"Merry Christmas" - High Hopes Challenge #9 and Spoonful of Surgar

This weeks High Hopes challenge#9 is hosted by, "yours truly" and I have a sketch for you all to follow.....Make a card using this sketch and post where it is at the High Hope Challenge Blog#9. You will also have a chance to win a fabulous prize from High Hopes which is Crystal Snowlady and the Snow People Saying!! The High Hopes Divas have outdone themselves again with this challenge....you can see all their lovely creations for this weeks challenge right here I almost forgot...I also made this card with this weeks Fun "Spoonful of Sugar" challenge in mind "Blooming Marvelous". The flower in the corner is made up of 2 greeen prima floweres placed underneath a mesh and poinsettia flower.

Now onto the card.........I used "Woodland Santa" and just the Merry Christmas part of the "Christmas Fishies" sentiment.

I colored the image with prismacolor pencils (oms) and twinkling h20's.

For the fur and snow I used Duncans 3d scribbles paint and sprinkled glitter on it before it dried. For the beard I used my handy Sakura Quickie Glue pen...and sprinkled glitter over it.

I used nesties for the oval panels...and used foam dimensionals to pop it and the Santa up.

Ink - versafine black, bordering blue, cranberry crisp, creamy caramel.

Paper - GP white, always artichoke, dcwv, basic grey "figgy pudding"

Accessories - cord, stickles on tree, glitter, scribble, glue pen, nesties, fiskars border punch, martha stewart leaf punch, flowers, rickrack, embroidery floss and machine stitching

Have a Wonderful Day Everyone and Thank you so much for all your Lovely comments!!!

P.S....My over 100,000 hits celebration will be announced by the end of this week....sponsored by 2 Fabulous companies!!!

Magnolia DT- "You are One of a Kind"

Another card featuring stamps from Magnolias new School, Travel & So Heavenly Collection 2008. The So Cute! stamps I used in this card are ..SC08 Tilda with slate.....SC08 School Slate...SC08 School Pencil. The sentiment is from Stampin Up.

Magnolia stamps can be ordered from the Magnolia Store.......Phebe at The Town Scrapper.......and Diana right here

I colored the images using prismacolor pencils (oms) and h2o's. Acrylic white paint for accents.

Tilda and the slate are on foam dimensionals. The sentiment is embossed with white embossing pdr. I put a little sparkle on the flowers.

Accesories....flowers, rafia. glitter, foam dimentionals. SU punch, lace, buttons, martha stewart punch, stitching.

Well we are off..........I am scheduling a few posts for when I am gone......I will be so anxious to see every ones beautiful fall creations when I get back. We had a great time on the weekend....with all our kids at home. The weather was beautiful and we had a nice bon fire.

Thank you so much everyone for your well wishes for our trip and our Anniversary!!....Big Hug to you all!!!

I am including my sketch for this card at the bottom of this post

....And to close.....Thanks for looking!.. and for all your Lovely comments!!

Hugs,

Ila

High Hopes Blog Candy!!

I have 3 High Hopes stamps to offer as Blog Candy! Tina the owner of High Hopes has graciously included these Fabulous jungle stamps in my last DT pkg just for this purpose...Yay!! Here they are So lets have some fun....I have a sketch challenge for you all. Feel free to use any brand of stamps. Please leave a comment and link to your card in my comment section on this post so I can see your card. If you don't have a blog you can still participate by emailing me your card. My email is in the top right hand corner of my blog! I will be picking the Winner Randomly and will post who the winner is on Monday April 21st. Everyone is welcome to participate! Here is the sketch ........You can see my card below.

I made this card using the sketch above....I did change the bottom a little for the sentiment because the image was so large.

I also made this card to participate in a few challenges.....

Cute Card Thursday

Challenge #5 "Things with Wings"......and

Annies Birthday candy at Ink'n'Rubba Annie's challenge is to make a girly birthday card with flowers and pretty paper on it. Be sure to check out her fabulous blog!!

I made this card using...

High Hopes Lizabeth Biking Angel and Hero arts for the balloon and sentiment.

Image is colored with prismacolor pencils (OMS) and H20's

Ink - Versafine Black, close to cocoa, versafine green, bashful blue, old olive.

Paper - whisper white, K&C, basic grey, provo stack, Bazill cs

Accents - stickles, brad, ribbon, stardust pens, stitching, flower made with spellbinders dies.

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