Stampin Friends Animal Lovers Blog Hop

Hello welcome to the April Stampin' Friends Blog Hop! If you floated over by way of Kirsteen Gill and it is your first time to my blog, Welcome! I just love EVERYTHING that she creates!! We are really lucky to have her. If you are starting with me you can click the button below to get to Kirsteen!

Kirsteen Gill

We also have some amazing guest hoppers this month. Be sure to check out there projects as well! 

Robyn Basset

Kristal Bell

Melanie Coverston

This months hop is a fun Animal Lover theme! You would think that with my menagerie (3 Horses, a dog and whatever wild critter that decides to hang out here) that I would have been bubbling over with ideas... Well, not so much. I think what I came up with is really fun! I can't wait to share it with you! 

I just love the colors in this stack of It's My Party DSP!! So the funny thing is that I whipped out this cute little Fridge Magnet To Do List in about 20 minutes! The card was a little harder knowing I needed to incorporate an animal! I knew Zoo Babies would be fun to use so I started with the colors from the It's My Party and the Melon Mambo Lion won!

My super fun card started with a great base of Basic Black Cardstock. With a quick layer of Melon Mambo. I did one more layer using DSP.  Next I cut a thin strip of the star pattern so that my card coordinated with my project! I did a narrow Basic Black strip with some twisted up Melon Mambo/Black Twine. I punched the Melon Mambo lion from Zoo Babies out using a 1 3/8 inch circle punch and layered it on to the 1 3/4 Scallop Circle then adhered it to the card using Stampin' Dimensionals. I then used various sizes of circle punches to make my fun little circles with fun little coordinating enamel dots! I didn't want this to be a "Baby" card... I still hadn't used my Party Pants set from Sale-A-Bration and thought that sentiment was absolutely adorable!

I know, I know!! Adorable right? The To Do List pad was a whopping 50 cents!!! So I bought a few thinking MAAAAYYYYBEEE I can figure out something to do with them! Well, I did something and I think this turned out totally cute! I used the backing page from our DSP as my base. I cut it 5.5 inches by 9.5 inches. I cut my Basic Black Cardstock to cover in the same size and used liquid multipurpose glue to adhere it so that it was more sturdy. I then did a matted layer of the Its My Party DSP and like the card did a strip on the right with a quick little twine bow! BOOM! Done! 

I can't thank you all enough for stopping by! 

Don't forget to comment #SFAprHop on each stop of the hop! If you tour the whole hop you have 15 chances of winning a great giveaway!!

Next is Melanie Coverston and I can't wait to see what delightful creations she has for us!

Melanie Coverston

If you get lost along the way, here is a list of all of the hoppers!

Elizabeth Jeanne 
Carolina Evans
Melissa Thomas
Steph Jandrow
Kathie Rotti
Robyn Rasset
Kristal Bell
Deana Benson
Leanne Johnson
Lynn Streifert
Kim Smith
Kirsteen Gill
Andrea Tracy-Tucker You Are Here!
Melanie Coverston

Stamp Ink Paper 27 Thank You Challenge

Hey there! Happy Tuesday! We are currently on a Winter Storm Warning... It sound exciting but it is not. I am really excited....NOT! I am all about a "White Christmas"... But lets get through this week first... My little miss gets Student of the Month today! She has not a single clue. I can't wait to see her face and share pictures with you all!

This weeks challenge we are stepping away from the holiday themes! You can thank me later...WAIT! The theme this week is "Thank You"... I can't wait to show you what I made using goodies from the Stampin' Up! Sale A Bration Catalog and 2016 Occasions Catalog that will be available to the public January 5th, 2016!

When I started this card I knew I wanted to use the new It's My Party DSP! This stack has 48 double sided sheets of some really great patterns and not all are birthday themed. The base of the card is Mint Macaron and with a matte of Sahara Sand to coordinate with the DSP. I fastened my twist of Bakers Twine in Mint Macaron and Black around the sheet of DSP before adhering it to the Sahara Sand Card Stock. The sentiment "Just For You" is from a set out of the Sale-A-Bration catalog which means you can earn this for FREE by spending $50 dollars! The set is called Botanicals For You and I LOVE this sentiment! I took a piece of Basic Black scrap card stock using Versamark ink and stamped the sentiment. I then used our Stampin' Emboss White powder and used our Heat Tool. Once that was done I used our largest Banner Framelit to cut this in my Big Shot on the Sizzix Magnetic Base. I then went wild with the It's My Party enamel dots , added the twine bow and adhered it to my DSP with Stampin' Dimensionals. "...Because you're so nice" is also from the Botanicals For you and was my final touch to this card. I stamped this in Mint Macaron ink on Whisper White card stock and then used our Banner Triple Punch to do the end. I used a couple mini glue dots to fasten it.... Boom!!! Done!!!

Can't wait to see your "Thank You's!