Dinner with Stamp Camp Friends

Good morning!

Last night a few friends from our disbanded stamp camp group got together for dinner.  We met up in Rowland Heights at a popular spot called MJ Café where we dined on lots of good Taiwanese/Chinese food and huge café style drinks.  We had not seen each other since right before our friend, Angie's second son was born.  He's now 6 months so it's been quite some time!  We picked up right where we left off having a good time and chatting away.  Angie's birthday was on September 2nd, so we had much to celebrate.  Here are some pictures of the food and the drinks...

^ That's Kathy up in the corner and
a shot of our food and some of the drinks

Here's my drink and I put it next to the
small bowl so you can see how big it was!!

Green Tea, salted caramel iced tea...
It was yum!

You might recognize a couple of people in the next two pictures...

Friends from stamp camp

On the left is Linda of Life of a Girlie Girl blog, behind her is Angie, me, across from me is Jen, next to her is Jenny from Sesame Bijoux on Etsy and next to her is Kathy from Pixie Boutique blog.  Sorry the picture is so blurry! Boo!!  Anyhoos, as you can see we pretty much demolished the food and our drinks.  hahaha!   Now remember I told you we were also celebrating Angie's birthday?  Well I made her a quick card featuring one of Glisten Bean from TGF. 

Happy... Bean-day!

I had so much fun coloring her blue hair!!  I kept the rest of the card super CAS.  On the inside of the card it says "...Birthday!"  For some subtle accents I added two butterflies and some black gems.  Love this one!

Glisten Bean - TGF (retired)

Stop by Linda's and Kathy's blogs to see what they've been up to and if you're in the market for some pretty sparklies head on over to Jenny's Etsy store.  Thank you for dropping by today!

Hugs,
Leanne

Challenges:
TGF GVT - Blue Raspberry
DTC CH #20 ATG
 

Glisten Bean Washi Tape Shaker Card

Hola!
This is my second post today.  Please scroll down to see my Y&FH "Shape for Mother's Day" post.

This morning I was in a rush to finish this card for the current FFF - Monochromatic over at The Greeting Farm.  I had my image stamped but needed to figure out what I wanted to do with it.  I thought creating another washi tape shaker card would go wonderfully with this image.  I think the washi tape might have tipped me over in to choosing the colors I wanted to use, then I checked the samples from the design team and I really got inspired by Rosie's card.  I hadn't done a black and white card in a long time so thought I would give it a go.

Here's my version of a black and white washi tape shaker card.  [HAHAHA!!  I just noticed that you can see some of my reflection in her hair!]  Anyhoos here is the card and the washi tape is the black and bigger white polka dots (K&Co).  For a fun and easy tutorial check out this post.  I think I might have put in a bit too much extras which include the fun little accents on the stamp.  I stamped, colored, and fussy cut them out. Added some clear beads and punched some small clouds.  After closing the top part I mounted it on to a white piece of cardstock, then on to the polka dot dp and then on to the black cardstock.  Added the black and white bakers twine to tie it all together.

Whew, I was able to upload this to the FFF over at The Greeting Farm early this morning before it closed.  Thirty minutes to spare!  Yay!  Well had I not gotten in, I still would have posted this here.  It's pretty darn cute.  Would also like to submit this to a new challenge I was recently introduced to, Card Makin' Mamas.  Their challenge is to use Washi tape, which was perfect for my card.   Definitely looking forward to makin' more of these easy/fun cards and getting my washi tape stash up!  Thanks for stopping by!!  Enjoy the rest of your day!!

xx
Leanne