CRAFTING WITH THE LADIES

 HAPPY FEBRUARY!!   As you know this blog is pivoting this year and even though the name is still Simply Cards it is now going to be a wide assortment of whatevers.

Today I celebrate Girlfriends.  I'm not talking about the boy/girl relationships that can get oh so complicated, I'm talking BFF'S.   We girls NEED girlfriends.  I've heard alot of people say "Oh I married my BFF I don't need to have anyone else".  REALLY????  Ok I can believe the I married my BFF part but you don't need anyone else??  I don't know what I would do with out my Girlfriends.  I'm closer to some than others but they are needed in my life and I am super lucky to have some that I can share my love of crafting with.  We have a small group of 5 and we try to gather  at least once a month.  Twice a year we even plan our very own weekend sleepover.  All of us plan a couple of crafts and card projects and we all bring food for the weekend and invade one of the ladies homes.   She just so happens to live alone and has a large home so that's where we go.  It is the best of the best of times!  These ladies are a blast.  We gather for movies and a drink afterwards during the summer/fall months and we have attended some of the local scrapbook expos.  We text alot......talk way too much sometimes and eat alot of great food that we are usually guinea pigs for.  If a recipe needs to be tried we can get 5 opinions lol.  Men seem to be able to do without the need for some one to cling to. They can sit in front of the TV alone watching sports sometimes for hours and never say a word to another real human being. They don't really seem to have this need to hug someone when they see them.  We girls want that closeness.  We want to talk to a real person who  understands our feelings just by looking at us sometimes.

So now that I've gone off on this random whirlwind of why I need my girlfriends lets get back to crafting with the ladies.

This past weekend happened to have been a planned Saturday for us to get together for some crafting.  Unfortunately 2 of the 5 of us could not attend and had to cancel at the last minute but we went ahead and just made take home bags to drop off at their houses for them.  I had already shared with you my triangle Gnomes in an earlier post seen     HERE   so I won't repeat that photo but here are the crafts we produced Saturday.

The Gnomes were a big hit.  The LOVE card was super cute but time consuming as each word was glued down separately.  But what a cool idea for all those "Love" dies you might have.  I know I have quite a few of them and might do this card again but maybe in purples and pinks.

This book card was awesome.  Took some playing with to get it to open correctly and found we needed to use pop up foam on all layers for it to work.  This could be made into a sympathy as well as a wedding or baptism card too.

Not sure what this card was called but you pull the tab to reveal a secret message.  Cute little card for a child with these papers and with different wording and papers it could be used for adults too.

This card was made with pre-printed vellum sheets that we highlighted with Nuvo Drops.  We layered it on top of an embossed sheet that we had stamped our sentiment on.  Very elegant.

Lastly a door decoration.  How cute!  Valentines Day is just around the corner and this was not too difficult.  The lady who put the pieces for this together had everything all ready for us.  The hearts were raw wood and she went ahead and primed them for us to save time.  Though I forgot to ask her where she got the hearts from (I will assume Hobby Lobby since she shops there alot) My daughter in law showed up yesterday with similar ones from the Dollar Tree that are a bit smaller but still could be used.  The words were cut from vinyl on the Cricut and so were the hearts and the felt roses we hot glued on.  We replaced the jute hanger with red satin ribbon.

Well thanks for sticking with me through this really long post.  I hope you all have treasured friends like I do.

Til next time........................................................