Create

 Happy New Year! I am back after a bit of a break over Christmas and happy to be back in my craft room creating! I hope you all had a good Christmas - I know we did <smile>. For my first card of 2024 I decided to start the year with a smile  and have some fun with "Happy Pigs" from High Hopes Rubber Stamps - how can you not just smile along with these two!?!

After colouring these cuties with Copic markers, I cut them out with a stitched tag die and set them aside. I chose paper from My Favorite Things and Carta Bella to create the background design and rounded the corners of the polka dot paper with my corner rounder. I cut an envelope edge die and added some small scallops to the top and bottom the tag for added interest. 

I inked the edges of all the paper and tag with Vintage Photo Distress ink and set them aside. 

To create the sentiment I masked off the words I wanted (it is a larger sentiment) and first stamped the word create and after drawing a light pencil line under it I masked off the bottom line and stamped it. This often takes two, three or more tries but this time it worked the first time! After gluing down the paper layers, I added the tag - after putting some lace through the hole, added some flowers with enamel dots in the centre and added enamel dots to the four corners to finish off my card. 

Stamp Recipe

Stamps - Happy Pigs (TT133)- High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment - Somedays (GG024) - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper - Gingham Galore - My Favorite Things

Dots & Stripes - Carta Bella

Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Hammermill Digital Cover Card Stock, Stitched Scallop Nesting Tag - Kat Scrappiness, envelope edger die - Whimsy Stamps, Vintage Photo Distress Ink - Ranger, lace ribbon, flowers, corner rounder, enamel dots

Copic Markers

Fence - E23 E25 E27

Pigs - E01 E02 E93 E95 R21 C2 C4 C5

Bird - B02 B04 B06

Mud - E34 E35 E29

Grass - YG03 YG17

Thanks for stopping by! Have a super fantastic day!

Create Sunshine!!!

 It’s Wednesday, and this week, I made a card using Goat Your Back - TT137 by High Hopes Rubber Stamps for the main image and Somedays - GG024 (High Hopes Rubber Stamps) for the sentiment. This momma goat and her babes are out enjoying the warmer weather. Spring is finally here! We just planted our flowers this past weekend, or I should say, I helped pick them out and my husband actually did the planting. He has a green thumb. I definitely don't. LOL!

To make my card this week, I started with a base of 6" x 6" using AC White Cardstock. I cut Bo Bunny - Sweet Moments Divine paper to be the same size as the base card and then inked around the edges with Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Crushed Olive. I attached this directly to the base using double-sided tape. Using Doodlebug Design Inc. - Spring Solid Assortment paper, I die cut the yellow rectangle, large green rectangle and small green rectangle using My Creative Time - Rectangle Frame Dies and My Creative Time - Rectangle Frame Layers. The edges were inked with Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Crushed Olive and Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Fossilized Amber. The same dies were also used to die cut Copic Marker X-Press It Blending Card for the main image. Gina Marie Designs - Nested Scalloped Stitched Rectangles were used to die cut Recollections - Petite Floral paper. The edges of this die cut were inked with Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Scattered Straw.

I stamped my image using my MISTI and Memento - Tuxedo Black ink onto the Copic Marker X-Press It Blending Card die cut. I coloured in the image and background using Copic markers. The sentiment was stamped onto white cardstock using my MISTI and Memento - Tuxedo Black ink. I used my small cutter to cut around the sentiment and inked it with Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Crushed Olive. I die cut the sun and clouds using Copic Marker X-Press It Blending cardstock and Nellie's Choice - Nature Scene Dies - NSD002 - Sky. I coloured these with Copic markers. I added 3M VHB - 2 sided tape to the back of 1 cloud and the sun and attached them to the main image. The other cloud was attached using glue and tucked under the sun.

The card was now ready to assemble. I attached the large green rectangle to the patterned paper base with 3M VHB - 2 sided tape. The main image and yellow rectangle were attached to the large scalloped rectangle using glue. Then the scalloped rectangle was attached to the large green rectangle with 3M VHB - 2 sided tape. I attached the sentiment to the smaller green rectangle and popped it up using 3M VHB - 2 sided tape. To finish off the card I used a few pop dots and some yellow flowers.

Card Recipe:

Stamp: Goat Your Back - TT137 (High Hopes Rubber Stamps)

Sentiment: Somedays - GG024 (High Hopes Rubber Stamps)

Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Inks: Scattered Straw, Crushed Olive, Fossilized Amber

Paper: Copic Marker X-Press It Blending Card, Recollections - Petite Floral - 12 x 12" (30.4 x 30.4 cm), Doodlebug Design Inc. - Spring Solid Assortment (12" x 12"), Bo Bunny - Sweet Moments Divine - 12 x 12 in., AC Cardstock - White

Die Cuts: Gina Marie Designs - Nested Scalloped Stitched Rectangles, My Creative Time - Rectangle Frame Dies, My Creative Time - Rectangle Frame Layers, Nellie's Choice - Nature Scene Dies - NSD002 - Sky

Tools \ Miscellaneous: MISTI - Most Incredible Stamping Tool, 3M VHB - 2 sided tape, Dodz Small - Adhesive Dots, Flowers, Pop-dots

Image coloured with Copic Markers:

Goats: E53, E51, E50, E35, E34, E33, E31, E30, C5, C3, C1, C0, C00, R30, R27, R20, R14, Y38, Y35, Y17, Y08, Colorless Blender, (Eyes and Nose - Sakura Glaze - Black, Gelly Roll Sakura #5 Pen)

Grass: YG17, YG13, YG03, YG01

Sky: B02, B01, B00, B000, B0000

Clouds: B60, C00, Colorless Blender

Sun: Y19, Y18, Y17

Check out some other fun new stamps from High Hopes Rubber Stamps
Furry and Friends Release

Hope you like it and have a fantastic week!

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Some Days....

 The vault has been opened and the Furry & Friends release is now available. The barn doors have opened! Pigs and cows, and dogs and the bull - oh my! 

I grew up in a small town but most of friends lived on farms. I grew up spending most of my summer vacations doing things on the farm from stone picking to feeding the animals. I learned to work hard and this is where my love of horses came from - most of them had horses too. 

There was nothing better than tending to the pigs and cows if it meant I could go for a ride......even just one ride - that was my happy place. 

This release doesn't have a horse in it but it does have a super cute donkey that just makes me smile! Meet Be A Donkey from High Hopes - how cute is he!?! I wonder what these three have planned!?!

I stamped this cutie, coloured him with my Copic markers and cut him out using a rounded corner with piercing marks die. I found some wood patterned paper that I thought worked perfectly and added some matching purple gingham to the mix. After stamping the sentiment I cut it size and added it directly under my coloured image.  Some corner dies, cotton ribbon and matte enamel dots to finish it off.

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Be A Donkey - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiments: Somedays - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper - Weathered Woods and Crystals - Asuka Studio, Tiny Checks - MFT

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Hammermill 100lb digital cover stock, corner dies (retired) Whimsy Stamps, cotton ribbon, matte enamel dots, rounded corner with piercing marks die - Your Next Stamp

 Copic Markers:

Bag - E30 E31 E43

Hooves - C1 C2 C4 C5

Chicken - C1 C2 C4 R24 R27 R37 R59 Y11 Y15 Y17

Flowers - Y 11 Y15 Y17 R81 R85 Y11 Y08 V22 V25

Body - W1 W3 W5 R00 R12 W1

Grass - G05 G07

Butterfly - Y11 Y08 W3 W5

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Somedays You Just Have To

Happy Thursday and welcome back High Hopes fans! 

My post this week features another of my favourite things - stamping! and colouring of course. I talk to people all day and there is really nothing like coming home and hiding in my craft room - there is something theraputic about colouring and stamping isn't there? 

Ronda Stamping Angel was the perfect stamp to share one more of my favourite things. 

I started by colouring my stamps with alcohol markers and hand fussy cutting her out. Originally I had another plan for this card but it didn't come together like I wanted it to so I had to redirect my creativity...does that ever happen to anyone else? 

I added this cutie to an embossed heart background and stamped my "partial" sentiment directly onto my patterned paper. Some sparkly ribbon and sparkly gumdrops - another of my favourites - finish off my card. 

Card Recipe 

Stamps: Ronda Stamping Angel - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment: Somedays - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper: Sugar and Spice - Doodlebug

 Tuxedo Black ink - Memento,  Misti, 3D foam pop dots - Forever In Time, clear Spectrum Sparkle pen, Best Glue Ever - ScraPerfect, Quickie glue pen, swiss hearts embossing folder - Taylored Expressions, curved scallop die - YNS, ribbon - stash, Ice Ice Baby Sparkly gumdrops - YNS

Spectrum Markers: CG4 DG3 JG6 CG1 CG2 IG1 IG2 EB6 EB3 EB5 IG3 IG5 CT1 CT4 GB5 OR1

Copics: B00 B01 BG01 B24 B25 

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Have a fantastic day!