Funky Hippo
I really liked last week’s sketch challenge on Splitcoast.
It looked like a lot of fun. I knew I wanted to go funky and pulled out my Jersey Shore Designer paper. I hadn’t use Pun Fun for a while and I thought it would work well with the paper.
I made my card base a 7 1/2″ square of Bashful Blue and folded in half. (Okay…it didn’t start out that way…it cut it down a little bit to make the card look good.)
I started with my designer paper pieces. the orange and blue one measure 2 1/4″ x 2 1/2″ the green one is a 2 1/2″ square. I taped them on a 2 3/4″ x 7 1/4″ piece of Real Red cardstock. I paper pierced the edges of each paper and stamped the Argyle stamp from All in a Row in black, lining the “stitching” up with my paper pierced holes.
The red cardstock was layered on a 1/4″ bigger piece of Basic Black cardstock. Underneath the black layer I added a scalloped white border on the bottom. 5/8″ red grosgrain ribbon was tied around the layers before they were attached to the Bashful Blue card base.
The hippo from Pun Fun was stamped on Watercolor paper in Black Stazon and colored with Aqua Painter and Wild Wasabi, Pumpkin Pie, Bashful Blue Classic ink. Then the edges of the paper were sponged with Bashful Blue on top and Wild Wasabi on the bottom and the edges were paper pierced. Hippos “nails”, bow and ribbon were sparkled with Stardust Stickles. It was layered on a black scallop square that was cut with Nestabilities and attached it with dimensionals to the paper pieced strips. And yes, I am addicted to dimensionals. Everything looks better popped up!
Last I added a row of paper piercing between the top of the card and the black layer to finish the card off.
