I need a card for a child who will be two this weekend, so I have been playing with the Elephant Parade set. I do struggle making children's cards, I would far rather make men's cards.
The card above is the one we have decided to give. If I can find some narrow ribbon in the same blue, I might add a small blue bow before gifting this, I can't help feeling it needs something more.
The peanut, flower and butterfly stamps are all included in the Elephant parade set.
I stuck all three of the stamps to a small acrylic block (spacing them out evenly) then stamped all three at the same time. I coloured the images with Copic markers and added the Elephant image.
The Mouse is also part of the set. On this card I stood the mouse on top of the greeting.
Maybe he is trying to grab that giant peanut.
The background paper is a from a Sale a bration gift card pack.
I like the design on the card, but the cards don't have enough weight for my liking so I'll be using them as DSP.
My last Elephant parade card for today was just to experiment with stamping the peanut in Soft Sea foam ink onto Soft Sea foam card to make a simple background. It's a technique I haven't used in a very long time and I was too lazy to search for a suitable DSP to compliment with this image.
This photo doesn't do this card justice, it looks better in reality.
