A play day with my friend

I know some of you would like to see what my art friend Kathy and I did (and didn't do) on Tuesday, when I went to her home for a visit. I got there before she even had a chance to get to the craft room. But she had prepared a lot of things before I got there. For example, these are the rubber stamps she removed from their wood and placed them in folders.


Kathy's husband, Don, let me in while Kathy got dressed.


He was actually contemplating where he would set up this card table, so it could hold the punches she brought out for us to use, while I


left my bags near the chair I would be sitting in for the day.


She had some ink pads ready to go,


along with some dabbers and adhesive.


By this time, Kathy had made an appearance. She showed me some of the stamps she had not yet removed from their wood.


I took a photo of her die cutter, while Snowball, their cat, slept in the corner behind Kathy's cane.


She even had her embellishments ready to go and had


printed some Halloween images for me! But before we could begin, we had to eat those luscious cinnamon rolls I stopped in Yoder, KS and purchased for the three of us.


Under these images were the owls Kathy bought at Michael's on Friday.


For a few minutes, it was an assembly line, where Kathy cut the paper, since the cutter was on her side of the table, and I scored the paper using her scoring tool.


Fast forward a couple of hours and a few dozen mistakes made by both of us, Kathy was still reworking the one card she managed to complete the entire day.


I thought I should at least get a photo of this card that took so long to make.


In the meantime, I had made these two cards, as well as


these two. Of course, I hated the way the stamps refused to stamp over the yellow moons, so I tried to hide the mess I made on both. To Kathy's credit, she got out a small applicator, and tried to repair the four birds in the top card above.


I even put messages inside all of my cards, although I only proved what a lousy stamper I am.


I spent the remainder of the day cutting or embossing using Kathy's Sizzex, eating a fabulous spur of the moment meal prepared by Kathy,


or punching holes. At this point, Kathy was working on a second card. Hers are always so elegant!


At dark-thirty, I left as Kathy said goodby from her doorway. I didn't get home until after midnight, so I was dead tired and just crashed. I didn't check any blogs or put anything away. In fact, some of the things I brought home are still sitting on the table or chair in my craft room. I have decided to try to make a few cards with the images and die cuts I brought home, so there is no need to put them away. But today, I knew I had to remove these photos from my camera, then shop for groceries. A late start on both, but I'll get there. Have a great Wednesday, everyone. I'm off to buy groceries and will be by for a brief visit later.

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