Wish I Was There.....

Hello everyone: Beach days are soon approaching and we can't wait to go to have a picnic with our grandchildren and take a plunge in the cool waters of Lake Michigan. 

I have a card today that is a little snippet of what a fabulous beach day could look like, relaxing, sunny, warm.

This fun image is from a Power Poppy set called Best Day Ever, I stamped it on watercolor paper and colored it with SU markers adding a bit of shading with my Prismacolor pencils. The sentiment is from the set, the little shells from a very old Flourishes set called "Seaside Life" (2009), stamped, colored and fussy cut.  The little flip flops are punched out with a punch from EK Success I got at the bargain bin at my craft store also a very long time ago and now is sadly discontinued.

The pattern papers are from my stash.

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This is how the INSIDE of my card looks like.

The sentiment is from the Power Poppy set, the shells from the Flourishes set.

I'm playing along with the following challenges.

The Paper Players

Coloring in Scrapland

June Challenge. Anything Goes/Watercolors.

Use Your Stuff

Stamping Sensations

Very colorful/True Colors

The Artistic Stamper

By the Seaside.

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

XO

Maria.

My Kind of Vacation.....

Hello everyone: Well, kids around the USA are on Summer Break, I love it!!! because I get to see my grandkids very often, they come our house to go to the club house pool, they go on bike rides, spend the night, etc. Even if they are not little anymore, (19, 17, 14, 13 and 9), they still love hanging out with Grammy and Grandpy and Grammy and Grandpy couldn't be happier.

We, hubby and I, have been so fortunate to have this children in our lives from the moment they were born to right now, we were able to take them on Spring Break vacations since the oldest ones were toddlers, for 15 consecutive years, we went all over the USA and Mexico with them, our best memories of this vacations were to the beaches of Mexico and Panama City FL.

The SHOPPING OUR STASH challenge is a super fun one, it's all about what you like to do when you are on vacation, for me.....give me a beach, surf, sand and a cold beer, let me watch my grandchildren splash around and build sand castles, that's the ticket.

Here is my inspiration card for you, if you want more inspiration, hop over the challenge and see what my awesome teammates created, you will be happy you did.

This image is from my older stash of Power Poppy stamp sets, it's called Best Day Ever, the little shells are from an old Flourishes set called "Seaside Life" I just stamped them with gray Stazon ink, colored them, fussy cut them and adhered them to the panel with glue dots, the word "memories" is from my stash of metal sentiments, it's just perfect for my card.

I stamped this images onto water color paper with Stazon black ink and colored with my Stampin Up! markers and my FIXED WINK OF STELLA brush. The sentiment is from the same set.

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

The sentiment and shell are also from the sets.

So come on over to the SHOPPING OUR STASH challenge blog and join us, I'm sure you have tons of memories of past vacations, whether on a beach, the mountains, interesting cities, camping, cruising, etc., you could share them with us in the gallery.

Don't forget to hop over my teammates blogs to see their beautiful creations, I'm sure you will be super inspired.

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.