Penguin Cheer

I have a lot of friends and family who love penguins so I can never have too many penguin cards on hand. Thankfully High Hopes stamps has lots to choose from! Penguin Earmuffs is perfect for one of the many Christmas cards I will need for the penguin lovers in my life. 
I also used two snowflakes from High Hopes to create my Embossed Ink Resist background for this CAS (clean and simple) card.

I have wanted to try an Embossed Ink Resist background for awhile now so this week I took the time to try it out. After stamping my snowflakes I added my embossing powder and melted them with my heat gun. Next I grabbed some distress inks and did some blending - boy did I get inky! but it was so much fun! 
Next, I coloured this adorable penguin with alcohol markers and hand fussy cut him leaving a thin white edge. It is very hard to see in the picture but his ear muffs are coloured with sparkle pen and are very sparkly in real life - so hard to capture that with a camera. The sentiment is a "verse" and for this one I masked off the sentiment to only show the lines I wanted. It is great to be able to mask a stamp and get different uses out of it isn't it? 
Some matching sparkly gumdrops finish off my CAS card. 


Card Recipe 

Stamp:Penguin Earmuffs, Snowflake 3, Snowflake 4 

- High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment: Sparkle and Cheer - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper: Embossed Ink Resist technique

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Hammermill digital cover stock, Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean distress inks, white embossing powder, classic circle die - Spellbinders, Fiskars circle cutter, Sheena Douglas sparkle pen, sparkly gumdrops - YNS

Spectrum Noir Markers: BG5 BG7 BG10 GB5 CT2 CT1 IG1 IG3 IG5 

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Winter Wonderland!

Howdy OCS Fans!

Santa is giving Rudolph a bit of a rest before his big night Christmas Eve! This is the adorable "Reindeer Games" from High Hopes Stamps!

I chose this plaid paper from an older Lawn Fawn 6x6 collection! There's just something about plaid that always gets me! I stamped and then coloured my image with my Copic Markers. I added the outline and sky with my markers as well. Then I added some snowflakes using Liquid Appliqué. I let it dry then heated it up and voilá they puff up! Glitter was added for the snow effect. I also added the HH sentiment called "Winter Wonderland" on a tiny tag die.

On the inside I used the "Sparkle & Cheer" sentiment from High Hopes.

Copics Used:

Santa: E00, E1, E21, R22, R24, R27, N6, N7, N8, C1, C2, C3

Reindeer: E51, E53, E55, E57, R00, R01, G16, G19

Sleigh: E43, E44, E47

Outline and sky: 0, B0000, B000, B00

Happy Stamping!

Supplies:

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!

Supplies:

Sparkle and Cheer

Happy New Year One Crazy Stamper Fans! 

The hustle and bustle of Christmas is technically over but if you're like me, I don't get to see some of the special people in my life until after Christmas.

My god daughter is one of those special people who I will see soon. 

She loves hedgehogs so I used the "Kovu and Hootie" stamp from the new Woodland Friends new release at High Hopes for her Christmas card. 

Bear with me......this is my last Christmas card to share <smile> for now.

Inside

I coloured these cuties using alcohol markers and then cut them out with a circle die. A white gel pen added some polka dots to their scarves and cheeks and some Hero Arts glitter added some bling to the snow. 

Next, I dusted off my Cricut to cut out the red background with a scallop edge to mount my circle on. This was added to some fun plaid paper and a ribbon and some sparkly gumdrops finish it off. 

I added some plaid paper to the outside edge and finished off the inside leaving just enough room to include a personal, handwritten message. 

Card Recipe

Stamp:Kovu and Hootie (TT067) - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment: Sparkle and Cheer (LL002) Merry Christmas (F051) - High Hopes Stamps

Patterned Paper: Comfort and Joy - MME

Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Copic XpressIt , White Gel pen, Quickie glue pen, Hero Arts glitter, Classic circle die - Spellbinders, White Sugar and Sparkle gumdrops - YNS, Ribbon - stash

Spectrum Noir Markers: EB6 EB3 EB5 CT4 GB5 OR1 1G1 1G2 JG2 JG6 JG4 CR7 CR11 DR6 FS8 TN7 TN8 EB5 BT2

Our December Challenge is Friends Always and there is a sketch to get your creative juices flowing. Click here to play along - we can't wait to see what your create!

Here's the sketch

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