Playing Cards with Friends - October 2023

What can I say about my October guest ... she is someone I've enjoyed and admired for years ... she really knows her way around words [some of my favorite things!] ... has captured the interest of an abundance of followers on Instagram both with her fabulous eye for card design and generous praise for others who create.  OH, hey!  I guess mentioning her name might be nice. 

I'm so happy to be Playing Cards with Joan Bardee!!  a.k.a Dear Paperlicious and @dearpaperlicious on Instagram!  

There's something else I love about Joan: she LOVES a pun-y joke and has a slapstick charm about her sense of humor!  You'll never guess how I have incorporated that into our assignment this month:

Did you know that October 31^st isn’t just for Halloween??

It’s also: National Knock-knock Joke Day!  

Read all about it here:

NATIONAL KNOCK KNOCK JOKE DAY - October 31, 2023 - National Today

Use Halloween colors and share a knock-knock joke, too!  

I have been known to tell a joke or two on a card - some of you may remember THIS one from 2014 or THIS one which has seen a few rewrites!  But today I brought my sweet little owls out to play again - hope you get a hoot out of my knock knock card...

PLEASE tell me you get it??  I'll give you a moment... how about now?   

Joan!!  I know you'll do better than I did!!  Thanks so much for putting up with my silliness - and for Playing Cards with me, my friend!

Thank YOU, my friends - I know I can count on you to head over to Joan's blog - she's much funnier than I!

=] Michele

Spiced Cider card from The Stamp Market

PTI Layer to Layer: Torn Edges dies - debossed with Altenew Dotted Swirls die.

Elizabeth Crafts: Give a Hoot

Words: all my own =]

Spellbinders Hemstitched Circle dies.

Just us Girls #696 - Moon

It's Word Week over at Just us Girls and my friend Bobby is the host!  She has chosen a really fun word for the challenge - and pretty much the perfect word for the Autumn card making season, too!

This one's for you, Bobby!  Here's his closeup first:

My sentiment was created on my PC.

Inside:

Do we have enough frequent flier miles for that??

I know how much Bobby loves her owls - it was meant to be!  I've had this set for a few years now and even the fact that it needs to be fussy cut doesn't bother me.  An old die from EH and a die cut circle for my moon that I treated to just a touch of grey around the edges.  I 'stickled' the stars for a bit of extra fun, and that's all she wrote!  wait... OWL be darned if I forgot to mention my little hooter is on an action wobbler!

Hope you join me in 'mooning' those JUGS girls this week!  The DT have really outdone themselves this week - who am I kidding, they do that every week!

=] Michele