Lisa’s Handmade Cards

Once again I broke out Leo the Lion for this weeks High Hopes challenge. I just find Leo to be extra fabulous. The challenge is called “seeing stars”. I believe in the “go big or go home” rule so I went big, real big. I used Cricut cartridge George and Basic Shapes to cut out the stars. I used my watercolor pencils to color Leo.

I’ll be back soon with another lion card using a fantastic Squigglefly new release image. I have to get my work done and my house clean before then so I better get to it! Thanks for stopping by!

Project #22

If your here looking for my Truly Scrumptious sketch challenge card click here. Sorry, I spaced linking to the post itself.

I am dead tired. I’m also stubborn. I refuse to go to bed until I finished my High Hopes Challenge card that I started two days ago. I can’t decide if I’m just stupid for doing so (I cut my finger and wasted a great deal of glue dots before I remembered Mike’s layers are supposed to be 3D) or grateful (it turned out fab, right). Any excuse to use my High Hopes stamps and I’m in.I’m a sucker for them.

The challenge is to use brown and orange plus a circle. I received Mike (the monkey) in my Christmas stocking and just hadn’t inked him up yet. The bananas and sentiment are from C.C. Designs. At the time I didn’t know of a source that sold High Hopes stamps or I wouldn’t have bought this banana bunch. I still might…

You can’t tell from the picture that well- the orange is velum and I put the same patterned paper behind it. I also made Mike extra 3-Dimensional. The circles are cut out with my Cricut and embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder. Hope you love him as much as I do!

I made this card for a fabulous top notch friend who is having a birthday tomorrow. …it’s going to be a little late. Happy Birthday Ricky! I locked myself and my family out of the house yesterday for the second time. I swear I am loosing it. I left my key in the house and my husbands key was at the shop with our one and only car. Thank goodness we have family that lives close! We stayed at family members houses for two days while waiting for our car. It was a relaxing but now I’m way behind on my crafting/orders.

Anyway, all the patterned papers and brads are Bo Bunny (thanks Marianne!). I used cuttlebug folder Perfect Paisley and Swiss Dots. Gavin the Givin’ Dragon stamp is from High Hopes. The sentiment is a rub-on.

Challenges entered-

I followed the sketch at Moving Along with the Times.

High Hopes challenge is to add texture.

SophistiCat Challenge is embossing.

Stamp with Fun’s challenge is stitching.

Project #8

I know, I come up with the best titles. I don’t know how anyone could resist after seeing such an awesome title.

My little family and I have a lot of people to thank these days. Between watching our kids, working on our house, and letting us stay at their house while it get fixed- I have some thank you catch up work to do. I started on this card last night while my husband did side job work and I waited for the dryer. I then had a hard time going to bed because I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I turned out almost as well as I imagined it…almost.

I used Elmer the Elephant. He’s one of my favorite High Hopes Stamps. Very versatile. The stripe paper is from Daisy D’s and the green circle paper is from Scenic Route. I used my fancy new (I bought it before starting my project challenge) Fiskars Effervescence border punch (love it), my Swiss Dots cuttlebug folder, and my mom’s Mickey Font Cartridge (shhh, I’ve had it for months). Thanks mom!

I’m entering this card into the following challenges-

High Hopes- spacey colors (purple, blue, green)

Stamp with Fun- sketch

AIFactory Challenge- 5 embellishments total (I used 5 on the front, no one else shows the inside of their cards so I think that’s what they mean…I hope)

And my own personal challenge- don’t use any white

Project #3

This is High Hopes Matchmakin’ Maynard. Isn’t he fabulous!?! I colored him on watercolor paper with my Prismacolor markers which wasn’t the best idea. I’ll have to ink him up again soon. I think he still is pretty fab. The polkadot paper is BoBunny and the main pattern is Sassafras.

I am entering him into the following challenges-

High Hopes- put a bow on it

Cute Card Thursday- something new (Matchmakin’ Maynard was in my Christmas stocking)

Cupcake Craft Challenge- Going Girly