Monday means Pink Elephants...

or at least one Pink Elephant anyway and this week Ella has a recipe for us ...

Plaid - Brads and NO Ribbon (oh my not using ribbon was a real toughie!)

Our sponsors this week are Wild Flower Kids Rubber Stamps and the design team were lucky enough to work with fantastic images from the 'Tis the Season' digi image range.

For my first card I used the digi Christmas Tree and the oh so cute Elf Lilly. The 'Merry Christmas' wording is from the sentiment set which is part of the range too.

The sketch is this week's challenge at Friday Sketchers - I'm addicted to sketches at the moment and I loved this one.

Additional materials:

• Black and red card
• red metallic brads
• plaid black and white card
• gold snowflake
• Promarkers
• White flowersoft to create fluff on Lilly's coat and hat

Additional challenges:

• Fun with shapes - Gifts as part of image
• Allsorts challenge - A Christmas Song Title - mine is 'It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas'

To hear Bing Crosby singing and get in the mood click here or if you're more of a Johny Matthis fan click here.

My second card has a much softer feel to it possibly due to the colour lilac and the layers of checked vellum layed over checked card and also over plain white card.

This time my sketch was from Crazy 4 Challenges and is a very clean unclustered sketch which I feel shows the cute snowman digi from Wild Flower Kids off so well.


Materials used:

• Snowman digi and sentiment digi from Wild Flower Kids
  
• gingham vellum
  
• gingham card
• white and lilac card
• Sakura Stardust Pens for colouring
• ultrafine glitter and white square brads

Additional challenges:

• Creatalicious Challenges - snow and lots of sparkle
• Creative Inspirations - Sparkle
• Dare you to digi - glitter
• Kraftin'Kimmie Stamps - Happy Christmas
• Allsorts Challenge - a Christmas Song Title - mine is 'Frosty the Snowman'

Check out the original song and cartoon here!!

Gosh all those links I'm shattered. Have a fantastic day everyone and I hope you'll get chance to join in with us at The Pink Elephant this week. Remember it's plaid (or checked if you want to cheat a little like me) and brads BUT no ribbon - sigh!!

Pink Elephant Day...

Yeah it's Monday and that means a new challenge at The Pink Elephant and this week we have the theme of 'Be Thankful'.

I decided to use one of the fabulous designs from the The Autumn Splendor digi kit in the Wild Flower Kids range available at Stamp Happens. I really love this horn of plenty image - although I'm not too happy with the how my Promarker colouring turned out. Think I need more practice on shading fruit.

The sentiment is from the Hallmark Card Studio CD yet again - love the way you can lift the sentiments from the CD and print them out in lovely fonts to add your own cards.

Materials used:

• Horn of Plenty - Wild Flower Kids Stamps at Stamp Happens
• Sentiment from Hallmark Card Studio Deluxe
• brown card and brown gold dust card
  
• gold mirri card
• gold corner peel offs, brown brads, ribbon and lace from stash
  

It would be great to see lots of people entering our challenge this week - there are so many occasions when we want to say thank you to friends and family as well as celebrations such as Thanks Giving. I'm really looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with.

Pink Elephant Day...

This week is a very exciting one at The Pink Elephant. We are so lucky in being sponsored by Stamp Happens. Each member of the DT received The Autumn Splendour digi kit to work with and wow they were just perfect for Ella's Autumnal themed challenge.

Isn't that scarecrow image just amazing? I printed him on Ice Gold card and I must admit that as I coloured him with my Promarkers for some reason the ink bled a little, but hey 'happy accident' methinks as what hard working scarecrow would have a clean face? Well that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Having discovered that the ink ran I made it run on purpose on the trousers as I decided I quite liked the effect, but now I'm not so sure!

The fabulous acetate printed with scarecrows is from Kanban and something I've had in my stash for ages and never quite got round to using till now. I attached it with brads to plain card and then matted and layered the scarecrow image on top.

Obviously here in England we don't do Thanksgiving, but even so I loved this turkey entwined with the word 'gobble' so much that I couldn't resist using it on a card. Again the image was printed on the Ice Gold card and this time I was careful not to encourage the ink to run.

As both my cards are 'predominantly brown' I think they qualify for the challenge at Stamp Something, where they always have a great challenge theme.

Also at Crazy4Challenges they have the theme of 'thankful' and creations can be Thanksgiving cards or for any occasion where you want to say thank you and at the Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge the theme is 'Autumn Colours'.

Thank you so much for looking and the fantastic comments I have received recently. I hope you will have time to play in our challenge at The Pink Elephant and also take part in the other great challenges there are around.