HANDY HIPPO THURSDAY! - WEEK #7

Hello Everyone,

And happy Handy Hippo Thursday to you all too. Apologies for the delay in sharing this card with you - we had a technical hitch this week but normal service is now resumed.

Today's card is a  6” square  card ... very feminine, very pink, lots of roses, pearls and ribbons. Even the Eiffel Tower is pink! I've added a birthday greeting but it could just as easily have made a lovely Mother’s Day card. The pretty papers are from the Wild Rose Studio’s Letters from Paris paper pack and I made the white organza flower by hand using the stunning ribbon from Handy Hippo.

Inside

Back

As usual materials used for this project are available from Handy Hippo and if you would like to make the same project then simply click on the magic button below and it will take you directly to a shopping cart that contains everything you would need to make it. Once there, you can simply and easily remove any of the items that you already have in your craft stash.

It’s easy to add to your basket any other purchase that you might like and if something is temporarily out of stock you can request to be emailed once it is back in stock.

Here's how I made the card:

• Base is a 6" square white card
• The front of the base was inked with Tim Holtz Spun Sugar distress ink and left to dry before being stamped randomly with the Fresh Bloom flower stamp in Memento Angel Pink
• The inside and back are also stamped with the flower stamp
• The Eiffel Tower topper was made by trimming a section from one of the sheets of patterned paper in the paper pack, distressing the edges with the same TH ink used on the base, and matting it on to silver mirri card before attaching it at an angle. 
• The rose embellishments were trimmed from another sheet of patterned paper - I believe this is known as fussy cutting - and the edges were inked with the Memento ink pad. The pieces were shaped by rubbing with a bone folder over the back, just to give a slight curve, then they were adhered as in the photograph using glue gel.
• Make a bow with the pink ribbon and glue it to the top left corner.
• Make an organza ribbon rose and glue it above the bow - see instructions below.
• Add three pearls to the ribbon bow, just below the rose.
• Stamp the greeting in Memento Tuxedo Black on the topper.

How to Make a Ribbon Rose
The ribbon rose was made using the red extra-sticky double-sided tape - stick a 12" length of this down on the craft mat before removing the red topping. Fold the wide organza ribbon in half and adhere it to the tape and, then roll, pleating the ribbon at intervals, until it's all rolled up. This was my first attempt and it was a lot easier to make than it is to describe how to make it!

I hope you are enjoying this series of projects - my aim is to make the projects as varied as possible.  That way you will get a good idea of the range of materials available from Handy Hippo and, hopefully, there will be something to appeal to whatever floats your boat, be it stamping, decoupage, embossing, etc. I'm enjoying the challenge :)

See you next week with something a wee bit different again.

Happy Crafting,