AHSC519 Hippest Hippo Birthday

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  When I saw the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge, I almost took off running for the hills, but I decided to challenge myself and just do it....it's a Step Card! Here's the sketch:

Lots of step cards involve cutting and scoring within the card base, but I found one that was a little easier! You can see it HERE, it's by Creative Juice by Loni. It involves only simple cutting, folding and adhering, then I went to work with the SAB Hippest Hippos from last year:

I may have gone a bit overboard with the embellishments, but it's for my pastor's daughter and I thought she would like the flowers and hippos! They were stamped and colored with Blends; the flowers were diecut with the retired Pierced Blooms dies.  Everything went on a Blushing Bride base with matching DSP, and the "grass" they're standing on is from the On the Farm dies.

The sentiments are from Hippest Hippos and the retiring Peaceful Moments:

And there's plenty of room for a sentiment on the inside:

Thanks for visiting today!  

We had Cassidy for the weekend, and it was actuallly nice enough to be outside for a wee little bit.  John and I picked up sticks from the recent winds we've had and Cassidy goofed off!

We had a bit of a funny experience on Saturday night; we went to a local restaurant and while we were there, a tornado warning came on our phones....as well as every phone in the entire restaurant!  It was quite a racket and we all shared a moment of "togetherness"!!  In a few minutes we did get lots of rain and wind but it subsided quickly.  Some areas got hail and a tornado did touch down in southern Delaware but blessedly missed us!  Phew!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Peaceful Moments, Hippest Hippos (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Blushing Bride, Highland Heather, Pear Pizzazz, Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral, Blushing Bride DSP, Pear Pizzazz DSP, Daffodil Delight DSP
Ink	Memento Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, On the Farm Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Bitty Banner Dies (ret), Hippo Dies (ret), Pierced Bloom Dies (ret)

ACC480 Green Hippo

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  Have you ever seen a mint green hippopotamus?  Me either, but in the stamping world, you can create anything! I am using the fun sketch from Atlantic Sketch Challenge along with the Hippest Hippos set, still making a few samples for my club girls next week!  Here's the sketch:

I used a pretty plaid from the SAB paper called Rings of Love, along with some Mint Macaron DSP to get started:

I watercolored my little hippo and gave her some pink toenails and a bit of Blushing Bride blush on her cheeks with a Blender Brush. Her little umbrella was diecut with some Sweet Sorbet DSP and I added some details to it with some Blends and a black marker.  Of course, since she's so hip, I added some sunglasses and mounted her on an oval that was embossed with a polka-dotted embossing folder.  The final addition was a scalloped mat of Blushing Bride and the cute little sentiment!

And I am going to enter this at the JUGS challenge this week, which is mammals!  

Since I already had another set of DSPs cut, I decided to make another card; this is a Christmas one, using an older Papertrey holly berry set along with a new SU Christmas set:

The foliage was stamped in Mint Macaron, berries in Sweet Sorbet and Real Red; the sentiments were stamped in Sweet Sorbet and the front one was diecut with the Labels Aglow die:

Thanks so much for popping in today! 

A few pix from my morning walks:

A Great Blue Heron in my neighbor's pond:

A little bunny who didn't seem to be too shy at all!  I also saw a chipmunk, but he scampered away before I get my phone out!

When I came past a big tree, I am not sure who was more surprised, the deer or me!  She stared at me for a few moments, then she was off!

 Enjoy your day and be blessed!

First Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hippest Hippos
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Blushing Bride, Basic Black, Poppy Parade, Mint Macaron DSP, Sweet Sorbet DSP, Rings of Love DSP
Ink	Stazon Black, Mint Macaron, Blushing Bride
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Hippo Dies, Layering Ovals Dies (ret), Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Checks & Dots EF, Aquapainter, Blend, Black Marker, Wink of Stella

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Brightest Glow, Beautiful Berries Winter Christmas (Papertrey)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Poppy Parade,  Rings of Love DSP,  Mint Macaron DSP
Ink	Mint Macaron, Sweet Sorbet, Real Red
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Labels Aglow Die, Layering Ovals Dies (ret), Stitched Shapes Dies (ret)

TGIF375 You're The Best

Happy Saturday, peeps!  I am practicing some more with the Give It A Whirl dies, along with the SAB set, Hippest Hippos!  So cute!  I had already started my card when I saw the color challenge at TGIF: 

The base of my card is Soft Sea Foam, and my front is the pretty Blushing Bride plaid DSP from the Awash in Beauty pack.  So here we go:

I stamped and colored all three of the hippos with Memento Black ink and Blends, then added some little Flirty Flamingo flowers and some Soft Seafoam speckles from Quiet Meadow around each one:

The sentiment on the front was also stamped in Flirty Flamingo and diecut with one of the dies from Give It A Whirl, matted with some Soft Seafoam; the flowers are from the Hippo dies:

The inside sentiment was also diecut with the Give It A Whirl dies; they are SO FUN and versatile!

Thanks so much for popping by!

Thursday would have been Ganae's 25th birthday, and she loved to hike, so Dana, Wayne & Cassidy took off and went on a long hike to Holtwood Nature Preserve, which is part of the Susquehanna River system.  It was a gorgeous day too!

I'll share more later!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hippest Hippos, Quiet Meadow
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Soft Seafoam, Flirty Flamingo , Awash in Beauty
Ink	Memento Black, Flirty Flamingo
Accessories	Dimensionals, Foam Strips, Glimmer Brad (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Give It A Whirl Dies, Hippo Dies

AHSC477 Hippo Congrats

Hi stampers!  Happy Tuesday!  I have a sweet little card that I made for a young lady from church who recently graduated. I hope she doesn't think it's too cutesy, but she is a very "youthful" young lady, and I know she and her sisters used to take ballet, so I thought it would be fun!  It uses the new SAB set that will be coming out in July; it's called Hippest Hippos, and it has the cutest set of dies to go with it....I can't wait to play with it some more!  First, I used the Atlantic Hearts sketch:

I pulled out some DSPs from a couple of years ago and here's what I came up with:

I stamped my little ballerina in Memento black ink and colored her with some blends.  I diecut some hearts and mounted her on top with a little wiggly spring-thing....not sure what it's called, but when you touch the hippo, she wiggles back and forth!  So fun!

The sentiment is from Charming Sentiments, diecut with the matching die, but I didn't like how it looked, so I just mounted it on a hand-snipped banner!  I added a "happy graduation" stamp inside and it was done! The card itself is 4 1/4" square.  Hope she likes it!

Making some popsicles....should be interesting!

Thanks for popping in today...enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hippest Hippos, Charming Sentiments
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Terracotta Tile DSP (ret)
Ink	Memento Black
Accessories	Dimensionals, Wiggle Spring (unknown)
Tools	Big Shot, Hippo Dies, Stitched Be Mine Dies (ret), Blends, Sentiment Silhouettes Dies