Work of Art!

Hello!

It's the last day of the "Christmas in July" over on the High Hopes and One Crazy Stamper Blogs. I'm finishing off the month with this adorable snowman stamp called "Making Friends" from High Hopes Stamps. Snowmen and Penguins are my favourite winter "friends" so of course I think his Snowman is just so super cute. 

The paper is from an older Echo Park collection called "I Love Winter". I just love the blues and reds in this collection! I added some Diamond Stickles for a bit of sparkle and a few enamel dots as well. The sentiment from HH called "Dot Warm Winter Wishes" is perfect for the front of my card.

On the inside I used the HH sentiment called "Work of Art". I absolutely love this saying! It's so true as you really do put all your love into building a snowman!

Copics Used:

R24, R27, YR04, YR07

B000, B95, B97, B99, YG23

C1, C2, C5, C7, C9

Now that the Design Teams from High Hopes and One Crazy stamper have inspired you for the month with "Christmas in July"........ join us in August for our "Fall/ Halloween themed cards!

Happy Stamping! 

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Winter Birthday

Happy Sunday!!

For today's Christmas in July themed card I'd like to show you a birthday card with a Christmas stamp. It's not only Christmas we're celebration in December, but there are also Birthdays to celebrate!! 

For this card I've used Penguin Giver. It's perfect for Winter Birthdays.

Card base is with Bazzill white cardstock. Patterned papers are from Maja Design. 

I've used a Snowflake border die and added the Happy Birthday Block sentiment.

Copics used:

 

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Christmas in July -- High Hopes Stamps

 Happy Saturday High Hopes Fans.

Today's creation is made with …

Winter Wonderland found here!

Twinkle all the way found here!

 A vintage tag was created using distress inks and copic markers. Kraft paper.  Plus  embossing and some 

pattern papers were added to the design.

 Only part of the sentiment was used on a banner flag with added fine twine.

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Here Comes Santa Claus...

Welcome OCS fans;

It is hard to believe that summer is half over and we wonder where has the time gone. This in turn means that school will start in another month and we are getting closer to Christmas.

For my last post for this month's inspiration of "Christmas in July", I have used Flyin' High Santa from High Hopes Stamps.  After stamping the image and colouring it with Copic Markers, I added some Nuvo Fresh Snowfall Glitter Accents to the trim on Santa's hat. 

Supplies used:

• Stamps:  Flyin' High Santa, Here Comes Santa Claus (High Hopes Stamps)
• Ink:  Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black
• Paper:  XPress It Blending Cardstock, DP - Twas' The Night Before Christmas (Echo Park)
• Copic Markers:  
• Santa:  E0000 - Floral White, E000 - Pale Fruit Pink, E01 - Pink Flamingo, R27 - Cadmium Red, R29- Lipstick Red, T8 - Toner Gray No. 8, T6 - Toner Gray No. 6, T4 - Toner Gray No. 4, C00 - Cool Gray No. 00, C0 - Cool Gray No. 0, C1 - Cool Gray No. 1
• Plane: Y08 - Acid yellow, Y06 - Yellow, T0 - Toner Gray No. 0, T2 - Toner Gray No. 2, BG0000 - Snow Green, BG02 - Frost Blue, R46 - Strong Red, R27 - Cadmium Red, G09 - Veronese Green, G07 - Nile Green
• Other:  G46 - Mistletoe, YG45 - Cobalt Green, Y19 - Napoli Yellow, Y17 - Golden Yellow, Y28 - Lionet Gold
• Atyou Spica Glitter Pens:  00 - Clear, 05 - Lemon
• Nuvo Glitter Accents - Fresh Snowfall 
• YNS Gumdrops:  Holly Jolly Sparkly

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Until next time, Happy Crafting and have a fantastic day.

 

 

Ho Ho Ho

I have one last Christmas in July post to share with you.

Today's card features "Santa Bob" from High Hopes Rubber Stamps. No Christmas card making endeavour is complete in my world without making at least one Santa card! 
Santa Bob fits that bill perfectly doesn't he? Going down the chimney with his bag of toys and cool shades - we will see if he fits! 

After colouring my stamp with alcohol markers and pencil I added some liquid applique to his coat and had trim. I wasn't going to fussy cut him but as you can see not all things go as planned! 
I created my background with distress ink, a white gel pen and some glitter accents. At first I wasn't happy with my falling "snow" so I was going to scrap it but then I remembered no two snowflakes are alike so they don't have to be perfect. 
Next I took my label die, cut out the centre and added some die cut houses. I kept the frame and added some snow drifts to the bottom and added it to my cardstock base with foam pop dots. I finished it off by simply stamping and adding my sentiment which is glittered up to match. 

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Santa Bob - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment - Ho Ho Ho - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Misti, white gel pen, Fresh Snowfall Nuvo Glitter Accents, liquid applique, faded jeans Distress ink, Cute Home On A Hill die - YNS, Hills die - YNS, Label One die - Spellbinders

Spectrum Noir Markers: CR7 CR11 DR6 FS1 FS4 TN2 TN4 BBG5 BG7 B10 IBI RB1 RB2 RB3 MB1 MB3 MB4 CG4 DG3 BT4 BT6

Spectrum Colourblend Pencils: 104 27

                  

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A Merry Little Snowlady

Christmas in July is a great way to get a start on all of those Christmas cards that we always say we will make early, and then come late November we suddenly realize we don't have enough cards once again.  This week for One Crazy Stamper I have colored up the adorable Snowlady Surprise from High Hopes Rubber stamps.

The image was stamped on Copic Xpress It cardstock with Memento ink and then colored with Copic sketch markers.  To add further dimension to the image I added Prismacolor pencils to the shadows and highlights, and blended it out with Gamsol.  Echo Park's Hello Winter paper is the card base, and the sentiment is from my stash - an old Waltzing Mouse stamp.

Christmas Carollers!

Hi OCS Followers!

I'm popping in again to share another "Christmas in July" themed card using this adorable stamp from High Hopes called "Carolers". We Used to spend Christmas Eve with my cousins when we were young and after dinner and a visit from Santa, we would go around the neighbourhood carolling. These are very fond memories for me!

I love the very non-traditional colours in this 6x6 collection from Scrapberry called Elegantly Festive!  I added the HH sentiment called "Peace, Love, Joy". A couple strips of ribbon, some enamel dots and a nice flower finish everything off!

I used the HH sentiment called "Sparkle & Cheer" on the decorated inside of my card.

 

Copics Used:

Skin: E00, E11, E21, R20

Hair: E44, E47, E49/ Y23, YR21, E53

Purples: V91, V93, V95, V99

Blue Green: BG18, BG23, BG34

Greys: C1, C3, C5, C7, C8

Browns: E41, E42, E43, E44

Happy Stamping!

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Hockey season is coming!

I know it's Summer now BUT hockey season is just around the corner.  This card is for all the hockey fans out there.

I have used Sam's Big Play from High Hopes Rubber Stamps.  I kept it clean and simple.

 

Copic colours:  R89, R59, R56, B99, B95, B93, C8, C6, C4, C3, Y24, Y23

You can grab this great masculine stamp HERE at OCS or HERE at High Hopes, the sentiment Merry Christmas Eh is HERE at OCS or HERE at High Hopes

Thanks for popping by today!

Hugs,

Joy -- High Hopes Stamps

Hello High Hopes fans :) 

Happy Saturday!!!!!!

I'm back to share a little Christmas in July.

I created this card using the following stamp.

High Hopes Birch Trees found here!

 The trees were stamped in a black ink and coloured with copics.  I used a light BV copic marker to 

add shadows to the trees.  The background was also coloured with copics and added snow using a white sharpie marker. 

The deer is a die cut from black card stock.

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Magic of Christmas

Welcome OCS fans;

From Santa and Rudolph, to Jack Frost and Frosty the Snowman, I have always found Christmas to have a magical air about it.  It also seems that it is the time that families and friends gather for some Christmas Cheer.

For today's Christmas Inspiration here at One Crazy Stamper, I have used Santa & Rudy.  After stamping the image, I coloured it with Copic Markers.  Nuvo Fresh Snowfall Glitter Accents was added to the trim on Santa's hat

Supplies used:

• Stamps: Santa & Rudy Block, Magic of Christmas (High Hopes Rubber Stamps)
• Ink:  Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black
• Paper:  XPress It Blending Cardstock, DP - Christmas Time (Carta Bella)
• Copic Markers:  E27 - Africano, E25 - Caribe Cocoa, E23 - Hazelnut, E21 - Baby Skin Pink, T8 Toner Gray No. 8, T6 Toner Gray No. 6, T5 Toner Gray No. 5, E0000 - Floral White, E000 - Pale Fruit Pink, E00 - Snow White, E01 - Pink Flamingo, C00 Cool Gray No. 00, C0 Cool Gray No. 0, C1 Cool Gray No. 1, R27 - Cadmium Red, R29 - Lipstick Red, BG0000 - Snow Green, BG000 - Pale Aqua, G46 - Mistletoe
• Spectrum Sparkle Brush:  Clear
• Nuvo Glitter Accents:  Fresh Snowfall
• Zig Wink of Stella:  Silver, Red

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Until next time, Happy Crafting and have a fantastic day.

 

Home For Christmas

One of my parents' favourite things about Christmas is to have their "kids" come home. My Mom is famous for having at least one of each of our favourite foods or snacks available at some point throughout the day. Now, add to that the grand children and let me tell you the variety of food and treats is crazy! but we all love being together. 
My card this week is based on this very thing - going/coming home for Christmas. 

The "pieces" for this card took some time to create. The stamps were coloured and fussy cut and then set aside. I paper pieced the hat and scarf on the "Momma" bird just for fun and added glitter drops to her hat.
Next, I cut out an oval and die cut quite a few branch pieces. I cut the branch pieces apart and laid them out on the oval die to from my nest. I trimmed the oval down to about a quarter of the size to form my base. Next I cut my tree branches and added a light touch of snow to them as well as a few of the branches on the nest. 
The sentiment was masked off with post it notes and stamped in stages. It took about 4 tries and a whole lot of patience to get it stamped the way I wanted it. Love my Misti is all I can say! 
Some ribbon and gumdrops finish off my card. 

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Bluebirdy, Landing Birdie - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment - All Hearts - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper: Classic Christmas - Simple Stories, Holly Jolly - MME

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Misti, classic circle die - Spellbinders, Moonstone Spectrum Sparkle pen, Fresh Snowfall Nuvo glitter drops, Christmas branch die set- Whimsy Stamps, Mini Holiday greens die - Sizzix, Galena ribbon, gumdrops - YNS

Spectrum Noir Markers: CR7 CR11 DR6 CT1 CT2 GB5 CT4

                  

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Howdy Cowboy

Time again to share my latest card for One Crazy Stamper and the theme this month is Christmas in July.  Even though I now live in British Columbia, Calgary, Alberta is still my home and the annual Stampede just wrapped up again for another year so...... time to celebrate the cowboy in all of us!

This darling image is Snowman Cowboy (TT141) from High Hopes Rubber stamps and can be purchased at One Crazy Stamper. I have colored the image with Copics and then created the card front using designed paper from Carta Bella's Cowboy Country.  Happy trails to you all!!!

Card Recipe - E07, E08, E09, E21, E23, E25, E27, E29, BG72, BG75, BG78, E30, G24, G28, 0 ( Colorless Blender

Christmas Joy!

Hi OCS Fans!

It's Christmas in July over on the High Hopes and One Crazy Stamper Blogs and I thought this adorable Snowman called "Christmas Joy Snowy"was perfect for this theme!

It's been fun to pull out my Christmas papers and these papers are from the Echo Park I Love Christmas 6x6 collection. I added the "Think Snow" sentiment which is perfect to remember on these hot summer days! I love the Stampendous Spoonful of Snow added under Snowy. You sprinkle it on and heat from underneath to melt it. It's just so pretty in person!

Here's the decorated inside with the HH sentiment called "Work of Art".

Copics Used:

N5, N6, N8, C1, B0000, B000

R35, R37, R39, YG63, YG67

Y23, Y26, YR07, YR09

E41, E42, E43

Happy Stamping!

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Chef Pierre's Birthday Wishes

I am sneaking on to the OCS blog today to share a fun Birthday card I made for my neighbour. 
She does quite a bit of baking - often whatever she bakes she makes more then enough so she can bring us some - and she loves pigs. She is an amazing neighbour and is always there to lend a helping hand however she can. I saw the Chef Pierre stamp and just knew I had to colour it up for her Birthday card.

After stamping and colouring my image with alcohol markers and pencils, I had fussy cut it and ran a black marker around the edge. I found the perfect paper to use from Bo Bunny and My Favourite Things and cut my layers. The sentiment is stamped directly on to the patterned paper. I added some fun white dots to the oven mitts with a white gel pen just for fun! The stamp itself is popped up using foam pop dots and a ribbon bow and some gumdrops finish off my card. 

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Chef Pierre - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment - Happy Birthday Script - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper: Only You - Bo Bunny, Watercolour Wash - MFT

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Misti, white gel pen, classic circle die - Spellbinders, gumdrops - YNS, ribbon from my stash

Spectrum Noir Markers: FS1 FS3 IG1 IG2 IG6 LG2 YG1 YG2 PV1 MG1 

Spectrum Noir Colourblend Pencils: 90, vivid pink, peach, smoke, pewter

My neighbour absolutely loved her card! 

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All hearts -- High Hopes Stamps

 Hello High Hopes fans. Happy Happy Saturday!!!!! :) 

Today I'm creating with …

High Hopes All Hearts found here!

She-Baa Sheep found here!

 My image is coloured with Copic markers.  Added a wreath with die cut poinsettia, gumdrops, white acrylic paint and the sweetest sentiment "all hearts" which is 

perfect for Christmas!

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