Gingerbread Dreams!

Hi!

I haven't made a "stair step" card in forever and decided that this would be perfect to pair with the High Hopes Stamp "Gingerbread Friends" and "Gingerbread House" images. This brings back memories of my Mom making Gingerbread Houses every year with my girls. I have to admit that ours never looked this pretty, more "goopy" and loaded with anything and everything LOL. But they sure had fun doing them.

To start, I stamped and coloured all my images to match the papers in the Doodlebug "Christmas magic" 6x6 collection. Next using my Brother Cut N Scan machine I cut out the images. Then I pulled out my Cameo and a svg file and created the Side Stair Step card base. I enlarged the file to fit the larger Gingerbread Friend image. I added a fence die cut in front of the Gingerbread House to create a little scene. The lollipops have some Clear Glitter Pen added to them and of course I had to add some Crystal Stickles to "icing" parts on both images.

Here's a side view where you can see the "stair steps" better. I thought the High Hopes "Gingerbread Dreams"sentiment went perfectly with my card theme!

I stamped an extra house and coloured in just the lollipops and little gumdrops, fussy cut them out with scissors and added on the first "step" to help create a more dimensional look.

Copics Used:

Gingerbread: E33, E35, E37

Reds: R24, R27, R29

Greens: G28, YG17, YG23, YG25

Yellows: Y21, Y23, Y26

Pinks: RV02, RV04, RV06, RV09

Blue Greens: BG13, BG18, BG34

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Happy Stamping!

 

Gingerbread House

 Howdy - MichelleO here today and this week for High Hopes Stamps I went yummy! Just love how fun this Christmas image "Gingerbread House" is! Just Yummy! 

Coloring with my Copics (colors below) and then added some "snow" with a Marvy Snow Marker. The lollipops needed a bit of sparkle so I added some Viva Decor glitter to them. Lollipops do need sparkle right? Now it is rare for me to color before knowing what pattern paper I am using, but I was just into coloring this cute little house I forgot to look for paper, but then I found a Paper Studio Candy Cane paper that just seemed to made for my card. A red card stock base for sure. Then I die cut a scalloped square for behind the image. Now at the time weaving a red and white gingham ribbon in that die cut seemed to be a great idea.... OMG... it took forever to do! The ribbon was too big for the tiny holes so I had to be very careful. But finally I got it done, and so glad I stuck with it! A ribbon at the bottom to tie it all off. Love how this little note card came out! Yummy right? 

Copic colors used - 

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Gingerbread Dreams!

It’s Wednesday, and this month at High Hopes Rubber Stamps we are celebrating Christmas. YAY!!!  This week, I used Gingerbread House (S159) (High Hopes Rubber Stamps) and Gingerbread Dreams (E061) (High Hopes Rubber Stamps) for the sentiment.

To make this card I stamped the Gingerbread House image onto Copic Marker X-Press It Blending Card using Memento - Tuxedo Black ink and my MISTI - Most Incredible Stamping Tool in order to give me a nice crisp image. I coloured in the image with a little guidance from Kit and Clowder's Gingerbread house video created by Alyce. For the snow and candies, you can't see it in this photo, but I used Spectrum Noir - Crystal Clear Sparkles. Once I finished colouring in the image, I fussy cut around it. I also stamped out the sentiment and fussy cut around that as well.

Next I used the Gingerbread Chain punch from Creative Memories to cut out my little gingerbread men and then used Gelly Roll Sakura #10 Pen to create the icing and a dab of Copic Marker #29 for the cheeks.

For the assembly of the card, I used 6" x 6" AC Autumn Cardstock for the base. I had a piece of Hot Buy Craft Smart - Holiday Glitz Glitter Paper from a previous project that I had worked on and layered this on top of the Gingerbread men paper from Doodlebug Design Inc. - Milk and Cookies.

Lastly I used 3M VHB - 2 sided tape to pop up all of the images and sentiment. I added in the little red embellishments to represent the little gingerbreads dreaming of their wonderful gingerbread house. LOL!

Card Recipe:

Stamp: Gingerbread House (S159) (High Hopes Rubber Stamps)

Sentiment: Gingerbread Dreams (E061) (High Hopes Rubber Stamps)

Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black

Paper: Copic Marker X-Press It Blending Card, Hot Buy Craft Smart - Holiday Glitz Glitter Paper 12" x 12", AC Autumn Cardstock 12" x 12", Doodlebug Design Inc. - Milk and Cookies 6" x 6".

Tools: MISTI - Most Incredible Stamping Tool, Cuttlebug, Spectrum Noir - Sparkles - Crystal Clear, Gelly Roll Sakura #8 Pen, Creative Memories - Gingerbread Chain Border Maker Cartridge

Image coloured with Copic Markers:

Gingerbread House: E37, E35, E33, E31, Y21

Icing and Snow: BV31, BV1, BV000

Red: R29, R27, R24, R22

Green: G29, G07, G05

Yellow: E15, Y38, Y35, Y11

Orange: E15, YR18, YR15, YR12

Hope you like it and have a fantastic week!

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Gingerbread House Heart

Hello High Hopes Fans!

Christmas is only a month away so if you haven't started your Christmas Cards yet, it's time to get started!  

Today I am sharing a card that I made with 
Gingerbread House Heart

I colored the image with Prisma Pencils (cardinal red, sky blue, apple green sienna, yellow).

Then I blended with gamsol and blending stumps.

The paper is The Paper Studio from Hobby Lobby.

The ribbon is Ofray.

The sentiment is Magic of Christmas.

I used Spellbinder Classic Rectangle dies.

Thanks for stopping by!

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Sweet Wishes

Happy Thursday High Hopes Fans! 

It's Christmas in July on the High Hopes blog and today I am sharing a card using an older High Hopes image called "Gingerbread House". This one caught my eye when I saw it....maybe it's because it spoke to my sweet tooth lol. 

This super cute gingerbread house is coloured with alcohol markers and cut out using a stitched square die. Spectrum Sparkle pens were used to colour in the lollipops so they sparkle even though that's hard to see in the photo. The sentiment was done on my computer. Stampendous Snow was added to the front edge of the house. I LOVE this product - it has yellow, pink and blue flecks in it and you don't need to use Versa Mark ink with this one. It is sticky on it's own so you can move it around to put it exactly where you want it before heat embossing it - so fun!! 

I edged the square with antique linen distress ink, added some pink circles cut with a die to the edges and finished it off with some ribbon and an icicle border die. A little bling is brought to the corners with some sparkly gumdrops - perfect for a gingerbread house don't you think?  

Card Recipe

Stamps: Gingerbread House (S159)- High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Misti, Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, Copic Xpress It Cardstock

Sentiment: Script MT Bold font - computer

Dies: Stitched Squares, Circles Galore Die Set - Your Next Stamp, Icicle border - Impression Obsession

Patterned Paper: Sugar Plums - Doodlebug Designs
Stampendous Snow Embossing Powder

Red Berry & Clear Spectrum Sparkle Pens, Star Dust Stickles, Antique Linen Distress Ink, Ribbon - stash, Ice Ice Baby Gumdrops - Your Next Stamp

Spectrum Noir Markers: TN2 TN3 TN5 1B2 1B3 BP1 BP2 BP4 LG1 LG3 LG5 1G2

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