Camping Adventures

The vault is open and the "Thoughts of Spring with Friends" release is out of retirement at High Hopes Rubber Stamps! This release has bears and hedgehogs, and kids with dogs and more! You can see the full release here. 

My first card with this release features "Buddy Bear Camping" and is inspired by my brother in law and nephews. Every time the opportunity presents itself, they are off on a new adventure - camping in the mountains - yes even in the winter, cross country skiing on a mountain edge on a trail barely wider than their skiis, hiking and so much more.  Sometimes they film their fun so we are literally on their adventures with them......like skiing on the edge of a mountain .... I could hardly watch! I think Buddy Bear Camping is perfect for a card for one of them and I will sit in the comfort of my home and wait for the next video sharing their adventures.

After stamping my image on alcohol marker friendly paper, I coloured it with Copic markers and hand fussy cut it.  I also did the same with the mountains stamp and added some Diamond Stickles to the peaks for the look of snow. Patterned paper from Carta Bella and Craft Consortium were perfect to help build my scene. I added die cut grass, trees, part of the mountains stamp and a cloud to the blue paper and then cut it out with a circle die. I cut a card stock circle to put behind it using my Fiskars circle cutter and glued them together. Next, I cut the striped paper to fit the 5" x 5" card base along with matching card stock. The sentiment was stamped with my Misti and added to matching card stock. After gluing the scene circle down, I added the sentiment and attached the coloured image with foam pop dots. Enamel dots finish off my card. 

Card Details

Stamps - Buddy Bear Camping (SDG009), Mountains (TDG007) - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment - New Adevnture (GG038)

Patterned Paper - Gone Camping - Carta Bella, Bloom and Wild - Craft Consortium

Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Hammermill Digital Cover Card Stock, foam pop dots, tree die - Memory Box, cloud die - Die'sire, grass die - Dress My Craft, circle die, Diamond Stickles, enamel dots

Copic Markers

Bear - E33 E23 E57 E79 N4 N5 N8 N10 R00 R30 R21 R22

Lantern - G85 G94 G99 Y00 Y11 Y15

Shirt - BG72 BG78 B99

Blankets - YG03 YG17 G28 Y38 YR16 YR18

Basket - E34 E35 E29

Bread - E40 E41 E42 E44

Napkin - R05 R17 R59

Mountains, Gear - C1 C2 C4 C5 

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It's Time

  I have a lot of "men" in my life that I need cards for. One of those men is my younger brother who got a new "toy" last year. He doesn't drive it a whole lot but it has a ton of horse power and when he took me for a ride it didn't take much to set me back in the seat.......I loved it!!! This new car opened up an opportunity for my brother and nephew to go to a driving school to learn exactly what the car is capable of. They were just there last week so I haven't heard how things went....but there have been a video and photos posted and it looked like they had an amazing time. 

The new car and the opportunity it has brought to my brother were the inspiration for my card featuring "Sports Car 1" from High Hopes Rubber Stamps. I am sure that last week was just the beginning of a number of adventures! 

                                                                                                                

I decided to do a mini slim line style card because I really wanted to use my licence plate die with this car. I measured the die, cut a card base and rounded the corners with a corner rounder. I set that aside, stamped the car, coloured it with Copic markers and hand fussy cut it. I wanted to have a racing theme for my card so I used patterned paper from the Cartopia pad from Carta Bella.

 

I had the 6x6 paper pad and a 12x12 piece so I cut some of the flags out of the larger paper to put in the bottom corner. I cut three black strips of paper, trimmed off the end to put under the car to "ground" it and glued the car on top. All the paper edges are inked with Black Soot Distress ink and I finished off the card with a stamped sentiment in the corner. 

I will probably give this to my brother or nephew for their birthday so will stamp a Happy Birthday sentiment inside before I give it to one of them...shhhh. 

Card Details

Stamps - Sports Car 1 (SS048) - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment - New Adventure (GG038)

Patterned Paper - Cartopia - Carta Bella

Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Hammermill Digital Cover Card Stock, Black Soot Distress ink, licence plate die - Quickutz

Copic Markers

Tires -  N4 N5 N8 N10 C1 C2 C4 C5 R27

Car - R24 R27 E08

Headlights - Y11 Y21 YR21

Grill - C1 C2 C4 C5

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A New Adventure

 I have a little man in my life who makes me smile and keeps me young! I met him a couple days after he was born and this adorable, strong little man is growing fast. He is a typical boy - loves anything with wheels, biking and jumping on the trampoline. I do have to admit he is a little hard to keep up with <wink>

Fire Truck from the vault opening and the "Mix It Up" release at High Hopes reminds me of this little guy because ... well.....it has wheels! The New Adventure sentiment reminds me of him because I don't know how, but in September he is old enough to start school! Not sure how the little's in our lives always grow so fast. This card was made for him for his first day of school as his new adventure begins....

After stamping the fire truck I coloured it with Copic Markers, hand fussy cut it and ran a black marker around the edge to get any white I had missed. After setting him aside I chose some patterned paper from a Christmas Photo Play pad and matching card stock. Next I found some lighter grey card stock in my scrap pieces bin and cut it to fit my card base. 

I created the "fire station" by inking up a brick stencil with London Fog Memento ink and cut the doors out using a square die. To add some texture to the doors, I used my score board to add some lines to them. I printed the Fire Station #2 from my computer, stamped the sentiment and cut it to size. 

The fire station sign, sentiment and fire truck are added with 3D foam pop dots to add some dimension. Twine and enamel dots finish off my card. 

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Fire Truck - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiments: New Adventure - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper - Kringle and Co - Photo Play 

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Hammermill 100lb digital cover stock, 3D foam pop dots, square die, brick stencil - Whimsy Stamps, twine, enamel dots, London Fog Memento ink, computer 

 Copic Markers:

Tires  - N4 N5 N8 N10 

Hose, Reel, Ladder, Hub Caps, Grill  - C2 C3 C4 C5

Hose -E30 E31 E43

Fire Truck - R24 R27 R37 R59 Y11 Y15

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