Tickled Pink Elephant

Just missed the cutoff for this - oh well there is always next week.  Made this for the High Hopes Blog challenge to make a card with some Pink for Breast Cancer awareness.

Stamped, colored, fussy cut, mounted, stamped.  That pretty much sums it up.

Ingredients - 

Card size - 4 1/4" x 5 1/2";

Cardstock - Recollections - white 65lbs; Pattern Paper;

Stamps - High Hopes Stamps: Elmer Elephant; Gina K Designs: Gnome One Like You;

Ink - Memento: Tuxedo Black;
Color - Copics;

SuperOwl!

I made this card for our friend who is a huge Sheffield Wednesday Supporter.  I love how it turned out.

I found this cute little owl stamp in the dollar stamps for Halloween at Michael's and think it works a treat!  I knew I wanted him as the focal image and a creative way to pop him so I decided to use my star dies and to cut a "ball" out of the front of the card.  It reminds me of a champions league football from a few years back with the stars in the pattern.  I stamped the footballs on in a bit of a pattern and then adhered the stars to the front and back of the circle cut out for stability.

Ingredients
Card size - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2"
Cardstock - Recollections 65lbs: white, blue;
Stamps - Recollections: soccer ball; See D's: Boys toys - soccer ball; Craftsmart: SuperOwl; 
Ink - Memento: Danube Blue, Tuxedo Black;
Coloring -Copics
Accessories - Spellbinders: Circles, Stars.

You're A-maize-ing!

I have made this card for the High Hopes Blog challenge Fall/Halloween.

I just couldn't resist doing a pun card with these cute stamps!

I guess this is another one for my stash of encouragement cards.  I tried to amp up the coloring of my scarecrow to make him pop after watching Sandy Allnock's video on "Wow Copic Coloring" .   I'm still not certain I did enough to make the scarecrow pop.  The only thing I didn't do is retrace him as I stamped the scene in brown not black.  I did retrace the crow as he is colored "black".  Maybe I should take the risk and just do it!

Ingredients
Card size - 4 1/4" x 5 1/2";
Cardstock - Recollections 65lb white, black;
Stamps - High Hopes Stamps: Guard Duty Rudy, Corn stalk; Studio G alphabet;
Ink - Memento: Rich Cocoa; Versamark;
Color - Copics, Copic Multiliner, Sakura gel pen white;
Accessories - Glossy accents; Detail Clear Embossing Powder.

No Peeking...

Oh my! I made this card for Christmas with my nephew and his fiancee in mind.  I thought it had just the right bit of fun innuendo and fun for them for Christmas.

I colored the Three Pane Santa with Copics a while ago and dug it out of my stash to create this card.  Initially I was going to leave it as is but the image got lost on my large card so I decided to cut the Santa's out and stack them down the card. This card was a definite make it work moment.  I took paper out of a Recollections pad I got last Christmas that played on the whimsy of the Santas and the colors but added a bit more color as well.  The ribbon is from my stash and I think the whole color combo reminds me of Christmas treats and sweets.

 I placed the Santas so I could get the spacing for the wording.  The wording is stamped in white ink and I love the unexpected contrast with the black.  Honestly, I toyed with the idea of putting something in the bottom right corner but felt that it would be too much and I like how the empty space seems to ground the card.

Entered in High Hopes Stamps Blog - Sentiment on the front challenge 

Ingredients:
Card size - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2"
Cardstock - Recollections - 110 lb white, 65 lb black, red; Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80lb; Recollections - Fa La La La paperpad;
Stamps - High Hopes Stamps - Three Pane Santa, No Peeking, Poking or Shaking;
Ink - Memento Tuxedo black;  Gina K Designs Color Companions White;
Color - Copics;
Accessories - American Craft ribbon; Dimensionals.