Fun with Michele Part 2

Hello friends.  Just a quick post this morning with a few more cards that I made with some of the Anita Jeram images from my play date with Michele almost 2 weeks ago and didn't have time to finish up to put in my first post HERE.  Four cards to share with a couple of sweet pups and snowmen...let's get started.

Isn't he a cutie?!  He comes from the Sweetest Snowman Mini stamp set and I colored him up with my Copics and then mounted him on a panel that I had stamped the snowflake from CCC's BIG & BOLD: Wishes Snowflake stamp set.  The sentiment also comes from that same set, and I also added a small vellum die cut circle (The Greetery's Nordic Circle Dies) behind the snowman along with a few iridescent clear drops from PFS.  

Here's the same snowman but put on a Scalloped Frame from The Stamp Market that my sweet friend Lisa had sent me awhile back.  It's actually a 4 piece frame set...

There is also a piece to put on the back so that the card will stand up like an easel.  The top oval piece I ran through my die cut machine with SSS's 3D Icy Snowflakes embossing folder before adding the snowman (foam tape behind him for dimension) and sentiment strip (Gina K).  I also ink blended the scalloped piece with Ocean Mist ink (Gina K) and then finished with a silver brad so the card could slide open and also a few silver dots around the sentiment. 

Here's that fun pup from the Christmas Hats stamp set, and this time I added him to another one of those BIG & BOLD: Wishes Snowflake stamped with Tranquil Teal ink (Gina K) and another sentiment that's included in that same snowflake set.  

I also added TH's Distress Mica Flakes that I've had FOREVER and never remember to use!  It is such a cool look on this big and bold snowflake...going to have to remember to use this stuff more often!!

 My last card comes from the All is Bright stamp set and like all the others is colored up with my Copics and added to a card base along with a Ornate Rectangle Frame from PFS.  Very CAS but I didn't want to add anything else that would take away from the cuteness of the pup staring up at the Christmas tree lights and the sentiment...sometimes simple is just better!

So now that I've used up all my images from our last play date, I better get another date set up so I can go "borrow" some more goodies from sweet Michele...she has the best stuff to play with!!  Thanks again so much for sharing my sweet friend...you're the best!!  :0)

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Fun with Michele - October 2023

Hello friends.  Had a fun play date with Michele last week, even though Michele had car problems and my 7 year old electronic Big Shot died!  We didn't let it get us down and still had fun stamping, laughing, talking, and of course eating (I made chilli and Michele brought yummy chocolate cupcakes!!)  I have 5 cards to share with you and I think Michele has a million (JUST KIDDING!!), so sit back and get comfy while I show you what I played with!

Michele had some new Anita Jeram (Colorado Craft Co.) to play with including this sweet pup from the Christmas Hats set.  I colored him with my Copics and added a bit of glitter to his hat brim and pompom before adding him to a foiled background (PFS Hearts Grid) and a snowflake layer embossed with SU!'s Winter Snow embossing folder.  The foiled hearts are red and really SHINE IRL!  My little tag is from PTI's Tiny Tags with the coordinating stamp/die set.

Michele also brought her Waffle Flower Postage Collage Die and a couple coordinating stencil sets for me to play with, and I just love how these next two cards turned out!  I used all PFS inks with the Christmas stencils and also a gold fine liner pen that I outlined the ornament lines with and also the Poinsettia centers and dots.  Hard to see in the photo, but the gold really jazzes it up!  Added glitter to the snow on the bottom right rectangle and my sentiment is die cut from mirror gold cardstock using MB's Special Merry Christmas die.  

Can you see my oops with this Everyday stencil?  I spent so much time lining every space up with post it notes so I wouldn't get ink in the wrong place, and then decided to use some postage stamps from The Greetery's (Pretty Postmarks) set and stamped the Special Delivery circle upside down...grrrrrrrrr!!!  (top center)  Couldn't believe I did that, but after all the time I spent lining everything up with the stencils, there was no way I was going to start over!  The smaller sentiments are from SSS's Tiny Words stamp set.

Can you tell I'm on a red and white kick with these cards??  I think this card turned out to be my favorite, and I just used one of the Postage Collage die cuts and then went through all my Anita Jeram stamps and picked out the tiniest images  and stamped them in the squares and rectangles and then colored them with my Copics.  I used SSS's Holiday Tiny Words stamp set for all my sentiments and then finished with a few of Gina K's Disco Ball sequins.  Simple and oh so CUTE!!

My last card is a Spellbinder's Press Plate (Joyeux Noel) that Michele gifted me with awhile back, and I pressed it into some really cool paper Michele had found that has these wavy lines going through it!  It's not as thick as the regular cotton cardstock that you use with the letter press plates, so the impression isn't as noticeable, but the cool wavy lines totally make up for it!!

  You can see the impressions of the wavy lines a bit better in this close up.  I water colored the image using my SU! inks and an aqua painter, and then finished up with a few more of those Gina K Disco Ball sequins and some WOS on the holly leaves.  CAS in these classic Christmas colors and I love the way it turned out!

So even though we had problems with cars and die cutting machines last week, we still managed to make cards and have a wonderful time!  Make sure you check out Michele's post HERE and prepare to be blown away...Michele NEVER disappoints!!  Thanks sweet friend for another wonderful play date!!
 

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