Friends on World Card Making Day!

Hi there! Happy World Card Making Day! 

In spite of phones and texting and Face Plant and Twiddle and so many people thinking they don't have time to bother with sending cards in the mail any more, cards are a maxibazillion dollar industry. For those of us who make our own cards, we have Our Own Day!! 

Here is my card celebrating friends:

The embossing folder is "Linear" by Lifestyle Crafts. The owl and female fox are ... wait. Hold up. 

Honestly, people, I thought that female critter was a fox. Hammy looked through all my critters (and there are a lot of them) and told me it was a female fox. But now that I am typing this, I'm not so sure. Is that a cat? Seriously, is it? Because, darn it, I was going to enter a challenge that calls for "Forest Friends." Sigh. But, wait, there are feral cats, right? Okay, you convinced me. 

So as I was saying the owl and the (muffled) and the toadstools are from Paper Smooches and the male fox is from Papertrey Ink. The friends sediment from My Sentiments Exactly is copper-embossed. The branch is from Memory Box. The googlie eyes are from my googlie-eye stash. The critters are watercolored using my watercolor pencils. 

Here is a close-up of the coppery shine and winking:

Challenges

• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.
• The Card Concept Challenge: Forest Friends. (Clean & Graphic. I think.)
• Virginia's View Challenge: All Things Colored.

Look Who's Here!

Could I be any happier embracing my bloggie friends in front of the Playhouse?!

A lot of you have already seen two of these talented bloggie friends gracing the pages of my blog before. They are Harriet on my right and Kim on my left. And on Kim's other side I'm squeezing none other than the fabulous Greta! On Thursday we were all delighted to meet each other live and in person!

Greta is from Oregon and she is just as charming and fun-loving as I imagined she would be from her wonderful blog, GG Creations. If you don't know these three ladies, you are missing out on a lot of mega-talent and inspiration!

Greta's sister Laurie lives nearby and she also joined us. She kindly took the photos for us. Thank you, Laurie! It was a pleasure to meet her, as well!

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I think everyone also knows how much I love cinnamon rolls, right? Well, sweet Kim made and brought us all cinnamon rolls to have with our coffee AND she made another pan just for the Mister and me! What a friend to have, right?! Thank the Lord for elastic waistbands and PALEEESE do NOT tell the Mister about this pan of rolls! He'll never know and anyways, I've only got his best interest at heart because he's pretty much confined to the bed, so this much decadence would not be good for him. Cough.

My sisters are going to be so drooling when they see this! And, yes, they are that good!

One last share for you:

Greta brought us gorgeous handmade frames which she made by foiling and die-cutting fun foam and I wanted to show you mine. Isn't it pretty? You'll see other examples of this awesome idea in several recent posts on her blog!

New Friends Corner

This post is running long, so I will be back to introductions in my next post.

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Enjoy your day! No, seriously, enjoy! LITS!*

As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse and special thanks to you if you take the time to join as a follower! Please let me know you came by, so I can be sure and return the flavor when the Mister is up and running again. I'm happy to say we've been drama-free the rest of this week and his leg is slowly improving!

*Life is too short!

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