Hogs and Kisses

Poor Pickles!!!He bought his sweetheart some balloons for Valentine's Day and they seem to have put a little too much helium in them! 
For now all he can do is send Hogs and Kisses to his sweetheart and hope he back in time for the big day! 

 I coloured Pickles with alcohol markers, cut him out with a stitched rectangle die and set him aside. Next I grabbed some white card stock, a dauber, blue ink and a cloud die cut and created my sky background. This is an A2 size card so I cut some background pieces out of my cloud paper. The second cut in the background is for some added interest. The sentiment is stamped directly onto to the background and some matching enamel dots finish off my card. 

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Lg. Pickles Balloon Ride - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment: Hogs and Kisses - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Misti, white gel pen, baby blue Memories ink, cloud Quickutz die, stormy blue Distress ink (sentiment), stitched rectangle dies - YNS, enamel dots - Carta Bella

Spectrum Noir Markers: TB8 BT9 TB9 IG1 IG3 IG5 FS6 FS8 CR1 AP4 CT1 CT3 GY1

Copics: RV11 RV34

Be sure to stop by the High Hopes Rubber Stamps Facebook page and blog for daily inspiration from the design team!

                                                                 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a super fantastic day!

Winter Fairy

Happy Sunday!!

My birthday cards stash is empty, so I need to make more birthday cards asap.. 

So today I have a Winter birthday card for you with the cute Holly the Winter Fairie...

I already know who will get this card, so still a low stash. Hmmmm.. need to make more and more and more!! 

To make this card, I've used:

*Holly the Winter Fairie (High Hopes Stamps)

*white, kraft and blue cardstock (Bazzill Basics Papers)

*doilies (Stampin Up)

*pearls

*kraft photo corners (local shop)

*dessinpapers (Echo Park)

*Hoera sentiment (Dutch)

*oval die (MFT stamps)

*handmade chrochet snowflake

*polychromos pencils

Hop on over to the High Hopes Stamps website for more cute Fairies! You can find them HERE.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out our Pinterest, Facebook and Instagram for more Inspiration!!

Snowballs for Sale

Welcome HH fans;

Hopefully, there will be some snowfall this weekend for some good old fun with snowballs.  Where I live, there has been a lack of this main ingredient to be able to make snowballs never mind throwing them.

For today's card, I have used this adorable Penguin selling snowballs stamp called Frozen Fun from High Hopes Stamps.

After stamping the image, I coloured it with Copic Markers.  I used Nuvo Fresh Snowfall Glitter Accent to add some snow at the bottom and Nuvo Pure Platinum Mousse and Pure Sheen Ice White Glitter to the snowflakes.

Supplies:

• Stamps: Frozen Fun, Have an Ice Day (High Hopes Stamps) 
• Ink:  Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black
• Paper:  XPress It Blending Cardstock, DP - my stash
• Copic Markers:  YR07 - Cadmium Orange, YR04 - Chrome Orange, T9 - Toner Gray No. 9, T8 Toner Gray No. 8, T7 Toner Gray No. 7, E30 - Bisque, E31 - Brick Beige, E33 - Sand, BG0000 - Snow Green, BG000 - Pale Aqua, BG01 - Aqua Blue, B00 - Frost Blue, B000 - Pale Porcelain Blue, B0000 - Pale Celestine, W00 - Warm Gray No. 00, W0 - Warm Gray No. 0, W1 - Warm Gray No. 1, C0 - Cool Gray No. 0, R20 - Blush
• Nuvo Pure Platinum Mousse
• Nuvo PureSheen Glitter Ice White
• Nuvo Glitter Accent - Fresh Snowfall
• Nuvo Glitter Drops - White Blizzard

Do stop by the High Hopes Stamps blog and Facebook Page for some daily inspiration from the Design Team Divas.  You can also follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fantastic day.

 

Hugs, 

Wild Thing

I am getting out of Christmas card making mode and jumping in to Valentine's Day cards. I don't make many of this type of card to be honest but sometimes you have a stamp that comes into your life that needs to be a Valentine's Day card! 

"Snuggle Lions" was just that stamp for me.....although now I think it would also be perfect for an Anniversary card............

This card went sideways from my original plan. After colouring it with alcohol markers I hand fussy cut it and went around the edge with a black marker to cover any white I may have missed. Here is where things went awry...the paper and design I had chosen were just not working together with the stamp! Even after walking away for a day it wouldn't come together! 

So, I chose some paper from MFT and a different design and put my card together. I had to use my fussy cut stamp although I don't think it looks fussy cut on this white background. Next I took a small heart die and after roughly placing where I wanted the lions to be, I cut three hearts. 

The sentiment is one large sentiment but with some masking and help from my Misti I was able to split it up and stamp directly on to my paper. Some glossy enamel dots finish off my card. 


Card Recipe 

Stamp: Snuggle Lions - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment: Wild Thing - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper: Hearts and Stripes - My Favorite Things

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Misti, gloss enamel dots - Gina Marie Designs 

Spectrum Noir Markers: GB1 GB4 GB7 GB10 BG5 BG7 BG10 EB3 EB6 EB5 AG1 AG3 AG4 CR7 CR11 DR6

Be sure to stop by the High Hopes Rubber Stamps Facebook page and blog for daily inspiration from the design team!

                                                                 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a super fantastic day!

Winter fun!

Happy Sunday!!

Today is all about some Winter Fun here at High Hopes Stamps!!

And when I say fun, my card needs to be fun too!! So this cute penguin is wobbeling!! 

I love action wobbles, ecspecially if the card is for a child. 

To make this card, I've used:

* Leapin Lewis (High Hopes Stamps)

*white cardstock (Bazzill Basiscs Paper)

*darkblue cardstock (Bazzill Basics Paper)

*dessinpapers (BoBunny)

*snowflake dies (Uniquely Creative)

*happy birthday die (Uniquely Creative)

*round stitched die (MFT stamps)

*action wobble

*cake doily

*Copic markers:

I hope you've enjoyed this card and be sure to check out all inspiration cards on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest.. ;) 

Have a great day!

Slapshot Stanley!!!

Welcome Everyone;

Now that Christmas is over, we can get back to our normal routines. For me that is work, crafting and more crafting.  House work is right at the bottom of the list.  Now for my grandchildren it is school and hockey and nothing but hockey.  Yep all three of them and all different schedules.

For today's card, I used Slapshot Stanley from High Hopes Stamps (definitely need some female hockey stamps).  After stamping the image I coloured it with copic markers.  The snowflakes were two wooden shapes.  I added the Nuvo Pure Platinum Mousse first, then added some Nuvo Snow Glow glitter.

Supplies used:

• Stamp:  Slapshot Stanley, happy Birthday (High Hopes Stamps)
• Ink:  Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black
• Paper:  XPress It Cardstock, DP - Celebrate Winter (Echo Park)
• Copic Markers:  E33 - Sand, E31 - Brick Beige, E30 - Bisque, G0000 - Crystal Opal,G000- Pale Green, G00- Jade Green, B000 - Pale Porcelain Blue, B00 - Frost Blue, B01 - Mint Blue, E27 - Africano, E25 - Caribe Cocoa, BG0000 - Snow Green, BG000 - Pale Aqua, T8 - Toner Gray No. 8, N0 - Neutral Gray No. 0, N1 - Neutral Gray No. 1, R29 - Lipstick Red, R27 - Cadmium Red
• Nuvo Pure Platinum Mousse
• Nuvo Snow Glow Glitter
• Your Next Stamp Gumdrops

Do stop by the High Hopes Stamps blog and Facebook Page for some daily inspiration from the Design Team Divas.  You can also follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fantastic day.

 

Hugs, 

High Hopes Design Team Call

Are you looking to join a fun and crafty Design Team...with a little bit of crazy thrown in....just for good measure of course?

We are currently looking for Designers to join both our OCS Team & High Hopes Team.  We only work with High Hopes Stamps only.

Requirements

Have a current and active blog which you post to regularly 

Sharing your Design Team card to Facebook pages is a must.  We will provide the small list of groups we post to.

Have the ability to commit to posting one day per week, every week (sorry we don't do late lol)

Term - March 1st to July 31st, 2019

Benefits

You will be provided the rubber stamps to use for each blog post, free!

Our group is a ton of fun...we have a Facebook page just for the DT...all sorts of giggles!  

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If you like the sound of this please email samples of your work to sberkley51@gmail.com

Also include your name, blog info & address.  Please tell us a little bit about yourself too...we would like to get to know you a bit.

This is a SHORT call so don't miss the deadline.  All applicants will be notified no later than January 31st.