Gnomey Sunshine to You!!

Time to share another adorable Gnome from KLM Designs!!  This cutie is Painter Gnome is available to purchase here!!!

I printed this image onto watercolor paper and then used Inktense pencils to color him!  The card base was designed with a MFT rainbow die and sentiment.  After fussy cutting the gnome out, I placed him onto the card front.  I hope this little gnome brings sunshine into your life today!!

Birthday Greetings

It's a cool snowy day in the Kootenay's, so I needed to color something pretty and springy!  This beautiful digital image Floral Banner 1 from KLM Digital Designs fit perfectly!

I printed the image onto watercolor paper, colored it with Inktense Pencils, and then fussy cut it out.  The sentiment was stamped with an oldie from my stash - Paper Inspirations - then double matted, before attaching the floral banner to one side.  I then popped up the entire card front onto my card base, which was also double matted.  A beautiful birthday card for my stash!!!

Happy April Fool's Day

A new month, a new card to share with everyone, featuring a wonderful digital image from KLM Designs!!  This is a new image and is part of the newest release - Woman Farmer Gnome!  Even the sentiment is from KLM Designs!

I colored the image with Inktense pencils, then fussy cut it out and popped it up on the card base.  I printed out the sentiment on smooth white cardstock, then used Distress inks and My Favorite Things stencils to create the clouds and hill.  The cows are cut with the First Edition Farmyard dies!  

Card Recipe 

Distress Inks - Blueprint Sketch, Pine Needles, Mowed Lawn

MFT Stencils - Clouds and Hills

Inktense pencils 

Overalls - Sienna Gold 0240, Willow 1900

Skin - Baked Earth 1800

Shovel, Clip on overalls - Payne's Grey 2110

Shovel handle - Tan 1720

Boots - Fern 1560, Light Olive 1540

Hair - Bark - 2000

Shirt, hair band - Deep Indigo 1100

Top 10 High Hopes Cards from 2018

Merry Christmas everyone!!  I hope your Christmas celebration was wonderful and that you all had a great time with family and friends.  We spent the day surrounded by family and it was a wonderful day! 

Today I am sharing with you all my 2018 favorite top 10 cards featuring High Hopes Rubber Stamps.

They are in no particular order, as it was hard to choose just 10!!

Three Pane Christmas

Little Sleuth and Watson

Jumping Party Robot

Three Pane Santa

Cocoa Gnome

Mountie Marc

Harley

Peg Leg Pete

Three Little Garden Gnomes

Flop Eared Rabbit

Thanks for looking at my favorite High Hopes Stamps cards from 2018.  Be sure to check the blog for the rest of the ladies top 10!!!

Miracle

For today's post for One Crazy Stamper I decided to create something a little different.  This card features three different stamp images from different companies but they all came together beautifully.

I started this card by stamping the High Hopes Rubber stamp Forest on to water color paper with Versa Mark embossing ink, and then white embossing powder was applied and heated.  Once that was finished I used Inktense pencils to color the card front.  A sentiment from Crafter's Companion and the Santa and sleigh image from my stash finished off the front.  I added some clear glitter glue to the snow and trees to add some sparkle.

Card Recipe - Inktense pencils -0840 Iron Blue, 0900 Iris Blue, 1510 Beech Green, 1310 Iron Green, 2110 Payne's Grey, 1900 Willow

Eyes on the Prize

Today's card for One Crazy Stamper features two of my favorite images.  Both were colored with Inktense Pencils and water brushes.  I can just imagine the two of them getting in to all kinds of trouble.

This is High Hopes Rubber Stamps Little Sleuth ( R205) and his sidekick Watson (M100).  Both were stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink on to water color paper, and then colored with Inktense pencils.

Card Recipe -

Inktense Pencils

 Baked Earth 1800, Leaf Green 1600, Dark Chocolate 1930, Mustard 1700, Navy Blue 0830, Willow 1900, Saddle Brown 1740

Have a great day and be sure to check out the amazing projects all of the design team are sharing on the One Crazy Stamper blog.

Gnomie Smile

It's been awhile since I colored with my Inktense pencil crayons so it was finally time to unzip the case and try them again.  Here's the result of playing with them.

This super cute card features two of the My Favorite Things Gnomes from the You Gnome Me stamp set and one of My Favorite Things die-namics  - Smile ( that will be available soon as it was the free die with purchase this past month from MFT).  I cut a piece of Doodlebug Design Dragon Tails paper and mounted it on to a piece of white foam, and then die cut the word giving some dimension to the card front.  The gnomes were colored with Inktense pencils, then fussy cut and popped up on the card.  The plaid flower was from my stash.   Love these little gnomes!!!

Caroling Canadians

I'll admit it - I'm a bit of a planner, so I make Christmas cards year round in the hopes that I will have a stack to send out come December.  Of course it never fails though - I get a bunch made and someone buys them all in November so once again I have none - sigh!  

This card features one of my all time favorite images from High Hopes Rubber Stamps because who doesn't love a moose and a beaver!  This is Mudzie and Chopper's Caroling (S205) available here.  I stamped the image on watercolor paper with Versafine Onyx Black ink, then colored it with Inktense pencils and a water brush.  All of the edges of the papers were distressed with the Prima Comfort Distress Tool and then inked with a Antique Linen ink pad.  The treble clef die is from my stash, and the sentiment was printed right on the ribbon - bonus!!