Meeting new friends

Today I had the great pleasure of spending some time meeting with one of my online friends... Kim  and I "meet" on the Hero Art Flickr group  over 3 years ago.  She lives in Mandurah in Western Australia.  This past weekend, hubby was taking part in the New Zealand Ironman in Taupo and they are having a few days R&R before heading back to Australia.  I was thrilled when she contacted me a few months ago to see if we could meet up.  Of course, I said YES... and invited them to come to my house for morning tea.

There we are... the blondies from Down Under!

Kim came bearing gifts as well... a beautiful tea towel from her home town, some coasters and a gorgeous Aboriginal canvas plus a lovely set of cards inspired by Jennifer McGuire's Kindness sets as well as a beautiful card that's sitting on my bookcase.  And a fabulous bottle of wine.  She really spoilt me.    Mandurah is about 45 minutes south of Perth where my daughter lives so when I go over in May to visit, I'm going to catch up with her again.  She told me there is a Craft and Quilt Fair on while I'm there so we will try and meet there.

I took the day off to meet with Kim and her hubby so got some time to play in the afternoon

 I made this card for the Tag It game at StampNation.  You CASE the card of the  person before you.  I CASEd a card from Melissa.  I used her colours but mine are much brighter.  I also used her idea of a circle with the sentiment and my butterfly is black and hers was white.  I used a Hero Arts background with some distress inks, spritzed and stamped onto watercolour card.   The circle sentiments are from the StampNation Young at Heart collection. 

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