Cow Party

 It's easy to have fun and be the life of your birthday party when you've got the moooo-ves like "Party Cow" from the "Let's Celebrate" re release at High Hopes Rubber Stamps. I have a few friends and family who have dairy farms so this card will be perfect for one of their birthdays. I grew up spending my summers on dairy farms but I don't think I ever saw a cow with moooo-ves quite like this! 

I stamped my dancing cow, coloured her with Copic markers and cut her out with a circle die. At the same time I cut a card stock circle to put behind her. Next, I cut the card stock and confetti background paper to fit the 5.5"x 5.5" card base and then cut the blue pieces to size. A fish tail banner was perfect to add behind the image and used up a smaller piece of confetti paper I had used for an earlier project. It's hard to see in the photo but I added Star Dust Stickles to the trim and pom pom on the hat for a bit of party sparkle! Some enamel dots finish off my card. 

          

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Party Cow (TDG040) - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment - Herd Birthday (G079) - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper: Gingham Pastels - Sunny Studios, Birthday Salutations - Echo Park

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Hammermill 100lb digital cover stock, fish tail banner die - Your Next Stamp, Star Dust Stickles - Ranger, circle die, enamel dots

 Copic Markers:

Hooves - C1 C2 C4 C5 

Balloons - Y11 Y18 B12 B93

Spots - T4 T6 T8

Hat - R05 R24 R37 Y11 Y15 Y18 B12 B93

Thanks for stopping by! Have a super fantastic day!

Celebrate Birthdays!

Hello and Happy Sunday Everyone!

Today I have for you a birthday card. It doesn't quite follow our monthly theme, but everyone needs birthday cards! And, since this week happens to be a birthday week for someone very important to me, I wanted to post a card to acknowledge the occasion.

This High Hopes stamp is called Party Cow and I’ve paired it with Champagne Glass. This is the perfect little image to turn my party cow into an “extra” special party cow! Cheers!

Have a perfectly lovely Sunday and we'll see you again next week with more great inspiration from the talented team at High Hopes Stamps.

Party Cow

Howdy - MichelleO here today and this week I found another fun image from my High Hopes Stamps stash of favorites. This week I colored up Party Cow. 

Now after having some fun with Pig Party last week - I just couldn't resist Party Cow this week. Now I use this dancing cow more than some others... he just makes me wanna turn on some music and dance! And how can you now enjoy a dancing cow? And this one boogies down. I colored with Copics (colors below) and then found the High Hopes Stamps sentiment "Don't stop the music". I kept things a little simple, just a black card stock base, and one pattern paper from Paper Studios Petals and Blooms collection. I used my sewing machine and attached the image with a zig zag stitch.

I played with flowers and well..... just didn't feel it. Now why I went with lots of dots of Viva Decor Paint I have no idea. A little confetti maybe? But I was just feeling the music and went with some crazy fun I suppose. Fun image that can be used for a birthday or just perk me up card. I just love this dancing cow!

Copic colors used -

I hope you had a little dancing fun with him as well and he brought a smile. 

Did Someone Say Spring?

It's time to shake off those winter blues get your happy on and show us your happy dance moooves! 
I am having some fun with my card this week - I mean seriously a dancing cow?! She just makes me giggle and definitely makes me happy! This cow would be perfect to add a birthday cake or party hat to for a fun Birthday card too! We all express our joy in different ways and this party cow sure has the moooves!

After colouring this adorable cow with alcohol markers I added some shading with Prismacolor pencils to a few areas. I hand fussy cut it and ran a black marker around the edge to get any white I may have missed and popped her up using some foam dots. 
Next I added some clouds to a piece of white card stock with a cloud die and some baby blue ink and cut it out using a slash stitched die. The fence with cut with my Cricut using the Old West cartridge and the grass tufts were cut with a die. A piece of gingham ribbon and some enamel dots finish off my card. 

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Party Cow - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment: Say Spring - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper: Spring Fling - Echo Park

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Misti, Baby Blue ink - Memories Ink, cloud die - Quickutz, slash stitched round square die - Gina Marie Designs, grass tuft die - Your Next Stamp, ribbon - Stampin' Up, enamel dots - Gina Marie Designs, foam pop dots - Forever In Time

Spectrum Noir Markers: IG1 IG3 IG5 BG5 BG7 BG10 TN1 EB1 FS6 CR3 CR1

Primacolor Premier Pencils: dark brown, beige sienna, 30% cool grey, deco peach

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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!!

Party Cow

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As promised, I have another birthday card to hopefully inspire you today!
  Jane 

This is Party Cow (S114), party hat, and Celebrate (E052) sentiment.  This Party Cow stamp is just sooo adorable!  I think this birthday card will be perfect for my dad (who is a dairy farmer), and has a birthday coming up next month.   However, this card could be used for a variety of occasions other than just a birthday.

I started by colouring the image with Tombow Markers and water. After the image was all coloured and dry, I fussy cut the cow.  I also coloured the party hat stamp and fussy cut it out too. 

The barbed wire fence die is from MFT, using brown and grey cardstock.  I wanted to have party cow in a pasture-like setting, just dancing around!  That's probably not something you see everyday!!!  SU Basic Black Cardstock was used for the card base.  The designer paper is from Doodlebug-Goal 6x6 paper pad.  The party hat was glued to the cow's head, then foam tape was used under the entire image to give it some dimension.  For the sentiment, it was stamped with a versamark ink pad then heat embossed using black embossing powder.  To complete this card, a bunch of YNS-Glitter Black Gumdrops were added on the top right and bottom left corners.  

 

Supplies Used:

Ink - Tombow Markers - 491, N60, N15, N35, N55, 942, 761, 277, 126, 133 and 800.  Versamark Ink Pad and Black Embossing Powder.

 

Paper - Doodlebug - Goal 6x6 Paper Pad; SU Soft Suede, Going Grey, Black & White Cardstock.

 

Misc - MFT - Barbed Wire Fence Die, YNS-Glitter Black Gumdrops, Water Brush, Foam Tape, and Glue Dots.

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Party Cow

Howdy - MichelleO here today - Hope you all had an amazing Christmas! Now we are all gearing up for the New Year - and I thought that High Hopes Party Cow was just perfect to end 2015 and bring in 2016!

 "I've got the moosic in me!" Now that is a Party Cow!! I colored with my Copics and then found some perfect paper from Farm House Paper. Some older Bazzil Navy blue dotted swiss card stock and cream card stock just matched up well. I matted the cow with the dotted swiss card stock, and found an older Fiskars corner punch in my drawer to hold the cow in place. You know those Party Cows they will try and Mooooove around! (I know really bad huh?) While digging in my punch drawer I found a Fiskars punch with music notes... wow didn't remember I had that one and it was perfect for the embellishments. The High Hope sentiment "I've got the moosic in me!" is just the perfect match for the Party Cow.

Inside more of the same papers and musically note punches.

Copic colors used -

Had lots of fun putting this one together.

Have a safe and Happy New Year and make sure to Get a Little MOOOOSIC in YOU!

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Thanks for looking - 

MichelleO

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