Elephant birthday

 Happy September 1st!!  It's time for a new challenge on the Critter Crazy Challenge blog!  As always, it is a month long challenge: Anything Goes as long as you feature a creature.  Here is my card for your inspiration:

Isn't this little elephant so sweet?!!  I decided to give him a little pair of denim paper pieced overalls as I am not very good at denim coloring and I had the perfect paper!  I used the same paper on the top panel of the card and mixed in a jute pattern to go with my twine bow and some brick patterned paper at the bottom to help give an edgy, modern look. I also stamped the elephant onto gray cardstock to cut down the coloring on his head/body as well.  I added a little shading to both elephant and overalls with a darker marker and called it done! I heat embossed the sentiment with black embossing powder so it would stand out and finished everything off with some gray enamel dots.  Just before I was getting ready to take the picture, I felt like it needed "something".  So, I went and stamped the clusters of little stars and I think it added so much!

Thanks for stopping by!  Hop on over to the Critter Crazy blog and check out the details and the rest of the projects from the Design Team.

Supplies:

Stamps: Tracey Hey elephant stamp set; My Favorite Things "Adorable Elephants" sentiment; Verve "To the Moon" stars

Dies: PaperTrey Ink "Tag Sale #8" tag

Challenges:

Cutie Pie Challenge--stamps and/or stars (got 'em both!)

Atlantic Heart Sketch Challenge #540--sketch

Double Trouble Challenge #146--SomeThing, AnyThing, EveryThing (Thing #1--anything goes, Thing #3--play along with any partner: Atlantic Hearts Sketch)

Shopping Our Stash #504--welcome to the jungle

Inskspirational Challenge #297--Clothing/Closet

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday--anything goes

The Paper Shelter #565--add a sentiment

Art Impressions--feeling blue

Creative Knockouts #502--anything goes

Krafty Chicks #679--anything goes