Azaleas.....

Hello everyone: My teammates and I over at RETRO RUBBER, have a new challenge for you to play with and this time, we are joined by the TRY STAMPIN'-OR NOT- ON TUESDAY team who provided this fabulous sketch that has tons of possibilities.  So here's the card I made and I hope it inspires you to come and play along with us in our gallery.

I don't know about you but, I'm sick and tired of Winter. We haven't seen the Sun for days and, if it ventures to take a peek at us down here, it's just for a short while and then, it gets covered by dense, gray clouds and everything looks blah!!
So, I wanted to use this fantastic sketch to get a whiff of Spring colors on this beautiful Azalea image from Power Poppy.
Azaleas come in a rainbow of colors and this time I picked a bright orange/yellow to color mine.
I stamped the image with Stazon black ink and colored it with my Sakura Koi watercolors, I also used some Prismacolor pencils to give some shadows and highlights.  The sentiment is from the set and the ribbons from my stash.

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This is how the INSIDE of my card looks like.

The sentiment is from a retired SU set called "Heard from the Heart" (2008) and the small image on the corner is from the Power Poppy set.

So I hope you come and check out the rest of the team's awesome cards and the TRY STAMPIN' ON TUESDAY sketch over at RETRO RUBBER and join all of us for some fun in our gallery.
Please remember that your stamps MUST be over a year old, we would love it if you could let us know how long you've had them, we want you to give your older stamps a chance to shine again.

Thank you for stopping by, your comments always make my day.
XO
Maria.

Pink Is The New Orange.....

Hello everyone: The SHOPPING OUR STASH has a new challenge for you to play with this coming week, the theme is PINK IS THE NEW ORANGE so we want you to start creating and come to join my teammates and me in the gallery.

Here is my card and I hope it inspires you to come and play along.

This image is from a Power Poppy set called AZALEA, the sentiment is from another Power Poppy set called BEST DAY EVER, I stamped the flowers with Versafine black ink on a piece of watercolor paper and clear heat embossed it then, colored it with SU markers and an aqua painter.

I placed a few pink and orange Rhine Stones for a bit of sparkle.

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This is how the INSIDE of my card looks like.

The sentiment is from the "Best Day Ever" set and the flowers from the Azalea set.

I hope you come and play along, we can't wait to see what you create.

Please stop by the SHOPPING OUR STASH challenge blog and check out my teammates' beautiful creations and leave them some crafty love.

I would like to play along with the following challenges.

Classic Design Team Challenge I belong to 3 DTs.

Dream Valley Challenges "Flowers"

The Cutie Pie Challenge #128 "Going Girly"

Creations in Pink Anything Goes in Mainly Pink.

Crafters Cafe Challenge #206 "Feminine"

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.

EMBOSS IT!!!!!

Hello everyone: July is here and with it comes a new challenge for you to play with over at THE FLOWER CHALLENGE.  I want to thank all of you amazing crafters who participated in our June Challenge "Anything Goes", we had a fabulous turnout, over 182 entries!!! which made my teammates and I, very happy.
So for our July challenge we want to see some EMBOSSING, heat or dry, which ever you'd like or even both techniques, we can't wait to see what you create.
Here is my inspiration card for this month, and I hope you join us in the gallery.

This lovely Azalea image is one of my first purchases from Power Poppy back in 2014, this set is called Azalea. I stamped this image onto a piece of water color paper with Versamark ink and heat embossed it in gold then, colored it with my Sakura Koi water colors and my fixed Wink of Stella.

I embossed a piece of pink card stock and a piece of SU retired vellum with a retired embossing folder, (I forget the name of this one, sorry).

The sentiment is from the set. I added a few Nuvo Drops and a triple bow made with some organza ribbon.

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

I embossed just the top of the pink card stock with the same folder, the sentiment is from a retired Flourishes set called "Tulips for Friends"

So go ahead and join us in the gallery, please check my teammates amazing creations HERE, I'm sure you will get even more inspired.

Please add our banner to your post when you enter our challenge,

Please, only new work, no back linking.

Please you can enter only 6 challenges including ours.

You might enter this challenge up to 5 times but each entry must be different.

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 works can express.

Until next time, happy stamping.

Hugs from Maria.