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Sunday, August 2, 2009

HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #42








Hello everyone;
It's pretty hard to stay in the house the last few days...the gorgeous weather has finally arrived. YAY!!

This weeks High Hopes Challenge is brought to us by Jeanne and she has chosen "Go For The Gold". It can be gold paper, brads....whatever you have that's gold!!

The image I have chosen is the "Nutcracker".



I embossed the image with black and painted it with Tombows. I used my white Inkssentials pen for the highlights. I used my Gelly Roll gold metallic pen on the buttons, trim on his jacket, shoulder pads and hat. I used gold eyelets and gold brads to hold the sentiment on. The sentiment was stamped onto acetate with Stazon black. It's hard to see the sentiment in the pic, looks fine in real life. I added glue and white flocking to his hair, beard and mustache. The fabulous designer paper is from Graphic 45. I used a cb folder on the red cardstock.The card front is smaller than the back and it opens by undoing the ribbon.

I hope you like it and Thanks so much for stopping by.

KAREN x






*products used in my cards are from The Rubber Room
and online store.

16 comments:

  1. Awesome job!! I love this card. I actually bought some of that paper just to use for this stamp!! Haven't inked it up yet, though!!
    ~Lacey

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  2. Oh I'm in love with this awesome job.

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  3. Gorgeous!! Look at that paper....what a perfect match!

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  4. oh Karen this is amazing, a fabulous job.
    hugs rachxx

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  5. Oh I love this what fantastic colouring of the great image and such a perfect paper choice
    Hugs Jacqui x

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  6. Karen, this is absolutely beautiful. Love all the detail. Hope you had a great weekend.

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  7. What a gorgeous card Karen,i love the image and papers.

    Hugs Riet.x

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  8. This is a real cutie. Love everything about it. Pat

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  9. What a beautiful card, really great!
    Nice image and colours.
    Hugs Jacqueline

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  10. Oooh I love your sweet card, the image is fabulous and such delish colours too!
    Hugs Tab xxx

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  11. Fantastic job on this challenge Karen! What an inspiration!

    Rosanne

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  12. Oh, I love these warm Christmas colors. Gorgeous!

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  13. Wow, awesome card Karen and how perfect are those papers. Big Hugs, Nikki x

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  14. Wow!! this is just Amazing and so Gorgeous!!...love your coloring and the fabulous papers you choose!!...Hugs, Ila

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  15. This is truly beautiful! I love it Karen, esp. your painting on the image. Gorgeous work, as always!

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  16. How Christmas regal! and cute! and so much fun too!

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