Another Summer Twofer......

Hello everyone, as always, I hope you and your families are doing well in these difficult times. Please keep each other safe and healthy.

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THE FLOWER CHALLENGE has arrived at the midpoint in our July SUMMER/WINTER challenge.
Summer officially starts on June 20th. and is over on September 22nd. so here are a couple of cards made with flowers for the month of August and September, which is, by the way, my birth month, just saying😉
I'll list all the "ingredients" I used to create them at the end of this post.

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Here's the first card.

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This is the INSIDE of the first card.

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The second card.

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This is the INSIDE of the second card.

This is what I used to create both cards.

First Card.

Flourishes "A Year in Flowers" (2010)

Power Poppy "In Praise of Sunflowers"

Power Poppy "Sweet Memories" (Retired😭)

Pearlescent watercolors.

Prismacolor pencils.

Gina Marie Designs Enamel Dots.

Stampin' Up! "Filigree" embossing folder. (Retired)

Pattern papers and card stock from my stash. 

Second Card.

Flourishes "A Year in Flowers" (2010)

Spellbinders Nestabilities "Floral Oval Etched Dies"

Prismacolor pencils.

Cherry Lynn "Corner Lace Deco Dies"

Stampin' Up! "Tufted Dynamic Textured Embossing Folder"

Gina Marie Enamel Dots.

Pattern paper and card stock from my stash.

I hope you come along and play with my teammates and me at 

THE FLOWER CHALLENGE, we can't wait to see what you create.

Thank you for stopping by.

Stay healthy and safe.

XO
Maria.

Summer Flowers.

Hello everyone: As always, I hope and pray you and your families are doing well in these troubling times. 

Common sense and justice and change in our thinking must prevail if we all want to go back to our normal times, just saying.

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Well, we are just starting Summer and, up here in the MidWest, we are feeling it.
The theme for the Month of July over at THE FLOWER CHALLENGE is SUMMER/WINTER.  We have friends all over the world and that means that for some of us it's Summer but for some it's Winter.
I created these cards depicting some beautiful Summer flowers.

I have this very old Flourishes set called "A Year In Flowers" (2013), it has a flower for every month of the year.  Since Summer officially starts June 20th., I picked these two flowers for June and July.

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I stamped these roses with Stampin' Up! markers on Strathmore Watercolor paper and colored them using a damp brush, then fussy cut them. The sentiment is from a Power Poppy set called "Go Wild" (on sale now), the pattern paper is from my Lili of the Valley stash.

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This is the INSIDE of this card.

Patter paper from Lili of the Valley, sentiment from a Flourishes set, I forgot the name but it's from 2009-2010.

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My Twofer.

Another Summer Flower from this set is the Tiger Lily for the month of July.

Stamped in Spiced Marmalade for the flowers and Old Olive for the stems and colored with Prismacolor pencils.

The sentiment is from a Power Poppy set called "Poppies" also on sale now.

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This is the INSIDE of this card.

The sentiment and the flower basket are from "Around the Harbor" (Flourishes)

I want to play along with the following challenges.

Colour Crazy Craft Challenge

Anything Goes Coloring Challenge.

Aud Sentiments Challenge

Summer +A Sentiment.

I hope you are inspired to come and play along with us at THE FLOWER CHALLENGE , stop by and check out my teammates' awesome creations.

Remember to use flowers as your main image and please remember to read our rules.

Thank you for visiting me today.

Stay healthy and safe.

XO

Maria.