Sunday, September 20, 2015

Happy Little Stampers September Blog Hop


Hello stamping friends! Happy Little Stampers is celebrating the first release of their stamps with a blog hop!
Comment on the HLS blog, and then continue on to each designer. You must comment on all the blogs in the hop to be eligible for prizes.

You should have arrived here from Ingrid's blog.
If you got lost, don't despair. Just start back at the Happy Little Stampers blog.
The blog hop will run for one week giving you enough time to hop through and check out what the designers will be creating.
One lucky commenter will win the GRAND PRIZE which includes the whole release! That's four sets of stamps with a value of AUD$69
Four lucky commenters will win a gift certificate to the HLS store!

Now lets get on to the cards...
My first card was created using Bold Birthday Sentiments and Butterfly Birthday.

I started by stamping the "Happy" sentiment in grey using the stamping off technique to achieve a lighter color value and going to the darkest color value by stamping the image full strength. I stamped the focal word using multiple complementing colors and added the word "birthday" over the lighter value "happy". The butterfly from Butterfly Birthday was stamped in black and colored in with Copics using coordinating colors.

Next up is my card using Butterfly Birthday

I stamped the beautiful butterfly image in rainbow colors creating a circle pattern. The sentiment was stamped in a circle die, placed in the center of the butterflies and I added the words "my friend" to the lower right corner to finish this card off. I just love the font used in this set!!

Next up is a card using Big Bold Numbers

These numbers work great when creating a background or use them alone to make a grand statement!

My last two cards use the Mixed Christmas Sentiments.



This is a great collection of holiday sentiments in a variety of wonderful fonts that will suit all your holiday card making needs.

I hope I have inspired you today with my cards. The designers and I have had so much fun playing with these stamps! Next you need to hop on over to Melissa's blog.

Happy little Stampers
Kylie Purtell
Loll Thompson
Linda Walmsley
Leslee Stone-Rasmus
Gail Townsend
Gloria Lee
Ingrid Blackburn
Birgit Norton (That's Me!)
Melissa Lane
Sue Trembeth
Anita Bowden
Carol Steedman
Carol Dunham
Susan Bridgman
Bonnie Klass

49 comments:

Kylie said...

Birgit, I LOVE what you have created. I am so proud! The numbers look fantastic! What you did with the butterflies is awesome and your Christmas cards are sensational. xx

Darlene said...

Oh Birgit these are all just fabulous! I love the bold, happy colors and all the number cards! FABULOUS!!!! Thanks for inspiration!

Melissa L. said...

Lovely selection of cards, Birgit. :) I particularly love the rainbow of butterflies!

Gloria said...

Wow!
These are fabulous!!!
I love the colorful number card!
I want to make this style card!!!

Canonbury creations said...

Lovely cards in particular the butterfly wreath!
Val x

BożenA said...

A beautiful set of cards. Perfectly attention to detail.
Regards,
BozenA

Chriss Blagrave said...

Love how you used all of these great sentiments! Awesome cards!

Far North said...

Fantastic use of the sentiments...and fabulous butterfly rainbow

ruthi said...

enjoy the wreath of butterflies!

Parker said...

These butterflies have quickly become my favorite, and I like what you've done with them.. . So colorful and so happy. I never thought to do a stamping of numbers going every which way. Great tips. Thanks for showing your samples.

Bonnie said...

What a wonderful collection of cards, Birgit! I especially love the rainbow ring of butterflies! Wow!

Nora Noll said...

What totally fun cards!! I love the rainbow of the butterflies and the fun way you used the number stamps!! Great design!!

Linda said...

Simply stunning!! I love the circle of butterflies xx

Loll said...

Beautiful and creative cards Birgit!! Great job showcasing Kylie's awesome stamps!! xx

colleen said...

good stuff here

Amy Seigler said...

I just love the circle of butterflies that you showcased! All of your cards are wonderful!

BobbisTreasure said...

Lovely work - great job multi-stamping!!

Valentyna Komisarenko said...

Oh Birgit, such lovely cards!!! Butterflies circle is amazing, so creative!

deb c said...

Oh My! The butterflies! Just stunning! You have an amazing gift!

HJ said...

All your cards are stunning. I love the birthday cards and the Christmas ones too. Too difficult to choose my favorite.

nancy littrell said...

Birgit, I Love All your beautiful and creative cards. Your sentiments and butterflies are so beautiful. TFS

Susan said...

A wonderful batch of cards! I'm totally in love with the circle of butterflies in those gorgeous colours - it works perfectly with the way you've placed the two sentiments on that card!

Ellie Lee said...

Love these creations. How fun! Never been on a blog hop before. Love these designs too! Beautiful projects.
Wish you had an easy way to pin them to Pinterest...I would absolutely add them to my card board.

Karen M said...

Love all your gorgeous cards:) xx

sandie said...

What a spectacular use of colours, great showcases of these sets x

Inkyfingers said...

What a great collection of cards Birgit! I love the happy feel to them all and the circle of butterflies is so creative.
Hugs
Carol x

Unknown said...

What great use of colors. Butterflies look great. Thanks for ideas

LesLee said...

Awesome cards... I had to laugh at that cute little penguin the look on his face is so adorable.. and paired with that sentiment is fantastic. And I love how you stamped the birthday over the gray happy.. really makes a statement..

Kathyk said...

Beautiful makes, my particular favourite is the circle of butterflies

Best I "hop" to the next link

Kathyk

Rahmat said...

I love the butterfly card the most, what a creative take.

Suchi said...

Stunning vibrant cards! Love them all..thanks for the wonderful hop :)
Suchi xx

Marcia Hill said...

WOW...how do I even pick a favorite?!! These are all just beautiful Birgit, but I guess if I HAD to pick favorites, the 2 butterfly cards would win. They are both stunning!! Well done on all of them my friend!! :0)

claudia said...

Love those butterflies!!!!

aussie aNNie said...

Love the first card, adore the second card and greatly admire the rest with the class and style they all represent....thanks for the sharing and they are just beautiful.xx
 {The Journey Is The Start  aNNie  my personal blog}

Nellie said...

Love your cards. Hugs, Nellie.

OH Babs said...

Hi, it is not easy choosing my favorite card you designed for HLS but I am going to choose the numbers card. Using the stamp as background paper is genius and something I would also do. I like the stripped black and white paper.

Carol said...

What a fabulous selection Birgit, love the adorable penguin. Carol x

cm said...

What a fabulous array of cards you've created, each one ever so pretty! I'm crushing over the big bold numbers,smitten with the sentiments and 100000% in love with the butterflies; your showcases are making clear these are 'must haves'!
~carol

Aileen said...

Wow brilliant cards all of them but especially the butterfly cards. But thats probably cause I love butterflies. Brilliant highlight of the stamp sets.

TaeEun said...

What creative cards! love your cards in happy colors!

Marianne said...

Love them all. Such a creative use of the new stamps!

Gerrina said...

Wow! On all cards you let us enjoy great stampinwork! A feast for the eyes to look at these cards! Have a colurfull week!

Kathy Schweinfurth said...

Super wow -- such beautiful creations! Especially like the butterfly wreath - brilliant! Thanks so much for the inspiration (I need it!)

Bobby said...

I love the number card and the rainbow ring of butterflies is so creative.

sue t. said...

Your number cards is amazing and I love how you stamped birthday over the greyed out happy. Clever!

stempelfrida said...

The butterfly circle card is soooo nice!
Sunny regards from stempelfrida
http://stempelfrida.blogspot.de

Cornelia (fun stamping) said...

Wonderful cards - especially that rainbow butterfly card - gorgeous!

Monika Reeck said...

oh wooow they are all adorable cards
my fav one is the cuuute one with penguin so so cute
and first card ...clever to use only one color HAPPY
great post

Denise Bryant said...

Delightful cards! I really love the butterflies!