Azaleas.....

Hello everyone: My teammates and I over at RETRO RUBBER, have a new challenge for you to play with and this time, we are joined by the TRY STAMPIN'-OR NOT- ON TUESDAY team who provided this fabulous sketch that has tons of possibilities.  So here's the card I made and I hope it inspires you to come and play along with us in our gallery.

I don't know about you but, I'm sick and tired of Winter. We haven't seen the Sun for days and, if it ventures to take a peek at us down here, it's just for a short while and then, it gets covered by dense, gray clouds and everything looks blah!!
So, I wanted to use this fantastic sketch to get a whiff of Spring colors on this beautiful Azalea image from Power Poppy.
Azaleas come in a rainbow of colors and this time I picked a bright orange/yellow to color mine.
I stamped the image with Stazon black ink and colored it with my Sakura Koi watercolors, I also used some Prismacolor pencils to give some shadows and highlights.  The sentiment is from the set and the ribbons from my stash.

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This is how the INSIDE of my card looks like.

The sentiment is from a retired SU set called "Heard from the Heart" (2008) and the small image on the corner is from the Power Poppy set.

So I hope you come and check out the rest of the team's awesome cards and the TRY STAMPIN' ON TUESDAY sketch over at RETRO RUBBER and join all of us for some fun in our gallery.
Please remember that your stamps MUST be over a year old, we would love it if you could let us know how long you've had them, we want you to give your older stamps a chance to shine again.

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

Mischievous.....

Hello dear blogging friends: Today is my last day as the Guest Designer for the HOUSE MOUSE AND FRIENDS MONDAY CHALLENGE.  You know how much I love the House Mouse sibblings so I had a blast creating my cards with the adorable images of this little critters that are so very dear to me and, as you can see on this card, they can be as sweet as they are MISCHIEVOUS!!

The challenge this time is "Anything Goes with an option of Ribbons" so, this is a good chance for us to use all of those scraps that we can't seem to throw away.

I often find inspiration on Pinterest and this time, I hit the Jack Pot!!  I found THIS FABULOUS CARD by the very talented Hannelie Bester, her blog Desert Diva is one of my most favorites when it comes to amazing CAS cards. 

I have this birthday pattern paper sheets on my stash so I decided to go with the colors of the candles to pick the ribbons and to color the balloons. Every time I use this image, I can't help but smile and the total mischievousness of this little mouse just about to wake up his sister with a BANG!!

I stamped the image on some watercolor paper with Stazon black ink and colored with Sakura Koi watercolors and Prismacolor pencils, I fussy cut around it and popped it up with some fun foam. I placed some Rhine Stones, Candy Dots and a few stars for some bling.

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This is how the INSIDE of my card looks like.

The sentiment is from Penny Black and the fireworks from The Ton "Pyrotechnics" stamp set.

I hope you stop by the HOUSE MOUSE AND FRIENDS MONDAY CHALLENGE to see the amazing cards from the other Guest Designers and the fabulous Design Team and join in the fun, there are some fantastic prizes for you to win.

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.