Have a Super-potamus Day!

February 24, 2024 3 Comments

Greetings everyone! It's me again, Jessie Scott (@chevy.scott on IG), Guest Designing for Gerda Steiner Designs!

Today I have another fun collaboration with Pear Blossom Press products to share. I had this crazy idea that this super hippo (one of the several mix and matches you can make with this cute Hippo in Disguise set) could be standing on a wall, overlooking his city ( from Skyline set)

For this design I used my OLO Markers to color a few Hippos. I always worry I'll mess up :-D but watch for the IG and Facebook posts coming soon to show what I did with these extras!). Which super hero hippo coloring is your favorite?

Now...... what to do... what to do! haha! I played with a couple layered Skyline options and even had the brick wall stamp from the Skyline set as well. Once I figured out where my Hippo signal spotlight should go, I used a 1" circle punch and colored some vellum with yellow marker. I used a small "H" die cut to create the signal in the sky.

I ink blended a cloud stencil with white Distress Ink black paper to create a cloudy night scene for the Hippo signal. To get the beam, I masked off a triangle and inked on Mustard Seed Distress Oxide.

I decided to trim off the back layer of Skyline so there is a tall building in the right to have the spotlight coming from. I colored them all with the same OLO colors. I decided to have the brick wall replaced with a sentiment strip across the bottom of the card.

Here's the finished project!

Did we forget already that this card LIGHTS UP? haha

If you want more details on other products used and how to make this fun light up, visit my blog today for the companion post!

See you again soon!

3 Responses

Jessica Scott

February 27, 2024

Lynn S – This is a custom sentiment I made in MS Word and printed out. There are so many free fonts out there. I love that you can make whatever your card needs!

Debbie – thank you so much! Can’t wait to see what you light up!
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Gerda Steiner Designs, LLC replied:
Thank you so much, Jessie!

Lynn S.

February 27, 2024

I absolutely love this. Can you please say where the sentiment came from?
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Gerda Steiner Designs, LLC replied:
Hi Lynn, just asked Jessie about this. Hope to hear back soon. :-)

Debbie Throckmorton

February 26, 2024

I know I already commented on this in Facebook, Jessie. But again great job and thank you for sharing the step by step of your creative process!! I still need to try out using a light kit with a card, such a nice surprise feature!!