Hip hippo hooray !

Good morning to you I hope you are well this fine wednesday - actually it IS fine here - I even went out without a jacket on yesterday !!!!!!

This week at cooking it up with katie we are super pleased to be sponsored by meljen designs - even more so when we all got to play with more of Melissa's adoreable digi's. Don't forget to check out what the rest of the DT created here at the cooking it up with Katie blog.

Our recipe for you this week is

Include an animal
add a button or two
make it colourful

I have used some of my fav colours at the moment using orange with blue and these are some of my fav papers too - you know the ones I like to look at and find difficult to cut into !
They are from the little yellow bicycle's baby safari paper pad.

I used the masking technique on the backing DP to make more clouds and highlighted them with my white gel pen - which I also used to make my hippo more spotty !
I love the way the orange paper really makes that little birdie "pop".

I would like to add this card to the following challenges;

The Color Throwdown - Colour combo (orange/blue/green)
The Crafty Pad - Use a digi
One Stitch At A Time - For the boys
Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog - Fab sketch - thanks x
Totally Gorjuss - Button it
Wee Memories - Cute & Cuddly (I went for cute not sure how cuddly he'd be !)
Card Making Mama's - Animals
My Partner In Crafting Crime - 3 or more buttons

Thanks for looking I do hope you will join in with us this week, at cooking it up with Katie, to be in with a chance to win another fantastic prize x

((hugs)) Suzie xoxo