Thanks a Bunch.

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

I have a very CAS card to share with you today.

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This is the inside.

And this is what I used.

My Favorite Things "Harvest Mouse"

Flourishes "With Gratitude" (2011, discontinued)

The border on the inside from SU "Pleasant Pheasants"

The inside sentiment from "Harvest Mouse"

Prismacolor pencils.

I want to play with:

"Less is More"

AAA Cards

Thank you for stopping by today.

Please, stay healthy and safe.

Maria.

Verve Pumpkins.

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 new challenge over at SHOPPING OUR STASH is "Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice", so you have a lot of fun choices like using Pumpkins, make Halloween cards, cups of fragrant pumpkin spice coffee or tea, etc.

Here is the card I made to inspire you to play along.

This is the inside.

And this is what I used.

All the stamping was done with the Verve set called "Bountiful Harvest".

Unfortunately, Verve Stamps closed its online shop in 2018.

Stampin' Up! "Ornate Border Dies"

DSP from my stash.

So hop over to the SHOPPING OUR STASH challenge blog for more inspiration from my talented teammates then, come along and join us in our gallery.

Thank you for visiting me today.

Please stay healthy and safe.

XO
Maria.

 

Pop Up and Twisted

Hello everyone: As always, I pray and hope that you and your families are doing well dealing with all the goings-on happening at the moment.

Please take care of yourselves and each other.
Oh, and wear your masks!!!!!

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Welcome to the new RETRO RUBBER challenge, this one is a very popular one, basically, you can do ANYTHING as long as you use at least one stamp that is OLDER THAN ONE YEAR, easy peasy, double cheesy, right?

Here's my card to inspire you to come and play along.
This is the card closed.

I took a little break from blogging, I've been in a kind of slump, with all the stuff going around it's been difficult to convince my MOJO to come back. But now, I'm here again doing one of the things I love the best so I figure I might as well be adventurous and do something I've never done, and that is to try this new (to me) fun fold video I saw on Utube by DAWN STAMPING THOUGHTS, I hope you give it a try, there are many videos but I really like hers.

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This is how the card looks when you open it.

I really like how it turned out, I propped it against the window in front of my work desk that overlooks hole #5 on the golf course, we had to install that mesh you see behind my card, which I hate because it obstructs the pretty view but the "golfers" kept braking our windows, we had to replace that particular window twice.
But I digress.....
Here's a list of what I used to create this card.
All the images were stamped on watercolor paper with Stazon black ink and colored with Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors.

For the front of the card.
Stampin' Up! "Pretty Pines" thinlitz (retired)
Stampin' Up! "Poppy Moments" die set.
The pattern paper is from my stash.
The sentiment is called "May the Bounty", from Hero Arts.

The inside.
First image: 1998 Stampin' Up! "Feathered Hope" (retired)
Second Image: 2011 Flourishes "A Season of Thanks".
Third Image: 2010 Flourishes "Apple of My Eye".
Fourth Image: 2011 Flourishes "A Season of Thanks".
Sentiment on the bottom: 2018 Stampin' Up! Holiday Mini.

I hope you go and check out the RETRO RUBBER challenge blog for more inspiration from my awesome teammates.

I want to play along with the following challenges.

Crafty Friends Challenge
Anything Goes.


Pammie's Inky Pinky Challenges
Anything Goes.


Incy Wincy Designs
Triple Choice, Sketch, Interactive or Fantasy.
I picked Interactive.


Crafting Happiness Challenges
Challenge #61 "Anything Goes"



Thank you for visiting me today.
Stay healthy, safe and wear your masks.
XO
Maria.

Painted Harvest Twofer.......

Hello everyone: I'm posted very late today, we were busy trimming bushes and old branches because today was the last day for the service to come and pick them up to make mulch, it rained a bit but we're done, phew!!

I hope all of you are doing well, it felt so good to be outside on this cloudy but warm day, doing something outdoors, it's hard not to be able to go anywhere, even after the "we're open" suggestion, heck NO!! we're staying put, grilling outside is awesome if you want a change of scenery??

Anywho, stay safe and healthy and don't rush into things, just saying.

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I finally finished my cards for the Twofer Challenge with the prompt word FLOWERS.

My cards are created with the retired SU set called "Painted Harvest", love this set, the flowers can be stamped in any color, as you can see in these pictures.

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My first card.

The inside.

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My Twofer.

This little bear was inspired by this card I saw on Pinterest, unfortunately, there's no name to credit, but I want to thank this crafter for the inspiration.

The inside.

I'm playing along with the following challenges.

Twofer Card Challenge

Stamping Sensations

May Challenge "Say it with Flowers"

The Cutie Pie Challenge

#147 "Pretty in Pink"

Stamps & Fun = Creativity

Challenge #368 "Baby"

The card I'm submitting is the pink one.

This is what I used:

Stamps:

SU "Painted Harvest".

SU "Flowering Fields".

SU "Bordering Details".

Power Poppy "Summer Berries"

Inks: 

SU "Daffodil Delight"

SU "Hello Honey"

Altenew "Caramel Toffee"

Altenew "Coral Berry"'

Altenew "Frosty Pink"

Tim Holtz "Peeled Paint"

Tim Holtz "Shabby Shutters"

The sentiments on the baby card are

from a miscellaneous box.

Thank you for visiting me today.

Stay Healthy and Safe.

Hugs.

Maria. 

A Neutral Thanksgiving........

Hello everyone: I'm in dire need of Thanksgiving cards so here's one I will quickly add to my stash and, I need to get busy ASAP to make a few more.

This image is from a Flourishes set called "A Season of Thanks" released back in September of 2011.  I stamped the image on a die-cut panel of Strathmore Bristol paper with Stazon black ink and colored it with Prismacolor pencils.  The DSP is from my stash and so is the ribbon.  I stamped the sentiment (from the set) on a banner die-cut from SPELLBINDERS 

I added some enamel dots from GINA MARIE DESIGNS.

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This is how the INSIDE of my card looks like.

The sentiment is from the same set as the front image, the leaf is from a Power Poppy set called "FEELING FALL" 

I'm playing along with the following challenges.

Double D Challenges

Die Cut Divas

Thanksgiving or Thank You

Scribbles Design Challenge

Use at least 3 colors from the color palate.

Welcome Autumn......

Hello everyone: It's time for another "ANYTHING GOES" challenge over at RETRO RUBBER, which is a favorite since you can create whatever you want keeping in mind that at least one of the stamps you use is OVER A YEAR OLD.

Here's my card that I hope inspires you to play along.

I embossed the green panel with a Tim Holtz "Alterations" EF, the leaves were stamped on watercolor paper with the retired SU set called "Vintage Leaves" (2015-2016) colored with SU re-inkers. The lacy frame is from a Spellbinders die set called "Oval Majesty", I added some enamel dots from Gina Marie Designs. The sentiment is from a Power Poppy set called Feeling Fall, I heat embossed it in gold.

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This is how the INSIDE of my card looks like.

The border is from a retired SU set called "Bordering Blooms" (2014-2015)

That beautiful sentiment is from a box of unmounted rubber stamps with no name, I'm so sorry but this is very old and I can't remember where I got it.

I hope you come and play with my teammates and me in the RETRO RUBBER gallery, we can't wait to see what you create.

Please read our rules, they are few but important.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges.

Creativ Fusion Arts Challenge#14

Autumn.

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge#241

Autumn Colors.

Crafting Happiness Challenges

#15 Autumn/Fall

I'm so happy you stopped by, your comments always make my day.

Hugs.

Maria.

Hello Dahlia.....

Hello dear blog friends: The RETRO RUBBER CHALLENGE has a new one for you to play with, the theme is "Harvest Time" and here it's this beautiful picture to serve as inspiration for you, whether is the colors, the flowers, the pumpkins or all of it, we can't wait to see your creations in the gallery.

Here's my card, I hope it also inspires you to come and play along.

This image is from an old Flourishes set called "Dahlias" that was released back in July of 2013. This image was illustrated by the fabulous Marcella Hawley and now, she has this very image, revamped in digital form over at the Power Poppy DIGITAL COLLECTION page.

I stamped this image on a die cut piece of Blick Studio Drawing Paper, (love this paper for my Prismacolor pencils) with Stazon black ink and colored with Prismacolor pencils, the sentiment is from a Verve Stamps set called "Bountiful Harvest" released in 2013 (discontinued 😕), I added a bit of gold with the "Gorgeous Grunge" set from SU, also discontinued, the pattern paper from my stash.

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This is how the INSIDE of my card looks like.

The sentiment is from the Dahlia set, the flowers from my stash.

I hope you come and play along with my teammates and I at the RETRO RUBBER CHALLENGE, please remember that at least ONE OF THE STAMPS YOU USE NEEDS TO BE OLDER THAN A YEAR, please let us know more or less, how old it is.

Thank you for stopping by, I always read every single comment you so kindly leave on my posts, I want you to know I appreciate them more than words can express.

Until next time, happy stamping.

Hugs from Maria.

Harvest Time at Twofer Challenge #10.....

Hello dear stamping friends: I have a couple of cards to share with you that I will enter in the TWOFER CARD CHALLENGE #10. Ever since this challenge started back in January of this year, I've been participating on each one of them and having a blast doing it, I even won challenge #4 with THESE 4 CARDS, this is a fun, fun challenge, hope you guys give it a try.

These are my Twofers.

I've been itching to ink up this awesome NBUS set from My Favorite Things called HARVEST MOUSE, I just love this sweet and adorable mice and, for those of you who don't know, I love mice, I  have a bunch of them in my craft room and I love to play with them, (wink, wink!!)

No worries, my friends, they all made of rubber and, in this case, acrylic, LOL!!  I know of one sweet friend that probably was going EEKKK!! as she was reading this post, hahaha!! 

Anywho, here are the individual pictures of these cards and the stuff I used to create them.

This first card was made using the same little mousey but replacing the bushel of blueberries with a pumpkin, this is a GRATEFUL card for the abundance of Nature and for the abundance of friends.

 I stamped the images with Versafine black ink and clear heat embossed them, I colored them with SU markers, the pattern paper is from a sadly retired line from Lili of the Valley😢

The sentiment is from a Hero Arts stamp set from the September kit that my dear friend Aileen Ryan from COLOUR AND SPARKLE gifted me with, love the images and I'm working on some cards using this set. I added a few Nuvo drops just because I love them😊

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This is how the INSIDE of this card looks like.

I used a scrap piece of the pattern paper to adorn the top, the sentiment is from a Power Poppy set called "Sassy Succulents" which is totally on sale now, Woo Hoo!!

The little pumpkin is from the same Hero Arts set.

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This is my Twofer card.

Ok, here's the same little mouse but this time I masked the bushel of Blueberries and substituted it with one of Apples.  The paper is also from Lili of the Valley, the ribbon is from my stash and the wooden piece from Stampin' Up! (retired).

The image is stamped with Versafine black ink and clear heat embossed, colored with SU markers.

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The border is stamped with a retired SU set called "Bordering Blooms", the sentiment is from the "Harvest Mouse" set, making this card a LOVE YOU card.

I would like to play with the following challenges.

TWOFER CARD CHALLENGE #10 "Harvest"

613 Avenue Create Anything goes/Optional Twist Use Something Wooden.

Addicted to Stamps Challenge #167 "Autumn colors"

Dragonfly Dreams "Autumnal Colors"

Stamping Sensations October Challenge, "Shades of Autumn"

Thank you for stopping by, I always read every single comment you so kindly leave on my posts, I want you to know I appreciate them more than words can express.

Until next time, happy stamping.

Hugs from Maria.