Merry (Pink) Christmas.....

Hello everyone: I missed the gals at the Merry Monday Challenge over the Summer but now, they are back and I'm so darn happy. Here is a card I made for their Pink and Silver or Gray challenge, I will also link this card to a few other challenges at the end of this post.

I had a ton of fun making this card, love the sweet little Winterberry Small Snowman from Purple Onion and the Stacey Yacula designs, all dressed up in pink.  Since the challenge asks for Silver or Gray I decided to heat emboss this image in Silver using some Canson water color paper and then just add a bit of color with my SU markers, easy peasy.  I die cut the image and the silver panel behind it with an Elizabeth Crafts nesting dies. The little snow flake and star are also die cut, I didn't have a small enough word that would fit inside the star so I just grabbed the Rose Red SU marker and hand wrote  the word JOY.  

The pattern paper is from a retired line from Lili of the Valley, I love this one sided paper and I'm so glad I bought a whole bunch of pads and packets before they were gone for good, sigh!!

Oh, I also embossed the pink panel with a snowfall embossing folder.

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

The sentiment and sweet little mug of goodness are from a retired Flourishes set called "Sweets of the Season".

I would like to link this card to the following challenges.

Merry Monday challenge #215 "Use Pinks and Silver or Gray"

Always Playing with Paper "Photo Inspiration Challenge #79

The Paper Players Challenge #314 by Joane.

Cupcake Inspirations challenge #377

A Snowflake's Promise Challenge #29 "Anything Goes with optional theme of Seasons"

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

Hugs from Maria.

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NEWS FLASH

I have some very exciting news to share with you. 

My good friend Aileen from Colour and Sparkle asked me to be part of the Designer Team for a brand new challenge blog called The Flower Challenge .  I'm super excited and totally thrilled to be joining her and my new and amazing teammates on this fantastic Journey.

This challenge will be all about FLOWERS and that is right up my alley, I think I have more flower stamps than any other kind so I know I'm going to have so much fun making my cards to share with you.  So please, go to the challenge and click on the tab "Design Team" so you can see who we are and learn a little about each one of us.

Then, on October 4th. please join us in the gallery, we would love to see your creations there.

Thank you!

Maria.