#SpreadJoyNotGerms Blog Hop!

Hello and welcome to my stop on the #Spreadjoynotgerms Blog Hop!   A bunch of us are hopping today to spread some happy and to thank everyone who is doing their part by staying home and not spreading germs!

You should have arrived here from the Carisa's place!  If you've just discovered the hop here or you get lost along the way, you can find the complete hop list at the Catherine Pooler and Hedge Hog Hollow Blogs!

If fun and inspiration isn't enough reason to hop... check out all of the sponsors we have!

There are more than 30 Sponsors for this hop and you have chances to win some awesome prizes all along the way!  The more you comment, the more chances you have!  Winners will be chosen from across all of the blogs participating in the hop!  You have until April 24th to hop and comment and winners will be announced on April 27th on the Catherine Pooler and Hedge Hog Hollow blogs!

Thank you so much to Catherine Pooler and Hedge Hog Hollow for bringing us all together today to share some smiles and love!

I have a few cards to share with you today made with lots of products from a few of our sponsors:

I'm starting today off with one using products from CAS-ual Fridays Stamps!  You can find SO many awesome coffee themed stamps and dies over in the CAS-ual Fridays shop as well as bunches of other pretty, fun, and sassy sets!  For this one I used the Modern Petals Stencil and blended some inks through it and then added some translucent embossing paste over the top for dimension.  While it was drying, I die cut the Coffee Cup and Heart Board Fri-dies from Copic Friendly Paper.  Next I stamped the beautiful flower from Pretty Posies and colored it, the cup, and the hearts with Copics.  I arranged everything and added that cool sentiment from Stay Strong.

Should you decide you need something from the CAS-ual Fridays shop, I have this for you:

Next I did this:

I just love the adorable images on the Unstoppable Stamp Set from Miss Ink Stamps!  The dinosaurs along with all of the other secondary images are fantastic.. and the little details... like the reacher grabber thingies (because of course big dinosaurs with tiny arms need those!) and TOILET PAPER!!...lol!  I hadn't even noticed the TP on the set and was looking at it recently and just started giggling.  You may have a friend who helped you out when you were in a rough spot... maybe you didn't get to the stores in time before the shelves were empty of paper products and your bestie helped you out.  I imagine this guy is sneaking off to the little dino's room.  Thank goodness his pal came to his Rex-cue!  I have another card using this cute set up on the Miss Ink Stamps Blog today too so hope to see you there as well!  And there's a sale going on today in the shop and you can get Unstoppable at a discount if you love it as much as I do!

  I also used that frame from a really cool Trinity Stamps set, the Slimline Frame and Fold.  I use that little photo frame ALL the time!  And my very favorite sequins from the Trinity shop as well!

Next up is this one:

If you love digital stamps, you need to check out the shop over at Polka Dot Orchard!  And if you've never used them before now is the perfect time to try them.  There are so many cool benefits from digital, like being able to layer images without having to mask (I hate masking!!); you can flip them, print them larger or smaller, and if you print them on a laser printer you can apply foil with heat if you want!  Or you can just print them out and use them as you would any tangible stamp!  I did that here.  Printed, cut out and colored that awesome tall stacked cake image from the Celebrate Today set and the Slimline Dies from Trinity Stamps were perfect for creating my shaker background.  I fussy cut one of the sentiments from the digital set to finish it off!

And last but definitely not least:

If you know me, you know I love florals, adorable critters and coffee, and these sets from Trinity check all of those boxes!  I actually bought the Love You Bunches floral #1 because it's SO beautiful and #2 to play along with the 1st monthly challenge over at Trinity Stamps which was... florals!  I never did get to play along with that one, but the challenge for April Craft Troop Challenge is Critters so I used it along with the adorable brand new Dir-Tea Bunny.   I also used the Hello Senti-Mini dies along with one of the sentiments from Love You Bunches.

That's me for today!  I hope you enjoyed your stop here and that you'll come again soon!  If it's your first time here and you'd like to come again, you can sign up in the sidebar to subscribe to get notifications of new posts!

From here you can make your way over to Candi's place.  (Pretty sure you're gonna love what you see there!).  And be sure to leave some love at her stop and all along the hop for lots of chances to win!