Learning to Sew......

Hello dear friends: Every time I post on this blog I pray and hope you and your families are doing well, I know it's hard to live in these times, with so much uncertainty about health and social issues but, we need to stick together by staying apart, we need to really listen and to the advice that doctors and scientist, who actually know what they are talking about, give us every day. 

Please stay healthy, safe and take care of yourselves and each other.

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The challenge over at RETRO RUBBER is all about buttons, everybody has some in their sewing kit so I hope you find some and come join my teammates and I in our gallery.

My sweet and amazing maternal grandmother tough me how to sew by first learning to sew buttons on a piece of fabric when I was about 8 or 9 years old.

I pricked my fingers several times but those memories of my grandma are just as sweet as the cakes and cookies she used to bake for us spoiled grandkids.

Here's my card, with sweet memories of my grammy.

The buttons are really old, they are from Stampin' Up!, the colored gems are brads that I put through the buttonholes.  The little scissors are from THIS STAMP SET (Stampabilities 2012), I stamped them on white card stock and placed a piece of painters tape behind the image to be able to fussy cut them without tearing the paper, it's a bit tricky but I have really sharp, pointy scissors and lots of patience too, LOL!!

The spool is also stamped, fussy cut and then I wrapped some very thin yarn around and threaded a real needle to add to the design, I love how it looks.

The little flowers are from a 2012 Flourishes stamp set called "Stitched for You"

I found my inspiration for this card on Pinterest with this card by Leeanne Withby, just love the vintage look of it.

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This is the INSIDE of the card.

The sentiment is from another very old sewing stamp set but this one, I really can't remember, I apologize.  If any of you recognize the sentiment or the spool, please let me know. Thank you.

So I hope you come and join my teammates and I in the RETRO RUBBER gallery, remember to use stamps that are older than 1 year, and if you can, please let us know how old they are.

I'm playing along with the following challenges.

Festive Friday Challenge

I picked Embossing, Die Cuts and Flowers.

Dragonfly Dreams

No Pattern Paper.

Just Add Ink

Flowers and Texture.

TIME OUT Challenges

My card was inspired by memories of my maternal grandma

teaching me to sew.

Thank you for visiting me today.

Stay healthy and safe.

Hugs.

Maria.

I'm Rocking my Baby.....

Hello everyone: My teammates and I over at RETRO RUBBER, have a brand new and fun challenge for you to play with, using what I think all of us have somewhere in our craft room.....BUTTONS and ribbon to make BOWS.

Here's my card that I hope inspires you to come and join us in our gallery.

This is one of the most beautiful and sweet baby stamp sets from Stampin' Up! It's retired now, it was featured in the 2009-2010 catalog and, as soon as I saw it, I bought it, I've used it several times and I love it. All three images in this set are on my card, there are also two sentiments.

I just adore this little Teddy Bear, the Train and the Rattle are so beautiful too.

I stamped all the images on white card stock with Stazon black ink and colored them with Prismacolor pencils, the pattern paper is from my stash and the little buttons on the Train, the ABC blocks and the Rocking Horse are from a bag of baby buttons I got at the craft store a few years ago. The sentiment is from an old Flourishes set called "Hello Baby", released back in 2012.

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This is how the INSIDE of my card looks like.

The sweet sentiment and the little Ducky toy are from another Flourishes set called "Baby Love", released back in August of 2013.

I hope you come and play along with my teammates and me at the RETRO RUBBER gallery, we know you have some buttons waiting to come out and help you create something beautiful, we can't wait to see it.

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

Hugs.

Maria.

Buttons n' a Little Bow.....

Hello everyone: There is a new challenge over at SHOPPING OUR STASH that I think you'd like to play with, this time we want to see BUTTONS, big ones, little ones, shaped ones, critters or flower ones, the sky's the limit so I hope you join us in the gallery.

Here is a card I made to inspire you to play and, for more inspiration, hop over my teammates blogs and check out their awesome creations.

It's funny we are having this challenge because I just happen to have a nice bag of gardening buttons I got at my local craft store, 30 buttons for $1.00, now that's a bargain. I used it to make THIS CARD,

and I still have a bunch of them, my favorite are this cute flower ones.

So I stamped this old, old retired image from Impression Obsession with Stazon Dove Gray ink, it has a bucket filled with little flowers that look like my buttons so I knew they would look great. I then colored the stamped flowers with some SU markers and I used Prismacolor pencils for the bucket. 

I stamped the two little bees from a Power Poppy set called Foxglove and Ranunculus. I cut them off the stamp just to be able to use them on other projects, they are beautifully detailed and a perfect size.

The little tag is die cut with a Spellbinders die set and the word "Love" is from a retired Flourishes set called "Old Fashioned Florals", this set has 4 teeny tiny words that fit inside this teeny tiny tag perfectly, I made a little bow with some embroidery thread.

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

This image is also from the same set as the one on my front panel and so is the sentiment.

That little butterfly was added last minute because I smudge a bit of pink ink on my finish panel😡, oh how I hate when this happens, don't you? Sheeesh!!

So I hope you feel inspired and go dig out your stash of buttons and join us in the gallery.

For more inspiration, check out the SHOPPING OUR STASH challenge blog and my teammates' projects, you will be delighted.

I'm entering this card onto the following challenges.

Always Fun Challenges Challenge #5 "For a Female or Mom"

Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Challenge #36 "Use Faux or Real Stitching" I used a cross stitch die.

Make my Monday Challenge #45 "May Flowers"

Crafting from the Heart Challenge #158 "Anything Goes"

Great Impressions Rubber Stamps May theme challenge "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.