Tags - High Hopes Little Reader

Another tag which would be ideal to give with a gift of a book.

For this tag I used Nestabilities Deckled edge rectangle and sponged with Distress Ink.  I stamped the image directly onto the cardstock and coloured him in using markers - the usual mix of Marvy le Plume, Tombow and SU.  The book was paper pieced (not very well now I look at it !).

The sentiment looks like a Hero Arts one but I cannot be sure as I did this tag a couple of months back.

HIGH HOPES - FAIRY TALE BUG

Every now and again I have the need to do a really bright card.  This little chap just seemed to lend himself to being brightly coloured and the card sort of flowed from there.

I used Copics to colour the image in and added a couple of tiny Penny Black images to the front and back covers of the book, plus gave it a title.  The yellow, black and lime papers are all from my stash as is the fence which was made from a MS border punch and coloured with Distress ink.  I am rather fond of my collection of Nestabilities dies and used the Deckle edged rectangles and Labels 8 on this card.  The snail is from a Hero Arts stamp set called Sending Smiles and the sentiment is also Hero Arts Simple Things.

HIGH HOPES - SILLY GOOSE
GIFT BAG

With having bought a large amount of white paper bags, I am making a concerted effort to use some of them up.  This time I cut the bag smaller and used SU Creamy Caramel as the base colour.  The patterned paper is CM and the handle is made using Nestabilities scalloped and classic ovals.

The image - Silly Goose from High Hopes - is just so cute and it is one I have had laying around for a while.  At the base of the handles are dew drops.

HIGH HOPES - BUBBLE FUN

This stamp is from a new company in the US and I was a bit disappointed that their stamps arrive on a thin rubber sheet.  Luckily I had the foam backing which I could stick it onto.

Anyway, that aside, the stamp is cute and I do like their images.  I used Nestabilities petite scalloped circles and the Fleur de Lis pendant (yet again) to layer the image onto.

The background paper is CM and the sentiment stamp is a Penny Black one which I seem to be getting a lot of use out of lately.