Dragonfly Smiles

I can never have enough cards in my stash to send to friends and family who are going through tough times. 
I love being able to send a smile or hug in the mail! 

I think Lg. J's Dragonfly fits the bill to bring a smile to someone - especially with those heart shaped cheeks! She definitely makes me smile!

I coloured this cutie with alcohol markers and hand fussy cut it leaving a thin white edge then popped her up with foam pop dots. I added some dots to her cheeks with a white gel pen and because I like a little sparkly somewhere on my cards, I added some clear sparkle pen to the hearts in the wings. 

I set her aside and die cut a cloud and grabbed my dauber and ink to create my sky background. Next I cut it to size and put it in my trusty Misti to stamp the sentiment in the perfect spot. I lightly drew the dashes with a pencil and then went over them with black marker once I was happy with their placement. Some twine and gumdrops finish off this fun, CAS style card. 

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Lg. J's Dragonfly - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment: Sending Smiles - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper: Sage and Grace - Kaisercraft

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Misti, white gel pen, clear Spectrum Sparkle Pen, cloud die - Quickutz, baby blue ink - Memories, twine, foam pop dots - Forever In Time, enamel dots - Gina Marie Designs

Spectrum Noir Markers: IGI IG3 

Copics: C00 RV11 RV32 RV34

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Online Olive

Howdy - MichelleO here and to save too much talk.. we will just say this sentiment and image from High Hopes Stamps is a little close to home... sigh... insert rolling eyes here. LOL

Freezing cold then suddenly flames of heat! Not fun. This card did give me a chuckle. My look alike image is "Online Olive" and she was fun to color! I used my Copics (colors below) and then used a little Nuvo sparkle on the steam from the cup and the smoke from the computer. Scrap papers with a bit of shine to them give a little more life. All the layers are sewn down with dots of Nuvo black for embellishment. That sentiment is just a scream. "I don't have hot flashes, I have power surges!"

I know you have friends that would get a kick out of this card... right? LOL

Copic colors used -

There are so many fun image like this at High Hopes! Love cards that bring a smile don't you? And a chuckle... Laugh out Loud is even better.

Hula birthday

Happy Sunday!

It's such a beautiful Spring day here! I love the warm feeling of sunshine after days of cold weather..

So inspired by the sunshine I colored up Leilani today! You can find her HERE in the High Hopes Rubber Stamps website. 

To make this card I've used: 

*High Hopes Rubber Stamps: Leilani

*High Hopes Rubber Stamps sentiment: Happy birthday

*Bazzill Basics white, blue and pink cardstock

*Altenew H die

*My Minds Eye dessinpapers (from my stash)

*Prima Marketing flowers

*other: foam tape, Pergaglue, Memento black ink, Copic paper, 

*Copics used:

Here are some details of the card and a good view of the whole card:

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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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Hannah's Heart!

Happy Tuesday HH Fans!

Today I am sharing with you a card I made using "Hannah's Heart" from High Hopes Stamps! Hannah is one of the first stamps I had from HH and I haven't used her in a long time. I forgot just how adorable she is and had to ink her up once again!

I decided to use papers from the MME "Happy Days" 6x6 collection. I just love the colour combinations in this pack! I made this card for any "love" occasion. The sentiment "Just Because" is also from High Hopes.

 After stamping Hannah, I coloured her with my Copic markers to match the designer paper. I added some Crystal Stickles to the tiny hearts on her dress, her flower in her hat and the butterfly. Some matching ribbon, bow and adhesive sequins finish off my design.

Using leftovers from the designer paper I decorated the inside of my card and added the HH "A Hundred Hearts" sentiment.

Copics Used:

Skin: E00, E11, E21, R20

Hair: E25, E27, E29

Outfit: BG72, BG75, BG78, YG23, YG25

Hearts: YR00, YR01, YR02

Ground & Outline: W1, BG000, BG00

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Yo-ho Yo-ho.. a Pirates life for me

Hellooo,

Today I made a Pirates birthday card for my card stash.. I have a few nephew who are in the middle of the Pirates phase.. so I'll never have too many Pirates cards, hahaha..

To make this card, I've used:

*High Hopes Rubber Stamps: Treasure Map, Treasure Chest, Parrot

*High Hopes Rubber Stamps: Pirates birthday sentiment

*Bazzill Basics white and black cardstock

*Echo Park dessinpaper

*MFT stitched wonky rectangle die

*foam tape

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Friendship Card!

Hi there friends,

I had such a good time creating this friendship card. Also using some unexpected colors!

Today I am using "Jolie's Little Friend" from Highhopesstamps.com

I started by stamping my image with Memento Tuxedo black ink and colored with alcohol markers. Fussy cut it leaving a small white border. Used some left over pattern paper and die some small clouds with Impression Obsession die #068-A  Now for embellishment I added sequins, pink Nuvo drops, diamond stickles and my white pen.  

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Have a BLESS day!

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madewithlovecards.blogspot.com

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