Challenge 114 - Birthday

Hello High Hopes Fans!!

We loved all of the fun Summery cards last week!! Thank you for joining us.

The random winner is:

Congratulations B. Brassfield! Please contact me at stampandcreate@bellsouth.net with your choice of 3 free rubber stamps and your mailing address.

Here is her fun card using Flame Broilin'...

Tanya is host our challenge this time. And her challenge is something we all can use for our stash of cards...Birthday!!

No matter if you need a birthday card now, or later, you will need one eventually...so come play along!

Just remember, you must use a High Hopes stamp in order to be entered into the challenge.

If you are in need of some High Hopes stamps, why not check out the Diva's Stores:

Lacey Stephens - Stamp and Create based out of the US

Nikki Fairbairn - Bunny Zoe's Crafts based out of the UK/Europe

Amy Wegener - Stampin' Stuff based out of Australia

High Hopes Website

And now, here are the awesome Design Diva's Birthday inspirations...

Tanya

Lacey
Kristine
Sirpa

Karen

Alex.
Anna
Lynne
Niki
Now it's your turn!!

The challenge will be open through August 8th.

Pop-Up Card Tutorial by Kristine

Hello High Hopes Fans!

It is Tutorial Tuesday Time!!

We are back this week with a fun and easy tutorial by Kristine.

Our “Fun in the Sun” challenge is continuing this week so if you haven’t yet joined us we hope you’ll share a fun, sunny card with us this week!

This is the card that I made for my Diva card sample last Tuesday using Surf Scene Dudley.

But…last week I didn’t get to share the inside of the card with you!

In the inside there is even more “Fun in the Sun”!

It’s a fun little “Pop up card”. Here’s a close up side view for you.

I am going to show you how I made this card for today’s tutorial.

To start with you’ll need:

1 piece of 5 ½” x 8 ½” cardstock for your card base

1 piece 5 ¼” x 8 ¼” white cardstock

Addition white cardstock for stamping your images on

Teal scrap for punched wave

Paper cutter

Scoring tool

Stamps

Ink

Sponges

Wave punch

Score the white panel at 4 1/8” (in half-shown with the solid line)

Cut on the dotted lines which are 2 ¼” from the sides and each 2” long.

You should then be able to fold it so it looks like this.

Flatten the panel back out so that you can decorate it.

Create the clouds by using a die cut scallop oval and move it randomly around the page while sponging Aqua ink around the top. You can save the “cloud template” for reuse on future projects.

Randomly sponge brown ink on the lower portion to create the “sand”.

Punch a “wave” out of a scrap of teal paper and adhered it to the panel behind the cut out.

The final steps are to stamp, color, and cut out your images and sentiments and adhere to your pop up scene. (I used, Summer Sunshine & Surfer Dude Dudley)

Then adhere your scene to the inside of your card.

Here is the inside of another High Hopes “Pop up card” that I made earlier this year.

I used Hoppy Flower Froggy, Double Daisy & a portion of the Leapin' Lillypads Frog-ive me sentiment on this one.

I hope you enjoyed today’s tutorial and that you’ll give it a try.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Kristine

Challenge 114 - Fun in the Sun

Hello High Hopes Fans!!

We loved seeing your cards of thanksgiving this past week.

The random winner is...

Congratulations, Janine B!

Please email me at stampandcreate@bellsouth.net with your choice of 3 High Hopes Stamps and your mailing address.

Here is Janine's adorable card using Spoutin' Off...

Before we get to the new challenge, we are so happy to announce that the fabulous

Miss Anna Wight has returned to the Team as a Full Time Diva!! Yeah!!

Our new challenge is: Fun in the Sun

With Summer in full swing, let's see your summery cards, projects, or layouts.

Just remember you MUST use a High Hopes stamp on your card to be entered into the drawing for the prize: 3 Free High Hopes stamps.

If you are in need of some High Hopes stamps, why not check out the Diva's Stores:

Lacey Stephens - Stamp and Create based out of the US

Nikki Fairbairn - Bunny Zoe's Crafts based out of the UK/Europe

Amy Wegener - Stampin' Stuff based out of Australia

High Hopes Website

Now here are the awesome DT samples for your inspiration...

Lacey

Kristine
Tanya
Karen
Lynne
Sirpa
Jeanne
Andrea

Niki
Anna
Now it's your turn!!

The challenge is open for 2 weeks.

Spotlight with a color twist Tutorial by Jeanne

Hello High Hopes fans!!

If you are looking for our current challenge, click here.

It's Tutorial Tuesday Time.

This week we have a Spotlight with a color twist Tutorial by Jeanne Streiff.

This technique is normally done with a white background. I'm not much of a rule follower so I thought it would be fun with a colored background. Just a little hint... I tried it against assorted patterned papers and decided it made the image cut out pop more against a very simple background.

Step 1: Position your stamps on a large clear block. Stamp images on both white and patterned paper.

Step 2: Cut out part of the image (I used a Spellbinders die, but you could use a punch or even a stencil to cut)

Step 3: Color images within the oval cut out area.

Step 4: Stamp alligator

Step 5: Color and cut out alligator (set aside)

Step 6: Adhere stamped pattern paper piece to card back.

Step 7: Align images of the colored image panel and attach to card.

Step 8: Finish card by stamping sentiment, adding twine and attaching alligator with foam tape.

Products used:

High Hopes Stamps used: Q-040 Samson, H-165 Jungle Leaf Corner, F-126 Crock Me Up, R-082 Banana Tree, S-096 Palm Tree

Other: Promarkers (0727, 0324, 0555, 0427, Y126, Y724, Y635, G629, Blender), foam tape, Nestabilities (Spellbinders), twine

Why not try it out?!

We will be back next week with a new challenge.