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Monday, August 8, 2016

PPA #312 and PP#307.....

Hello again everyone: Sometimes I get confused with the dates of challenges and I think I still have tons of time to enter them. This is the case with this card that I want to submit to the fabulous Pals Paper Arts sketch challenge by Linda Callahan, I thought I had more time but I only have 1 day and a few hours so, here is my card that I finished yesterday (By the way.....I kind of turned the design on the vertical, hope it's ok), I also will enter the The Paper Players with a theme challenge "You Light Up My Life" from Joanne.


This image is from a beautiful retired Flourishes set called S'more Fun and I think it fits the Paper Players theme really nicely. I stamped the image onto Canson water color paper and colored it with SU markers, I sponged a bit of Squeezed Lemonade distress ink on the lantern's glass for a warm glow. The sentiment is from the same set, I framed it with one of the dies on the Oval Regalia set. 
To follow the sketch, I inked up one of the stamps on the retired SU set called "Gorgeous Grunge" with Versamark ink and heat embossed it with gold embossing powder. 
Here is a picture of the finished inside of my card.


The sentiment is from a Flourishes set called Magnolias, the flowers in the corner are from another Flourishes set called From the Desk Of....., that little butterfly was my attempt of covering a black ink smudge, ughhh!! don't you hate when you have your panel all done and looking pretty and you mess it up with your inky fingers??!!! I tried to erase it with no luck so I looked for a stamp that would be small enough not to take the entire space and that also would go with my inside panel and I found it in the beautiful retired SU set called Flowering Fields
Here are the banners that inspired my card.


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

12 comments:

Patti Willey said...

Love the little glowing lantern! So Country in red and the little butterfly doesn't look lonely at all with the cute flowers on the bottom great save!

Linda Callahan said...

This is so pretty! Very summery! Great combo of both challenges!

Hannelie said...

Beautiful card in my favorite color!
Thanks for joining the Paper Players Maria ♥

Mary Fish said...

Beautiful watercoloring, Maria. I love the gingham background.

laurie said...

What a sweet image!I love that lantern..Thanks for sharing at The Paper Players..so happy you joined us!

Patti MacLeith said...

Bright and cheerful card. Join us again soon!

Maria Rodriguez. said...

Thank you my friend, thought of coloring it green but red looks warmer.
Lucky save with that butterfly, although they say this could be just a happy accident.

Maria Rodriguez. said...

Thank you for stopping by, Linda. It was fun combining this challenges.

Maria Rodriguez. said...

Thank you for stopping by Hannelie, yellow is such a fresh and bright Summer color.

Maria Rodriguez. said...

Thank you Mary, seems to me Gingham paper really looks good with almost everything.

Maria Rodriguez. said...

Thank you Laurie, I always have fun playing along with The Paper Players.

Maria Rodriguez. said...

Thank you Patti, you can be sure I will join you guys again soon.