Thursday, September 8, 2016

Guest Designer - Maria Calderone

We have a returning Guest Designer for this challenge. Please say hello and welcome back to Maria Calderone of Maria Lina's Creative Designs. Maria was the Design Team's Top Pick from the 'By the Sea' challenge.


"Hi everyone, Maria here from Maria Lina's Creative Designs, I’m so happy to be back as a guest designer, it’s always such a pleasure. As you might already know, I currently live in Pennsylvania, but was born and raised in New Jersey. I am so blessed to have a wonderful family of 4 boys, my husband and a puppy, they make everyday living so joyful and worthwhile."


"For the “Things with Wings” challenge, I was inspired to create a larger shabby chic tag with the thought of how time flies, especially now that summer is soon coming to an end. I don’t normally work with larger tags (#10) but I knew I wanted to use some birds, flowers and a clock, so the larger size worked out great.

I also challenged myself to use purple, one of my least favorite colors to work with when creating a project, but I came across this harlequin paper and thought I just had to, so purple it is. In the end, I was happy with how it turned out and I hope you are too! Have a great day!"


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Pop on over to Maria's blog to get all the details of her wonderful tag and then come on back and show us your Things With Wings. You can find the challenge here and it runs until 11:55 pm EST on September 20th so there is lots of time to enter.

12 comments:

  1. Love your tag! Anything with purple is a winner with me! :)

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  2. Gorgeous tag and love the purple but I agree it is one of the hardest colors for me to work with.

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  3. Gorgeous tag and love the purple but I agree it is one of the hardest colors for me to work with.

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  4. Beautiful! Very happy that you are back for another GD with us! Charming tag and lovely soft colors.

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  5. Gorgeous tag! Beautiful colors and fabulous details!!!!
    congrats on your GD spot!
    Sherrie K

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  6. With your ELEGANTLY EXQUISITE creativity you gave us MOMENTS IN TIME that seems so GENTLE and DELIGHTFUL Maria. The purple could not be more beautiful for the lovely world your birds enjoy. Thank you for such WONDERFUL inspiration. j.

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  7. This is so perfectly composed and so wonderfully shabby chic that I find myself at a loss for words. It's just absolute perfection. Thank you so much for being our guest designer, Maria!

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  8. Such a beautiful shabby tag! You would never know you had to challenge yourself to use purple! It looks fabulous here, and everything is so perfectly placed! Congratulations on your returning Guest Designer post! Well done!

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  9. Thank you all for such lovely comments! xx

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  10. Thank you all for such lovely comments! xx

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  11. What a wonderfully delicate designed tag and I love how you've embraced the purple here! Thank you so much for joining us as a guest designer Maria xx

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