Wishing You a Happy Birthday

Hey stameprs, Anni here!

Today I have a elephant birthday card for you.

I don't know about you but winter is the time of the year when I have the feeling my mojo is on vacation. I ask myself where it could be and imagine it somewhere on a sunny beach - far, far away from my crafting area.
In these times I turn to challenges to give me some inspiration. The inspiration for this card came from the Lawn Fawn challenge blog. For the current challenge there is a inspiration board you have to follow: a lot of reds, pinks, greys, glitter and hearts.
So Istarted by creating a background with ink blending with red and pink ink. I sprinkled some water droplets on it to achieve these bleached posts. While the background dried I stamped elephants and mice from Lawn Fawn's Wild For You and Elphie Selfie. I coloured the images with alcohol markers, added some details with coloured pencils and fussy cut them.
I die cut the polaroid from Lawn Fawn's Selfie Frames twice from white cardstock and glued vellum behind it. I arranged the elephants and a mouse in the frames and added three hearts. These hearts I die cut from red glitter cardstock with Heart dies by Lawn Fawn.

For the sentiment I chose the set Happy Happy Happy by Lawn Fawn again.I heat embossed the sentiment in white on dark grey cardstock and cut it into stripes.
To die cut the background I used Mama Elephant's All Prettied Up. After that all that was left to do was to assemble the card.

Thanks for stopping by and have a crafty weekend.
Anni

               

Critters Down Under

Hey stampers, Anni here.

Last week I told you that there are coming exciting times in my family with two nephews graduating this summer. To make it even more exciting one of my nephews decided to spend a year abroad. He will go to Australia - holy moly!

To wish him a lot of fun I made him a card with the only Australian themed stamp set in my stash: Lawn Fawn's Critters Down Under.

I stamped all the critters in the set (I didn't use all of them in the end), coloured them with alcohol markers und fussy cut them (there are coordinating dies available, too).

To remind my nephew to text me from time to time on his big adventure I arranged all the images in a cell phone frame from the die set Selfie Frames by Lawn Fawn.

For the sentiment I spelled out "Viel Spaß in" what means something like "Have Fun in" in German with alphabet stickers. The word Australien I die cut from white cardstock using My Favorite Things' Bottlecap Letters. I coloured them with the same greens I used for the leaves.

I will tell you how my nephew will do far far away in Australia - I promise!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!
Anni