I’ve really fallen for the collection of baby animals in the Stampin’ Up! Zoo Babies set; it’s been sitting unused on my shelf of (ever expanding) stamp sets for a while and now it appears to be like chocolate chip cookies. You can’t stop at just one. Which may possibly be why at my last class I sent most of the cookies that I had made home with my friend Jacquie. They are her favourite after all.

When I realised that I didn’t have any baby cards in my stash, I started to make a few so that Julia could have a choice. This one could also be for a kid’s birthday.

The hippo is stamped in sahara sand on very vanilla card stock and yes, that’s pear pizzazz AGAIN for the toucan. I really like the combo of very vanilla, pear pizzazz and sahara sand together. I cut out the two animals using the circles collection and the big shot and then cut the next largest circle in pear pizzazz. I used the tombow mono glue to glue the two circles together.

I then took a piece of sahara sand card stock and ran it through the texture boutique in the Alphabet Press folder. I’m really happy that I got this machine, it is so handy not having to change the bigshot base between cutting and embossing. It will also be useful in classes since we can emboss using either machine.

I wanted the textured background to really stand out and so I attached the circles in the corner; I attached them with stampin’ dimensionals, it adds interest and makes it easy to attach on the textured surface. It gives a totally different look being in the bottom left as opposed to the bottom right – here’s an example from a couple of weeks ago where I put the focal point on the right. I then mounted this onto a sahara sand base and lined the envelope in the sahara sand shade from the backgrounds DSP.