High Hopes Project of the Month

Well, after much futzing & fixing & redoing, I finished my High Hopes POTM card!!! There were a few glitches along the way, but I do like how it turned out. Again, my camera is not liking red, & there doesn't seem to be much I can do about it. It's cloudy out right now, so I can't take a a picture outside. I will try to play around with it more later, but I wanted to get this posted so I can return to my regularly scheduled domestic duties!

For the month of September, you can purchase these stamps as a set at 25% off the regular price!! The set includes Max the Magnificent, Sammy Seal, Popcorn, & You're A Class Act! What a deal!!!! Click HERE to order your very own set!!

For my very large (6" X 6") card, I used Bo Bunny's Organic Poppy paper, plus SU's Bordering Blue & So Saffron. I stamped the image onto Papertrey white paper & colored it with Prismas & Gamsol. I did lots of cuttin' & poppin' on this card ~~ Sammy's collar thing is glitterized, cut & popped up, & the popcorn is cut & popped up, with the actual popcorn cut & popped yet again (ha ~~ popcorn.....popped.....lol). I added the stars in the background at the last minute, because I smudged!!! Grr......I hate when that happens!! I tried erasing it & I was just making it worse, so I decided to stamp the stars from the platform, cut them out (after adding glitter, of course) & strategically popped them on the background. Voila ~ error fixed. I was sure wishing I had a star punch though ~~ cutting those stars was NOT fun!



Another mistake, which you can't see here because I canNOT get a good picture of nicely decorated inside (that red factor again) is that I mounted the whole shebang THE WRONG WAY!!!! Luckily it wasn't upside down......lol.....that would have been tragic. But I did mount it sideways, so instead of opening from the bottom, like most of my cards do, it opens from the side. The *right* side, lol!! It definitely could have been worse!!

Speaking of High Hopes.....guess who just started a blog?!? Crissy Armstrong, the fabulous artist for High Hopes!! You all know her as #1artist4highhopes on SCS, but she just started her very own blog, Crissy's Art & Heart. You will love it!!! Click HERE to check it out!! Congrats, Crissy!!!

I hope you all have a fabulous Monday!! It's actually chilly here ~~~ low 60's ~~~ my boys wore *gasp* LONG PANTS to school!!! Guess summer really is over!! *sob*