Party Cow!!

Howdy -

A little fun with High Hopes Stamps Party Cow this week! How can you not love a dancing cow??

My fun cow is colored with Copics (colors below) I added the perfect High Hopes Stamps sentiment "Don't stop the music". I found some papers from Simple Stories with yellow card stock and blue card stock that all the layers are sewn down. Then a matching pattern paper I cut out some larger flowers for the embellishment in the corner. Love how it matches the pattern paper.

Copic colors used -

Now should we all get with this little cow and do some dancing and Party!!

Monkey Love

Valentine's Day is just a few weeks away ... already! Where has January gone?! 
My post today features the oh so cute "Heartstrings Monkey" from High Hopes Rubber Stamps.
How fun is this cutie with his heart love banner!?! 

After colouring up this cutie with alcohol markers I cut him out with a circle die. I used a dark brown Prismacolor pencil to add some shading and my Fiskars circle cutter to cut a card stock circle to go behind him. I chose patterned paper from Reverse Confetti and laid out my card base. 
This card is done for the Bazzill Basics Paper sketch challenge so the design is based on the challenge sketch. 

I added a fun heartstring banner, gingham ribbon and gumdrops to finish off my card. There is also clear Spectrum sparkle pen added to the monkey's hearts and all of the paper is edged with antique linen distress ink.  

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Heartstrings Monkey - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper: True Love - Reverse Confetti

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Misti, Heartstring banner die - YNS, gingham ribbon - Stampin' Up, Antique Linen Distress ink, gumdrops - YNS, Clear Spectrum Sparkle pen

Spectrum Noir Markers: MB1 MB2 MB3 TN1 EB1 

Copics: C00 RV11 RV32 RV34

Dark Brown Prismacolor pencil 

Be sure to stop by the High Hopes Rubber Stamps Facebook page and blog for daily inspiration from the design team!

                                                                 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a super fantastic day!

Tropical birthday

Happy Sunday!!

Today is a rainy day over here.. and the best way to cheer things up is with a tropical birthday card!!

I found some orange and green dessinpapers in my stash and knew right away that I had to turn them into a fun tropical card!!

To make this card, I've used:

* High Hopes Stamps: Toucan Twosome

*High Hopes Stamps: birthday wishes 

*Bazzill white cardstock

*EchoPark dessinpapers

*Wild Orchid Crafts flowers and leaves

*Prismacolor pencils

Thanks for stopping by!!

I'll hope you have a great crafting day!

Be sure to check out our Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and of course our friend Google for some High Hopes Stamps inspiration!! 

See you next time!

Are We There Yet?

We are not really having what is considered a "normal" winter where I live. We usually have a ton of snow by now but we really don't have much to speak of. 
It makes it kind of challenging for the little ones who like tobagganing! 

The stamp I have used on my card today reminds me of my younger days when the neighbours came over and we tobogganed all day. We had the best hill right beside our house so we didn't have to go far. 
These three friends bring back some fun memories and we may or may not have had a couple times where one of us was the beaver on this fun stamp! <smile>

I coloured this fun stamp with alcohol markers and hand fussy cut it leaving a thin white edge. I set it aside and created my background using a birch tree background die and some birch tree patterned paper. The die is sized to fit an A2 size card so the trees on the main card base are actually cut apart from the finished die cut. I used a wavy edge die to create my snow hill and inked all of the paper and tree edges with antique linen distress ink. I added some fun glitter paper snow flakes (hard to see in the photo) cut out with a punch and added some matching sparkly ribbon to finish off my card. 

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Toboggan Joy Ride - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment: Are We There Yet? - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper: Really Rainbow Christmas - Lawn Fawn, 

Winter Wonderland - Simple Stories

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Misti, My Creative Time Die (snow hill), Birch Tree Background die - Gina Marie Designs, Galena ribbon, snowflake punch - Marvy, glitter paper - Recollections, Antique Linen Distress ink, 

Spectrum Noir Markers: EB1 MB3 MB4 PP1 PP3 IG3 IG5 BG5 BG7 BG10 EB3 EB6 EB5 TN3 TN4 TN7 MB1 CG1 DG2 DG4 IB2 IB3 BT7 

Copic: C00

Be sure to stop by the High Hopes Rubber Stamps Facebook page and blog for daily inspiration from the design team!

                                                                 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a super fantastic day!

Hogs and Kisses

Poor Pickles!!!He bought his sweetheart some balloons for Valentine's Day and they seem to have put a little too much helium in them! 
For now all he can do is send Hogs and Kisses to his sweetheart and hope he back in time for the big day! 

 I coloured Pickles with alcohol markers, cut him out with a stitched rectangle die and set him aside. Next I grabbed some white card stock, a dauber, blue ink and a cloud die cut and created my sky background. This is an A2 size card so I cut some background pieces out of my cloud paper. The second cut in the background is for some added interest. The sentiment is stamped directly onto to the background and some matching enamel dots finish off my card. 

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Lg. Pickles Balloon Ride - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment: Hogs and Kisses - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Misti, white gel pen, baby blue Memories ink, cloud Quickutz die, stormy blue Distress ink (sentiment), stitched rectangle dies - YNS, enamel dots - Carta Bella

Spectrum Noir Markers: TB8 BT9 TB9 IG1 IG3 IG5 FS6 FS8 CR1 AP4 CT1 CT3 GY1

Copics: RV11 RV34

Be sure to stop by the High Hopes Rubber Stamps Facebook page and blog for daily inspiration from the design team!

                                                                 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a super fantastic day!

Winter Fairy

Happy Sunday!!

My birthday cards stash is empty, so I need to make more birthday cards asap.. 

So today I have a Winter birthday card for you with the cute Holly the Winter Fairie...

I already know who will get this card, so still a low stash. Hmmmm.. need to make more and more and more!! 

To make this card, I've used:

*Holly the Winter Fairie (High Hopes Stamps)

*white, kraft and blue cardstock (Bazzill Basics Papers)

*doilies (Stampin Up)

*pearls

*kraft photo corners (local shop)

*dessinpapers (Echo Park)

*Hoera sentiment (Dutch)

*oval die (MFT stamps)

*handmade chrochet snowflake

*polychromos pencils

Hop on over to the High Hopes Stamps website for more cute Fairies! You can find them HERE.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out our Pinterest, Facebook and Instagram for more Inspiration!!

Snowballs for Sale

Welcome HH fans;

Hopefully, there will be some snowfall this weekend for some good old fun with snowballs.  Where I live, there has been a lack of this main ingredient to be able to make snowballs never mind throwing them.

For today's card, I have used this adorable Penguin selling snowballs stamp called Frozen Fun from High Hopes Stamps.

After stamping the image, I coloured it with Copic Markers.  I used Nuvo Fresh Snowfall Glitter Accent to add some snow at the bottom and Nuvo Pure Platinum Mousse and Pure Sheen Ice White Glitter to the snowflakes.

Supplies:

• Stamps: Frozen Fun, Have an Ice Day (High Hopes Stamps) 
• Ink:  Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black
• Paper:  XPress It Blending Cardstock, DP - my stash
• Copic Markers:  YR07 - Cadmium Orange, YR04 - Chrome Orange, T9 - Toner Gray No. 9, T8 Toner Gray No. 8, T7 Toner Gray No. 7, E30 - Bisque, E31 - Brick Beige, E33 - Sand, BG0000 - Snow Green, BG000 - Pale Aqua, BG01 - Aqua Blue, B00 - Frost Blue, B000 - Pale Porcelain Blue, B0000 - Pale Celestine, W00 - Warm Gray No. 00, W0 - Warm Gray No. 0, W1 - Warm Gray No. 1, C0 - Cool Gray No. 0, R20 - Blush
• Nuvo Pure Platinum Mousse
• Nuvo PureSheen Glitter Ice White
• Nuvo Glitter Accent - Fresh Snowfall
• Nuvo Glitter Drops - White Blizzard

Do stop by the High Hopes Stamps blog and Facebook Page for some daily inspiration from the Design Team Divas.  You can also follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fantastic day.

 

Hugs, 

Wild Thing

I am getting out of Christmas card making mode and jumping in to Valentine's Day cards. I don't make many of this type of card to be honest but sometimes you have a stamp that comes into your life that needs to be a Valentine's Day card! 

"Snuggle Lions" was just that stamp for me.....although now I think it would also be perfect for an Anniversary card............

This card went sideways from my original plan. After colouring it with alcohol markers I hand fussy cut it and went around the edge with a black marker to cover any white I may have missed. Here is where things went awry...the paper and design I had chosen were just not working together with the stamp! Even after walking away for a day it wouldn't come together! 

So, I chose some paper from MFT and a different design and put my card together. I had to use my fussy cut stamp although I don't think it looks fussy cut on this white background. Next I took a small heart die and after roughly placing where I wanted the lions to be, I cut three hearts. 

The sentiment is one large sentiment but with some masking and help from my Misti I was able to split it up and stamp directly on to my paper. Some glossy enamel dots finish off my card. 


Card Recipe 

Stamp: Snuggle Lions - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment: Wild Thing - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper: Hearts and Stripes - My Favorite Things

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Misti, gloss enamel dots - Gina Marie Designs 

Spectrum Noir Markers: GB1 GB4 GB7 GB10 BG5 BG7 BG10 EB3 EB6 EB5 AG1 AG3 AG4 CR7 CR11 DR6

Be sure to stop by the High Hopes Rubber Stamps Facebook page and blog for daily inspiration from the design team!

                                                                 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a super fantastic day!

Winter fun!

Happy Sunday!!

Today is all about some Winter Fun here at High Hopes Stamps!!

And when I say fun, my card needs to be fun too!! So this cute penguin is wobbeling!! 

I love action wobbles, ecspecially if the card is for a child. 

To make this card, I've used:

* Leapin Lewis (High Hopes Stamps)

*white cardstock (Bazzill Basiscs Paper)

*darkblue cardstock (Bazzill Basics Paper)

*dessinpapers (BoBunny)

*snowflake dies (Uniquely Creative)

*happy birthday die (Uniquely Creative)

*round stitched die (MFT stamps)

*action wobble

*cake doily

*Copic markers:

I hope you've enjoyed this card and be sure to check out all inspiration cards on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest.. ;) 

Have a great day!

Slapshot Stanley!!!

Welcome Everyone;

Now that Christmas is over, we can get back to our normal routines. For me that is work, crafting and more crafting.  House work is right at the bottom of the list.  Now for my grandchildren it is school and hockey and nothing but hockey.  Yep all three of them and all different schedules.

For today's card, I used Slapshot Stanley from High Hopes Stamps (definitely need some female hockey stamps).  After stamping the image I coloured it with copic markers.  The snowflakes were two wooden shapes.  I added the Nuvo Pure Platinum Mousse first, then added some Nuvo Snow Glow glitter.

Supplies used:

• Stamp:  Slapshot Stanley, happy Birthday (High Hopes Stamps)
• Ink:  Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black
• Paper:  XPress It Cardstock, DP - Celebrate Winter (Echo Park)
• Copic Markers:  E33 - Sand, E31 - Brick Beige, E30 - Bisque, G0000 - Crystal Opal,G000- Pale Green, G00- Jade Green, B000 - Pale Porcelain Blue, B00 - Frost Blue, B01 - Mint Blue, E27 - Africano, E25 - Caribe Cocoa, BG0000 - Snow Green, BG000 - Pale Aqua, T8 - Toner Gray No. 8, N0 - Neutral Gray No. 0, N1 - Neutral Gray No. 1, R29 - Lipstick Red, R27 - Cadmium Red
• Nuvo Pure Platinum Mousse
• Nuvo Snow Glow Glitter
• Your Next Stamp Gumdrops

Do stop by the High Hopes Stamps blog and Facebook Page for some daily inspiration from the Design Team Divas.  You can also follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fantastic day.

 

Hugs, 

High Hopes Design Team Call

Are you looking to join a fun and crafty Design Team...with a little bit of crazy thrown in....just for good measure of course?

We are currently looking for Designers to join both our OCS Team & High Hopes Team.  We only work with High Hopes Stamps only.

Requirements

Have a current and active blog which you post to regularly 

Sharing your Design Team card to Facebook pages is a must.  We will provide the small list of groups we post to.

Have the ability to commit to posting one day per week, every week (sorry we don't do late lol)

Term - March 1st to July 31st, 2019

Benefits

You will be provided the rubber stamps to use for each blog post, free!

Our group is a ton of fun...we have a Facebook page just for the DT...all sorts of giggles!  

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If you like the sound of this please email samples of your work to sberkley51@gmail.com

Also include your name, blog info & address.  Please tell us a little bit about yourself too...we would like to get to know you a bit.

This is a SHORT call so don't miss the deadline.  All applicants will be notified no later than January 31st.