Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge #18 - Fun Folds!

Welcome to the Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge for September 2018!  This time around we're playing with fun folds!  I'm excited because it gave me a push to make a step card ... been wanting to do this for a while using some Gina K Designs stamps I purchased a little while ago and hadn't inked up yet... but I've been dying to 'cause they're so adorable!!  Here's how I was inspired:

I fell in love with this Llama Love stamp set the minute I saw it!  Coffee, Owls, Unicorns and Llamas... can you have too many?

I could never be an Engineer in any of my lives... lol... I'm not good at figuring out, measuring, putting things together.  So I LOVE my Side Step Card die from Our Daily Bread...lol... just run it through my Big Shot and it's cut and scored in all of the right places!   All I have to do is figure out which way the folds go... which usually take me a minute!  I did have to measure my layers, but I'm pretty close to ordering the die set that cuts the layers too!

I just love the adorable llamas in this Gina K Designs Llama Love set!  They are so cute and fluffy.   And love the fun accessories too... it was fun to color his blanket in some rustic colors... kind of Fall-ish colors to match the rest of this card AND the challenge over at Stamp TV this month is Autumn Is In The Air and I knew these desert colors would be perfect for that!  Stamp TV is a Ning site and you have to join, but you should give it a try if you're not already signed up!  I'm also playing along with this week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge which is Stamp It On!

I used some cloud/sky paper and landscape dies from CDD and some mountains from my stash to decorate my landscape.  Then I colored and cut out my images.  I didn't attach them right away though because I wanted to place them in just the right places!

She's a sweety, isn't she?  IDK why I decided this one is a she and the other is a he... at least for this card!

I used some cacti dies from CDD, Lil' Inker, and some Marianne Design dies that I got at my LSS for all of my succulents and cacti.  And these beautiful flowers are part of the Llama Love set.  I colored them in autumn colors as well.

I chose this sentiment from the set and embossed it in white onto a CDD banner cut from the same color as the aloe on the card and flanked it with the larger flower spray from the set.  A few sequins and it was finished!

I just love the dimension these Side Step Cards have!  You know I love my layers so they give me even more opportunity to pile it on!

Thanks for stopping!  Now be sure to head on over to Donna and Susan's blogs to see what they have for you today!  Then check out the Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge Blog and see who won for August and play along with our Fun Folds Card Challenge for September!

And don't forget to check out StampTV!