Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge #61

Hi All,
Well it is time for another Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge so here are the details on this weeks challenge:
Now this week's challenge is brought to us by our newest Krafty Girl, the Amazing ANGIE!!! The challenge is called Fancy Florals and Angie wants us to use flowers on our creations.....flowers in your paper, in your image, flower embellishments, flower charms, punches or die cuts!

I figured that I would do another fairy stamp not only because I love them so much but because it is going to be part of a set that I send to my cousin who was in the hospital through Christmas and was not released till New Years and still has a very long road to recovery. She has tons of people that she wants to send thank you cards to so this will be just one of the bunch I send for her to use.

Anyways this is a short post today as I have to be off and running into the universe to get everything done before the weekend. Hope you all have a great day.
Diane

Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge #60

Hi All,

Tonight I am finally done my card for Kraftin' Kimmies Challenge #60 Time to Unwind...
and that means NO ribbon, NO twine, NO string, trim or lace...no fibres of any kind! Eeek! That's quite a challenge for some of us, isn't it!?

This stamp of the fairy and horse is a really fun stamp to play with. I tried several different colour combos and finally this is the one I like the best.

I used copics with it and I have listed the colours that I used below. I used paper from a Christmas pack that I got from my mother. The gems were from the dollar store.
The copics I used are as follows:
Horse: E09, E15, E37
Mane: E35, E37, YR14, YR24
Girl: E00, R20, RV000, V12, V06, BG09, BG15, BG18, RV19, RV34
Hair: Y11, Y13, Y23, YR24
Shading: W0, W1, W3, W5, W9

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful evening.
Diane

Oriental Card

Good Morning everyone,

Today I am posting an oriental card that I made using stickers and rub-ons. I had these stickers for sometime now and could never figure out how to mount them up on a card so that would look different and cool. Till, that is, my friend Shirley gave me some oriental rub-ons to try. And here is the end result.
I coloured it with Copics and ran the paper through the cuttlebug. I think the hardest part of doing this card was getting the semi circle corners cut out so that they would layer up correctly.
I hope you like it.
Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.
Diane.

Giraffe on Suede Board

Good Morning everyone,

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas! I hope that you got everything you wished for. Today I am posting something a little different from my normal. My mother back in the summer gave me a kit for colouring on suede board with prisma pencil crayons. The instant I saw it I fell in love and knew this would be a perfect Christmas gift for my sister who loves Africa and giraffes. I am not going to kid any of you it was a learning curve. Here are the end results, I was going to post a picture of it framed but the glare from the glass made it hard to see so you get the unframed version instead. I would love any input on what you think of it.

I hope everyone is having a safe and happy holiday.
Thanks for stopping by
Diane

Christmas trees

Hi All,
Well I am finally back on line, my wonderful husband gave me my Christmas present early, a laptop! Now I am able to post with ease and after all the hand surgeries and recovery time I am back up and running.
Today I have a snow day because the travel into work is to dangerous because of whiteout conditions so I get to stay home and play. These are what I have been working on. The Christmas trees have been fun to do I get to play with a bunch of different trinkets to decorate the trees. Also it helps use up some of the bling that I have around my craft room. Hope you like them.
Thanks for stopping by.
Diane

Surprise!!!
Welcoming Melissa Jenkins to the HH family!

We are so proud and excited to be welcoming Melissa Jenkins to the High Hopes family! If you are not already familiar with MelJen's Designs, you are in for a treat, as she has a very unique "girly girl" style with swirls and hearts and sweet little ladybugs accenting much of her work.

Our design team has been having loads of fun the last couple of weeks as they have been quietly preparing for the second release of Dustin Pike images, and our first release with Melissa Jenkins images. We know we can always count on Dustin for some fun, funky, fabulous images that are great for all occasions, and adding Melissa to our family was a perfect fit as we felt we needed that "girly-feminine" touch!

We know you will find both Dustin and Melissa are personally as charming as the characters they draw. We are so totally enjoying working with them and excited to see what they come up with next!,

Thank you for stopping by to see what we are up to!

With Warm Wishes! ~ Tina-Marie

Hard card to make...

Good morning,

I think we have all had hard cards to make, not because of what is on it or how we had to layer it up but because it was a card that took a lot of emotion, strength, love to make it. This is one of those cards... It was with a very heavy heart that I went down to my craftroom to make this card, most times I am running down those stairs full speed to be able to have a little time to make something new, not last night. I had to make a sympathy card, for a baby. A coworker of mine went off last May to have her and her boyfriend's beautiful son Owen. He was an adorable baby. When I heard the news on Monday night I could not believe it, Owen had gotten pneumonia and died Sat Jan. 30, 2010, he was only 8 months old. I had gone into work yesterday and that was all everyone that worked with her was talking about, so I suggested that I make a card so that all the people that knew her could sign it and one of her very close friends could take it to her. Above are the results of this card, the hardest card to make. I did not want to make it a typical sympathy card because it being for a baby I figured the popcorn bear was a good choice to go with. I hope I am right on this one. I didn't want to have to much on it for a couple of reasons 1) To make is to blingy would take away for the reason for the card, 2) This card is going to be signed by more then 30 people and I don't want it falling apart before it is delivered to our co-worker, our friend, I am a firm believer in the KISS rule ( keep it simple stupid ).

I used dark blue paper and dark blue textured paper, sorry don't know the company that makes it or the name. I purchased it from the Rubber Room. I coloured them with Copic Markers. On the back I finished it off by putting the back of the bear, as Phil, my husband, says it sorta finishes it off.
I hope you like it.
I hope everyone has a wonderful day.
Diane