Love Hangin' With My Peeps

This week I am celebrating my friends! February is the month of love and I love my crazy friends who I like to call my "posse"! You know the ones.......you meet up for an innocent coffee or event, you let your hair down as they say and "things" just happen! 
You end up making some of the best memories and well let's be honest, maybe relieve a little stress along the way. I am truly blessed to have these amazing women in my life. 

I chose to use "Froggy Stack" for this card. This stamp is one of the first High Hopes stamps I ever won in a challenge many moons ago. I love the fun these three are having......although I think I would probably be the one in middle! 

After colouring these three friends with alcohol markers I cut it out using a wonky stitched die - perfect for these three fun loving friends! I set them aside and went on to creating my sentiment. This is two long sentiments combined so I masked each word and stamped them separately. Challenging but I am very happy with the result. Next I cut my patterned paper from YNS and Echo Park to fit my design and added a stitched scalloped edge just for fun. Some glittery flowers (hard to see in the photo) and gumdrops finish off my card. 


Card Recipe 

Stamp: Froggy Stack - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment: Hangin' With My Peeps, Owl Always Love You - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper: Spring - Echo Park, Summer Plaid - YNS

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Misti, hand stitched nested rectangles die - Whimsy, gumdrops - YNS, flowers - Poppies and Prairie, scallop edge - My Creative Time dies

Spectrum Noir Markers: AG1 AG3 AG5 PP1 PP3 PP5 CT1 GY1 YG1 YG3

Copics: R20 R32 C00

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Thanks for stopping by! Have a super fantastic day!

Love You

                                 Happy Thursday High Hopes Fans! 

It's the first week of January but my mind is out of Christmas card making mode into Valentine's Day cards. I don't normally make this type of card but High Hopes has some great stamps for this occasion so I just had to ink them up! 

"Dino-Mite Dino" just makes me giggle! He could be used for so many card types....graduation, congratulations, birthday.....the list goes on! but I chose Valentine's Day for this guy. 

After colouring Dino with alcohol markers I cut him out with circle die and cut a matching cardstock piece to put behind him. 

I wanted to keep the layout of this card on the more simple side (for me anyway) to keep the focus on our friend Dino. 

Now, I have a confession ... I didn't have a happy Valentine's day sentiment stamp that fit my design so I used "part" of another High Hopes sentiment for my card. 

Some red rhinestones finish it off. 

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Dino-Mite Dino (M130) - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment: Owl Always Love You (HH020)- High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper: Tea For Two - Cosmo Cricket

 Tuxedo Black ink - Memento, Copic XpressIt cardstock, rhinestones - stash, Banners #3 die - Sizzix, Classic Circle die - Spellbinders, Fiskars circle cutter 

Spectrum Noir Markers: JG2 JG6 JG4 CG1 CG2 1G1 CR7 CR11 DR6 

The challenge for this month is called: Live, Laugh, Love. There are three ways to win some stamps - click here for details. 

There is also a new sketch to play along with - we can't wait to see what you create! Come play along!

Thanks so much for popping by! Have a fantastic day!