Merry Christmas to You and Yours!!!!!

Hello everyone: As always, I hope and pray you and your families are doing well, keeping each other healthy and safe. 

So here we are at the last challenge of the year for     RETRO RUBBER, and of course, the theme is Christmas, so we hope you find a bit of time to come and play along.

We know this month is a busy one, with all the preparations, shopping, cooking, tending to visits from relatives, etc., but, we can all use one more Christmas card for our stash, right? so, I hope you come and play along.  Here's my card, I hope it inspires you to come and join us in our gallery. 

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This is the inside.

And this is what I used.

Stampin' Up! "Beautiful Season" (2011)

Stampin' Up! "Quite Curvy" dies.

Flourishes "Christmas Candles" (2011) for the inside sentiment.

Power Poppy "Bough Wow Wow" (2014) for the holly and berries on the inside corner.

Prismacolor pencils.

Kraft card stock.

I hope you can come and play along with us for the last challenge of the year 2021, please don't forget to use stamps that are older than a year, these stamps are still beautiful, as you can see, I used very, very old sets.

I want to wish all of you a Beautiful Christmas, with dear family and friends, and a happy and healthy 2022.

Thank you for stopping by and for leaving me your comments, I appreciate them so very much.

Please, stay healthy and safe.

XO

Maria.

 

Peaceful Chickadee.....

Hello everyone: The SHOPPING OUR STASH challenge has a new one for you to have fun with, this time our theme is "Put a Bird on It", any bird so go and search your stash and come and join my teammates and I in our gallery, here is my inspiration card for you.

I had this cute little chickadee in my box of unused Holiday stamps, I think I bought it last September and never even ink it up once, which is a shame because this image is beautiful.

I stamped it on a piece of Blick Drawing paper which I love because it can take water coloring as well as Prismacolors, blending each of this mediums beautifully.

I just used black and brown inks and use my pencils for the shadows.  The berries are colored with SU Cherry Cobbler, my favorite shade of red, the PEACE word is inked in Old Olive.

I added a bit of white acrylic paint to the snow on the branch and the berries and then, sprinkled a bit of very fine iridescent glitter from Martha Stewart.

The ribbon is from my stash, I found the snowflake in my box of left over die cuts.

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This is how the INSIDE of my card looks like.

The border is stamped with SU Delicate Details, the sentiment is from a Power Poppy set called Ponsettia and the little branch in the corner from another Power Poppy set called Merry Littles.

I hope you stop by the SHOPPING OUR STASH blog and play along. For more inspiration check out my teammates beautiful creations.

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.