Stampin' Pals: Hip Hippo Potamus

Tuesday, 12 July 2022

Hip Hippo Potamus

My 8 year-old grandson had a sleep-over at our house last week, and so we did some crafting with the hippos. Mr 8 loves the Cut & Emboss machine, and is happy to die cut a pile of snorkels & masks, bath tubs, boats, grass etc.

After he had made his cards and headed off to bed, I made up some cards of my own. I do need to replace my Smokey Slate Stampin' Blends - with all these elephants and hippos, they have run dry.

My first play with Alphabest stamp set, and the cute little punch, an easy way to generate your own greeting in a fun, colourful way. The addition of the zig zag edging is another way to add a little more.

Now isn't Miss Hippo just so gorgeous in her sunglasses?

Finally, our ballet dancing hippo makes a grand entrance through the red curtains! I had a scrap of Real Red card that had been embossed with the Corrugated Embossing Folder (retired), but it looked like the folds in curtains, I just needed to make the top valance.

SALE-A-Bration is an opportunity to get a little extra in your order, free, courtesy of Stampin' Up! Hippest Hippos is one stamp set you can choose to add to your $90 order, but you may decide to also get the Hippo dies for another $90. The Leaves of Holly bundle is exactly $90, as is the Sweet Candy Canes bundle. A lot of the other Christmas bundles are less than that, but we always need Tombow multi-purpose liquid glue or Dimensionals don't we?

If you're still not sure how SALE-A-Bration works, ask and I'll try to help you out. These items are available while stock lasts until August 31st.

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