Elephant engagement

Hello lovely people,

It's been a while!  I've been soooo busy lately that I have been neglecting my blog again, but I do have a few posts to share this week.

First up I have an engagement card that a work colleague commissioned and I was requested to put elephants on it so...

I did already have some elephant stamps I could have used but after a quick peek online I fell in love with this image and just had to get it.  It's a digi stamp and as a bonus it comes with 3 other equally gorgeous images!

What a simply adorable couple of ellies :-)

I really wanted to go for a different colour than the more traditional pinks and reds, but of course, I still wanted a pretty, floral, romantic look so out came the flowers!

The sentiment was computer generated and I also added the name of the couple after I took these photos.

I hope life is treating you all well at the moment :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Copic colours;
Elephant bodies: W1/W2/W3/W4/W5
Elephant ears / toes: R000/R00/R30/R20
Heart / flowers: B41/B23/B45
Grass: YG61/G82/G94

Lovely things I've used;

Edwin and Hetty set - Digi Stamp Boutique	Summertime - Maja Design	Renaissance edge'able - Crafter's Companion	Antique blue 2-tone cherry blossom
miniature ivory cream blossoms	Ivory button twine	Circle STAX set 1 - My Favourite Things	Circle STAX set 2 - My Favourite Things

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Tri-shutter Tilda card

Hello lovely people,

Not long before Christmas some good friends got engaged and moved in together.  So, with a Christmas card as well, that would be 3 cards to make for them.  But maybe there was a way to combine it all into one card?

Enter the tri-shutter card with space for 3 different images :-)

 The only down side to this was that with all the Christmas prep going on I really didn't have time to colour 3 images.

My answer was to stamp the images onto Kraft card with no colouring whatsoever (eek!) but I did distress and stitch the edges and brush them with some white acrylic paint.

Since the design folds up flat I could only put larger embellies on the front bit i.e. the very left hand side.
There was room though for some fancy corners and for some little die cuts themed to each image.

Here's the first panel with the Christmas image;

Here's the middle panel with the image I chose for the engagement part of the card;

I struggled with finding an image for the new home panel as I wanted to use all Magnolia images but since the new house comes with a large garden I thought this would work;

Card recipe;

Images: all Magnolia stamps

DP: Vintage Spring basics - Maja Design (available from Live and Love Crafts)

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts

Dies: snowflakes - Impression Obsession, hearts and flowers - Memory box, corners - La La Land

Sentiments: magazine freebie alphabet set 

And did you see those teeny paperclips?  They came in a Stampin' Up kit that I had as a prize and I don't think you can get them separately... very sad about this as they are just the cutest things. Yeah, I get excited about the oddest things!

I was really pleased with the end result and my friends loved it, so job done!

Thanks for stopping by and for your lovely comments, it's so nice to hear from you when you visit :-)

Challenges I am playing along with;
1. Cute Card Thursday (what's new? - new home card, new paperclips)
2.  Sweet Magnolia (anything goes)
3.  Tilda's Town (anything goes)
4.  Simply Magnolia (vintage or shabby chic)