Falling Petals........

Hello everyone:  I'm slowly but surely getting back into my MOJO so I'm sharing this card today done with one of my favorite Altenew stamp sets.

This is the "Persian Motifs" and these beautiful images give you the option of coloring them any color you want to suit the occasion.

I stamped them on a panel of watercolor paper with Versafine black ink, clear heat embossed them and colored them with SU ink refills. The sentiment is from a Power Poppy set called Simply Camelias, I also added a few enamel dots from Gina Marie Designs.

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This is how the INSIDE of my card looks like.

The sentiment is from another Power Poppy set called Short Stacks and the flower in the corner from the Altenew set.

I would like to play with the following challenges.

I just used the left side for my card,

I hope it's ok.

Crafty Katz #490

"Anything Goes/optional twist "Flowers"

Thank you for visiting me today.

Hugs.

Maria.

Altenew Reminder.....

Hello dear friends: It's midway to our "Embossing (Heat or Dry)" Challenge over at THE FLOWER CHALLENGE and this time around, Altenew is giving away a beautiful stamp set to one lucky randomly chosen winner so, I hope this card I created using the gorgeous "Recollections" Altenew set, will inspire you to come along and play with us in our gallery.

I stamped this beautiful spray of flowers and the sentiment on black card stock with Versamark ink and heat embossed them with gold embossing powder then, colored the flowers with my Prismacolor pencils.

I added a few enamel dots from Gina Marie Designs.

When I took the picture, the sun came out and it cast that beautiful, diagonal shine on the card as I was focusing the camera, I didn't want to move and I took the picture quickly because there are some clouds rolling in and I didn't want to miss out on this cool effect, it kind of looks like I sprinkled Pixie Dust all over the card but I didn't, although I wish there was a little Fairy hiding somewhere in this craft room doing this when I'm not looking.

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This is how the INSIDE of my card looks like.

I have this very old but pretty set of punches from The Paper Studio and I used the one with the butterfly to punch the corners on the inside, the sentiment is from the Altenew set.

I hope you go and visit us over at THE FLOWER CHALLENGE and join us in the gallery, remember Altenew is donating a gorgeous stamp set for one lucky winner.  Here's a picture of it to get you all excited to play along. 

Please remember to use FLOWERS as the main focus on your cards, including our banner on your blog post when you upload your creation to the gallery, no back linking, please link back to our challenge on your post and you may enter up to 6  other challenges but, most of all, have fun creating.

I want to play along with the following challenges.

Ike's World Challenges

"E is for Embossing"

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #191

"May Flowers"

The Sisterhood of Crafters

"It's All About Flowers"

Addicted to Stamps and More!

Challenge #341 "Anything Goes"

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

Hugs.

Maria. 

It's Sooooo PINK!!!!!

Hello everyone: The new challenge over at SHOPPING OUR STASH is all about the color PINK so, here is my inspiration card, I don't think I've ever made a card this pink before, except for some invitations.....I'll explain, hope you like it.

I don't usually buy this very pink card stock but I had some in my pink stash that was left over from some Birthday Invitation cards I made for one of my youngest daughter's sister in law's granddaughter, (sheeesh!! that's a mouthful, eh?) she was going to turn 9, if I remember correctly. This little girl LOVES PINK and all things girly, so I went and bought a few pieces of this very bright pink card stock and made 30 invitations, very cute, if I say so myself. I had some left over pieces which came in really handy for this card.

The images are from an Altenew set called Persian Motifs.  I stamped this images onto Vellum with Versamark ink and heat embossed them with WOW pearlescent embossing powder and colored them with Prismacolor pencils then, fussy cut them and adhered them with glue dots to the panel, the Butterflies are from SU retired set Papillon Potpourri, stamped and colored in the same way.

The word "Hope" is die cut with an Elizabeth Craft Designs.

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

The sentiment is from an old Flourishes set called "Magnolias", the butterfly is from an unknown set I had for years and years.

So, are you in a PINK MODE now? I hope so, my teammates and I can't wait to see what you create, there are tons of occasions that will fit this challenge beautifully.

For more inspiration, hop over the SHOPPING OUR STASH blog and check out the rest of the Design Team's creations, you will be happy you did.

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.