Welcome to Friend of SUBA Blog Hop. This month’s theme is Animals

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Welcome to this month’s Friends of SUBA blog Hop. The theme this month is Animals so what better stamp set to use than Animal Outing and its matching dies.

I also chose to use the Tropical Chic stamp set and matching dies together with the bird stamp from High Tide.

Front of card

I started off by stamping the hippo in memento ink and colouring in using the Light and Dark Smoky Slate blends. Then I used the circle from the Stitched Framelits to cut out the middle of a piece of Whisper White card stock.

Next I stamped a leaf from Tropical Chic onto the card with the middle removed. The colours I used were Pear Pizzazz and Granny Apple Green. I die cut matching leaves using the dies and stuck them to the top of the card to make a canopy. Where the leaves joined I stuck a stamped flower using Mango Melody and matching die.

Inside of card

For the inside I ran a sponge brayor over the die cut circle using Real Red, Mango Melody Ink pad. I love how you can achieve a sun set sky so easily. Then I stamped the birds from the High Tide stamp set in Gray Granite.

I then cut a piece of Whisper White card stock to go inside the card.By matching up the cut circle to the cut out circle in the card front I was able to line up the circle and stick it to the card inside.