Pals August Blog Hop: Animal House!

Welcome to the Stampin’ Pretty Pals’ Blog Hop!

This month’s theme is Animal House—and the Pals are here to inspire you with a parade of paw-some card ideas and paper craft creations, all featuring Stampin’ Up! products. At the end of each post, you’ll find links to all the participant blogs so you can “hop” along and gather ideas to make your own projects roar with personality. 🐾

Today, I’m featuring two 3D projects using the very fun, and very popular Spooky Sweet Suite Collection. The little animals in their full Halloween regalia are so whimsical and cute! The Designer Series Papers are definitely heavier on the SWEET, and lighter on the SPOOKY! Here they are:

I had these 4″ by 4″ frames sitting in my craft room, so I thought it might be fun to create some Halloween decor using the frames and creating a little Halloween scene using these costumed trick or treaters. In addition, I decided to make them SHAKER frames, with sparkly little shaker elements inside the frame.

First, I took the frame apart, and then cut a 5 by 5″ window sheet panel, and adhering to the back of the frame opening. I built the Shaker Frame by then adding Foam adhesive strips around the underside of the frame on top of the window sheet. I then added a background piece from the Spooky Sweet Designer Series Papers. You can leave this 12 by 12″ paper as a longer cute sidewalk scene, or you can cut the little buildings apart!

Before sealing the shaker frame up, I added some Loose Shaker Elements inside. I punched out some of the characters from the sheets with all the punch-outs! I then built my little trick-or-treat scene on the outside of the frame using the little characters, a tree branch, bats, candy corn — whatever! This paper is so fun!

I heat embossed two sentiments from the stamp set onto some coordinating Designer Series paper using white embossing powder, and added those sentimes to the frames, and I was done! I love how the frame sparkles and shakes. This would be fun decor for someone’s desk through the Halloween season!

We have more inspiration to share, so use the lineup below to visit the rest of the Pals. Next month we will create beautiful inspiration for a “Ready for Fall” theme and hope you will join us. Until then, have fun in your craft space.

Stampin’ Pretty Pals Blog Hop

1. Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty
2. Su Mohr at Aromas And Art
3. Debbie Mageed at Secrets to Stamping
4. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
5. Sue Jackson at Just Peachy Stamping
6. Mary Hanson at Up North Stampin’
7. Peggy Noe at Pretty Paper Cards
8. Windy Ellard at Windy’s Wonderful Creations
9. Tricia Chuba at ButterDish Designs
10. Stesha Bloodhart at Stampin’ Hoot!
11. Rae Burnet at Wild West Paper Arts
12. Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations

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Happy Stamping! Mary