Joy Ride - Joys Of The Seasons New Release Blog Hop

Hello High Hopes fans and welcome to the Joys of the Seasons blog hop. I hope you are enjoying all of the design team posts - so much fun! You should have arrived here from Carolina's blog. 

My card features "Joy Ride". Super cool Bob and his wife - congratulations on your wedding Bob! - are participating in their home town Christmas parade. We find them cruising down the main street under a colourful garland street decoration and waving to their adoring fans on his super cool motorcycle. 

I coloured my stamp with Spectrum Noir Markers (list below) and fussy cut it. My background sky was created by pouncing some blue ink, cutting a strip of grey cardstock (pounced with grey ink to make it look like cement) for the road and adding just a tiny bit of snow. I don't think Bob would have his motorcycle out if there was a ton of snow do you? 

The "garland" is cut with my Cricut, I added my sentiment and a few snowflakes I cut with a Marvy snowflake punch. 

Glitter was added to Bob's wife's earrings and necklace (hard to see) and Wink of Stella was added to Bob's glasses (hard to see). I am addicted to YNS gumdrops so I had to add a few to the corners and drew on my stitch lines with a black marker.

Spectrum Noir List 

Hats and Motorcycle: DR5 DR1 DR7

Skin: FS2 FS3 TN1 1G1

Hair: CT1 CT4 GB4  TN7 TN8 EB5

Lips and Mouth: DR2 FS6 FS8

Lights: CT1 CT4

Tires: BG5 BG7 BG10 

Handlebars: 1G1 1G2 1G4 1G9

Dress, Bow, Bow Tie: JG2 JG5 JG7 1G4

Boots: GB8 GB10 EB5

Mittens: JG1 JG2 JG4 

Eyes: TB4 and white gel pen 

Glasses, Holly: DG2

Berries: CR10

Jeans: TB8 BT9 TB9

Smoke puffs: TN1 TN2

Card Recipe 

Glitter: Hero Arts

Clear Wink of Stella

Ink: Ocean - Martha Stewart, Black and London Fog - Memento 

Sentiment: Studio G stamp

Snow: Snow Writer - Deco Art 

Garland: Joys of the Season cartridge - Cricut 

Pop Dots: Forever in Time 

Red Gumdrops - Your Next Stamp 

Patterned Paper: from my stash 

Snowflakes: Marvy punch 

Black Marker

Your next stop on the hop is  Jane  

Enjoy and don't forget to leave a comment on the High Hopes or  OCS blog for your chance to win!

Sneakin' Up

This stamp just makes me giggle. I have some nephews..okay and a few men I know that would do this exact thing! Boys will be boys as they say. 

My card today features an older High Hopes stamp called Sneakin' Up (can be found here). I haven't put a sentiment on the front and at this point the inside is blank until I have an occasion to need a more masculine card. 

                                                       

I coloured my stamp with alchohol markers, sponged the sky and added some faux stitching with a brown marker. I double matted the, added my patterned paper and layered some banners. Some gumdrops, leather lace and a cute silver frog charm finish off my card. 

Card Recipe 

Patterned Paper: Fern and Forest - Little Yellow Bicycle

Leather Lace: from my stash

Dies: Fishtail Banner Dies - Your Next Stamp

Enamel Dots: Gumdrops - Your Next Stamp

Frog Charm: Fashion Accessories (Len's Mill Stores)

Spectrum Noir List 

Dragon: CG2 DG3 JG6

Belly/Horns: GC1 CG2

Frog: LG2 LG3 LG4 DG3

Jar and Lid: 1G1 1G2 1G3 1G5

Grass: LG1

Tree Stump: GB8 GB10 EB5

Now the question is..............do you think our friendly little dragon ended up catching the frog.....

I hope you have enjoyed my post today! Thanks for stopping by. 

Purrr-ty Great Day

I used to have a cat named Smokey who absolutely LOVED popcorn for a treat - I always took the kernel part off first. I couldn't sit there eating some for long before he was on the back of the love seat batting at my hand because he wanted some.

Popcorn Kitty (can be found here) brought back some fun happy memories for me for sure. Smokey would have loved to be immersed in his own bowl of popcorn!
                                                       

I coloured Popcorn Kitty with alcohol markers and then mounted him on a green cardstock "frame". I used the heart paper to cut out my scalloped edge for the base, added my checkered paper and a stitched scallop border. I also added a piece of checkered paper to the inside edge and inked all the edges.  I used some yellow twine to finish off my card.  This layout is one I came up with quite awhile ago and it came together quickly because I had cut extra pieces the first time around and labelled them with sizes for cutting. 

Card Recipe

Patterned Paper: Homespun - Simple Stories

Dies: Standard Circles: Spellbinders, 

Fun Stitched Edges: My Creative Time Dies

Scallop Edge: Elegant Edges cartridge - Cricut

Ink: Mellow Moss - Stampin' Up

Circle Cutter - Fiskars

Cardstock: Recollections (Michael's) 

Twine: American Crafts 

Spectrum Noir List 

Popcorn/Cup: EB1 EB2

Bow and Heart: GB1 GB4 GB7

Cat: BG2 BG3 BG5

Nose/Mouth/Hearts: PP1 PP3 PP5

Tablecloth/Cup Rim: DG1 DG2 DG4

Outline: 1G1

I hope you have enjoyed my post today! Thanks for stopping by. 

Welcome to Paradise

Every once and awhile I get a special request to make a card for someone who a) I really don't know and b) to use a specific picture.

This card felt kind of weird to do - after all, I didn't have to colour a stamp! It was fun to do something different. I had to remind myself that the picture was technically my "stamp" when I was doing the layout. 

The person I did the card for is moving out of the area to a street (I think) called "Paradise". 
The card will be filled with gift certificates and well wishes from all of us in a horse group I belong to. 

Card Recipe

Patterned Paper: Creative Imaginations

Cardstock

Sentiment: Computer - Century Gothic font

Twine: American Crafts 

Eyelets & charms: from my stash

Dies: Fishtail Banner dies - Your Next Stamp

Here's hoping she likes her card! Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Birthday Dude!

I often joke around with my now 14 year old nephew and when I do I call him "Dude". He is quite athletic and likes to keep busy so I think Dudley and his surf board are perfect for him. 

My card  includes two High Hopes Stamps: Surfer Dude Dudley can be found here and Wave Border which can be found here, to create my scene. 

                                                      
                             

I coloured Dudley using alcohol markers and paper pieced his surf board. I think Dudley would have the coolest board on the beach don't you? I masked him off  to stamp my wave border, coloured the beach and added real sand to create the beach. The sky background was stamped with ink and a sponge. I finished my card off with a cool pair of sunglasses, a sun and some bright yellow gum drops. 

Card Recipe

Patterned Paper: Sunkissed - Doodle Bug Designs

Ink: Sea Lavender - Martha Stewart

Sand: Activa (Micheals)

Cardstock: Bazzill

Sunglasses, Sun: Jolee's Boutique stickers

Enamel Dots; Yellow Gumdrops - Your Next Stamp

Spectrum Noir List 

Body: LG2 LG3 LG5

Tummy, Spots, Horns: CT1 CT2 CT4

Waves: BT4 BT8 BT7

Sand: GB11 GB10

Shorts: DR1 DR5 DR7

Dudley sure is one cool dude! Thanks for stopping by!

Home Tweet Home

I hope you are all having a good summer! We have been having some crazy hot weather where I live so it's a perfect time to be indoors in my craft room.

Today I am using Fancy Birdhouse 2 for my card. I have a few people in my life who either have moved or will be moving to new homes. I kept this card on the flat side (no pop up dots - gasp!) because I will likely end up mailing it - once I have new addresses of course! 

                                                       

After colouring and fussy cutting my stamp I mounted it on some light blue cardstock. I ran my "sky" through an embossing folder to add some texture and interest to the "sky". I cut out some clouds with a die and ran one cloud through my printer to print my sentiment. I added a fence, some grass and a few brads from my stash. 

Card Recipe 

Scrolls Background: Darice Embossing Folder 

Patterned Paper: Hello Baby - Simple Stories, MME - Necessities - Wood

Dies: Chucky Grass and Fence - Your Next Stamp, Clouds: Quickutz

Brads: from my stash 

Font: Computer - Credit Valley font

Grey & White Cardstock: Recollecions and DCW

Spectrum Noir List 

Leaves: GC1 DG2 DG4

Post: 1G1 1G2 1G4

Grass: CG1 DG2

Birds: TB1 TB2 TB4

Flowers: HB1 HB2

House: RV11 RV32 RV34 (Copic)

I hope you have enjoyed my post today! Thanks for stopping by! 

Surf Star!

           
I don't know if you've noticed but Bob sure is one super talented dude! Today we find him doing a photo shoot - he is a surfing star! We would expect nothing less from Bob at this point - he seems to do it all! 

My post today features Bob's A Surfer Dude (T519) and a sentiment from Sentiment Set #4 (U507).

                                              

I coloured Bob with alcohol markers (list below)and fussy cut him and popped him up with pop dots. He put on his favourite pair of flowered shorts (paper pieced) for this photo shoot. I fussy cut the camera from some patterned paper and added the sentiment after stamping it and cutting it out with a circle die. I didn't have a film strip die so I got out my square dies and the hole punch from my Making Memories tool kit and voila. A polaroid die with some sky patterned paper and inked the edges. Glitter gold enamel dots finished off my card. 

Card Recipe

Dies: Classic Circles and Squares: Spellbinders

Polaroid Die: Instalove Polaroid Die - Your Next Stamp 

Patterned Paper: You Rock - Close To My Heart 

Shorts: Sunkissed - Doodlebug Designs

Camera: Good Day Sunshine - Simple Stories

Clouds: from my stash

Cardstock: Close To My Heart, Recollections (Michael's) 

Ink: Anitque Linen - Tim Holtz, Apricot Appeal - Stampin' Up

Enamel Dots: Glitter Gold - Your Next Stamp

Pop Dots: Forever In Time 

Film Strip: hand made

Spectrum Noir Markers

Skin: FS2 FS3 TN2 FS8 1G1

Hair: TN7 TN8 EB8

Waves: TB8, B45 (Copic)

Glasses: 1G1 , gold gel pen 

Surfboard: TN1 TN2 TN4

I hope you've enjoyed my post today. Thanks for stopping by!