I had seen a card using an elephant to blow bubbles on Pinterest and the idea stayed with me enough to want to play with a version of my own. I matched the colours as close as possible bearing in mind that I don’t have any StampinUp inks. Thanks to a good friend I do have some of the card stock so was able to mat my effort with two of the colours accurately that way. My elephant is a free digi stamp that I resized, printed, hand coloured and fussy cut. I had made a stencil of the smallest window frame die I own and used that to create the background in the close matched colours. Then using a small alphabet stamp set from Hero Arts I stamped each letter to make the sentiment. I added a few pink hearts as well. In addition I stamped the word love at the bottom. Don’t know who made that small set, but think I got it at Michaels a long time ago.
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Super cute! I have an elephant stamp that I think maybe blows bubbles as one of its options. Love the colors.
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Thanks a lot Lisa. I had fun playing with this one although my first try didn’t quite work so I fussy cut the elephant and started over with the background.
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What a darling card. Love the elephant trumpeting Happy Birthday. You got the colors well matched.
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Thanks Judy – I couldn’t get one colour very well with the inks but managed okay with the others.
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Super cute card. Such an adorable little elephant image trumpeting his message. Love that your stamped each letter individually. Great take on this color challenge.
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Glad you like it Gayle. Had to laugh at your comment about Will and eating in response to mine. Hope he has a happy birthday when it arrives. I’m lucky because my hubby cooks and is reasonably good at it when he does so. The clean up however, is another story.
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Too cool to create your own stencil! I love the symmetry to this and especially the coloring of image itself of your focal image.
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I can’t do what you do, but occasionally manage to do something along the same vein. Since making this yesterday I’ve been thinking of another way to use the stencil and use gesso.
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Oh I cannot wait to see. Remember this is not a competition or race but an expression of your creative and imaginative self.
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Oh I know that, but sometimes you come up with something and explain it and I wonder if I could do it too. Its hard to explain, but often when I am seeing what you do and how you do it I yearn to try for myself. Then another idea pops into my head and I go with that. Lately I’ve been thinking about gesso and colour and wondering and now it isn’t letting go, so it is obviously time for me to experiment. Did a bit of it yesterday actually.
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So incredibly cute! Love that background grid – just beautiful, and such a sweet use of our colors! Thanks so much for playing at Fab Friday!
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You just made my Sunday with your comment. Glad you like my effort.
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Oh, this is so sweet! Love the soft colors of your background. The elephant “blowing” the sentiment and hearts is absolutely adorable.
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I liked the concept and wondered if I could make it work. 2nd try worked perfectly.
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Very cute! I think your colors are spot on! The stencil is a great idea and the soft looks is great! Thanks for sharing at Fab Friday!
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I’m happy you like it and that I got the colours right.
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This is SO sweet!! Glad to see you making such good use of your handmade stencil.
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