HAPPY HANDY HIPPO DAY - WEEK 17

Hi Everyone

Well here we are back again with the Happy Handy Hippo posts after the Christmas break.  A rather belated Happy New Year to all from myself and everyone at Handy Hippo.

I would hate you to think I have been sitting about doing nothing though whilst I was away on a break.. .. ..  so to prove I was still busy playing and creating I worked on a special little project for you .. .. but beware .. .. it involves photo overload!!  LOL!!!

This is my little project  -  4 little notelets with
handmade envelopes

and they all  store in this little box made using
a scoreboard and decorated using the stamp set
and distressed backing paper

This is the first little notelet which is was decorated
in the same way as the storage box .. .. simply
by stamping and distressing with distress inks and
adding a narrow decorative border using a
Martha Stewart punch

This notelet was decorated by making a patterned
background for matting and layering onto using one of the
smaller stamps in the set and then stamping and painting the
main image using distress inks 

This notelet was decorated by first covering the base
card with a small square of the patterned paper
then adding multiple layers of coloured card.
The final layer having the image embossed
using white embossing powder and finished off
with faux stitching and colouring in
parts of the mage using a white gel pen.

This one "might" be my favourite notelet.
I say "might be" because my favourite keeps changing LOL!!
To decorate this one I stamped the image onto cream card
using a clear versamark ink pad and clear embossing powder.
Once heated and cooled I then distressed the whole piece
of card using distress ink and then stamped one of
the smaller images using a second distress ink

and here is my finished little box
loaded up with all the little notelets and envelopes

This project was made using the following stamp set .. .. but because I haven't actually used the whole of  either of the larger stamps on my project I thought I would show you them here .. .. they are so lovely and are selling out as quickly as they come back in stock. 

aren't they gorgeous .. .. ..  and they stamp beautifully too!

Below you can find the Handy Hippo magic button .. .. and if you click on it you can see all the lovely goodies I used to make this little project. Everything I have used has been automatically added to a shopping basket and as always you can remove anything you do not need (or add anything else you can't resist).

I hope you like my Christmas break project.

There was a prize giveaway on my blog during the break too  .. .. .  celebrating single Promarkers being available at Handy Hippo.  Lots of you entered the prize draw and I wonder who the lucky winner will be? 

Kerry, my lovely playmate at Handy Hippo, will be choosing a winner at random later today and I will post the name of the winner on my blog tomorrow.  Then that lucky person can be working out which twenty colours they would like to receive!!  Woo hoo!!!

Have a good Monday everyone and I will catch you again tomorrow.

Love

and all the lovely friendly people at Handy Hippo