So Hip for the Be Inspired Blog Hop

It’s time for another Be Inspired Design Team Blog Hop – what fun! The Be Inspired Design Team is a group of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators from all over the world who are excited to share our themed projects with you. I’m so honored to be a part of this group of talented stampers!

For today’s Be Inspired Blog Hop, we are sharing projects we’ve created with inspiration from Stampin’ Up!’s catalogs (we are “CASEing the Catalogs”). When we CASE (Copy and Share Everything or Copy and Selectively Edit), we find inspiration in a project – theme, color combinations, layout, products used – and create our own project by making changes to make it our own. When CASEing, it’s important to give credit to the original designer – it doesn’t take away from your project at all. We hope our projects inspire you and that you leave with lots of fun ideas! If you aren’t starting the hop here, then you probably just popped over from the project shared by my talented friend Carolynn Sander.

You’re So Hip

With inspiration from the cover of the July-December 2022 Mini Catalog, I had a ball created my fun card with two Sale-a-Bration products – the Hippest Hippos stamp set and coordinating Hippo Dies. With a little water coloring and some die-cutting, I built a scene with my sweet hippos. Here’s my card:

She’s the star of the show, but her admirers tell quite a story! Each character is stamped on Fluid 100 paper with StazOn ink and watercolored with Smoky Slate. Each of the trio features fun elements from the coordinating Hippo Dies and a little touch of Petal Pink.

The hippos and sentiment are from Hippest Hippos, a Sale-a-Bration stamp set, and the glasses, heart, umbrella, flower and stage (an upside-down bucket) are from the coordinating Hippo Dies. Each of these items can be selected with a $50 purchase during July and August (you can get both with a $100 order). Here’s a look at these items:

The coordinating dies offer cutouts for each of the hippos and LOTS of accessories (including a boat, a bucket, snorkel, diving mask, inner tube and more.  Here’s a look at the dies and cutouts of each:

My inspiration for this card might not have been obvious, but my hippo card was CASE’d from the card on the front cover of Stampin’ Up!’s July-December 2022 Mini Catalog. Here’s a look at the inspiration:

Do you see the similarities? Not only did I create a card with three images, but I framed the images and even added a little accent band (the card on the cover uses a gold glimmer paper band, while I added a panel of Neutrals 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper behind my frame.

My hippos are staged inside a frame from the Fabulous Frames Dies, one of the stand-alone set of dies in the 2022 Annual Catalog. Here’s a look at these frames:

The mix of grays with the sweet pink and soft blue make for a fun combination. If you like this mix of Petal Pink, Pool Party, Smoky Slate and Basic Gray as much as I do, I hope you’ll save this for future reference:

I hope you like my project today! I hope you’ll continue the Be Inspired Design Team Blog Hop to see more projects by my talented friends – I’m sure you’ll love them. The next stop is my super-awesome, super-talented friend Emma Goddard. Click on the banner below to continue through the hop:

I hope you’ll hop through the rest of the projects in this lineup. In case you get off-track at any point during the hop, here’s a listing of all the participants in this hop:

• Louise Sharp
• Tanya Rees
• Janneke Dijkstra-de Jong
• Laura Mackie
• Carolynn Sander
• Brian King
• Emma Goddard
• Angela Meiritz-Reid

Thanks for stopping by today!

Brian

Here are the products I showcased in today’s post:

Stamps: Hippest Hippos  Papers: Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Pool Party, Petal Pink, Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper, Neutrals 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper (Smoky Slate)  Inks: StazOn Jet Black ink, Smoky Slate, Petal Pink, VersaMark  Accessories: Hippo Dies, Fabulous Frames Dies, Water Painters, White Stampin Emboss Powder, Heat Tool, Classic Matte Dots, Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals, Stampin’ Dimensionals

Water Painters – 151298

Price: $13.00

Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper – 149612

Price: $9.00

Fabulous Frames Dies – 159163

Price: $31.00

Jet Black Stazon Pad – 101406

Price: $10.00

Smoky Slate Classic Stampin’ Pad – 147113

Price: $8.00

Petal Pink Classic Stampin’ Pad – 147108

Price: $8.00

Smoky Slate 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 131202

Price: $9.25

Basic Gray 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 121044

Price: $9.25

Pool Party 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 122924

Price: $9.25

Petal Pink 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 146985

Price: $9.25

Neutrals 6″ X 6″ (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper – 159257

Price: $12.00

Versamark Pad – 102283

Price: $9.50

Basics Embossing Powders – 155554

Price: $18.00

Heat Tool – 129053

Price: $30.00

Classic Matte Dots – 158146

Price: $7.00

Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals – 144108

Price: $4.25

Stampin’ Dimensionals – 104430

Price: $4.25

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