Last Week’s Card & (Your) Cuppa – Meadow Dies

June 14, 2021June 9, 2021 ~ Karen Young

At a previous Card & (Your) Cuppa session, I was asked if we create an Anniversary Card.

Not wishing to disappoint, here is last week’s Card & (Your) Cuppa project.

Meadow Dies. Project designed by Karen at HIPPOFROG Designs

It uses the Meadow Dies, plus the Expressions In Ink Specialty DSP, both new items from the Annual Catalogue.

I chose Pale Papaya and Basic White for my colour combination, with Gold Fine Art Ribbon.

Meadow Dies. Project designed by Karen at HIPPOFROG Designs

Each of the die cut pieces are layered to create a bouquet feel, with the front ones raised up at the top using Dimensionals.

For the sentiment, I have stamped the ‘Happy Anniversary’ from the Many Messages Stamp Set in Pale Papaya onto the label shape from the Meadow Dies. This lays across the Fine Art Ribbon.

The butterfly has a coat of Wink of Stella for some sparkle.

Meadow Dies. Project designed by Karen at HIPPOFROG Designs

Finally, a few Opal Rounds are stuck around the bouquet to give some extra bling.

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Karen Young HIPPOFROG Designs

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Anniversary Card using Forever Fern

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 ~ Karen Young

Here is a project from a recent BYO Stamps Class. For this class I designed three projects using various spotlighting techniques. This anniversary card using Forever Fern, a new Stamp Set from the new Catalogue, concentrates on just one stamp.

To begin with, the sentiment is stamped onto a punched circle and then stuck very lightly onto the stamping layer. The sentiment is from the Many Mates Stamp Set, another new item in the Annual Catalogue.

Then, the image is stamped multiple times using various greens, Mossy Meadow, Pear Pizzazz and Old Olive all over the project, including the sentiment.

The sentiment is then carefully removed and layered onto a larger circle in Old Olive.

A length of Old Olive ribbon from the Ornate Garden Ribbon Combo Pack is placed across the stamping, before the sentiment is finally added with Dimensionals. The sentiment is lined up with the original stamping to make it look seamless.

This is such an easy project to recreate using lots of different stamp sets, colours and sentiments.

I chose ‘Happy Anniversary’ as it was my wedding anniversary last week, so it seemed appropriate.

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Last Week’s Card & Cuppa – A Very Vanilla Project

September 10, 2018September 10, 2018 ~ Karen Young

I’d been asked for cards suitable for Wedding Anniversaries, so I decided to create this Very Vanilla project.

It’s a one colour project with highlights of colour from the Soft Suede stamping and Metallic-Edge Ribbon.

The background texture is made from 3 different size circles stuck over the card, plus a large circle to sit the flower onto.

Even though I don’t use a Big Shot at Card & Cuppa classes, we still made use of a Framelits. A flower from the May Flowers Framelits is drawn around twice and cut out by hand. The leaves are from the Leaf Punch, so no fussy cutting for those!

A strip of Gold Metallic-Edge Ribbon behind the flower, with a Gold Faceted Gem for the centre adds some bling.

The attendees chose whether to add the ‘Enjoy your Special Day’ sentiment from Dragonfly Dreams as a finishing touch.

This card can work for Weddings, Anniversaries and Engagements, and Birthdays too. I think it will look fabulous in Whisper White with Silver highlights as well.

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Animal Outing Anniversary

June 13, 2018June 12, 2018 ~ Karen Young

Yesterday we celebrated our 19th Wedding Anniversary. I used the perfect stamp set called Animal Outing to create this card.

Anniversary Card using Animal Outing from Stampin' Up! Project designed by Karen Young at HIPPOFROG Designs

This new stamp set has a frog which of course is my part of HIPPOFROG.

Due to the lack of a hippo in this stamp set, I’ve chosen the giraffe instead. As my husband is 6’6″ it’s quite appropriate. Plus, there were jokes at our wedding about me needing to stand on a milk crate (and I’m quite tall!)

Also, our wedding reception was at the local safari park, so an animal card ticks all the boxes.

I’ve stamped using the new Gray Granite inkpad and coloured using Watercolor Pencils. I also decided to use a Blender Pen to soften the colouring but had to take care not to smudge the ink as it it is waterbased.

The Lemon Lime twist background has more leaves stamped on it – taking care not to stamp the frog again. When it came to the sentiment I used the Classic Label Punch to create the banner pieces and layered the whole piece onto Baker’s Twine.

By using the Layering Ovals Framelits, the focus is on the foreground pair.

Anniversary Card using Animal Outing from Stampin' Up! Project designed by Karen Young at HIPPOFROG Designs

As I didn’t need a post-friendly card, I’ve used Dimensionals for most of the layers to create depth.

Finally, Jar of Love provided me with the heart which I’ve covered with Wink of Stella.

Animal Outing has 10 stamps in the set for just £20 for Clear Mount, and I’ve used just 3 of them on this project.

Make sure you get your hands on this lovely set that is great for colouring.

Happy crafting

Karen Young HIPPOFROG Designs

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Last Week’s Card & Cuppa – Hand-tied Heart Bouquet

November 13, 2017November 13, 2017 ~ Karen Young

At Card & Cuppa classes, I ask my regular attendees what types of cards they would like to make.

A recent request has been an anniversary card so here is the project from last week.

Stampin' Up! Jar of Love with HIPPOFROG Designs

Not only is this card perfect for anniversaries, it’s great for weddings, engagements etc too as it’s sentiment free.

I decided to make a hand-tied heart bouquet. The stems use the Jar of Love Stamp Set and are masked at the bottom to give a hand-tied look. For the central stems for the hearts, I used the balloon strings from the Balloon Celebration Stamp Set. It’s fun to use stamp sets in different ways.

With the three small hearts stamped directly onto the top of the stems, the other three hearts from the Work of Art Stamp Set are stamped separately. They are cut out and stuck on afterwards.

A pretty bow for the bouquet using the Baby Bear Stamp Set and Holly Berry Builder Punch was attached over a length of looped Silver Metallic Thread to finish the hand-tied look.

Wink of Stella on the hearts gives a final touch of shimmer.

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A Jar of Love for an Anniversary

September 20, 2017September 13, 2017 ~ Karen Young

My parents recently celebrated their Wedding Anniversary and I of course made them a card.

Stampin' Up! Jar of Love

I decided to make an elegant and stylih card with clean lines.

Obviously I’ve used Jar of Love for the jar, but I reached for the strings from Balloon Celebration to create the Old Olive stems for the hearts. I love using products in unexpected ways.

Real Red and Cherry Cobbler hearts were cut out using the Cookie Cutter Builder Punch. These were then adorned with Rhinestones.

The silver bow on the jar was the most difficult part to make on this project as the ribbon is thin. After a bit of swearing and a lot of love for Tear & Tape, I was happy with the finished project.

My parents were happy with the card too 🙂

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