Making Friends

It's a beautiful warm sunny day today, yet I'm showing you another cute winter themed card using a High Hopes image called "Making Friends".  This is one of the newest images released at One Crazy Stamper with our monthly High Hopes celebration of Christmas/Winter themed images.

I had a great time coloring this image with my Copic Sketch Markers, and loved the final design of the card.  The dp is from We R Memory Keepers Winter Frost collection, touches of white flocking are added to the fur trim of the snowman's hat, and I have added tons of 3D snowflakes by just using a Sakura White gel pen. This is definitely my favorite card this month.

 



Card Recipe

Snow - B0000, G000, C1, Colorless Blender pen

Purples - BV31, BV34, BV17

Reds - R24, R27, R29

Blacks - C5, C7, C9

Oranges - Y35, Y38

Greens - G20, G21, G24

Browns - E34, E35, E37

Background - BG0000

Glaze Pen dots on background and Nose

There is still a week to go for you to enter the monthly challenge at One Crazy Stamper to win a fabulous prize.

Autumn Days

There is a crispness in the air, leaves are turning color and falling to the ground, and it's time for Terrific Tuesday at One Crazy Stamper.  The challenge this month is to make a project with clear/acetate elements.

 

 

 

This is High Hopes "Hay Ride", which I colored with Copics, fussy cut and then mounted on a raised shaker box.  The shaker box is filled with glitter and beads to represent the changing autumn colors.  Both the frame and the background dp is from Simple Stories Harvest Lane collection pack.  The sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps Autumn Letter Seals, which I also purchased at One Crazy Stamper.

 

Hop on over to the challenge blog and take a peek at all of the wonderful inspiration the design team brings to you every day, and while you are there check out the details of the current Design team call!

Card Crafters Circle - #43 Autumn Colors
Card Makin' Mamas - Fall Theme
Simply Create Too - #23 Autumn/Fall
Scrappy Frogs Challenge - Fall/Halloween
Try It On Tuesday - October Challenge #1 Autumn Colors

Searching

It's the last Tuesday of the month - ALREADY!!!!  Where did the month go?!!

Since it's the last Tuesday it must be time to do the Terrific Tuesday post for One Crazy Stamper and for today's card I've combined three High Hopes Stamps to make one cute card.

 

 

This is "Little Sleuth" and "Watson", which were both stamped on Copic Xpress It cardstock with Tuxedo Black Memento ink, and then colored with Copics.  I then fussy cut the images, and popped them up on the card front that was embossed with the Crafts Too Bone and Pawprint Folder, and lightly inked with Rich Cocoa Memento ink.  The faux stitches were done with a red Copic Sketch marker, and the Tracking sentiment is also from High Hopes ( the inside of the card has the remaining sentiment -  Your Birthday ).



Beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!

Wow -- One Crazy Stamper has just added a whole bunch of new High Hopes to the online store site and they are mostly images celebrating the Christmas season and winter.  Love snowpeople, sentiments and all things winter, so I just had to take the time to color up a couple of the new images.

 

This is "Snowmans Cup of Love" available here.

 



 

And this image is called "Snowy Portrait" which is already sold out, but Lora will be restocking the image. 

The images were all colored with distress inks and then matted on to card fronts using some of my scrap paper collection.



Shiver Me Timbers!!!

Here's another card that fits this month's challenge theme of Kraft, Red and Black over at One Crazy Stamper.  This is High Hopes "The Thundering Rogue" available here at OCS.

I stamped the image with Versa Mark embossing ink and used black embossing powder to heat emboss the image. Using only three colors of Prismacolor pencils ( black , crimson red, and light umber ), and Gamsol with Tortillons I colored and blended out the colors to give shadows and highlights. The sentiment is from an older Kraftin' Kimmie sentiment set, and to finish off the edges on the card front I used Tim Holtz's Black Soot Distress Ink Pad.

Check out what the rest of the team has created over at the challenge blog and then enter to win a fantastic prize.

One Crazy Stamper Birthday Blog Hop!!

Today we are celebrating One Crazy Stampers 1st year anniversary for the brick and mortar store! If you are local, today there will be make n takes, special classes, a charity BBQ fundraiser, and PRIZES!!

And we didn't want to leave out our online friends. So we have a Design Team blog hop for you today! And what is a blog hop without PRIZES!?! So HOP with us and enjoy some inspiration from the OCS Design Team.  Leave a comment on each of the design teams blogs for a chance to win this awesome exculsive stamp set that the lovely folks from High Hopes have designed for One Crazy Stamper.

If you've arrived here from Sue's blog you are in the right place, but if you've lost you're way here's the blog hop order:

One Crazy Stamper DT blog

Michelle

Cindy

Lisa

Joni

Sue

Shari - that's me

Madge

Jacilynn

Here's my card to celebrate this special day with One Crazy Stamper!!



This is Dawn with Flowers from Nellie Snellen, colored with Copics, cut out with a Spellbinders die, and then mounted on to dp from my favorite, favorite, favorite paper right now - Bo Bunny's Serenade collection.  I used a Viva Decor pearl pen to add small gold dots and accents to the poppies on the dp, and randomly placed dragonfly brads, from my stash, to complete the card.

The next stop on the hop is Madge's awesome site here!

Happy Hopping!

Jungle Fever!!

September has arrived already - is it just me, or do the years seem to be flying by way too fast!!  A new month means a new challenge at One Crazy Stamper, and design team member Joni has chosen the theme this month.  She has challenged all of us to a color challenge - Kraft, Red and Black.

I started my card by creating the backgound scene.  Using several different companies version of kraft cardstock I stamped the Jungle background from High Hopes, then fussy cut parts of the image from each color of kraft, and popped them up on the original stamped background, creating a 3-D version.  Walkabout Wally also from High Hopes is stamped on Xpress It cardstock, colored with Copics and also fussy cut and popped up on the card front.
Please visit the One Crazy Stamper challenge blog to see all of the beautiful works of inspiration that the rest of the design team have created for you, then get coloring and enter to win!!!