I believe in Fairies.

 Hello everyone: As always, I hope and pray you and your family are safe and healthy, take care of yourselves and each other and please, wear your masks.

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I haven't used my magical stash of Fairy rubber stamps that I got from my husband's aunt as a gift after she found them at a thrift store all in a box, dirty and stained, I just washed them and now, I have about 25 amazing images of the most gorgeous Faeries I've ever seen on a plain red rubber stamp, this is one of them.

I stamped the image on a piece of Canson Mixed Media paper with Stazon black ink and colored it with SU markers and Prismacolor pencils. I used gold paint for her wings and the dress.

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This is the INSIDE

The sentiment is from a retired Flourishes set called "Orchids" and I always use it when I make my Fairy cards. The little Fairy on the corner is from a stamp set by 49 & Market called "Friends Forever".

I want to play along with the following challenges.

The Dream Factory Challenge

Unicorn Challenge

Spooky and/or Cute

Dragonfly Dreams Challenge

Spooky or Cute

Thank you for visiting me today.

Stay healthy and safe and PLEASE wear your masks.

XO
Maria.

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A Color Challenge for Retro Rubber.

 Hello Everyone: I hope all is good with you and your families as we deal with these very troubling times. I hope and pray that CHANGES will soon be here so we can all start healing physically, mentally and emotionally.

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Well, I'm sure most of you are struggling with the "new and supposedly improved" Blogger Interface, and I just found out that Facebook is doing similar changes. I hope that I can still come here to share my cards with you.  I'm not fond of changes at all, especially when things are working fine, I don't know why "they", whoever they are, think that "improving" something that's running well is a good thing.

The new RETRO RUBBER challenge is a COLOR one, these colors are beautiful and fresh, so I hope you get inspired to come and play along with my teammates and me in our gallery.

This is the card I made.

This beautiful image is from my Fairy collection of plain red rubber stamps that my aunt Norma gifted me with some years ago, she found a box with about 25 plain red rubber stamps, all dirty and stained but, she knew how much I loved stamping so she bought the whole lot for about $10.00

I colored the image with Windsor&Newton watercolor markers and Prismacolor pencils for shading and for the Fairy's skin. I added some Nuvo Drops around and Glossy Accents to the drops on the rose and leaves.

This is the INSIDE of the card.

This sentiment is from an old Flourishes set called "Orchids" and I always use it when I make my Fairy cards.

I hope you go visit the RETRO RUBBER challenge blog for more inspiration from my teammates' cards and then, come and play along in our gallery.

Thank you for visiting me today.

Stay healthy, safe and please wear your masks.

XO
Maria.

Getting Ready.............

Hello everyone: I just discovered the Festive Friday Challenge and I made this card to play along.

I haven't played with this sweet Faeries from Lili of the Valley, I absolutely love them, I wish I had them all. 

This sweet one is getting ready for Spring or maybe, to go out with friends, but whatever the occasion, she looks so adorable, I do hope you can see the Wink of Stella on her wings and the puff in her hand as she totally pampers herself.

Stamped her on a piece of Strathmore Bristol paper, I should have done it on regular card stock just to be able to fussy cut her easily, thank goodness for my sharp scissors.  I colored her with my Prismacolor pencils.

The pattern paper is from Lili of the Valley, (discontinued).

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This is how the INSIDE of my card looks like.

The border was stamped with a retired SU set called "Bordering Blooms", the sentiment is from a Power Poppy set called Tea in the Garden, the butterfly is from a 2004 set from Stampendous called "Butterflies".

I'm playing along with the following challenges.

Festive Friday Challenge

Polkadoodles Craft Challenge

Allsorts Challenge

#562 Anything with Wings.

The Fairy and the Unicorn

Thank you for stopping by.

Hugs.

Maria.