Summer Camping.....

Hello everyone: We've never been camping on one of this fabulous trailers but, we've gone camping with our daughters when they were little and now, also with our  grandkids a few times and it's loads of fun. Aside from the mosquito bites, sleeping on the floor (which I don't think I can handle anymore), rainy days, muddy tents and warm food that turns cold the minute you serve it, being outdoors hiking and making S'mores under a sky full of stars is an amazing and unforgettable experience, the kids remember and so do grandma and grandpa so, when I saw the challenge over at Cupcake Inspirations with a theme of "THE GREAT OUTDOORS", I jumped in with this card. I'm also linking it to this new challenge I found called Paru's Card Making Challenges "August Challenge" with a theme of FAMILY, I hope this card fits the theme, after all, we all went camping as a family.   Here is my card.

Isn't that camper just adorable? I honestly can see my hubby and I renting or maybe even owning one of this campers and, after he retires, just traveling all over the good old USA. This is on top of my wish list, hope we can swing it one day.

But anyway, this sweet image is from a sadly retired Flourishes set called "S'more Fun", stamped onto Canson water color paper with Stazon ink and colored with SU markers with a bit of highlights and shadows done with Prismacolor pencils.

The pattern paper is from a retired line of Lili of the Valley DSP, when they announced they were discontinuing this products, I went a bit crazy and bought a bunch of pads of this wonderful ONE SIDED paper. The sentiment is from the set.

Here is a picture of the finished inside of my card.

The sentiment is from another retired Flourishes set called "On the Porch", I stamped it with Mermaid Lagoon distress ink and die cut it with a scalloped oval die, I think it looks really pretty.

Here is the photo that inspired my card.

I think this cupcake, with it's fire and toasting marshmallows is just to cute to eat.

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

Hugs from Maria.

Stamps I used.