Birthday Elephant

I made this birthday card for my sister in law who loved elephants. The image is Critter Balloon Elephant from Bugaboo Digi Stamps.

I used the latest Stella Says Sketch from the Catch the Bug Challenge as the layout.

The image was coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers with a 2nd decoupage layer on the head/trunk and balloon. I added a Spectrum Noir clear glitter pen onto the balloon.

The image was die cut with Spellbinders Nestabilities Reverse Wonky Rectangles and layered onto gold mirri card. All the papers have come from my scraps drawers and have been distressed with an ink pad on the edges.

The sentiment banner and heart have been die cut from plain card and gold mirror card and then I have added gold peel offs.

Finally inspired by the Crash Your Stash challenge over at The Outlawz I added some googly eyes.  

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:- 

Card Size - A5

Image -  Critter Balloon Elephant from Bugaboo Digi Stamps.

Dies - Spellbinders Nestabilities, Stitched Hearts, Stitched Banners form Ebay

Tools - Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Spectrum Noir clear glitter pen

Embellishments - Peel off stickers, googly eyes

Techniques - Decoupage, Die Cutting

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• 2 Crafty Critter Crazies - #26 Anything Goes with a Critter
• 613 Avenue Create – #221 Anything Goes
• A Bit More Time To Craft - #92 Anything Goes
• A Gem of A Challenge - #9 Anything Goes
• A Perfect Time To Craft - #5 Anything Goes
• A Place to Start - Favourite Technique (Decoupage a digi image)
• Allsorts - #520 Birthday
• Angie’s Digital Stamps - #31 Anything Goes
• Artistic Inspirations – #215 Anything Goes
• Catch The Bug – #710 Sketch for Layout
• CCCE Stampers - #1921 Use a Die
• Colour Crazy Challenge - #19 Anything Goes
• Colouring in Scrapland - Anything Goes or Flowers
• Corrosive Challenge - #5 Anything Goes
• Crafting By Designs – Anything Goes
• Crafting From The Heart - #242 Anything Goes
• Crafting With An Attitude - #51 Anything Goes
• Crafty Animals - #26 Anything Goes with an Animal
• Crafty Calendar Challenge – Distress It
• Crafty Catz - #461 Anything Goes
• Crafty Creations  – #391 Anything Goes
• Crafty Friends - #110 Anything Goes
• Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper - Any Patterned paper
• Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything Goes
• Createful Heart Design - #9 Critter Crazy
• Creative Fingers - #164 Anything Goes
• Creative Moments - #169 Anything Goes
• Daisy Chain Challenges - #30 Anything Goes
• Digi Choosday - #21 Anything Goes
• Digi Doodle Studios - #16 Sparkle & Shimmer
• DL Art Linky Challenge - Anything Goes
• Dragonfly Dreams - Anything Goes
• Ellibelle’s Crafty Wednesday - Feminine or add a sentiment
• Get Creative - #80 Anything Goes
• Happy Craft Challenge - Anything Goes
• Happy Little Stampers Die Challenge - ATG with a Die / Diecut
• I Love Promarkers - #384 Anything Goes / option flowers
• Ike’s World Challenge - #112 Anything Goes / E is for Embossing
• Imagine That Creative Playground Challenge - #5 Anything Goes
• Incy Wincy Designs – Embellishments
• Jo’s Scrap Shack - #283 Anything Goes
• Leanne’s World 101  - #14 Anything Goes
• Lemon Shortbread - #94 Anything Goes
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #106 Anything Goes
• Love To Craft - #34 Anything Goes
• Love To Scrap - #121 Anything Goes
• Morgan’s Art World - #05 Anything Goes
• My Besties Art Espana - #34 Anything Goes
• My Besties Spanish Challenge - Anything Goes
• Not Just Cards - Anything Goes
• Oddball Challenge - Anything Goes
• Outlawz Crash Your Stash - Googly Eyes
• Outlawz Monday Greetings – Birthday
• Paper Shelter - #384 Birthday Girl
• Papercraft Business Challenge - #18 Anything Goes
• Passion For Promarkers - #494 Anything Goes
• Pattie’s Creations – #158 Birthday
• QKR Stampede – #349 Anything Goes
• Repeat Impressions House That Stamps Built – M2219 Anything Goes
• Scrapper’s Delight – Anything Goes
• Scrapy Land Challenge - #114 Anything Goes with store brand Die (Spellbinders)
• Simon Says Stamp – Bright Colours
• Simply Create Too - #149 Anything Goes
• Sweet Stampers - #32 Animals
• Sweet Stampin’ – Celebrating Families
• The Crafty Addicts - 60 Anything Goes
• Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday - #388-389  Anything Goes
• Your Scrapbook Place - Anything Goes