A CAS card for The Flower Challenge.

 Hello everyone: I hope you and your families are doing well, taking care of each other and still wearing your masks.

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CAS is the theme for the Month of June over at THE FLOWER CHALLENGE and we have the fabulous Joy Claire Designs as our generous sponsor, she's giving our lucky winner 3 digital stamp sets of their choice up to a value of $25.00 so, please go check out her store and start making a wish list, her designs are beautiful.

The DT was gifted with some digital images and this is one of them.  This set is called "Spring Rose"

This is the INSIDE

And this is what I used.

This Image from Joy Claire Designs.

Prismacolor pencils.

The stencil is from Altenew "Splatter"

Tim Holtz distress inks.

Sentiment in front from Power Poppy "Always Here".

The sentiment inside from Power Poppy "Simply Camelias"

Border from SU retired "Bordering Blooms"

Butterfly corner punch from "The Paper Studio"

I hope you hop over to THE FLOWER CHALLENGE blog for more inspiration from my awesome teammates and then, join us in our gallery, remember that the prize for our winner is a $25.00 gift voucher to the Joy Claire Designs store.

Thank you for stopping by.

Stay healthy and safe.

XO
Maria.

Bewitching.

Hello everyone: I hope you and your families are doing well, keeping each other safe and still wearing your masks.

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Welcome to another fun and fabulous 2 OLD BATS HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE, we hope you come and play with us, here's the mood board to give you some inspiration but also, you can hop over our challenge blog page and check out my teammates' awesome creations.

This is the card I made, isn't this gal just gorgeous? I wonder what she's cooking.

I hunted these images after seeing a card on Pinterest that made me fall in love with this Witch back in October of 2017. I found that the Witch and the Cauldron are from a company called "Mostly Animals", which went out of business in 2005.  The spider is from a 2006 Stampin' Up! set called "Best Friends" I also found on eBay. By the way, this set has 4 other amazing images plus 2 sentiments.

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This is the INSIDE.

And this is what I used.

The spider is from a 2006 SU set called "Best friends"

The Witch and Cauldron are from "Mostly Animals" (discontinued)

I used one of the dies on the 2018 SU set called "Cauldron Bubble" 

to stamp the sentiment in front and the broom for the inside. 

The sentiment inside (very fitting for this card, LOL!!) is from a

2012 Flourishes set called "Fresh Baked"

The spider inside is from a 2010 SU set called "Dark and Dreary"

Prismacolor pencils.

I don't know about you but I'm having a blast creating Halloween cards, I have a fabulous stash of fantastic images, from cute to down right scary, but all super fun, I'm so happy to be able to share them with you in an attempt to inspire you to dig out your fun Halloween images and play along, it's sad that all of these stamps are put away for 11 months of the year and only see the light when Halloween is approaching.  Find the kid in you and come and play with us.

Thank you for stopping by.

Stay healthy and safe.

XO
Maria.

 

 

A Forgotten Rhododendron.

Hello dear friends: I hope all of you and your families are doing well, things are getting better out there, but I believe we are not out of the woods yet, so we still have to be cautious, keep our distance and keep wearing our masks.

I have a card I created with a forgotten, NBUS stamp from "Technique Tuesday" called RHODODENDRON, I don't recall buying this set, the date on the stamp says 2014 so, if I bought it, it's been waiting patiently for me to wake up and see it, sheeesh!!

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This is the INSIDE.

This is what I used.

The Rhododendron is from "Technique Tuesday"

The sentiment in front is from the same set.

The sentiment inside is from Flourishes "Hydrangea" (2012)

Prismacolor Pencils.

I'm playing with.....

My Time To Craft

#458 "Floral"

Color Crazy Challenge

Week #21 "Anything Goes Coloring"

Thank you for visiting me today.

Stay healthy and safe.

XO
Maria.

My Little Drummer Boy.

 Hello everyone: I hope you and your families are doing well, taking care of each other and still wearing your masks.

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DEAR FRIENDS: YOU PROBABLY KNOW BY NOW THAT FEEDBURNER WON'T BE MANAGING EMAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS STARTING IN JULY SO, MY DEAR FRIEND VIVIEN HODGE, A TEAMMATE FROM "THE FLOWER CHALLENGE" WAS KIND AND SWEET TO HELP ME ADD THE "FOLLOW" TAB THAT IS LOCATED RIGHT UNDER MY TRIATHLON PICTURE. YOU CAN CLICK ON IT AND SIGN UP AS A FOLLOWER.

I MUST CONFESS THAT I REALLY DON'T LIKE THESE CHANGES, I'M VERY COMFORTABLE WITH THE WAY THINGS WERE BUT, LIKE WITH EVERYTHING IN LIFE, CHANGES HAPPEN.  

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My almost 14 year old grandson, Steven Michael was recently awarded "Most Accomplished and Dedicated Band Member" at his Middle School, he plays the drums.    

So this is a card I made to congratulate my sweet grandson, we feel so blessed and grateful to have our grandchildren in our lives from the moment they were born.

This is the INSIDE.

This is a quote I found on the internet, I attached it to the inside flap of the card.

And this is what I used.

The image is from the Internet, it's just the black silhouette of the drummer, I added gold paint to the edges of the drum set, I punched out the front of the big drum and replaced it with gold glimmer paper.

The "rays" around this drummer are also cut from glimmer paper, the initials of Steven Michael's name are die cut from blue foil paper.  The school colors at Steven's school are blue and white.

The quote on the inside is also from the Internet, I really love what it says.

As many of you know already, it's really, really hard to create cards for teenage boys, so I'm happy to have an abundance of images and quotes from famous drummers to help me make cards that are suitable for this amazing young man.

I want to play with these challenges.

Allsorts Challenge

Di's Digi Challenge

"Show Sparkle"

Thank you for stopping by today. 

Stay healthy and safe.

XO
Maria.