Going to the Zoo

If you've been played along with The Friday Mashup for a while you'll know that Heidi always gives us a Chinese New Year challenge. This year Feb.8 is the Chinese New Year and its the year of the Monkey. Heidi wants us to use monkeys or any other zoo animal on our project, plus create a project with a fancy fold.

I'm running behind so I didn't do the fancy fold part, I just did the zoo animals. I used a set from MFT called Sweet Safari to create my scene. Both the lion and the monkey were colored with copics and then fussy cut out. I used MFTs Tall Grassy Edge for my border and a square from the Zig Zag Stitched set for the background. The sentiment reads "Roar! Wild About You".

I'm also entering this card into the MFT Sketch challenge, I was finally able to play along over there!

Head on over to The Friday Mashup to see what the rest of the DT came up with, and play along with us!

This week's Mashup Challenge is:  

• Create a project featuring a Monkey or Zoo Animals. 
• or Create a project with a Fancy Folds. 
• or Mash it up! and create a Fancy Folded Project with a Monkey. 

Stamps: Sweet Safari (MFT)

Paper: Bermuda Bay (SU), Cucumber Crush (SU), Neenah Solar White, Cherry on Top DSP (SU)

Ink: Mememto Tuxedo Black, Bermuda Bay, Garden Green

Copics: Y23, YR21, YR24, E99

E23, E25, E27, E33

C3, C5

B0000, B000, B00

Accessories: Cuttlebug, Zig Zag Stiched Squares, Die-Namics Tall Grassy Edge, Die-Namics Blueprints 20, Doodlebug Sprinkles

Zoo Baby

I combined 2 great challenges on todays card. The first is this weeks challenge from the Friday Mashup blog and we are supposed to create a card using "zoo animals". I went through my stash, trying to find something that would work, and I came across the set 'Zoofari'. My daughter has a friend that is expecting a little boy and her baby shower is coming up, so I thought the little rhino would make a cute image for a baby card.
I added some silver Stickles to the horn to give it a little pop, and the square the rhino is stamped on is popped up with dimensionals. When my daughter got home I showed her the card and she told me her friends theme for the baby is jungle animals so it worked out perfectly!


The sketch is this weeks challenge over at the Stamping 411:Saturday Sketch Challenge. Love this clean and simple sketch!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):
Stamps: Zoofari, Itty Bitty Backgrounds, sentiment from Greetings Galore
Paper: Certainly Celery, Whisper White, Bashul Blue, Cutie Pie DSP
Ink: Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue, Going Gray, Black StazOn
Accessories: Silver Stickles, Bashful Blue/Certainly Celery/Whisper White ribbon, sponge, dimensionals