HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE - RECIPE

Hey All!

Tuesday is once again upon us and that can only mean one thing. . .it's time for another High Hopes Stamps Challenge.  Today's challenge is a recipe challenge.  Here's the recipe for the challenge:  One Circle, Two Squares, and One Scallop.  Sounds delicious doesn't it???  LOL  OK, so let's get cookin'!

Here's my card:

I know, I didn't warn you that it was another Christmas card!  LOL  This image is called "Dapper Dan".  Isn't he cute dressed up in his Christmas finest?  Really, this is a simple very simple card.  I colored the image with a combo of colored pencils/oms/distress inks.  I tried something new with the inks this time.  I did the shadowing with the inks.  I love using the combo.  The panel with the sentiment is distressed with a Tim Holtz distressing tool to look snowish.  I used a Sizzix embossing folder for the snowflake background right on the card base.

OK, that's it!  Hope you hop over to see what the other Divas have done with this challenge.  You can find them HERE.  I'd love to see you play along too!

I'll see you tomorrow night for the next installment of my Wednesday Evening Post.  Loaded again!  (No, not me, the post!!!)  LOL  Hope to see you back tomorrow night.  Thanks for all the wonderful comments.  I do read and appreciate every one of them!  BTW, you all have been doing some awesome work!  I had a blast visiting last week, and can't wait to see what you've been up to!

Hugs to all of you!


Best,


Curt 


"God, please help me be the person that my dogs think I am."

HIGH HOPES RELEASE BLOG HOP!

Welcome back everyone!


Thanks so much for coming by the past few days.  Your comments have been so positive and wonderful.  I so appreciate your support!

Today's the big day of the High Hopes release of all of the wonderful images by Laurie Furnell.  I'm so excited that I am the first stop on the blog hop tour.  I'm so excited to show you this card for a couple of reasons.  First, I love this image of Laurie's.  It is my first Winter card for the Winter season.  And two, it is a 3-D kinda card and you know how much I love to do dimensional cards.  Here it is:

Is that little snowman fun or what?  When I saw him, I pictured this card in my head immediately.  I believe this is a version of a stair step card.  I could see him ski jumping over snowy hills.  Take a look at the close-up:

Look at those shiny, cool glasses!  LOL  I colored them with a silver gel glitter pen.  I also used the same pen and dotted the trees.  The tree stamp by the way is by Stampscapes.  Here is another close-up:

Here you can see the snow crests I created.  I tore white card stock, and were it was torn, I used liquid appliqué heated with my heat gun.  I then used glue over it to add the sparkly MS glitter.  The sentiment was computer generated, cut out and mounted onto a label created with Nesties labels.  I then fed the snowflake ribbon through it and attached it to the card.  The snowman is actually popped up on two dimensional foam squares on top of each other so that it really sticks out as if he is flying through the air.  Here is a frontal view:

So, there is your first image of the blog hop.  Your next stop is SIRPA.  Just click on her name and it will take you to her blog.  If you get lost, go to the main blog HERE to check the order.  Here are the rules for the blog hop to be entered into the drawing:

1.  Leave a comment on all blogs in the hop including mine.
2.  3 of our blogs will be chosen randomly, and everyone who commented on those 3 randomly chosen blogs will be entered into the drawing.


The prize:  The winner will get to choose 4 main images AND 4 accessory/sentiment stamps of their choice!

I wish all of my readers the best of luck in the drawing.  And I certainly appreciate your support of my participation as a guest designer for High Hopes.  Obviously, this post supersedes my normal Wednesday Evening Post for this week.

Have fun on the hop!


Hugs to all of you!


Best,


Curt O'Brien


"God, please help me be the person that my dogs think I am."