Mountain Air Archives - HIPPOFROG Designs

We are now at week 4 of this year’s Countdown to Christmas series.

For this project, I chose a monochrome look with Starry Sky and Basic White.

The images are from the Mountain Air Stamp Set and the Penguin Place Stamp Set, one festive and one non festive. Penguin Place is a returning favourite from last year and can be found in the July-December Mini Catalogue.

First, a background of stars is created from the Penguin Place Stamp Set, along with the Christmas sentiment in the bottom corner.

Next, the Starry Sky strip is stamped both tone-on-tone and with White Ink for a forest scene. The trees are from the Mountain Air Stamp Set. A few more stars are added to this piece.

This is then stuck across the background piece.

More trees and stars are stamped onto a circle cut from the Stylish Shapes Dies.

All of the stars are given a touch of Wink of Stella, along with the trees to give the appearance of frost.

Finally a few Rhinestones are added for a touch of extra sparkle.

Why not see if you can make a Christmas Card using non-Christmas products.

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Karen Young HIPPOFROG Designs

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A very special gentleman turned 90 a few days ago. Here is the card I made for them.

My colour combination is Garden Green, Crumb Cake, Crushed Curry and Basic White.

It uses the Mountain Air Stamp Set from the Annual Catalogue with Garden Green Ink for the main stamping.

By using the different images from the Stamp Set and one colour, I was able to layer them to create depth. Starting with the mountains in the background and finishing with the foreground trees.

A few birds were then added to the sky.

Using a Stampin’ Blend, a length of Crinkled Seam Binding is coloured to match the Crumb Cake layer before being tied in a knot and added to the project.

Stamping tone-on-tone with Crushed Curry creates the sun. The ’90’ comes from the Alphabest Stamp Set. After some fussy cutting, it is stuck to the card using Dimensionals.

Finally, a few Brushed Metallic Dots are added.

Without using different generations of stamping or stamping off, the colours have a ligher and darker feel due to the way I layered the images. I really like the effect that using the one colour with the Mountain Air Stamp Set creates here.

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Karen Young HIPPOFROG Designs

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