A Long Awaited Playdate with Michele

Hello friends.  It's been a looooong time since Michele and I had a playdate because of Winter, sickness, car troubles, etc., but we finally got together last week and had a wonderful time playing with each others goodies!  Nothing better than having stamping friends to share with!!  And of course our shared lunch was wonderful too!  I made Taco soup and corn muffins and Michele brought her famous butterscotch cheesecake...yummmmmm!  But anyway, back to cards!  This is a rather picture heavy post, so I'm not going to type everything I used down, but if you have questions, don't hesitate to ask!

This 1st card is the only one that I think Michele and I did together using a PFS set that another sweet friend (Birgit) gifted me for my birthday called Heart of Gold.

 

Don't you just love that sweet little bluebird sitting in the lemon tree?!  Used my Copics to color everything and then die cut and added to a Crimped Rectangle (The Greetery).

My next 3 cards are all Tulips...2 using Waffle Flowers Tulip Dies and one using Penny Black's Tulip Bloom Die.

Frame is PB's frame it and the embossed background is PB's linked embossing folder.  I used the smooshing water color technique to color my tulips. The sentiment on this card and the next are both from PTI's Just Sentiments: Spring Blessings.

More smooshing and a bit of ink blending on this tulip and the background is a retired SU! background stamp called En Francais.  The frame is a larger one of the PB frame it set and the sentiment is from a embossing folder (I think it was Altenew) where after you emboss it, you can cut the sentiments into strips and then color them as you please.  I just added some gray ink with a blender brush to match with the background.

My last card is a PB image called moon & back and I colored the images with my Copics and then die cut them before adding to a panel I die cut with the The Greetery's Postage Stamp Die and then added a stenciled circle lightly in yellow to mimic the moon.  

So there you have it my friends...another fun playdate in the books!  Make sure you check out  Michele's post and see what she came up using lots of my goodies.  And THANK YOU Michele for letting me play with all your fun and beautiful stamps and dies...I haven't had this much fun in a long, long time!  Stamping friends truly are the best!! 

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A Playdate with Michele

Hello friends.  Michele and I had another fun playdate together last week, and we played mostly with Penny Black images (although I think Michele has a few other things to share with you from my stash.)  I have 4 cards to share with you, so let's get right to it!

My 1st card uses everything Penny Black except for the sentiment.

The stamp set is called sweet sledder and I Copic colored her and added her to a frame using the Crystal Frames die with foam tape used behind both onto my card base.  The die cut trees are using the Tree Border die and I added glitter to add some sparkle to the scene.

I finished this one with a simple sentiment from Gina K's All At Once: Christmas Sentiments.

This sweet little girl from the bundled buddies set was Copic colored and paper pieced with polka dotted dsp from PTI.  My background was ink blended with blue & green and then splattered with white acrylic paint for snow.  The two trees are from PB's tall trees dies in Old Olive & Mossy Meadows cardstock (SU!).

My sentiment for this card came from the sweet sledder set that I used on my first card.

This little sweetie is from PB's Let's Chill stamp set and was colored with my Copics and a white gel pen for the plaid look on her scarf.  I cut her out using PB's Stitched Square & Circles die, using one of the larger circle dies on the image and a smaller circle die for the sentiment (PB's Feeling of Christmas).  My background uses an embossing folder from Richard Garay that I've had forever and lightly blended pink ink over the top of it.  A few pink glitter gems from PFS finished off this one.

My last card uses one of the little carolers from the Sing Joy stamp set and she was once again colored with my Copics and added to a postage die cut (also PB) that was ink blended with a light gray.  

 I stamped a background using SSS's Hand Lettered Holiday with Real Red ink and added a thin Smokey Slate cs layer behind that before adding all to a white card base.  I finished with some red & white baker's twine and a few red glitter drops from PFS.

So there you have my sweet little group of girls using PB stamps and Michele will be sharing some of these same cuties on her blog that you can find right HERE.  This was a perfectly timed playdate, as it was the day after the elections last week and we both needed the support of a good friend and someone to share our concerns with.  It sure didn't stop us from having a wonderful time together and as always, Michele treated me to a wonderful lunch of chilli and cornbread and I brought pumpkin cheesecake bars for dessert.  Yummy!!!  I'll have a few more cards to share later on using some of the goodies Michele let me use while I was there, so stay tuned.  In the meantime, definitely go check out Michele's post to see what she did with these same stamps and more.  And thanks Michele for your wonderful friendship and a wonderful day spent together...always the best!!

 

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