Warm Wishes.

 Hello everyone: As always, I hope and pray you and your families are doing well, keeping each other healthy and safe.

I have this CAS Winter Scene card to share today, my favorite image on this cute set is that teeny, tiny Snowman.

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This is the inside.

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And this is what I used.

Stampin' Up! "White Christmas" (2014)

Flourishes "A Wreath for all Seasons" (2012)

Flourishes "Joy is in the Air" (2011)

Power Poppy "Merry Littles" (2014)

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I want to play with:

 CAS Christmas Challenges

 Alphabet Challenge

"W is for Winter"

Thank you for visiting me today and for your comments, they are very much appreciated.

Please stay healthy and safe.

XO

Maria.

A Very Chickadee Holiday Card.

 Hello everyone: As always, I hope and pray you and your families are doing well, keeping each other healthy and safe.

My card today features some of my favorite Winter Birds, the Chickadee.  These tiny, fluffy little critters are a delight to see when they flock to the bird feeders, they hold their ground when the bigger birds, especially Cardinals, come to eat, they are so sweet and fun to watch.

                 This is the inside.

And this is what I used.

Power Poppy "Tweet Tidings" (2017), both sentiments are from this set, I really love the one in the front.

Prismacolor pencils.

Stamping Sensations

 The Four Seasons Challenge

Thank you for visiting me today and for your comments, they are very much appreciated.

Stay healthy and safe.

XO

Maria.

My First Cloisonne attempt.....

 Hello everyone: I hope all of you and your families are doing well, keeping each other healthy and safe.

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I'm a person who loves to try new things at least once if anything, just to see if I can do them.  Recently I heard of a new (to me) technique called "Cloisonne", I saw a few video tutorials on how to do it and, to my delight, it's really simple, what took a little longer was to find my magazines and browse through the pages looking for the best images with lots of colors, to use.  So, here's my first ever "Cloisonne" card, please let me know what you think, ok?

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This is the inside.

And this is what I used.

Stampin' Up! "Peaceful Petals" (2014)

Flourishes "Tulips for Friends" (2013)

Tim Holtz "Alterations" Die set.

Flourishes "Hydrangea" (2012)

I want to play with:

CAS Mix Up Challenge 

For my added elements I added "Fussy Cutting", "Dry Embossing"

and "Heat Eembossing"

Thank you for visiting me today and for your comments, they are very much appreciated.

Please stay healthy and safe.

XO
Maria.

Happily Ever After.......

 Hello everyone: As always, I hope and pray you and your families are doing well, keeping each other healthy and safe.

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We've come to the halfway point on THE FLOWER CHALLENGE, the theme is "Occasions" and my card is celebrating a Wedding Day.

I had a dental appointment last week and, while waiting to be called, I was browsing a magazine and found this amazing bouquet of Pink Calla Lillies, I've never seen these flowers in person but they are gorgeous.

So I decided to make a sort of CAS Wedding card, with these flowers before they are tied up into a bouquet with the ribbon.

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This is the inside.

And this is what I used.

Flourishes "Calla Lillies" (2012)

Concord & 9th. "Happy Day" (2016)

Altenew "Beautiful Day" (2015)

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Thank you for visiting me today and for your comments, they are very much appreciated.

Stay healthy and safe.

Maria.

Botanical Plates for RR #176

 Hello everyone: As always, I hope and pray you and your families are doing well, keeping each other healthy and safe.

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The RETRO RUBBER CHALLENGE has a fun sketch for you to play with, here's my card and I hope you come and play along with us in our gallery.

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This is the inside.

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And this is what I used.

Flourishes "Botanical Plates" (2013)

Stampin' Up! "Quite Curvy" (2020)

Flourishes "Camelias" (2012)

Flourishes "Hydrangea" (2012)

Prismacolor pencils.

I hope you get inspired to come and play with my teammates and me over at the RETRO RUBBER CHALLENGE BLOG, we can't wait to see what you create.

For more inspiration, check out my teammates' beautiful cards in our gallery.

Don't forget to use stamps that are older than one year, if you are like me, you most definitely have some.  We would love it if you please add our inspiration board to your blog post and, if you can, tell us the age of your stamps.

Thank you for visiting me today and for your comments, they are very much appreciated.

Please, stay healthy and safe.

XO

Maria.

Hats Off To You!!!!!!!

 Hello everyone: As always, I hope and pray you and your families are doing well, keeping each other healthy and safe.

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The SHOPPING OUR STASH#464 challenge for the next 10 days theme is "You Deserve a Hand" so, create a card with hands or a Congratulations card, as you can see, mine is a Graduation card, what better time to give "Hands Up" to someone achieving this milestone. 

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This is the inside.

And this is what I used.

The Graduation caps are from a set of dies but I forget where they came from,

I apologize.

The sentiments are from a little stamp set from "Fiskars".

The little horn is from a 2014 Power Poppy set called "Marcella's Mixtape Vol. 1"

DSP and embellishments from my stash.

Thank you for visiting me today and for your comments.

For more inspiration to play along, please visit the SHOPPING OUR STASH challenge blog and check out my teammates' fabulous creations.

Until next time, stay healthy and safe.

Maria.

Miss Batty Princess......

 Hello everyone: as always, I hope you and your families are doing well, keeping each other healthy and safe.

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Today is the reminder day for the "2 OLD BATS HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE" so here's my card and I hope it inspires you to play along.

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this is the inside

and this is what I used.

Kraftin' Kimmie "Batty princess", she is a cutie pie!!

the inside sentiment is from "inkadinkado"

the little tombstone is also from Kraftin' kimmie.

Prismacolor pencils.

so i hope you decide to get a head start on your halloween cards and come and join my teammates and me in our gallery, go check out the rest of the team's fabulous creations.

Please, stay healthy and safe.

xo

maria.