Today's the day!!!!!!

So much excitement going on in the High Hopes world today!!!!!! New releases, plus a brand spankin' new High Hopes blog!!!!!!

First, you can go HERE to find all the fabulous new releases ~~ dragons & fairies & princesses, oh my!! Not to mention the wayyyy too fun Christmas stamps!!! You can never have too many of those!!! Go check them out now!! Run!!!

Our first challenge on our brand new blog is from Kimmie, & the challenge is to make a birthday card using brads. Simple enough, right? We didn't want to overwhelm you the first week!!! Since I didn't get my stamps until just a few days ago, I used one of my pirate stamps from the last release, Peg Leg Pete. He went so well with my Basic Grey Boxer paper, dontcha think?? I added silver brads to the corners, & lots of red & blue twine, which I frayed with my scissors. I was pretty happy with this card. until I saw all the wonderful cards created by the other divas. I always think mine look okay, until I check out what the REAL talent has created, lol!!!! Go take a look-see at all the FAB cards over on the High Hopes blog! And while you're checking out the new blog, go check out all the blogs of the fabulous divas ~~~ the links are over there ------------->>>>>>>>>>


If you create something for this challenge, be sure to leave a link in the comments so we can all check it out!! There's a FABULOUS prize this week ~~~ over a dozen of the new release stamps will go to one lucky stamper!! So get out your paper, get out your ink, & get out your creativity!! If you upload to SCS, use the keyword "HHC1" for High Hopes Challenge #1!

I of course also had to create a card with my new stamps once I had them!! I can't announce a new release on my blog, & not be prepared with a card to show you!! So here it is.......a beautiful princess, & her not so beautiful prince!! Well, okay, he's pretty cute......but probably not what she had in mind!!!


For this card I broke out my new 6X6 pad of DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Girl pad. They carry this size at Michael's now, which is perfect for me because my favorite size card to make is 5.5"X5.5" ~ like this one :) The beautiful princess actually has on 3 dresses. The first, I colored, but it just didn't look right. So I paper pieced it, but I didn't like the paper once I put her up against the striped paper, so I paper pieced AGAIN!! She's nice & warm :) The frog, the princess, & parts of the castle are all popped on dimensionals. The swirl is a Sizzlit ~~ I've been using this a lot lately!! Lots of bling & glitter & pink on this card ~~ but I like how it turned out. Of course, I haven't seen any of the other divas make a card with this set yet ~~ I may not like it any more once I take a gander at their creations!!!!!


Now go on over to the new blog (the link is also on my sidebar) & check it out, check out what the other divas did, create something & post a link in the comments so we can all check it out!!!!! Have a wonderful Sunday!!!!!