Crafting with friends.....

Just a quick post for today...this past week I headed down to San Diego for some crafting time with Joyce from Cards-by-the-Sea and Marybeth from Marybeth's Time for Paper. I flew down on Tuesday and Joyce and I played with all her supplies, this is like being a kid a candy store and you get to taste test everything! I know why Joyce is so organized, she has so many wonderful supplies, it is the only way to remember what you have. I told her she should hire herself out and asked her to do my craft room first, she really has a wonderful gift! On Wednesday Marybeth joined us for a day filled with some card making and lots of laughter, some of the stories still have me laughing. Thank you Joyce and Marybeth for an amazing time, crafting with friends is so much fun! I have lots of photos to share and several cards too. Thank you so much for taking time to stop by...enjoy your weekend!

 Playing with Joyce's new Poppy dies.

 This was Joyce's idea, to make a card that looked like the blouse I had on. I would have never thought of it as inspiration but I love the look of it!

 My first water coloring attempt...I think I am hooked! Thanks Marybeth.

This card is for the current challenge at Muse. I took my inspiration from the swirls and colors and thought the Scribbles and Circles stamps would be perfect for my card. 

Bobby's card

 Sherlock, Joyce's crafting companion

 Joyce, Sherlock, me and Marybeth

 Our mess

more mess.....

Happy Friday!

Edited: Thanks for Geri for the heads up that my watercolor card will fit in the current Moxie Fab challenge, Wonder Watercolor World.   Thank you so much Geri!

Just popping in for a quick post at the end of a fun day...met my daughter for lunch at our favorite taquaria, The Tortilla Factory in Newark, it is an amazing little market/restaurant.  My first card is one more using the beautiful flowers that Joyce from Cards-by-the-Sea sent me from The Cutting Garden stamp set from PTI, in fact all of my cards tonight are made using the fabulous supplies she sent.  I will also be entering these in this week's challenge at Simon Says Stamps Anything Goes. 

 My next 2 cards are made from heat embossed images and then water colored. These tulips are simply amazing, so beautiful.  What a fun technique to try out too. The pink tulips are using paint brush dipped in water and then on the ink pad, the red one is from using a reinker with water and a paint brush. I love the look of the water coloring and is really was very easy to do. A fun way to color an image without having all those pens that I really don't need, right? Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by to peek at my cards....have a wonderful weekend!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Cutting Garden

Solid Card Stock: White and Winter Wisteria

Patterned Paper: Winter Wisteria and Royal Velvet

Dies: Lil Inkers - Polaroid Frame and MFT Fishtail Flags

Ink: Winter Wisteria

The Cutting Garden - Joyce, thanks

Watercolor Tulips

Solid Card Stock: Pure Poppy, Raspberry Fizz and White

Bling: Stash

Ink: SU - Real Red reinker and Raspberry Fizz and New Leaf

Stamps: Dress Form

Stamped Images: Joyce, thanks