Baby Boy Hippo Card

Hip, Hip, HOORAY!

Designed for Oh My Crafts

Supplies Used:

Slice Design Card : Zootopia Bazzill Cardstock :      Night Blues - Powder and Splash      Bright Greens - Limeade     Browns - Bark     Black and Whites - Bazzill White Imaginisce : Boy Oh Boy - Little Cuties Patterned PaperClearsnap : Colorbox Ink Pad - Cape CodTim Holtz : Distress Ink Pad - Pumice StoneLifestyle Crafts : Fresh Start Cutting Dies - DiamondsQuickie Glue Pen

Instructions:

1. Cut 10x5 ½” smooth white cardstock and fold in half for the card base 

2. Cut 5x5 ½”green cardstock and distress edges ink pad. Adhere to front of card.

3. Cut 4 ½ x 5” brown cardstock. Adhere to center of card. 

4. Cut 1 ¼ inch strip of patterned paper. Create pleats by folding the strip back and forth. Trim pleat to 5 ½” and adhere ¼” from bottom of card.

TIP: Double sided tape works best to adhere the folded paper. 

5. Die cut two rows of diamonds out of green cardstock. With two rows of three on top of each other, cut the rows apart and glue one diamond on top of the other so you have 5 diamonds going across. Distress with brown ink pad. 

6. With Slice machine, cut two hippo heads at 2” with dark blue cardstock and two snouts at 2” with lighter blue cardstock. Adhere white cardstock to the back of the hippos for the teeth and eyes. Ink the edges of the hippos with blue ink pad. Adhere snouts to heads and attach hippos to card with foam squares.

7. Cut out “+” out of blue cardstock and adhere between hippos. 

8. With Slice machine, cut “Hooray” at 1” with blue cardstock and distress with blue ink pad. Adhere on diamonds with Quickie Glue pen. 

9. Adhere diamonds to top of border.