Hippo Treat


Halloween cards are so fun to make. You can use fun colors, images and some sparkle never hurts. This card uses all of those and is not hard or complicated. Only the little hippo was colored and the twig background & greeting dies were heat embossed with glitter powder.

It’s my turn to host the Inspiration Challenge and we are visiting Craftsy Hacks & her Pinterest Boards. I was inspired by some of her Halloween crafts boards. In particular THIS one.

After coloring & die cutting the cute little hippo, I popped him one layer. Going thru my stash of backgrounds, I came across some wide strips of a brayered background in oranges & yellows. The strips were actually brayered on a bright yellow card stock, so the brightest color is just the true color showing thru. These aren’t even full backgrounds, just strips. I put 3 together with colors not in line with each other. I liked the way they’re mixed around. I taped them on the back then cut it big enough to fit behind the black die cut twig cover. The black glitter embossing powder was still out from last week, so I  covered the twig cover w/ Versamark & embossed it. The little arches were cut & the bottoms trimmed to size. The black one also has the edges glitter embossed, as well as the die cut greeting. The little bats were die cut out of some scraps of the glitter embossed black. The embossed twig bg wanted to curl a bit so I added cardboard twig layer behind it to give it strength. All I had to do then was put it all together.

Here are the Copics I used on the cute Hippo.

Thanks

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Supplies:

Stamps: Brass & Bliss:  Halloween Hippos set
Paper:  Staples 110# white, brayered yellow, black
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versamark
Accessories:  Brass & Bliss: Halloween Hippos set, Twig Cover, Stacked Arches, Halloween Greetings dies,   Copic markers, Misti


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