My last retreat guests leave early this morning. I'm sad :(.
But we got to have our traditional tacos together at my fave taco place - Tacodeli. Breakfast is normally when we go, but they are great for lunch and dinner too.
Our post-retreat shenanigans are really mostly about food, if I'm being honest. So many great places to eat here, we hardly have enough time to hit our favorites.
But it's not for lack of trying.
So I need to do some fasting :).
Anyway, I had a happy Lawn Fawn accident not too long ago, which is the reason I'm bringing you this card today.
I had placed an order for some of their newer interactive dies. I noticed when I got the order that there was a die in the order that I had not ordered or paid for - it was the coordinating die for the set I'm using today.
A few days later, the stamp arrived and I was so tickled to be able to make a taco card. It's an insanely cute stamp set. This stamp and die set was designed for their 9th birthday!
I am hoping to be able to start catching up today after being gone for the entire month of October. I'm woefully behind on most of life right now. Wish me luck.
Can you be creative in a group? Or do you craft alone?
I can do work like coloring or repetitive stamping or background stenciling etc. in a group, but I can't design in a group.
So when I go to retreats, I really don't bring much to work on. I bring Games magazine and do crossword puzzles and talk to people. I used to bring so many supplies, but then I figured out I'm incapable of actually doing anything productive in that setting, so now my suitcase is much lighter on those trips.
At the retreat I go to twice a year, there are tons of people who work really well in this environment, and two of them have a hand in today's card - Gina K and Dawn from Wplus9.
Gina came a few years ago and I was lucky enough to sit next to her and watch her do the amazing things she does with colored pencils. I was telling her about a pencil blend I really like because it's not toxic, and she asked me if I wanted to test out her Artist's Choice cardstock, which is designed for colored pencil.
I LOVE the cardstock, btw. It's a bright white and has enough tooth to grab the pencil, but still smooth enough for crisp stamping.
But that's not the point.
The point is, I tucked these little guys into my luggage, and when I got home put them in my UFO bin (unfinished objects) and all these many years later, finally made a card with them. Life is unpredictable, and so am I.
But I love them so. Big enough to color, but not so big that they take hours to color - I'm super slow anyway.
Dawn has such a wide range in her stamps. Cute to elegant and everything in between. Plus she's a great human.
The sentiment is this one, and that lovely lavender background paper is from this soothing pastel plaid stack. Perfect complement to the warm oranges and bright green in my foxes.
What's in that one little guy's basket? Cookies maybe.
Or maybe I just want a cookie. Hard to say. Stay tuned below for an interview with Dawn, in case you missed it! She's a gem.
