Hippos on Holiday by Hello Bluebird

Hello readers and happy Monday!  I hope you all had a great weekend.  I am really excited to share with you today's card because it is my first ever "slimline" card!  I have been seeing a lot of slimline cards on Instagram and Pinterest lately and the extra-long size makes it ideal to create detailed stamped scenes.  This card measures 8 1/2" x 4 1/2" and is designed to fit inside a #10 business mailing envelope.  I'm not gonna lie, this card took about 3 hours in total to make!  I probably spent about two hours one evening just coloring all of the images and then another hour or so to create the background and overall beach scene.   But, I am so happy with how it turned out that I can't wait to make more!

Card details:

The base of this card is made from Neenah Solar White Smooth cardstock.  For the background I used a 8 1/2" x 2 1/2" piece of Lawn Fawn Really Rainbow Scalloped paper in yellow for the sky.  I stamped the sentiment in the upper left corner using Memento Tuxedo black ink.  I die cut the sun from Daffodil Delight cardstock.  I die cut a sheet of Pool Party cardstock using the Lawn Fawn Stitched Wave Border dies and adhered it just below the yellow sky.  I die cut a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock using the Heffy Doodle Stitched Slopey Joes border dies and adhered it just below the water line.  I did stamp a splatter on the sand in Crumb Cake ink to make it look more like speckled sand.  On the very bottom of the card, I placed a thin line of glue and added Lawn Fawn Chunky Glitter for some added sparkle.  I stamped all of the images on Neenah Solar White Smooth cardstock and die cut them using the coordinating Hippos on Holiday dies.  I colored the images with Spectrum Noir Alcohol ink markers and added a few highlights to the images with a Uniball white gel pen.  Lastly I added the images to the card using 3M foam adhesive for added dimension.

Here is the Hippos on Holiday stamp set from Hello Bluebird that I used to create this card:

I hope you enjoyed these beach going hippos!  I loved creating this card and felt as though as I had significantly more space to create a scene with by having the longer dimensions.  Try it and let me know what you think!

Tomorrow I'll be sharing a very similar card using these same hippos, but incorporating a different color scheme.  I hope you will come back to see it! 

XO, Crystal

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