African influence

Today I share some cards with you,

that are a cobination of

Michael Strong's elephant stamp and

Club Scrap Aspen papers and stamps.

This background is one of the

cut-aparts from the Aspen kit

as well as the ribbon.

The elephants are embossed and colored with 

iced spruce distress ink.

It is the easiest is you stamp the elephants on

a different piece of paper and cut them out

and color them before you glue them 

to the finished background.

It is more difficult of you stamp the elephants on

the background and mask them with a post

it and then stamp the background and color.

Both ways are possible and leave to your

choise and ability of stamping techniques.

For the sun I punched a 1" circle

out of a seperate piece of paper. This I laid

on top of the background and sponged

some yellow and orange ink on the background.

Here another of my calendars.

If you missed the post on how

tomake them,please take a look HERE.

I added the elephants with foam tape for more

depth on the front here.

Have a creative day !