A Special Day Indeed....

 Today IS a special day by way of...

The Play Date Cafe

The Cafe design team is saying goodbye

to not one, but two designers this week

and it is bittersweet.

Libby & Tracey joined the team just over

7 months ago and we all became fast friends.

As many of you know, most design teams share

a common communication forum and I swear,

the very day we were all signed in together,

it was a party!

The entire team in the first 24 hours spent a

good portion of the day planning our

'fantasy' team retreat and the most fun part

was learning about each of our new designers

and what they enjoyed in their lives.  We had

cooks (Libby), bakers, housekeepers and

athletic director's (Tracey).

I am going to miss these girls as part of

our creative team, but know that they

will be friends for life.

This week, our challenge is sponsored by

and each of our designers were able to play

with stamps of our choice.  I absolutely adore

cattails and this week's colors worked perfectly

to match the head of the cattail.

I have waaaay more green in the project

than I prefer for the actual challenge at hand,

but I preferred the leaves colored-in as

opposed to left white.

I hope you will stop by The Cafe

and check out all the amazing work

from our team and make sure to click on

each of the designer's blogs as they share

their special thoughts on the girls who

are leaving us to take care of their

precious families.

Project Recipe: 

Designer Paper: My Mind's Eye
Stamps:  'cattails' by DRS Designs 
Inks:   Tuxedo Black by Memento, Copic Markers

Tools:  Fiskars corner rounder punch

Embellishments:  sentiment sticker by SRM

mini brads from Recollections