Skip to main content

Hippo day!

Ah, internet. Where would we be without it? I remember when I first became a Stampin' Up! demonstrator. We called in all our orders. We didn't even have a website! I remember when we first got one and frankly, there wasn't much there. Today, we have a rockin' website full of information and great ideas. We've come a long way! As wonderful as the internet is, I get so darn frustrated when it doesn't work for me! I have become totally dependent on it and, well, totally spoiled! I bring this up because I am downstairs on the 'family' computer updating my blog and the internet keeps going on and off. arg! Hopefully I will be able to finish this without too much hair loss!
I realized I should have done a green card today in honor of St. Patty's day but, green just isn't the color that grabbed my eye when I went to my desk tonight. Instead, I saw some very appealing Rose Red designer paper. I was also in the mood for what I would call a 'Bety' card. Check out the link to her site at the left. She does amazing cards. Mine isn't nearly as fabulous as hers, but she did inspire me.
I started with a square card base in Rose Red. I wanted to create a faux scallop border so I punched a bunch circles out of whisper white with my 1 inch circle punch. I started in the corner and lined them up against the edge of the card. Next I layered a piece of Designer rose red over that so the circles now looked like a scallop border. Since I was using scraps, my designer paper wasn't quite wide enough so I put a strip of the same paper with the stripe side showing along the left edge. I punched a 1/8 inch hole in the lower left hand corner and fed a white taffeta ribbon through that. I didn't punch a hole at the top but instead wrapped the ribbon around the top. I felt like that balanced out the white scallops in the opposite corner. I used my Crafter's kit to pierce around the border of the designer paper and then used the white gel pen to make faux stitches. I know, my sewing maching would have been way quicker, but everyone was asleep and I didn't want to wake them. Besides, that would have involved walking across the room and I already worked out today. ;o) I stamped the Hippo from Pun Fun in basic black on whisper white and used my aqua painter to pick up ink from the Blue Bayou pad to color him in. The shadow under him is made with Soft sky ink. The balloon is with rose red. I inked up the bow area of the hippo with black and stamped it onto a scrap of designer paper and cut it out. I used the 2-way glue pen to stick it on over the bow. Kind of a cute little detail. I mounted the hippo square onto rose red and again onto white paper and stuck it on with dimensionals. I added a pink rhinestone to the bottom right....just because! As a final detail, I used my white gel pen to add some shine to the hippo's toe nails. This guy is too cute!
I'll be planning for my stamp a stack and scrap tomorrow so hopefully I'll have more to share.
See you then!

Comments

Anonymous said…
Hi there! GREAT card, I love it! I went to check out Bety's page but the link doesn't work?

I really enjoy your blog, keep up the good work! :)
Steph
Michelle Tweedy said…
Great card! The balance is just perfect and that hippo is too darn cute.
Anonymous said…
That is soooo cute!!! I love it!
Corie said…
Ahhh this is just so adorable!!

Popular posts from this blog

Bradley

Sunday, my best friend died. My sweetheart of 20 years died suddenly from diabetes. We didn't know he had diabetes. It came quick and took him from me. Brad was more than just my husband, he was my best friend. I relied so very much on his strength to guide me and my children through this life. I admit I feel a bit lost without him, already. I had planned on much, much more time with him. Brad and I met on January 28th, 1989. We were both at a nightclub for under age night with our friends that had dragged us there. We were both ready to leave when we were talked into one more dance. That dance changed our lives. We hit it off right away and danced the rest of the night. In face, we were together from then on. I remember that after that night, I waited all day for his call. It was love right away for me. I felt something I had never felt before and knew that he was the one for me. We dated for six months before Brad went to Texas to go to school. We talked a lot on the phone, and I

Bloggers challenge and candy

I know I said I would post some blog candy yesterday but I didn't even get near my computer! What a crazy day! I had planned on doing it the night before but...I was in the kitchen doing the dishes and I was so dog tired that I laid my head down on the counter for a minute. My son came into the room and said, "go to bed mom, dad and I will do the dishes." Now, who in thier right mind would turn down that offer? My boys HATE to do anything in the kitchen that doesn't involve eating. I immediately turned off my water(boiling for herb tea) and skedaddled upstairs and went to bed. I'm no dummy! The kitchen was not cleaned to my standards, but I'm not about to look a gift horse in the mouth! Speaking of gifts, I have a little blog candy offer today. In honor of my 8000 hits, I am offering the following: A simply scrappin kit "Just Delightful", a stamp set "Delight in Life", three mini spools of ribbon, some acrylic tiles AND a copy of the latest

Doubles with candy!!

Today is another fun summer day at my house. The kids are running here and there and I'm just trying to keep up. I realized I hadn't sent out Father's day cards yet, so that is what I worked on today. I tried to keep these nice and clean and manly. I remember going to a demonstration at a Stampin' Up! convention years ago where Kevin Theeson and another guy(I forget his name....) talked about 'manly' cards. One of the things they stressed was that guys don't like cards made with pastel cards. They prefer bold bright and earth element colors. I'm not sure if they suggested we stay away from florals too, but I kind of figured that was a safe idea. ;o) For this card I started with some textured Wild Wasabi cardstock cut to 10-1/2 x 5-1/4. That gave me a 5-1/4" card when folded. The striped paper across the center is from a retired SU simply scrappin kit...primary colors I think it was called. I added a strip of Real Red to each side of the stripes for