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Thursday, July 21, 2022

Enjoy Your Big Day!!

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

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I have a cute girl's birthday card to share today.  My grandkids are not little ones anymore but I have a lot of grandnieces and grandnephews that are little enough to enjoy a card like this one.


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This is the inside.


And this is what I used.

There She Goes "Wrapped in Joy"

Power Poppy "Party Time" (2016)

DSP from my stash.

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I want to play with these challenges.

Simon Says: For A Child

Fab 'n' Funky Challenges #556 "Anything Goes"


Thank you for stopping by today and for your comments, I appreciate them very much.

Stay healthy and safe.


Maria.





Tuesday, July 19, 2022

The Tiniest Things!!

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

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The RETRO RUBBER CHALLENGE has a fun "Tic, Tac, Toe grid for you to play with for the next 10 days, there are lots of possibilities here so we can't wait to see what you create.
For my card I chose the middle/vertical column, "Birds, Green and Embossing" so, here is my card and I hope you get inspired to come and join us in our gallery.
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This is the inside.




And this is what I used.

Flourishes "Humming Along" (2010)
Prismacolor pencils.

And, for more inspiration, I hope you come and check out the RETRO RUBBER challenge page to see the amazing cards from my talented teammates.

Until next time, stay healthy and safe.
XO
Maria.


Out Of My Comfort Zone.

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

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The SHOPPING OUR STASH has a new challenge for you to play with and I have to confess, it got me a little stumped until one of my teammates explain what it was all about so, here's what I came up with. 


The title of our challenge is "WTHeck embellishments" and basically is about those things in your craft stash that were bought for some reason but never really used?? Those stickers or twine or shiny things that you are wondering now, "why did I buy this???" Especially if it's something totally out of your comfort zone.

I have a few sticker sheets in a small drawer that are so very old, the sticky foam on all of them is very dry so I had to put some new sticky tape to be able to use them on my card.  I did very little stamping and absolutely NO coloring, which is not my style but I'm very happy with the way this card turned out.

I really don't remember why I bought these stickers, maybe secretly I wanted to go to Florida and lay about in the sand, under an umbrella, with a drink in my hand listening to the waves crashing on the beach.

The only stamping I did was the word "MERRY", the word "Christmas" and the Holy on the little scalloped tag, which is burgundy but it looks black on the picture, go figure.

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This is the inside.



The sentiment inside is from a Power Poppy set called "Snow Kissed", the little, adorable Flamingo is from the same Florida sticker sheet, I just love it.

I hope you come and check out the SHOPPING OUR STASH challenge blog for more inspiration from my awesome teammates and come play along with us in our gallery.

Thank you for visiting me today and for your comments, they always make my day.
Until next time, stay healthy and safe.


 Maria.