Sunday, January 4, 2009

High Hopes Challenge #12!!!

Welcome back to the High Hopes Blog!!! We hope you had a safe and joyful Christmas and we can't WAIT to show you what we have planned for 2009!!

We hope you are all rested up and ready to join in some High Hopes challenges!! But first off, we have a winner!! The random winner from Challenge #11 is........Jami from Stamp Happy!!! Jami, just email me (Kimmie, info at the right sidebar) with your mailing information and we'll get those stamps out to you in the snail mail!! Congratulations!

We would also like you to welcome the two new Guest Designers for High Hopes, Diana and Nicole!!! You can see links to their gallery and blog in the list on the right over there and check out what wonderful creations they make. Diana and Nicole will be joining us for the next three months and we are thrilled to have them with us! Why don't you say hello??

Now for this week's challenge we would like you to use torn paper somewhere in your design! Would you like to know what you could win?? How about a couple of lovely High Hopes stamps?? But of course!!! This week's random winner will receive the Kissy Face Frog and the Not a Geek sentiment, just in time for Valentine's Day!!! You can see these stamps in action on the bottom card at the end of this post! To be entered in for a chance to win, simply join in our challenge and link us up in THIS post!! We want to see your lovely creations!!!

Now to start 2009 off with a bang, take a look at all these GORGEOUS samples, made by the best Design Team in the world....the High Hopes Divas!!!!
























































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Christine Middleton

46 comments:

6 wacky women said...

Welcome back and Happy New Year!
The DT cards are awesome...great challenge this week.

Here is my card for this weeks challenge.

Karen x

Dawn Wheeler said...

Happy new year girls ,
stunning cards from the DT
hugs Dawnxx
here’s mine.

Jami said...

Woo Hoo....What a fantastic way to start the year. Thanks!
Happy New Year - love all the DT samples - you girls ROCK!! I'll be back with this weeks card...

hugs, Jami

Å olanje na domu-Waldorf said...

I love the DT samples. Here is my entry.
x Natasha x

Chris (catt871) said...

Happy New year everyone!!! The DT cards are amazing!!! Here is my entry for this challenge: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1181138?cat=500&ppuser=108150


Thanks!!! Chris

Trina said...

Gorgeous cards from the DT this week!! And what a fun challenge!!

Here's my entry for your challenge.

Michelle said...

Here is my entry for the challenge. It looks so much better in real life.
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1181399?cat=500&ppuser=117843

Wendy - Anntaurus said...

Happy New Year to you all - loved drooling over the DT cards! My effort is here:-

http://craftblog.craftybutterfly.co.uk/2009/01/magic-happens.html

mueppi said...

Happy New Year from germany!
The DT-cards are wonderful!

here`s my card
Thanks for looking
Hugs Gisela

Julie said...

Happy New Year Everyone ! Love this idea of torn paper, will have to use again. Not sure if mine counts as I used the torn paper on the inside design of my card ?
here's mine

Sherri said...

Love all the sample cards. I loved the Pickles character and couldn't wait to use him.

My card is here.

Michelle B. AKA JustPaintingAround said...

Welcome back! I missed you! Here's my card for this week:

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1182991?cat=500&ppuser=158949

Dawn said...

I got to play this time! Yay! My card can be found here:

http://mama2fellas.blogspot.com/2009/01/mojo-68high-hopes-12.html

Trudy Osborn said...

I just received my first order of HIgh HOpes rubber and am LOVING playing with them' The divas did thier job of getting me hooked on these cute images. LOL!
Here is my entry for this weeks challenge
http://trudystreasures.blogspot.com/2009/01/high-hopes-ace.html

Stempelfan said...

The card from the DT are really great. I like to work with torn paper, so here is my card for the challenge
http://stempelfan.blogspot.com/2009/01/high-hopes-challenge-12.html

Lim said...

WOW... Great DT cards.
This is my first entry on this challenge, wish me luck. :))
Please check my blog to see my card.
Hugs,
LIM

http://lim-thevoicesinmyheadlimblog.blogspot.com/

Julie.G said...

The cards are awesome. Love the challenge. Here is my card Lil Peanut.....

my card

Sirpaliina said...

The DT cards are so adorable. Here is my card

Stephanie said...

here is my card....

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1184870?cat=500&ppuser=120824


Yours are all beautiful!!!

Tina said...

Hi Guys what amazing DT creations, they are gorgeous, well i didn't make a card but did create something for buddy.... hope it's ok....
Crafty Hugs Tina xx

http://yummyscrummycreate.blogspot.com/2009/01/gift-for-buddy-hes-very-brave-boy.html

Denise said...

As always the Design Team's cards are fabulous!

I've had a go at this challenge.
My card is here.
Thanks for giving me a goal of trying techniques I don't usually use!

Donalda said...

Oh what a wonderful challenge. I have not torn paper on my cards forever. Love the inspiration ladies.
Here is my entry

Ann said...

Beautiful cards. Here is my take

http://adayinthelifetoo.blogspot.com/2009/01/high-hopes-challenge-12.html

Denise said...

Nice to see such a lovely lot of dt cards, a really good challenge to start the new year! Here is the link for my card:-
http://densbloggers.blogspot.com/2009/01/high-hopes-challenge-torn-paper.html

dpkennedy said...

Happy New Year! Wow, these cards are all gorgeous!

Shazza said...

fantastic DT cards, must get tearing
x

Anonymous said...

Here's my very first HH challenge card: http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff29/Kimmer_49/Jan%2009%20DT/IMG_4610copy.jpg

Jana said...

Amazing DT cards! This is my first challenge ever, so wish me luck and here is my card

Mindy said...

I'm looking forward to all the new things from High Hopes this year!

Here is my very first entry for a High Hopes challenge!

Andrea Murdock said...

Fun challenge! Here is my entry:
http://mystampingheaven.typepad.com/my_stamping_heaven/2009/01/high-hopes-leo-the-lion-and-blog-candy.html

angeljakki said...

Love the cards by the dt. Happy new year everyone.
Here is my card
I am sending this to Tinas grandad x x x

Debbie said...

Fab Challenge this week I love the DT cards, You can find my entry Here
Hugs Debbie x

Zoe said...

Here is my card for this weeks challenge. I hope you like it.
love
Zoe
xxx

Sue said...

Great DT cards, just about made it!! lol. Here is my effort.
mycard
Thanks for looking, sue.xx

Joey said...

Hi everyone,my first time entering your challenge. Gorgeous dt cards I am so in awe of them all!. Mine is here:- my card thanks for looking.xxx

Stephanie Hargis said...

Woohoo! Great samples girls! I love all of High Hopes stamps! :D So glad I found this blog AND so glad I had time to participate! Here is my card.

http://stephsstampinstuff.blogspot.com/2009/01/taylored-expressions-cupcake-challenge.html

Karen said...

the dragon stamps are so adorable
Karen: High hopes stamps blog challenge

Andrea said...

So many beautiful cards!

here is my one

Shazza said...

great first challenge of the year
Here is my card

Risa said...

Happy New Year ladies!
All of your cards are beautiful and thank you for the inspiration!
My take on the challenge will be found here
Thank you for inspiration!
Risa:)

specialcraftmom4 said...

Oh great!!!!

Lynnes old blog said...

Happy New Year everyone! Wonderful DT cards as usual - here's my entry:
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1188372?cat=500&ppuser=158785

Lori said...

What a fun challenge!! I have not done tearing in a card for a long time!!! Spectacular cards ladies!!! Here is my card:

http://smilingwhilestamping.blogspot.com/
or
http://smilingwhilestamping.blogspot.com/

Mindy said...

whoooops! I heard my link didn't work. My card is found on my blog...flamingoboulevard.blogspot.com

Michelle Redman said...

Hey there,

I had this done on Sunday, but didn't get it uploaded until today.

Here is mine
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1194981?cat=500&ppuser=131605

It is also on my blog!!

Carla said...

I made this yesterday after the light was gone, so I couldn't take a pic! I hope to do this week's challenge after church today!

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1217110?cat=500&ppuser=55811