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Saturday, March 19, 2016

ATCAS.....DELICATE.....

Hello everyone: There is a new challenge over at Addicted to CAS for this week,  hosted by Ksenija , her blog is "Sweet Kobylkin" and she picked the CODE WORD "DELICATE" for us to play with.  The gals of the DT gave us a bunch of definitions and ideas for using this word in our cards, I chose this image to interpret it.

As far as delicate, the Humming Bird is one beautiful example. This little flying jewels amaze me and delight me!!! The feeders outside my kitchen window looking into the back yard are constantly being visited by this sweet and gorgeous little birds, they are very used to me replenishing the sugar water and they just fly to the near by trees to wait for me to finish so they can come back and take another sip and then, fly away to rest, it's a constant marvelous coming and going to the feeders, they are not even bothered by the little bees that sometimes share this sugary drink.
Although it's still kind of early in the Season for them to get here, I know they will eventually come back and once again they will put on their show of color and beauty and incredible strength. 
Here is a close up of this image from a retired SU set called "Spring Song", this beautiful stamp set came out way back in 2008!!!


I stamped this image onto Canson water color paper and colored it with SU markers and the aqua painter, I added some high lights and shadows with my Prismacolor pencils.
I wanted to add a bit of shimmer to his colorful throat but my Wink of Stella has no more ink, it's time to get another one.
Here is a picture of the finish inside of my card.


The sentiment is from the same set, the little humming bird is from a retired flourishes set called "Humming Along".
Here is the CODE WORD that inspired my card.

And here are the pictures of the stamps I used for this card.
SU "Spring Song" came out in 2008!!!

Flourishes llc. "Humming Along"

Thank you for stopping by, until next time, happy stamping.
Hugs from Maria.








13 comments:

Sonny said...

Such a pretty card ! I love it when those little Hummers start coming to my feeder in the Spring .
I love that SU set ,but I do not remember it ....such pretty images . Your Humming Bird is too too cute !!

Maria Rodriguez. said...

Thank you my friend, I needed to be reminded that I didn't put the date when this beautiful set came out Sonny, it was way back in 2008!!! I just went and corrected this oversight. I love each one of this sweet images. I can't wait for this beautiful birds to come back.

Patti Willey said...

Great retired SU! Set there Maria, I love birds! Here, my Grandfather would say the Hummers come back for Mother's Day, sure enough that's the first day we see them in Vermont! Lovely!

Mary Fish said...

Delicate, indeed! Beautiful hummer!

Maria Rodriguez. said...

Thank you Mary, I wish this gorgeous little birds would stay all year long. I can't wait to see the first ones arriving at the feeders.

Aileen said...

Beautiful colouring Maria.

Maria Rodriguez. said...

Thank you Aileen, I can't wait for this little birds to come back.

TaeEun said...

Delicate and beautiful, Maria! I've never seen a hummingbird in person! How lucky you are to have them in the back yard!

Maria Rodriguez. said...

I love this set Patti, it's one of my most treasured old sets from SU! If your Grandpa was correct, we don't have much to wait.

Maria Rodriguez. said...

Oh TaeEun, I so wish you could see them fly around, they are just gorgeous little birds and, for their size, they are incredible migrating creatures! I can't wait to see them come back.

Unknown said...

Had to leave a comment on this post, Maria, as I am going backward to the Retro post. This hummingbird is amazing... fantastic coloring, my friend...

Bhavana said...

very pretty card.. lovely colouring. Thanks for joining us at ATCAS!!

anja curvers said...

Wow such a pretty card with great coloring. Thanks for joining us over at ATCAS.