The Simple Things.......

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

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I don't create Masculine cards often, and that is a big mistake because I have a hubby, brothers, brothers in law, good neighbors, and, last but not least, a couple of handsome grandsons.

So, here's this card that could be perfect for any of them.

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This is the inside.

And this is what I used.

Stampin' Up! "Apron Builder" die set.

Stampin' Up! "Gorgeous Grunge", for the floor.

I just love, love these little utensils, the apron and accessories are just adorable too.

I want to play with the following challenges.

As You Like It Challenge 

"Feminine or Masculine" and why?

Your Next Stamp "Anything Goes"

Creative Knockouts #459 "Outside Fun" 

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

Until next time, stay healthy and safe.

XO

Maria.

Wish Big.

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

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Masculine cards for adults are hard to create, I remember making cards for my grandsons when they were little, those were fun to make, with trains and little cars, dogs and drums, etc.

I have NO masculine cards around, I always make cards with flowers or cute critters but, for my adult friends and grandsons, those just won't work so, I made a point to start making a good stash of masculine cards, and here is the first one, this set from Stampin' Up! is just perfect for this purpose.

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This is the inside.

And this is what I used.

Stampin' Up! "Zoo Review" (2011-2012)

Flourishes "Pinwheels and Popsicles" (2013)

Power Poppy "Short Stacks" (2015)

I want to play with:

Less is More

Make My Monday

Challenge #173 "Happy Birthday"

Thank you for visiting me today, I love reading your comments so I thank

you for those too.

Stay healthy and safe.

Maria.

The Wilderness Awaits.....

Hello everyone: It's time for another fabulous challenge over at SHOPPING OUR STASH, our theme is MASCULINE CARDS.  Some people, me included, have a hard time creating these types of cards mainly because they must be simple but still appealing, not to busy but still, with a little fan fare so, here is my rendition to this challenge and I hope you come and play along.

Most of my stamp sets are of flowers and little cute critters so, when I see a set that is spectacularly masculine, I immediately get it, like this one from Stampin' Up! called "The Wilderness Awaits" from the 2015-2016 catalog, all four images are beautifully detailed and perfectly masculine.

I stamped my fox on a die cut piece of watercolor paper with Stazon black ink and colored it with SU re-inkers, I added a bit of white Prismacolor pencil to his handsome face and the tip of his tail.

I die cut a bigger piece of Copper glimmer paper to frame this image.  I embossed a panel of green card stock and rubbed it with copper ink, added a couple of copper brads, ribbon and the sentiment.

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This is how the INSIDE of my card looks like.

Again, nothing fancy, just a bit of decoration at the top done with the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set and a sentiment from a Power Poppy set called "Everything's Even Rosier".

So, I hope you come and join my teammates and I in our SHOPPING OUR STASH gallery, please stop by the blog and visit their blogs for more inspiration.

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.

One of a Kind.....

Hello everyone: The SHOPPING OUR STASH challenge has a new one for you to play with this week, our theme is "Hey Dude" which means "MASCULINE CARDS".  I must confess I always have a bit of trouble creating cards for guys, especially teens, oh my goodness!!! It's so hard because you can't really make a card with teddy bears or little trains anymore, ask me how I know this and I will tell you that, my grandsons grew out of the cute kid's cards a while ago so, I decided to use my one and only teen boy image from Penny Black called VIDEO BOY, as a rubber stamp and here is the link for the DIGITAL IMAGE, just in case you just want to print it anytime you need to, I just adore the intense look on this kid's face, totally concentrating on whatever game his is playing, I bet he is darn good at it too!!

I stamped the image on water color paper with Stazon black in and colored with a few SU markers, his sweet face is colored with a Crayola marker that I treasure because it's the only marker that gives me the skin tone I want, I can make it darker for shading by applying a bit more where needed, I gave him a bit of blush on his cheeks with a cotton swab and a bit of red chalk.

I colored his hair with my black Prismacolor pencil adding a bit of the white pencil for the shine.

The pattern paper is from MODASCRAP and it's called "Wood Effect", which apparently is sold out at the moment so I hope they bring it back because it's beautiful.

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This is how the INSIDE of my card looks like.

I really couldn't find a sentiment for a teen boy in my stash so I just added this one from a Power Poppy set called Sassy Succulents (the little sentiment on the front of the card is from the same set.)

I decided to stamp just the bag of chips, soda can and chocolate bar from the Video Boy image to decorate the inside, I colored this with Prismacolor pencils.

So, I hope you get inspired to join my teammates and me at the SHOPPING OUR STASH gallery, this challenge will help you create those masculine cards we all need at times.

For more inspiration, visit my teammates blogs, you'll be happy you did.

I would like to play with the following challenges.

MOO-MANIA "Masculine"

Inspire.Create Challenges #015 "Masculine"

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.