LLLC: Hippo Holidays

Another Christmas hippos card, yey! decided to keep the colours very plain and just add a subtle colour to the sky and then a dash of bright and bold red to the hat, cane and sentiment!

Stamp:
Hippo Holidays clear stamp
Shine Bright background stamp

Dies:
Build a House
Filigree Christmas Tree
Stitched Clouds border
Winter Hill border
Stitched Pennants

Stencil:
So Many Dots laying stencil

Copics used: W0, W1, W3, W5, R22, R24, R39, R89

LLLC: Deck the Halls

Ok, so I am a little bit late to the party this time. Life took a rather unexpected turn a couple of weeks ago leaving me in a bit of a daze and all projects were put on hold until I felt like doing anything with it. All my card making things were as they were on the table and the floor and although I had completed a few cards for the new release, I never got a chance to blog about them. Until now.

La-La Land Crafts had the most adorable Christmas release out this month. I love the hippos so much. Who doesn’t need Christmas hippos, right?! They have some cute other stamps, too, and I’ll show some of those in posts the coming days along with some really cool dies. Besides, we all know by now that I love Christmas, right?

Stamp:
Deck the Halls clear stamp
Shine Bright background stamp

Dies:
Build a House
Star Wreath
Long Flags
Merry Christmas

Stencil:
So Many Dots laying stencil

Copics used: (hippo and present) W0, W1, W3, W5, R22, R24, R39, R89, E71, E74, E79, (tree) YG61, YG63, YG67, Y13, Y19, V12, V15, V17, R22, R24, R39, E71, E74, E77, (gingerbread man) E70, E71, E74, E77

Hip, hippo, hooray!

You know what’s fun? Distress Oxide inks! I coloured up these adorable stamps from My Favorite Things (MFT Stamps), which I bought at Dies to die for (in the UK). I made three little images in matching colours and then cut them out by hand. Then I decided on a card design, and it got completely ruined, so I had to start over. Thankfully I hadn’t gotten around to using the images yet!

I used three different inks, first light green, then darker green and then blue before going with darker green and lighter green. Let’s see.. the inks are called  twisted citron – lucky clover – salty ocean. The inks I had matched how I’d coloured the image up perfectly. I love it when things just work out like that! After I’d gotten the inks blended I splashed water onto it and let it run down the card. Isn’t that effect just awesome? I want to do loads more like it! To match it up I picked three Copics and coloured in candi to put in the top corner.

Here is the side on view of the card.

Copics used: (hippo) C1, C3, C5, (blue) B32, B34, B37, (green) YG01, YG13, YG67, (teal) BG53, BG57, BG78 + white gel pen

This card has been entered into the following challenge:

MFT Stamps – The Birthday Project