<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913</id><updated>2012-01-07T17:11:31.271-05:00</updated><category term='Toadstool Buggies'/><title type='text'>Cathy's Rubber Room</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>32</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-2904543419931319720</id><published>2011-05-31T07:45:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-05-31T10:57:06.010-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612627755667029970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 108px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pfiq6pbRTw8/TeQPNPEH_9I/AAAAAAAAAOw/0JFOWdASDgE/s320/topper%2Bthis%2Bbuds%2Bfor%2Byou.jpg" border="0" /&gt;HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #110&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Your Favorite Pet or Animal....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Good Morning everyone! Glorious sunshine today and I hear all week! Humidity but let's not get picky...its sun!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Since my favorite pet is my Yorkies and High Hopes has yet to get some little Yorkies&lt;br /&gt;(maybe someday - hint, hint LOL), I picked a butterfly. I am not sure if this is a classified as an animal but anyway I find them graceful, peaceful and just a pleasure to watch! I can't wait to see my first one of the year.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;This is High Hopes stamp is called &lt;a href="http://www.highhopesstamps.com/catalogue-stamp.php?stamp_id=S-127&amp;amp;currency=1&amp;amp;returnto=/catalogue-pages.php?page=3+search=butterfly+currency=1"&gt;'Bedelia Butterfly'&lt;/a&gt;. Predictably I embossed with black and coloured with Tombow markers. I screwed up her wings by adding a colour I picked up by mistake and then I feverishly tried to fix. It was not at all what I had envisioned but I really like what happened. I couldn't likely do it again if I tried. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;The sentiment &lt;a href="http://www.highhopesstamps.com/catalogue-pages.php?search=this+bud"&gt;'This bud's for you' &lt;/a&gt;is also from High Hopes. I cut the sentiment with my Nesties die cuts, added a bow and little charm from my stash of 'stuff' and of course Stickles.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;That's it and thanks for stopping by. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0GyyLSlxGDw/TeQOlUtsstI/AAAAAAAAAOo/kyTvFyo44Tg/s1600/THIS%2BBUDS%2BFOR%2BYOU.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612627069988811474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 314px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0GyyLSlxGDw/TeQOlUtsstI/AAAAAAAAAOo/kyTvFyo44Tg/s320/THIS%2BBUDS%2BFOR%2BYOU.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-2904543419931319720?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/2904543419931319720/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/05/high-hopes-challenge-110-your-favorite.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/2904543419931319720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/2904543419931319720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/05/high-hopes-challenge-110-your-favorite.html' title=''/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pfiq6pbRTw8/TeQPNPEH_9I/AAAAAAAAAOw/0JFOWdASDgE/s72-c/topper%2Bthis%2Bbuds%2Bfor%2Byou.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-2406286407733414597</id><published>2011-05-17T08:00:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2011-05-17T08:02:30.689-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 116px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607477113970992578" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6wNGm65x4Go/TdHCubhfpcI/AAAAAAAAAOI/9E_8r1DqQlI/s320/3d%2Btopper.jpg" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #109&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stampingandscrapingincalifornia.blogspot.com/"&gt;HOSTED BY: KRISTINE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Today's challenge is ANYTHING 3D! I decided to do this little purse box. This is just perfect for a little gift like some yummy chocolatier made chocolates!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;The image I used for the tag is &lt;a href="http://www.highhopesstamps.com/catalogue-stamp.php?stamp_id=Q-136&amp;amp;currency=1&amp;amp;returnto=/catalogue-pages.php?page=4+search=hotp+currency=1"&gt;HIGH HOPES ANNIE BLOCK&lt;/a&gt; by artist Laurie Furnell.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I embossed her with black embossing powder and coloured with Tombow markers. Annie is so cute and I think she adorns this little purse box with some real style.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Sorry for the poor quality pic but my laptop and my office computer are now both acting up and it effecting my camera software. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Anyway, thanks for stopping by and I hope everyone has a great day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 286px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607476936909022418" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-us2hlUsmA6o/TdHCkH6oZNI/AAAAAAAAAOA/QN0tEIrAfOE/s320/3d.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-2406286407733414597?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/2406286407733414597/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/05/high-hopes-challenge-109-hosted-by.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/2406286407733414597'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/2406286407733414597'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/05/high-hopes-challenge-109-hosted-by.html' title=''/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6wNGm65x4Go/TdHCubhfpcI/AAAAAAAAAOI/9E_8r1DqQlI/s72-c/3d%2Btopper.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-616669379195827675</id><published>2011-05-03T09:58:00.009-04:00</published><updated>2011-05-03T10:33:41.586-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-K9864B19MCs/TcALW1elFBI/AAAAAAAAANo/eBsCiEnh0lI/s1600/topper%2Banything%2Bgoes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 58px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602490423389262866" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-K9864B19MCs/TcALW1elFBI/AAAAAAAAANo/eBsCiEnh0lI/s320/topper%2Banything%2Bgoes.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #108&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;This weeks challenge is &lt;strong&gt;ANYTHING HIGH HOPES GOES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Brought to you by &lt;strong&gt;KAREN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Good Morning everyone! Sorry for the late post but last night when I went to put this post on...my computer died! I have no idea what is wrong but all my pics, notes (actually my whole life is on that laptop) I tried to use my iphone but I just made a mess. For some reason blogspot kept kicking me off as soon as I tried to put a picture on with my iphone and I would lose everything. UGH, so frustrating. I am doing this post from the my office computer (hope DH doesn't mind). The image quality is a bit poor on these pics as the lighting is not the greatest for picture taking here. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Anyway moving on my card today uses these great High Hopes Stamps by Laurie Furnell:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.com/catalogue-stamp.php?stamp_id=P-145&amp;amp;currency=1&amp;amp;returnto=/catalogue-pages.php?page=2+search=hotp+currency=1"&gt;Thinking Posie Button Signage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.com/catalogue-stamp.php?stamp_id=H-250&amp;amp;currency=1&amp;amp;returnto=/catalogue-pages.php?page=3+search=hotp+currency=1"&gt;Ruffle Posey Button&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.com/catalogue-stamp.php?stamp_id=H-248&amp;amp;currency=1&amp;amp;returnto=/catalogue-pages.php?page=3+search=hotp+currency=1"&gt;Daisy Button&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I embossed with black and coloured the images with Tombow Markers. Paper and cardstock are years old and I can't remember but I think they look perfect together (I guess this is a great example of why I save EVERYTHING!)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I used my sewing machine to make a nice zig zag accent to two of the layers and then used an embossing fold with some small flowers I purchased at Ecstasy Crafts a few years ago.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I finished it off with some yellow half pearls and last but not least - Stickles!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Hope you have a great day and thanks for stopping by.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cathy XX&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.com/catalogue-stamp.php?stamp_id=P-145&amp;amp;currency=1&amp;amp;returnto=/catalogue-pages.php?page=2+search=hotp+currency=1"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602490284237498146" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EIED-tYP0y8/TcALOvGNpyI/AAAAAAAAANg/zxrrbOfSY1E/s320/anything%2Bgoes%2B3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-616669379195827675?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/616669379195827675/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/05/high-hopes-challenge-108-this-weeks.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/616669379195827675'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/616669379195827675'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/05/high-hopes-challenge-108-this-weeks.html' title=''/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-K9864B19MCs/TcALW1elFBI/AAAAAAAAANo/eBsCiEnh0lI/s72-c/topper%2Banything%2Bgoes.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-1883033409407414157</id><published>2011-04-19T08:00:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2011-04-19T08:12:00.279-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 101px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596908998112929778" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qtlH8F8dN1Y/Taw3FIC1Z_I/AAAAAAAAANA/VchrVNyQGb0/s320/topper%2Bmy%2Bbear.jpg" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #107&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;This week's challenge is BUNNIES, BEARS, BALLOONS&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;brought to you by ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stampingandscrapingincalifornia.blogspot.com/"&gt;KRISTINE &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Hi Everyone, hope you are well and happy that spring is in the air!! I did not post last week as my grandkids stayed with me for a week while Mom &amp;amp; Dad were on a much needed vacation. As it turns out I need a vacation now!! I guess I'm not as young as I think I am LOL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;For this challenge I chose &lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.com/catalogue-stamp.php?stamp_id=S-196&amp;amp;currency=1&amp;amp;returnto=/catalogue-pages.php?page=2+search=hotp+currency=1"&gt;"SITTING PARTY BUDDY"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;He is one of &lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.com/catalogue.php"&gt;High Hope's &lt;/a&gt;newest creations by artist Laurie Furnell.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;He is so cute and I really enjoyed colouring this sweet little guy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;After embossing with black and colouring with Tombow markers, I used my circle Nesties to cut him out. I decided to put a ribbon ruffle all around the end of the circle. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I cut the corner of the decorative paper with a circle curve and used part of a Nesties scalloped circle just behind it. I finished off with a co-ordinating red ribbon and of course, Stickles.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Thanks for stopping by...hope you have a great day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Cathy x &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zs3XfW4Mnn0/Taw25I_qHRI/AAAAAAAAAM4/hdxjWkWDOb0/s1600/my%2Bbear.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 317px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596908792209612050" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zs3XfW4Mnn0/Taw25I_qHRI/AAAAAAAAAM4/hdxjWkWDOb0/s320/my%2Bbear.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-1883033409407414157?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/1883033409407414157/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/04/high-hopes-challenge-107-this-weeks.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/1883033409407414157'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/1883033409407414157'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/04/high-hopes-challenge-107-this-weeks.html' title=''/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qtlH8F8dN1Y/Taw3FIC1Z_I/AAAAAAAAANA/VchrVNyQGb0/s72-c/topper%2Bmy%2Bbear.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-3986306137415473739</id><published>2011-04-07T00:01:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2011-04-07T07:49:17.316-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NQZ6Uj2Dj78/TZzjXdWa9kI/AAAAAAAAAMo/oiM7_3KVZ1o/s1600/topper%2Bandy%2Band%2Bkite.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 339px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 64px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592594829442479682" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NQZ6Uj2Dj78/TZzjXdWa9kI/AAAAAAAAAMo/oiM7_3KVZ1o/s320/topper%2Bandy%2Band%2Bkite.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663333;"&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663333;"&gt;HIGH HOPES NEW RELEASE DAY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#663333;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&amp;amp; BLOG HOP !!!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;If you have arrived here from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://debby4000.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;DEBBY'S BLOG&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;you are going in the right direction!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;If not you can go back and start at the&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;HIGH HOPES BLOG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#000000;"&gt;My card today is &lt;strong&gt;ANDY AND KITE&lt;/strong&gt; by artist Laurie Furnell. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;You can just keep hopping along and be sure to comment on all the DIVA'S BLOGS as there will be prizes awarded on selcted Divas blogs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://sweetmissdaisy.typepad.com/"&gt;YOUR NEXT STOP IS....&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://sweetmissdaisy.typepad.com/"&gt;ANNA'S BLOG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 318px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592593601217282898" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EgnF4D8Z0Mo/TZziP92tw1I/AAAAAAAAAMg/isPje-jvVoc/s320/kite%2Bsailor.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-3986306137415473739?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/3986306137415473739/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/04/high-hopes-new-release-day-blog-hop-if.html#comment-form' title='27 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/3986306137415473739'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/3986306137415473739'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/04/high-hopes-new-release-day-blog-hop-if.html' title=''/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NQZ6Uj2Dj78/TZzjXdWa9kI/AAAAAAAAAMo/oiM7_3KVZ1o/s72-c/topper%2Bandy%2Band%2Bkite.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>27</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-7377739410180593215</id><published>2011-04-05T21:20:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2011-04-06T07:56:39.375-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 105px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592275614387800962" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ad263C7DgEE/TZvBCsmqC4I/AAAAAAAAAMY/Qn1uOtLLgwM/s320/topper%2Bparty%2Bdragon.jpg" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HIGH HOPES NEW RELEASE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;SNEAK PEEK - DAY TWO !!!!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Hope everyone enjoyed Day One!!! Here is my sneak peek for Day Two!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Surprise - A Party Dragon by artist Dustin Pike. How cute is he....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I embossed him in black and coloured with Tombow markers. Yes stickles (I know how I''m so predictable). I found a great paper in my stash - I think it looks like dragon scales so I used it as one of my layers. I used a star embossing folder (not sure of the company name now) but I got it from Ecstasy Crafts a while back. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Be sure to stop by the High Hopes Blog to see all the fantastic creations from all the High Hopes Divas from Day One and Day Two!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Thanks for stopping by and BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE NEW HIGH HOPES RELEASE AND BLOG HOP TOMORROW!!! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 303px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592275464015163314" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DeGxlthwbYQ/TZvA58bBr7I/AAAAAAAAAMQ/P9ceVXE_krE/s320/party%2Bdragon.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-7377739410180593215?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/7377739410180593215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/04/high-hopes-new-release-sneak-peek-day.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/7377739410180593215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/7377739410180593215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/04/high-hopes-new-release-sneak-peek-day.html' title=''/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ad263C7DgEE/TZvBCsmqC4I/AAAAAAAAAMY/Qn1uOtLLgwM/s72-c/topper%2Bparty%2Bdragon.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-8349832853125678157</id><published>2011-04-05T08:10:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2011-04-05T08:31:53.902-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TS7mLrsW0Tg/TZsHBMgswKI/AAAAAAAAAMI/S-5yS7HjU-0/s1600/topper%2Brobot%2Bwheelie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 75px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592071079430242466" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TS7mLrsW0Tg/TZsHBMgswKI/AAAAAAAAAMI/S-5yS7HjU-0/s320/topper%2Brobot%2Bwheelie.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE &amp;amp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;SNEAK PEEK - DAY ONE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Another great High Hopes Challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;and &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The First Day of the High Hopes New Release &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SNEAK PEEKS!!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I used the Robot Unicycle (he's wheelie cute)LOL. This was created by artist Laurie Furnell. I embossed him with black and coloured him with Tombow markers. Of course I added glitter. I found some great silver glitter paper in my stash and some real metal mesh to use as layers. I had a couple of screw head brads, and I stole a few bolts from DH tool box. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Be sure to check the &lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;High Hopes Blog&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;to see all the other Diva's Sneak Peeks! Everyone has some fantastic creations by artists Dustin Pike and Laurie Furnell. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Thanks for stopping by and I hope stop by tommorrow for DAY TWO - SNEAK PEEKS.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Have a great day!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663300;"&gt;Cathy x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rAw22e5GF48/TZsG7uVS3QI/AAAAAAAAAMA/gqXToGmV2ws/s1600/Copy%2Bof%2Brobot%2Bwheelie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 316px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592070985429998850" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rAw22e5GF48/TZsG7uVS3QI/AAAAAAAAAMA/gqXToGmV2ws/s320/Copy%2Bof%2Brobot%2Bwheelie.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-8349832853125678157?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/8349832853125678157/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/04/high-hopes-challenge-sneak-peek-day-one.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/8349832853125678157'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/8349832853125678157'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/04/high-hopes-challenge-sneak-peek-day-one.html' title=''/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TS7mLrsW0Tg/TZsHBMgswKI/AAAAAAAAAMI/S-5yS7HjU-0/s72-c/topper%2Brobot%2Bwheelie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-4030089086566111829</id><published>2011-03-28T09:52:00.009-04:00</published><updated>2011-03-29T19:07:23.837-04:00</updated><title type='text'>MY MONKEY BABY</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B4j-QVjKbag/TZCS33ntZ-I/AAAAAAAAALw/3zl4aua-PUA/s1600/MONKEY%2BBABY%2Btopper.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 330px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 72px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589128626087749602" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B4j-QVjKbag/TZCS33ntZ-I/AAAAAAAAALw/3zl4aua-PUA/s320/MONKEY%2BBABY%2Btopper.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;TERRIFIC TUESDAY POST - MARCH 29, 2010 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Another Tuesday is here. Hope everyone is having a great start to their week.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The card today is "Maya Monkey" from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.highhopesstamps.com/catalogue-pages.php?page=4&amp;amp;search=monkey&amp;amp;currency=1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;High Hopes Rubber Stamps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;I never turn up the chance to do little girl cards (with 5 grandsons, girl cards are not an option) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;This little monkey is so cute. I embossed her in black and of course used my tombow markers and stickles. I found just the right colour background paper in my 'stash'. The pink ribbon flowers with pearls make it so girlie. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Make sure you check out &lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;High Hopes Blog&lt;/a&gt; to see the fantastic &lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;TUTORIAL&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://sirpaliina.blogspot.com/"&gt;SIRPALINA &lt;/a&gt;- Colouring with Distress Inks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;Watch for the new release coming soon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;April 7, 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oDfgv_Zb9dI/TZCSviNpxQI/AAAAAAAAALo/d7oaq0CUqGA/s1600/MONKEY%2BBABY.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 298px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589128482902361346" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oDfgv_Zb9dI/TZCSviNpxQI/AAAAAAAAALo/d7oaq0CUqGA/s320/MONKEY%2BBABY.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-4030089086566111829?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/4030089086566111829/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-monkey-baby.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/4030089086566111829'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/4030089086566111829'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-monkey-baby.html' title='MY MONKEY BABY'/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B4j-QVjKbag/TZCS33ntZ-I/AAAAAAAAALw/3zl4aua-PUA/s72-c/MONKEY%2BBABY%2Btopper.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-4346746278347670242</id><published>2011-03-21T18:20:00.009-04:00</published><updated>2011-03-22T08:09:15.773-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aLaWasq4K8A/TYfPcOhc5BI/AAAAAAAAALg/Cdj7WuYaNd0/s1600/topper%2Bfor%2Bblog%2Bfabric%2Bchallenge.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 464px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 107px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586661946618078226" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aLaWasq4K8A/TYfPcOhc5BI/AAAAAAAAALg/Cdj7WuYaNd0/s320/topper%2Bfor%2Bblog%2Bfabric%2Bchallenge.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE # 105&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Brought to you by &lt;a href="http://aliedevrijvenema.blogspot.com/"&gt;Alie..... &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;This week's challenge is using fabric! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Hi everyone! I think spring is on the way! I can just smell it in the air. I'm sure there will still be a bit more snow, but April is just around the corner. I can't wait. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Speaking of April...the rainy month, I decide to do &lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.com/catalogue-stamp.php?stamp_id=R-142&amp;amp;currency=1&amp;amp;returnto=/catalogue-pages.php?page=2+search=duck+currency=1"&gt;High Hopes "Rainy Day Ducky".&lt;/a&gt; He is just adorable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I embossed him in black and used Tombows to colour him (and of course I used my Stickles for a little bling)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Since the challenge is fabric, I made a fabric flower with frayed the edges and added a button to the centre. I used another piece of fabric (also frayed) just like decorative paper as a layer under Ducky. I cut out a couple of hearts from the fabric for embellishment at the top also.&lt;br /&gt;As well I made this little guy a 'Tilt Card'. Watch the little video below to see how his head moves. I had soooo much fun making this card. I hope you enjoy it. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pEj48k6ezgE/TYfPSE_6A9I/AAAAAAAAALY/HbOLOZFjZ88/s1600/tilt%2Bduct%2Bfabric%2Bchallenge.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 314px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586661772262769618" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pEj48k6ezgE/TYfPSE_6A9I/AAAAAAAAALY/HbOLOZFjZ88/s320/tilt%2Bduct%2Bfabric%2Bchallenge.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-5ff311ed12260a0b" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v9.nonxt6.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D5ff311ed12260a0b%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330118766%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D71E5307F2229122299F42860376B0F3EA80D3326.2A21BE6DAB11CB9DA55851F491FE250728C6E433%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D5ff311ed12260a0b%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3Djx3AhMXiy9xRWGaYBDE4Okni_Bo&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v9.nonxt6.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D5ff311ed12260a0b%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330118766%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D71E5307F2229122299F42860376B0F3EA80D3326.2A21BE6DAB11CB9DA55851F491FE250728C6E433%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D5ff311ed12260a0b%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3Djx3AhMXiy9xRWGaYBDE4Okni_Bo&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-4346746278347670242?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/4346746278347670242/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/03/high-hopes-challenge-105-brought-to-you.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/4346746278347670242'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/4346746278347670242'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/03/high-hopes-challenge-105-brought-to-you.html' title=''/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aLaWasq4K8A/TYfPcOhc5BI/AAAAAAAAALg/Cdj7WuYaNd0/s72-c/topper%2Bfor%2Bblog%2Bfabric%2Bchallenge.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-8160007285213017178</id><published>2011-03-14T15:47:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2011-03-14T16:15:46.888-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zIiz-smxA8Y/TX5xQDk78RI/AAAAAAAAALQ/LqnYtsDQemY/s1600/TOPPER%2BDUAL%2BBEAR.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 449px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 103px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584025108638069010" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zIiz-smxA8Y/TX5xQDk78RI/AAAAAAAAALQ/LqnYtsDQemY/s320/TOPPER%2BDUAL%2BBEAR.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HAPPY TUESDAY EVERYONE!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Hope everyone is having a great start to their day.  Today is DOUBLE DUTY for your stamps day!!  I wanted to do something bright and colourful. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt; I usually colour a number of things in one sitting and then make them into cards or scrapbook pages later on.  I am not sure what I was thinking when I coloured this but it obviously wasn't about winter.  This is A &lt;a href="http://www.highhopesstamps.com/catalogue-pages.php?search=hotp"&gt;High Hopes &lt;/a&gt;stamp called "South Pole Pals".  Its a Polar Bear and a Penguin!    I knew this...but I guess I forgot when I was colouring it (memory is pretty much shot, LOL)   I think it turned out just as well as a brown bear and blue bird (or is it a parrot?)  Anyhow, there you go..... two uses for the same stamp.  Now you can use this one all year round!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Hugs x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Cathy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;PS..I embossed of course in black, coloured with Tombow markers, added Stickles.  The card is a called a "Spring Card" and I made it from a template I purchased a few years ago.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t0ujRv3ULzY/TX5xIIZKF4I/AAAAAAAAALI/gRjgAGcZj1M/s1600/DUAL%2BBEAR.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 318px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584024972491888514" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t0ujRv3ULzY/TX5xIIZKF4I/AAAAAAAAALI/gRjgAGcZj1M/s320/DUAL%2BBEAR.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-8160007285213017178?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/8160007285213017178/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/03/happy-tuesday-everyone-hope-everyone-is.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/8160007285213017178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/8160007285213017178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/03/happy-tuesday-everyone-hope-everyone-is.html' title=''/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zIiz-smxA8Y/TX5xQDk78RI/AAAAAAAAALQ/LqnYtsDQemY/s72-c/TOPPER%2BDUAL%2BBEAR.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-4869375815092788221</id><published>2011-03-08T11:10:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-08T11:19:43.764-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-joTbyYqDNzk/TXZVODTO-jI/AAAAAAAAALA/CKmPTAFP28E/s1600/gogreen2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 262px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581742488064817714" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-joTbyYqDNzk/TXZVODTO-jI/AAAAAAAAALA/CKmPTAFP28E/s320/gogreen2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #104 - GO GREEN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry I am a little late with my challenge card. I had one of those mornings. Slept in, rushed to get to work. When I looked just now in my blog to make sure it when on at its scheduled 9:00 am - it was not on!!!!&lt;br /&gt;I went to look and all my post was gone and only the pic was saved. I have no idea what happened....&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I am writing this at work and hope all will accept my apology for my less than organized day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think it will get better as I can just go up from here!!!&lt;br /&gt;Have a great day (I really hope it turns out better than mine LOL) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-4869375815092788221?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/4869375815092788221/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/03/high-hopes-challenge-104-go-green-sorry.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/4869375815092788221'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/4869375815092788221'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/03/high-hopes-challenge-104-go-green-sorry.html' title=''/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-joTbyYqDNzk/TXZVODTO-jI/AAAAAAAAALA/CKmPTAFP28E/s72-c/gogreen2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-7367023056311165166</id><published>2011-02-22T09:00:00.010-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-22T09:42:18.074-05:00</updated><title type='text'>HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #103</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rrYaxBOKDMo/TWL2USkQeqI/AAAAAAAAAKw/jh8miZmNw4o/s1600/topper%2Bhappy%2Bbirthday%2B2-21-11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 125px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576290117079825058" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rrYaxBOKDMo/TWL2USkQeqI/AAAAAAAAAKw/jh8miZmNw4o/s320/topper%2Bhappy%2Bbirthday%2B2-21-11.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #103&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BROUGHT TO YOU BY......&lt;a href="http://debby4000.blogspot.com/"&gt;DEBBY&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For this week's challenge Debby chose "Female Birthday". Thank goodness it was a girl card because I usually have a bit of difficulty with "Guy Cards" (even though I have 5 grandsons). I guess I used up all my "Guy"creativity on them.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anyway I thought High Hopes &lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.com/catalogue-pages.php?page=11&amp;amp;search=hotp&amp;amp;currency=1"&gt;"Buggy Stack"&lt;/a&gt; is so cute it would make a great card for a little girl. Who wouldn't love bugs all dressed up!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I stamped and embossed the image in black and coloured them with Tombow markers. I used a bit of H2O - Icicle for the bee's wings and them covered them with Glossy Accents to give them some shine. Of course I used my Stickles since I forgot to use them last time (shame on me)!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This image made a great "Free Standing Pop Up Card". This kind of card can be folded down flat for easy mailing - however I have used them in the past taped to the top of a gift. It kinda looks like a card and a bow all in one!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I hope everyone has a great day and thanks for stopping by. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PugREQCTYv0/TWL13CTe_CI/AAAAAAAAAKg/ScuLMF2LHbA/s1600/happy%2Bbirthday%2B2%2Bpop%2Bup%2Bcard.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 228px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576289614498298914" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PugREQCTYv0/TWL13CTe_CI/AAAAAAAAAKg/ScuLMF2LHbA/s320/happy%2Bbirthday%2B2%2Bpop%2Bup%2Bcard.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-7367023056311165166?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/7367023056311165166/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/02/high-hopes-challenge-103.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/7367023056311165166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/7367023056311165166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/02/high-hopes-challenge-103.html' title='HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #103'/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rrYaxBOKDMo/TWL2USkQeqI/AAAAAAAAAKw/jh8miZmNw4o/s72-c/topper%2Bhappy%2Bbirthday%2B2-21-11.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-1275865451289727361</id><published>2011-02-08T09:00:00.025-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-08T10:40:27.800-05:00</updated><title type='text'>HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #102</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TVB2YEhJLxI/AAAAAAAAAKY/tFPexzx-bWU/s1600/header%2Btoadally%2Bin%2Blove.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 67px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571082894958997266" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TVB2YEhJLxI/AAAAAAAAAKY/tFPexzx-bWU/s320/header%2Btoadally%2Bin%2Blove.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;span style="color:#663300;"&gt;HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #102&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TVB2BRElWHI/AAAAAAAAAKI/F44Oz4bcPsY/s1600/toadally%2Bin%2Blove.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 264px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571082503191877746" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TVB2BRElWHI/AAAAAAAAAKI/F44Oz4bcPsY/s320/toadally%2Bin%2Blove.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;"&gt;Hi everyone - long time, no see. It's been a very busy couple of months! I'm so happy to be back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;"&gt;I am thrilled to have been asked back as a GUEST DESIGNER for HIGH HOPES RUBBER STAMPS! It's great to be back on this fantastic team with all the talented DIVAS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;"&gt;It's &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;"&gt;HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;"&gt;WEEK! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;"&gt;Challege 102 is VALENTINES! (brought to you by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://stampingandscrapingincalifornia.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;"&gt;Kristine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;"&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;"&gt;How adorable is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.com/catalogue-stamp.php?stamp_id=M-127&amp;amp;currency=1&amp;amp;returnto=/catalogue-pages.php?page=3+search=toad+currency=1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;"&gt;I'M TOAD-ALLY IN LOVE WITH YOU&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; I embossed this image in black and coloured him with Tombow markers. I made a little acetate container to hold some Hersey's "Kisses". Although you can't see it in the picture, the acetate is embossed using a cuttlebug folder. I used a big red ribbon to close the top of box and attached the card&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;And guess what?!!&lt;/em&gt; I didn't use any &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;GLITTER&lt;/span&gt;! I really don't know what happened there but I will be sure not to let it happen again. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;"&gt;Thanks for stopping by and make sure you stop by the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;"&gt;HIGH HOPES BLOG&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;"&gt; to see all the great Valentine's the other DIVA'S have to share. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-1275865451289727361?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/1275865451289727361/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/02/high-hopes-challenge-102.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/1275865451289727361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/1275865451289727361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2011/02/high-hopes-challenge-102.html' title='HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #102'/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TVB2YEhJLxI/AAAAAAAAAKY/tFPexzx-bWU/s72-c/header%2Btoadally%2Bin%2Blove.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-103445761617182025</id><published>2010-11-09T08:13:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2010-11-09T08:26:02.431-05:00</updated><title type='text'>HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #96</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TNlKVrAOgSI/AAAAAAAAAJw/N_v-ETbMNMA/s1600/buttons%2Bchallenge%2Btopper.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 58px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537538953010118946" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TNlKVrAOgSI/AAAAAAAAAJw/N_v-ETbMNMA/s320/buttons%2Bchallenge%2Btopper.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;HIGH HOPE CHALLENGE #96&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Good morning everyone! This is a short post this morning as my computer is acting up. I am rushing to get this on before it kicks me off the internet - again.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;I embossed the snowman in black and coloured him with Tombow markers.  I used some very tiny buttons in the same colours as the card and added some snowflake buttons (had to glue these to sit straight up on the card without falling over)  I found some paper in my stash and I really like the turquoise and burgundy together (although not very traditiona - says DH)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Of course I added some glitter (Crystal fine from Art Glitter).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;So happy freezin's season to everyone, and let your glitter always go where you want it to.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Hugs &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Cathy x&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TNlJOxtCJGI/AAAAAAAAAJo/shIifw4iPOw/s1600/buttons%2Bchallenge.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 317px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537537735037953122" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TNlJOxtCJGI/AAAAAAAAAJo/shIifw4iPOw/s320/buttons%2Bchallenge.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-103445761617182025?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/103445761617182025/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/11/high-hopes-challenge-96.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/103445761617182025'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/103445761617182025'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/11/high-hopes-challenge-96.html' title='HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #96'/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TNlKVrAOgSI/AAAAAAAAAJw/N_v-ETbMNMA/s72-c/buttons%2Bchallenge%2Btopper.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-4563158532904051944</id><published>2010-11-02T10:36:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2010-11-02T11:02:26.554-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TNAipgt7F_I/AAAAAAAAAJg/4vcuZrOpsNs/s1600/stepcardtopper.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 77px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534962038590871538" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TNAipgt7F_I/AAAAAAAAAJg/4vcuZrOpsNs/s320/stepcardtopper.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #95&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;This weeks challenge is hosted by &lt;a href="http://funkelzauber.blogspot.com/"&gt;Alex...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;I am a little bit late this morning. I slept in and my day usually goes downhill from there. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;But none the less onward and upward so they say. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;This weeks challenge is a step card. I decided to do a side step card as I had not attempted one before. There was a bit of a learning curve but got it after a couple of tries (I made templates first thank goodness)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;I stamped my High Hopes images - Gingerbread Family in Heart, Peeking Ginger Tag (used just the gingerbread man), and Peeking Ginger (used just the gingerbread man). Of course I embossed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;I love all the High Hopes gingerbread "stuff" It is all just too cute!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;I coloured them with a mix of Tombow markers and Distress Inks. Paper from my stash but where it comes from always escapes me (sorry about that - I am so forgetful)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;I used my MS icicle punch along the 'mountain edges' and cut out my images and layered them on the card. I made a little snow drift for the bottom of the 'side' and added a big red bow for colour. Last but not least - GLITTER. I used Art Glitter ultra fine loose glitter in Crystal - I think it gives the look of icy snow.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Thanks for stopping by and I hope everyone has a great week and may your glitter always go where you want it too...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Hugs&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Cathy x&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TNAifQwTE3I/AAAAAAAAAJY/XMV4p72Xb5U/s1600/stepcard.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 246px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534961862507172722" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TNAifQwTE3I/AAAAAAAAAJY/XMV4p72Xb5U/s320/stepcard.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-4563158532904051944?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/4563158532904051944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/11/high-hopes-challenge-95-this-weeks.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/4563158532904051944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/4563158532904051944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/11/high-hopes-challenge-95-this-weeks.html' title=''/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TNAipgt7F_I/AAAAAAAAAJg/4vcuZrOpsNs/s72-c/stepcardtopper.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-5037762984369361248</id><published>2010-10-25T13:41:00.015-04:00</published><updated>2010-10-26T19:20:31.185-04:00</updated><title type='text'>HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #94</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TMXBmJsIhOI/AAAAAAAAAI4/axldu3s8Ff8/s1600/birthday+topper.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 88px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5532040578474738914" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TMXBmJsIhOI/AAAAAAAAAI4/axldu3s8Ff8/s320/birthday+topper.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #94&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Challenge #94 "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" hosted by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://inkypaws.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Jeanne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;.....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;I love Birthdays (especially mine)!! I have a whole lot of birthdays coming up in, around and shortly after the holiday season. I get completely discomboobalated making so many cards along with Christmas cards, so it was great to make a birthday card in advance (that's to say instead of the night before) LOL.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Anyway I embossed 'WILD PARTY' in black and coloured it with Tombow Markers. I love this adorable stamp and have been dying to colour it.....I was enjoying colouring so much I completely lost track of time and DH was waiting for dinner. I guess he knows me well enough to know NOTHING will tear me away so he went ahead and cooked dinner!!! Yes, that's right while I was colouring this sweet sweet man cooked my dinner. Steak, mushrooms, salad - it was amazing. God Bless this man! Lucky, Lucky me!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Okay so back to the card. I had some brown Bazzill cardstock that I embossed with a Cuttlebug folder awhile back and didn't use ...so as it so happened it was perfect for this card. I found some blue polka dot paper that matched my blue monster guy (brought out his eyes don't ya think). I used my MS punch and put a strip behind the image I mounted on blue cardstock. Put a "Happy Birthday" on top and there you have it. I think my son-in-law will like this one.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thanks for stopping by and hope everyone has a good week - Don't eat too much candy on Trick or Treat Night!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Hugs...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Cathy xx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TMXBdR3vRlI/AAAAAAAAAIw/OV3c9uJd89E/s1600/birthday1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 318px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5532040426052077138" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TMXBdR3vRlI/AAAAAAAAAIw/OV3c9uJd89E/s320/birthday1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-5037762984369361248?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/5037762984369361248/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/10/high-hopes-challenge-94.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/5037762984369361248'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/5037762984369361248'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/10/high-hopes-challenge-94.html' title='HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #94'/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TMXBmJsIhOI/AAAAAAAAAI4/axldu3s8Ff8/s72-c/birthday+topper.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-838240134067015999</id><published>2010-10-17T16:45:00.013-04:00</published><updated>2010-10-19T22:24:34.166-04:00</updated><title type='text'>HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #93</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TLtgypz63QI/AAAAAAAAAIo/K7g3gLr5E3k/s1600/recipetop.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 74px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529119390860762370" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TLtgypz63QI/AAAAAAAAAIo/K7g3gLr5E3k/s320/recipetop.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #93&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;This weeks challenge is a recipe - a circle, a scallop and 2 squares brought to by: Amy! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I love High Hopes little 'Mouse Tales' and thought he looked like a really studious little guy! I embossed him in black and coloured him with &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Tombows&lt;/span&gt; and Distress Inks. I used a denim colour for the card and added some navy &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;cardstock&lt;/span&gt; and red &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;cardstock&lt;/span&gt;. In my scrap bin I found this little red gingham check. I used my &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;EK&lt;/span&gt; success punch to make the edges on the navy layer. I added an apple at the bottom, a ruler, and a couple of funky paper clips as embellishments. I see a school theme here. Great card for a teacher don't you think.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Okay so I used my S&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;tickles too&lt;/span&gt; - but I was not too impressed with what it did to the book my little mouse buddy is holding. I always use a little paint brush to put my &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Stickles&lt;/span&gt; on with but this time I used red &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Stickles&lt;/span&gt; (there was my first mistake - as it didn't match as I expected) and I usually just go along the edge but I didn't like it so I spread it with my paint brush -second mistake) Oh well in the picture it kinda looks, well like &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;suede. Yeah suede! There's an upside to everything LOL...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Stickles is the last thing I put on my cards so when its not to my liking I'm stuck with it (no pun intended). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great week! May your Stickles always land where you want it to!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Hugs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Cathy x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TLtgkKvgc8I/AAAAAAAAAIg/YwofOW1EQn8/s1600/recipe2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 317px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529119142002586562" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TLtgkKvgc8I/AAAAAAAAAIg/YwofOW1EQn8/s320/recipe2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-838240134067015999?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/838240134067015999/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/10/high-hopes-challenge-93.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/838240134067015999'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/838240134067015999'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/10/high-hopes-challenge-93.html' title='HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #93'/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TLtgypz63QI/AAAAAAAAAIo/K7g3gLr5E3k/s72-c/recipetop.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-8793853616615065203</id><published>2010-10-11T16:43:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2010-10-12T13:52:16.924-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TLN3SCZyjTI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/_qrZBl1u5vo/s1600/red+and+white+topper.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 53px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526892319480122674" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TLN3SCZyjTI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/_qrZBl1u5vo/s320/red+and+white+topper.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #92&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This weeks challenge was Red and Green - brought to you by ME!! I love red and green. I can almost smell the pine and see those bright red berries on the holly bushes with a sprinkling of snow. Ask me in a few months how I feel about snow though lol. It has been a glorious Thanksgiving weekend here in Southwestern Ontario. Lots of beautiful sunshine, turkey and pumpkin pie.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;On this challenge I chose the adorable new High Hopes GINGERBREAD HOUSE. I embossed the image in black and coloured with a combo of Tombows and Distress Inks. I used my MS fence punch to make a little fence for the front yard. I embellished the fence with some small holly and a little red rhinestone. I put a red satin bow in the corner with a peppermint and some holly and this time I added Crystal ultra fine loose glitter (I know I can barely believe it myself - NO Stickles)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Hope everyone has a fabulous week and please join us for the &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;High Hopes Challenge!!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Thanks for stopping by...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Hugs&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Cathy x&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TLN3J3cuCmI/AAAAAAAAAII/GE-9_wuCGV0/s1600/red+and+white+3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 318px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526892179100666466" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TLN3J3cuCmI/AAAAAAAAAII/GE-9_wuCGV0/s320/red+and+white+3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-8793853616615065203?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/8793853616615065203/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/10/high-hopes-challenge-92-this-weeks.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/8793853616615065203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/8793853616615065203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/10/high-hopes-challenge-92-this-weeks.html' title=''/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TLN3SCZyjTI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/_qrZBl1u5vo/s72-c/red+and+white+topper.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-37606852050346775</id><published>2010-09-27T18:29:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-28T07:58:12.509-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TKEbEgiYlrI/AAAAAAAAAHw/NDNgnwxAN4s/s1600/topper+sketch.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 64px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521724382400517810" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TKEbEgiYlrI/AAAAAAAAAHw/NDNgnwxAN4s/s320/topper+sketch.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #90&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;Only 88 days until Christmas! It seems to creep up on us so quickly. I am hoping to get a lot of Christmas cards done by the end of November, lol. That will definitely be a first! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;This little cutie patootie is 'Merry Mouse'. I embossed him in black and coloured him with Tombow markers. I used my stickles (of course) on the hat and tunic. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;Stop by the &lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;High Hopes blog &lt;/a&gt;and see what the other Divas have been up to. Hope you join us in some of the challenges.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;Hope your day is great!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;Hugs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;Cathy x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TKEa1p1koAI/AAAAAAAAAHo/3vd799V42sw/s1600/sketch.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 314px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521724127198879746" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TKEa1p1koAI/AAAAAAAAAHo/3vd799V42sw/s320/sketch.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-37606852050346775?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/37606852050346775/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/09/high-hopes-challenge-90-only-88-days.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/37606852050346775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/37606852050346775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/09/high-hopes-challenge-90-only-88-days.html' title=''/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TKEbEgiYlrI/AAAAAAAAAHw/NDNgnwxAN4s/s72-c/topper+sketch.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-1272702067569137672</id><published>2010-09-19T21:10:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-21T08:07:28.596-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TJa0-z0xNSI/AAAAAAAAAHg/K1mmN429rPE/s1600/topper+farm+hh+challenge+89.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 78px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518797384545547554" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TJa0-z0xNSI/AAAAAAAAAHg/K1mmN429rPE/s320/topper+farm+hh+challenge+89.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;High Hopes Challenge #89 - WELCOME TO THE FARM&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well Happy Fall Yáll!!! Hope everyone is enjoying the cooler weather. Don't you just love the fresh air now in the evening and early morning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I stamped "Laurie's Pumpkin Patch" with black Versafine and embossed it in black. I coloured it with Tombow and distress inks. I just love this stamp! I used the "Pumpkin border"to cut out the pumpkins and the sunflowers for the corners. I love that crow so much I just had to put another in the corner with the sunflowers. Papers are from my stash (OMG where did all this paper come from) Even with all this paper I never seem to have the 'right' colours so I think I 'need' to buy more LOL.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope your day is great and thanks for stopping by.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HUGS&lt;br /&gt;Cathy x&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TJa0on3iXxI/AAAAAAAAAHY/ew0983igWmg/s1600/%231+farm+hh+challenge+89.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518797003378810642" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TJa0on3iXxI/AAAAAAAAAHY/ew0983igWmg/s320/%231+farm+hh+challenge+89.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-1272702067569137672?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/1272702067569137672/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/09/high-hopes-challenge-89-welcome-to-farm.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/1272702067569137672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/1272702067569137672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/09/high-hopes-challenge-89-welcome-to-farm.html' title=''/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TJa0-z0xNSI/AAAAAAAAAHg/K1mmN429rPE/s72-c/topper+farm+hh+challenge+89.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-691279939805810138</id><published>2010-09-06T18:47:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-14T21:08:39.173-04:00</updated><title type='text'>High Hopes Challenge 88</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TIVvq_ZN4cI/AAAAAAAAAHM/ReJJvfKCwF0/s1600/topper+balancing+mouse.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 58px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513936103147430338" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TIVvq_ZN4cI/AAAAAAAAAHM/ReJJvfKCwF0/s320/topper+balancing+mouse.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #88&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Hi Everyone! Hope you are having a great day. It's hard to believe it is September 14th - where has the summer gone. I do love this lovely fall weather though.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;This is my card for the &lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;High Hopes Challenge #88&lt;/a&gt; - SPOTS AND DOTS.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;I love the little mice from Laurie Furnell's just released collection at High Hopes Rubber Stamps. I embossed this little guy (he is just soooo cute) in black and coloured him with Distress Inks. The dotted green paper is from Nana's Kids collection from DCWV. The other c/s is from Bazzill. I used my Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder for he first layer (can't have enough spots or dots you know) and I found four little buttons that matched perfectly and added them as an embellishment. Of course I added my Stickles!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Hope your week is just grand! Thanks for stopping by...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Hugs x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Cathy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TIVvkOFTMaI/AAAAAAAAAHE/1pAcPJrYsGs/s1600/balancing+mouse.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513935986831339938" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TIVvkOFTMaI/AAAAAAAAAHE/1pAcPJrYsGs/s320/balancing+mouse.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-691279939805810138?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/691279939805810138/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/09/high-hopes-challenge-88.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/691279939805810138'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/691279939805810138'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/09/high-hopes-challenge-88.html' title='High Hopes Challenge 88'/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TIVvq_ZN4cI/AAAAAAAAAHM/ReJJvfKCwF0/s72-c/topper+balancing+mouse.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-3837047313128817794</id><published>2010-09-04T14:17:00.009-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-05T09:30:28.286-04:00</updated><title type='text'>HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #87</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TIKOAKog8pI/AAAAAAAAAG8/biDA3xjohX4/s1600/topper+pink+bear.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 73px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513125027360338578" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TIKOAKog8pI/AAAAAAAAAG8/biDA3xjohX4/s320/topper+pink+bear.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;This week's challenge is It's a Girl, It's a Boy. I did this card in pink (I have 5 grandsons...so I really like to do anything in pink) This is one of the images I coloured back in July at the trailer. I stamped"Bubble Bath Bradley" with Memento ink onto Prism Smooth White cardstock and coloured it with Copic Markers. The papers were in my stash (I don't know where I got them). I have had a paper addiction for so long that I have papers I no longer remember where they came from. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;I made the flowers with three of my EK success flower punches and of course I added Stickles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Hope your day is great and thanks for stopping by.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TIKN36fvk2I/AAAAAAAAAG0/ya_K1_7eM5A/s1600/pink+bear+in+tub+watermarked.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 317px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513124885589627746" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TIKN36fvk2I/AAAAAAAAAG0/ya_K1_7eM5A/s320/pink+bear+in+tub+watermarked.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-3837047313128817794?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/3837047313128817794/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/09/high-hopes-challenge-87.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/3837047313128817794'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/3837047313128817794'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/09/high-hopes-challenge-87.html' title='HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #87'/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TIKOAKog8pI/AAAAAAAAAG8/biDA3xjohX4/s72-c/topper+pink+bear.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-7037293966931241516</id><published>2010-09-01T00:07:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-01T00:12:05.936-04:00</updated><title type='text'>High Hopes Blog Hop and Release</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TH3R48YU-tI/AAAAAAAAAGs/a7i3EAJzNW8/s1600/HH%27s+099.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 101px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TH3R48YU-tI/AAAAAAAAAGs/a7i3EAJzNW8/s320/HH%27s+099.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511792295182400210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good morning everyone......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;It's time for the High Hopes Blog Hop and Release....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have arrived here from &lt;a href="http://www.bunny-zoes.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Nikki's Blog&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;you are going in the right direction....if not you may want to start at the &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;High Hopes Blog.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  Be sure to leave a comment on all the Diva's blogs as there will be  three winners chosen from among the Diva's.....but we don't know which  ones yet!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This awesome snowman I am using on  my card is....&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hartley Framed Snowman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/THxeRC9MAMI/AAAAAAAAAGU/Nw0-PBca3iQ/s1600/HH%27s+100.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/THxeRC9MAMI/AAAAAAAAAGU/Nw0-PBca3iQ/s320/HH%27s+100.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511383690938941634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now be on your way and happy hopping.....your next stop is &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://debby4000.blogspot.com/"&gt;Debby.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have a great day and Thanks for stopping by....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Cathy x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/THxeRC9MAMI/AAAAAAAAAGU/Nw0-PBca3iQ/s1600/HH%27s+100.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-7037293966931241516?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/7037293966931241516/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/09/high-hopes-blog-hop-and-release.html#comment-form' title='52 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/7037293966931241516'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/7037293966931241516'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/09/high-hopes-blog-hop-and-release.html' title='High Hopes Blog Hop and Release'/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TH3R48YU-tI/AAAAAAAAAGs/a7i3EAJzNW8/s72-c/HH%27s+099.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>52</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-3724642977731182203</id><published>2010-08-30T10:36:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-31T08:30:27.208-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/THvCOb6JVvI/AAAAAAAAAGM/LlwQ8R_Bfm0/s1600/topscarecrowbear.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 65px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511212122283529970" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/THvCOb6JVvI/AAAAAAAAAGM/LlwQ8R_Bfm0/s320/topscarecrowbear.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HERE WE GO... DAY TWO OF THE SNEAK PEEKS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Here is another sneak peek of that great new release from High Hopes Stamps. This guy is the Angel Bear Scarecrow. I embossed him with black and coloured him with a combo of Distress Inks and Tombow Markers. I used the new little Sunflower Corners from this release and the gorgeous Pumpkin Border. I added mulberry as my first layer (amazing that I found some to match) and used an EK success punch for the bottom. Only one more day until the release! Your gonna love 'em.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Thanks for stopping by. Don't forget the Blog Hop on Wednesday September 1st.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/THvCFbBZiVI/AAAAAAAAAGE/mdpcJjD880Q/s1600/scarecrowbear.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 256px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511211967426693458" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/THvCFbBZiVI/AAAAAAAAAGE/mdpcJjD880Q/s320/scarecrowbear.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Check out the other Diva's Sneak Peeks !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bunny-zoes.blogspot.com/"&gt;Nikki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://inkypaws.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/"&gt;Jeanne&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sirpaliina.blogspot.com/"&gt;Sirpa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://debby4000.blogspot.com/"&gt;Debby&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://scrapbookingobsession.blogspot.com/"&gt;Amy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.handstampedbylacey.typepad.com/"&gt;Lacey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://funkelzauber.blogspot.com/"&gt;Alex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://jeanette-happythoughtsinkspots.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jeanette&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.curtsplayhouse.blogspot.com/"&gt;Curt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.6wackywomen.blogspot.com/"&gt;Karen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-3724642977731182203?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/3724642977731182203/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/08/here-we-go.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/3724642977731182203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/3724642977731182203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/08/here-we-go.html' title=''/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/THvCOb6JVvI/AAAAAAAAAGM/LlwQ8R_Bfm0/s72-c/topscarecrowbear.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-7701025324632507001</id><published>2010-08-30T09:54:00.008-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-30T10:33:04.326-04:00</updated><title type='text'>New Release High Hopes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/THu76_qgnqI/AAAAAAAAAF0/7XnBVBSiDE8/s1600/SDC10417.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 34px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511205191214472866" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/THu76_qgnqI/AAAAAAAAAF0/7XnBVBSiDE8/s320/SDC10417.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NEW RELEASE FROM HIGH HOPES STAMPS - SNEAK PEEK MONDAY!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Wow - what a great new release from High Hopes Rubber Stamps. It was so difficult to choose which ones to use first. I chose this cute little witch with a pumkin and the boo bat. I embossed the witch and the bat in black and coloured them with Tombow markers. I cut out the witch and the bats and mounted them on some orange c/s that I distressed with Black Soot Distress Ink. I added some co-ordinating papers and of course stickles. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will stop by tomorrow for Tuesday's SNEAK PEEK!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/THu6_LA007I/AAAAAAAAAFs/57mdC19eAyg/s1600/pumpkin+witch+signature.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 313px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511204163468710834" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/THu6_LA007I/AAAAAAAAAFs/57mdC19eAyg/s320/pumpkin+witch+signature.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Be sure to check out the other Diva's blogs for their SNEAK PEEKS!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bunny-zoes.blogspot.com/"&gt;NIKKI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://inkypaws.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/"&gt;JEANNE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://inkypaws.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/"&gt;SIRPA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://debby4000.blogspot.com/"&gt;DEBBY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://scrapbookingobsession.blogspot.com/"&gt;AMY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.handstampedbylacey.typepad.com/"&gt;LACEY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.handstampedbylacey.typepad.com/"&gt;ALEX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://jeanette-happythoughtsinkspots.blogspot.com/"&gt;JEANETTE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://6wackywomen.blogspot.com/"&gt;KAREN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.curtsplayhouse.blogspot.com/"&gt;CURT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-7701025324632507001?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/7701025324632507001/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-release-high-hopes.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/7701025324632507001'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/7701025324632507001'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-release-high-hopes.html' title='New Release High Hopes'/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/THu76_qgnqI/AAAAAAAAAF0/7XnBVBSiDE8/s72-c/SDC10417.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-8980909304657014702</id><published>2010-08-20T20:20:00.008-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-22T10:08:42.631-04:00</updated><title type='text'>High Hopes Challenge 86</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TG8fHQfxjXI/AAAAAAAAAE0/NmFiCIXCyU0/s1600/cool+day+topper.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 98px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507655078845189490" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TG8fHQfxjXI/AAAAAAAAAE0/NmFiCIXCyU0/s320/cool+day+topper.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font face="verdana"&gt;Hi Folks,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font face="verdana"&gt;Well we sure have cooled down here in lovely Southwestern Ontario. Thank goodness we got some rain!!! We were a wee bit dry around here. The grass and flowers have started to recuperate from their day long drink.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font face="verdana"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face="verdana"&gt;This week's &lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;High Hopes Challenge&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was "Anything but a Card" from &lt;a href="http://funkelzauber.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;Alex&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. I decided to do a Tag. We have a birthday coming up in our Family and I thought this might be cute. And of course I just couldn't resist one more summer theme. Aw, those lazy hazy days of summer. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font face="verdana"&gt;For this challenge I made a 'creamsicle'. I used my circle scallop Spellbinder die to take a bite out of the popsicle. I stamped and emboss Shelbert the turtle in black and coloured him with Tombow markers. I added a popsicle stick, some ribbon and of course stickles. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font face="verdana"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face="verdana"&gt;Make sure you check out the High Hopes blog to see what great creations all the Divas have come up with. Come join in!! Enter the &lt;a href="http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;High Hopes Challenge&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/a&gt;with your 'Anything but a Card' using your favorite &lt;a href="http://www.highhopesstamps.com/"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;High Hopes Stamp.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font face="verdana"&gt;I hope everyone in SW Ontario enjoys this cooler weather (I sure don't miss the humidity). I hope you all have a super day! Enjoy your Sunday.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana"&gt;Hugs X&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana"&gt;Cathy &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TG8e8QfYRZI/AAAAAAAAAEs/-jdEPHxBmHY/s1600/COOL+DAY.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 188px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507654889864971666" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TG8e8QfYRZI/AAAAAAAAAEs/-jdEPHxBmHY/s320/COOL+DAY.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-8980909304657014702?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/8980909304657014702/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/08/high-hopes-challenge-86.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/8980909304657014702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/8980909304657014702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/08/high-hopes-challenge-86.html' title='High Hopes Challenge 86'/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TG8fHQfxjXI/AAAAAAAAAE0/NmFiCIXCyU0/s72-c/cool+day+topper.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-5503546484179313121</id><published>2010-08-18T08:13:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-18T08:33:17.731-04:00</updated><title type='text'>High Hopes Challenge 85</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TGvQKvL11oI/AAAAAAAAAEc/y2sa3YH1Pyw/s1600/header+fisherman+hh+dt+pic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 67px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506723852273964674" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TGvQKvL11oI/AAAAAAAAAEc/y2sa3YH1Pyw/s320/header+fisherman+hh+dt+pic.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TGvP3noHiDI/AAAAAAAAAEU/AotDky6F2TI/s1600/fisherman+hh+dt+pic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 303px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506723523827566642" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TGvP3noHiDI/AAAAAAAAAEU/AotDky6F2TI/s320/fisherman+hh+dt+pic.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TGvPobHzdoI/AAAAAAAAAEM/BMJehiVTPiY/s1600/header+fisherman+hh+dt+pic.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OMG..me is sooo bad.  I have been working long hours (thank goodness I have now have a little help at the office).  I am also a bit more forgetful than usual (too many things in this old brain)  Anyway I just realized I didn't post my challenge card to my blog AHHHH!  So here it is - he's my little fishing friend.  I coloured him with a combo of distress inks and tombow markers.  I made his fishing rod with a stick from the yard and wrapped it with heavy black thread.  I  borrowed the little fishing hooks from my DH tackle box.  The five o clock shadow on my fishing buddy looks like my hubby after some of his fishing trips, LOL&lt;br /&gt;Hope everyone has a great day!&lt;br /&gt;Hugs X&lt;br /&gt;Cathy&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-5503546484179313121?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/5503546484179313121/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/08/high-hopes-challenge-85.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/5503546484179313121'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/5503546484179313121'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/08/high-hopes-challenge-85.html' title='High Hopes Challenge 85'/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TGvQKvL11oI/AAAAAAAAAEc/y2sa3YH1Pyw/s72-c/header+fisherman+hh+dt+pic.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-862491244691678884</id><published>2010-08-08T13:52:00.010-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-08T15:08:55.870-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Toadstool Buggies'/><title type='text'>HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE 84</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TF70lnf97lI/AAAAAAAAADk/j_Yhs6T3qv0/s1600/mushroom+challenge+84+top.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 101px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503104721788726866" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TF70lnf97lI/AAAAAAAAADk/j_Yhs6T3qv0/s320/mushroom+challenge+84+top.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TF7vOnbBQpI/AAAAAAAAADc/Tc9FezBry7Y/s1600/mushroom+challenge+84+top.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;This is my very first High Hopes Challenge as a Guest Diva! I am so excited. It was Karen's pick for this challenge - RIBBONS &amp;amp; BOWS. I used Toadstool Buggies embossed in black and coloured with a combo of Distress Inks and Tombow Markers. I used a Martha Stewart punch for the bottom of one of the layers, added some Stickles, Dew Drops, and of course a big bow with a little flower on it. Stop by the High Hopes Blog and see what all the other Diva's have done. Be sure to enter the High Hopes Challenge with your favorite High Hopes image and a ribbon or a bow. Have a great day and remember to Laugh!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;Hugs X&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;Cathy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TF7vFOb7W1I/AAAAAAAAADU/U-WSVi2cYpg/s1600/mushroom+challenge+84.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 312px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503098667746941778" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TF7vFOb7W1I/AAAAAAAAADU/U-WSVi2cYpg/s320/mushroom+challenge+84.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-862491244691678884?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/862491244691678884/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/08/high-hopes-challenge-84.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/862491244691678884'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/862491244691678884'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/08/high-hopes-challenge-84.html' title='HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE 84'/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TF70lnf97lI/AAAAAAAAADk/j_Yhs6T3qv0/s72-c/mushroom+challenge+84+top.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-8755199028046902014</id><published>2010-07-02T08:57:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-02T09:12:36.078-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Star Grad</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TC3ikf3mnFI/AAAAAAAAACs/zHbKReyu2hg/s1600/sam2jpg.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 314px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489292637492386898" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TC3ikf3mnFI/AAAAAAAAACs/zHbKReyu2hg/s320/sam2jpg.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hi Everyone, I hope you are all having a great Canada Day weekend!   I did this card for my grandson's Grade 8 graduation.  He looked so handsome in his tuxedo!  I am so very proud of him.  I coloured the card with Tombow markers and cut the stars with my Spellbinder wizard.  The embossing folder is from a collection from Holland for use in pretty much any die cut machine.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;All supplies are from &lt;a href="http://www.rubberroom.ca/"&gt;The Rubber Room and Online Store&lt;/a&gt;     Enjoy your weekend.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-8755199028046902014?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/8755199028046902014/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/07/hi-everyone-i-hope-you-are-all-having.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/8755199028046902014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/8755199028046902014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/07/hi-everyone-i-hope-you-are-all-having.html' title='The Star Grad'/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TC3ikf3mnFI/AAAAAAAAACs/zHbKReyu2hg/s72-c/sam2jpg.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-1119456094093641925</id><published>2010-06-25T14:22:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-25T14:42:03.521-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Colour Create Challenge #47</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TCT3gXy4xyI/AAAAAAAAACk/1LK5D8_2pJ8/s1600/cccheader.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 84px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486782381559432994" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TCT3gXy4xyI/AAAAAAAAACk/1LK5D8_2pJ8/s320/cccheader.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TCT0e5_Dz8I/AAAAAAAAACc/I4bhXA8dVOA/s1600/colorcreatekaren.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 318px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486779057842671554" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TCT0e5_Dz8I/AAAAAAAAACc/I4bhXA8dVOA/s320/colorcreatekaren.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; This is the card I did for the Colour Create Challenge. This challenge was the picture of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. You could pick any 2 colours and I just couldn't choose so I added all the colours! Of course I put stickles on the card and I used some ribbon the same colour as the band on his hat and put a stick pin in the ribbon. I know, I know I went overboard but I loved all the colours and had a blast colouring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-1119456094093641925?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/1119456094093641925/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/06/colour-create-challenge-47.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/1119456094093641925'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/1119456094093641925'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/06/colour-create-challenge-47.html' title='Colour Create Challenge #47'/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TCT3gXy4xyI/AAAAAAAAACk/1LK5D8_2pJ8/s72-c/cccheader.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-3973784491354134451</id><published>2010-06-21T22:44:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-25T13:14:09.080-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hangin' Around Frog</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TCTjyV77CPI/AAAAAAAAACM/pNwAO-zcZz4/s1600/froggie2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 308px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486760700065548530" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TCTjyV77CPI/AAAAAAAAACM/pNwAO-zcZz4/s320/froggie2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is one of the new stamps from High Hopes from the artist Dustin Pike. I coloured this with distress inks, and finally used my paisley nestabilties. I made some 'bull rushes' from some brown velvet paper rolled around some wire with some brown liquid applique in the centre. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-3973784491354134451?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/3973784491354134451/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/06/hangin-around-frog.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/3973784491354134451'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/3973784491354134451'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/06/hangin-around-frog.html' title='Hangin&apos; Around Frog'/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TCTjyV77CPI/AAAAAAAAACM/pNwAO-zcZz4/s72-c/froggie2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825329643576452913.post-5042099720457799643</id><published>2010-06-19T15:22:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-25T14:22:25.551-04:00</updated><title type='text'>KAREN'S BIRTHDAY CARD</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TCTz0GXqz_I/AAAAAAAAACU/nBHH9uSeIuM/s1600/karensbcard2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 306px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486778322432741362" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TCTz0GXqz_I/AAAAAAAAACU/nBHH9uSeIuM/s320/karensbcard2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0Z90MWhkI/AAAAAAAAAB8/k0GlPzK7xDg/s1600/karensbcard.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hi Everyone!&lt;br /&gt;This is a card I did for my best friend at her hubby's request. He wanted to give her a card for a rubber stamper and card maker. What pressure! I had no idea what to do but here is what I came up with. I used Rhonda the Stamping Angel by High Hopes Rubber Stamps and gave here Fantasy Film wings. I die cut some shrink plastic and stamped Stamp 'til you Drop, Stamp around the Clock etc and shrunk them for some embellishments. I don't know where I got these stamps from but I think they worked well for this card.&lt;br /&gt;Hope everyone has a great day! The weather is perfect today at the beach.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cathy x&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1825329643576452913-5042099720457799643?l=cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/feeds/5042099720457799643/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/06/karens-birthday-card_19.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/5042099720457799643'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1825329643576452913/posts/default/5042099720457799643'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cathysrubberroom.blogspot.com/2010/06/karens-birthday-card_19.html' title='KAREN&apos;S BIRTHDAY CARD'/><author><name>Cathy's Rubber Room</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02262288312579219789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TB0NPTws0RI/AAAAAAAAABU/DoTfMRC3ZZg/S220/cathy+pic+3+for+blog.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ffYRW0eE2uE/TCTz0GXqz_I/AAAAAAAAACU/nBHH9uSeIuM/s72-c/karensbcard2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
