Welcome back to another Inkin’ Krew blog hop!  Our very talented team is doing a blog hop featuring Stampin’ Up! products.  This month we are all creating projects with a “celebrate summer” theme and I’m featuring the Hippest Hippos stamp set and coordinating Hippo Dies from the July-August Sale-a-bration Brochure for my project.

My card design was inspired by As You See It Challenge #278.

I started by cutting a panel of Basic White card stock with one of the Stitched Rectangle Dies.  Then I embossed the die cut panel with the Into The Clouds Embossing Folder.  I lightly brushed Tahitian Tide ink over the embossed panel and then adhered it to the front of one of the Tea Boutique Cards & Envelopes.

I stamped the hippo images from the Hippest Hippos stamp set (Sale-a-bration item) in Tuxedo Black Memento ink on a panel of Basic White card stock and then colored them with Light and Dark Gray Granite, Flirty Flamingo and Parakeet Party Stampin’ Blends Markers.  I cut the hippos out with the coordinating Hippo Dies (Sale-a-bration item) and adhered then adhered them with Mini Glue Dots to the card front.  I cut panels of Silver Foil Specialty Pack, Tahitian Tide, Parakeet Party and Flirty Flamingo card stocks with Hippo Dies and then adhered the die cuts with Mini Glue Dots and Multipurpose Liquid Glue.

I stamped the sentiment from the Hippest Hippos stamp set in Tahitian Tide ink on a panel of Basic White card stock and then cut it out with one of the Stylish Shapes Dies.  I adhered the die cut sentiment to the card front with Stampin’ Dimensionals and then added Pearl Basic Jewels to the center of each flower to finish the card front.

Love that the Tea Boutique Cards & Envelopes come with envelopes that are already decorated to match the card bases!

You can see a list of supplies used to create this project, including the card stock cuts, at the very bottom of this blog post.

Alright, on with the hop!  Click on the Next Blog button to move forward to Karen Ksenzakovic’s project or click the Previous Blog button to move back to see the project that Karen Finkle created.

If you get lost along the way, here are the participants for the hop:

1. Karen Ksenzakovic
2. Mary Deatherage
3. Tara Carpenter
4. Carol Buckalew
5. Terry Lynn Bright
6. Jillian Good
7. Sue Prather
8. Karen Finkle
9. Amy Koenders – you are here

I’ve created a printable PDF with written instructions and a list of products used to create this project.  You can download, print and/or save it by clicking this image:

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Card stock cuts for this project:

• Tea Boutique Cards & Envelopes – card base
• Flirty Flamingo – three Hippo die cuts
• Parakeet Party – five Hippo die cuts
• Tahitian Tide – Hippo die cut
• Basic White – Stitched Rectangle die cut, three Hippo die cuts, Stylish Shapes die cut
• Silver Foil Specialty Pack – Hippo die cut