectly! Make sure you check out all of Michele's creations HERE...you know she'll blow all of us away with her creative genius!  And THANK YOU Michele for hosting and giving us another wonderful day to remember...Love ya!!   
 

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