Sending Hedgehugs! Fun card featuring My Favorite Things Stamps!

Hello everyone! Another week has flown by, and here it is Thursday already! Dang! It’s been a busy week… Some fun, and some not so fun things going on around here. It has literally rained BUCKETS here in the past month, and very high winds too. Unfortunately, our roof has sprung some leaks in the process of all this storming… It seems like everyone else needs a roofer too. It has been a full time job just trying to get a contractor to come out and do an estimate and repairs. They are so busy. It’s not too bad, but it’s frustrating making all those phone calls, etc. Usually I love the rain, but right now I wish it would stop for a minute. Anyhooo….I’m way off topic. Hope you are having an amazing week. I am going to do something fun this weekend – I’m going to my first ever Stitches West Convention! It’s in Santa Clara, which is a couple of hours from here. Stitches is a YARN CONVENTION! Yes, I’m “hooked” on yarn. LOLZ. Some of the ladies from one of my yarn meetups filled me in on this fun event. Can’t wait to get ideas and look at patterns and watch demos. Should be a really great day – that’s tomorrow! 

For today, I have a cute and fun card to share with you. I’m sending hedgehugs your way! This Happy Hedgehog stamp set from My Favorite Things is a favorite in my craft room. I’ve made lots of cards with it already. I colored the little hedgies for one of the days of the 30 Day Coloring Challenge. And straight away made them into a card – using lots of other cool supplies from MFT Stamps. Can’d wait for you to see!

 

I started with a white card base in a horizontal orientation. I used Sunny Studio gingham paper to cover the entire front of the card base. I die cut a scallop border onto white cardstock and layered that over the gingham for my focus layer. 

 

Next I stamped and die cut out the Hedgehogs and flowers and mushrooms (EEK) and colored them with Copic Markers. I added touches of white accents with a gel pen. I set them aside to work on the HUGS and sentiment part of the card. The HUGS is a big word die from MFT. I used a piece of white cardstock and blended three different shades of brown distress inks (Colors in supply list). Then I splattered white paint and brown ink over the blended part. Then I dried that paper with my heat too. THEN I die cut it out of the already inked paper. MUCH easier than trying to ink the letters separately. Trust me, I’ve done that too! LOL. 

 

Aren’t they the CUTEST??? This could be a great card of encouragement or ‘just because’ if someone needs a hug. Can’t wait to send this one out. 

 

I added a few Doodlebug Mini Hearts as the last step. I’m not sure why, but this card told me it needed a pop of red! 

Thank you for stopping by today! Sending you big giant squishy HEDGEHUGS! I hope you have a splendid day and a great weekend. XOXO