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 #685 CAS Thinking of You

Hello.  My name is Michele, and I am addicted to CAS.  Clean and simple is my favorite of all card style.  Oh, I go a little overboard on occasion, but if a challenge asks for CAS, you'll find me playing along!

Take the challenge from Just us Girls this week:  CAS and thinking of you!  That's my favorite card of all!  lol 

I've kept my card design one-layered - this Spellbinders' die cut hemstitched circle detail was cut from the card front!  The smallest Honeysuckle Stem from The Greetery was layer-stamped right on the front, too - and my sentiment?  stamped using one of the inks I used in the stem.  As simple as that!

The JUGS DT have so many perfect illustrations of CAS you won't have any trouble being inspired - go. see. play!  Thanks for dropping by!

=] Michele