I headed down to the rubber room when I returned from the airport, and couldn’t wait to play with some of the new images from High Hopes Rubber Stamps, being released today. They just happened to find their way to my doorstep while I was road trippin’. I’ve also felt challenged deprived, so I had to see what the SCS Limited Supply Challenge was today.

Since it’s the 4th of July, the colors are red, white and blue. But, we are also limited to four layers of paper, four specialty tools or embellishments. I might have stretched the guidelines a little, and used five tools/embellishments . . . . let’s all pretend that the white and black pens are only one tool, okay?

Anyhoo, here’s my card today . . . . Who knows, there might be a few more, depending on how energetic I get.

I stamped the Lil’ Show Girl, masked her and then stamped the Show Horse. The images are colored with Copic Markers, and the decorations on the horse’s straps are Perfect Pearls. To add just a tiny bit of glitter to the card, I painted a thin coat of turquoise Stickles on the horse’s plume and the girl’s shoes and dress. The edges of the red panel were sponged with Cranberry and white dots were added with a white opaque pen. To finish off the image panel, I added a few black dots.

• Stamps: Show Horse, Lil’ Show Girl and Class Act Sentiment from High Hopes Rubber Stamps
• Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White; SU Real Red and Brilliant Blue
• Ink: Tsukineko Brilliance Graphite Black; Ranger Archival Jet Black and Adirondack Cranberry
• Accessories: Copic Markers; Ribbon; Inkssentials White Opaque Pen; Faber-Castell Black Artists Pen; Ranger White Opal Liquid Pearls and Turquoise Stickles; Tsukineko Sponge Dauber

Hope you are enjoying your holiday and spending time with family and friends!

Hanna Stamps is releasing four new sets tonight at midnight, and since I’ve been away, I needed to catch up a bit. So today, I have a preview of one of the new sets, Baseball Hanna. If you join in the Release Party at 9:00 p.m., in the Hanna Forum on Splitcoaststampers tonight, you’ll be able to see more previews as well as participate in challenges and chat.

I got lucky today when I saw that the Ways to Use it Challenge on SCS was to find ways to score your paper. How appropriate for a baseball card. I just had to score diamonds in the background - .

Once the background was scored, in 1-1/4″ squares, I stamped the smaller stamps from the set in the scored grid. The score lines were highlighted with gray ink, the same the edges were sponged in. Hanna and the baseball glove were colored with Copic Markers.

• Stamps: Baseball Hanna from Hanna Stamps
• Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White; SU Berry Bliss; Prism Stormy Light and Frosted Pink
• Ink: Tsukineko Brilliance Graphite Black; Ranger Adirondack Slate
• Accessories: Copic Markers; Scor-it; Circle Punches; Fiskars Clouds Decorative Scissors; Tsukineko Dauber; Ribbon; Mounting Tape

I hope you enjoy the rest of your day. I’m off to stamp a little more and I just might clean the kitchen. I could also stand to do a little unpacking and some laundry - but I do believe that stampin’ comes before that!