What:

Copic-coloured elephant with a homemade footprint stamp.

Inspired by:

Gerda Steiner’s 72H weekend challenge.

How:

The elephant digital stamp was printed on Copic-safe Neenah solar white card and coloured with Copic markers. The bottom edge was shaped using a border die. Then I realised that neither of the elephant stamp sets I own have a footprint stamp in them, so I had to quickly search to check what an elephant footprint looked like and then carve a stamp. The footprints were stamped on the bottom strip of the card base and the elephant panel was mounted above it. I die cut a small banner, stamped the sentiment, and trimmed it to fit alongside the elephant.

Lessons Learned:

Life gets in the way. I had intended making this in time for Gerda Steiner’s 72H challenge, but then our neighbour’s cat brought some baby guinea pigs home to play with, which scuppered my crafting plans.

Supplies:

• stamps:
  Homemade elephant footprint
  Avery Elle – Ellie (sentiment)
• digital stamps:
  Gerda Steiner – elephant and gifts
• dies:
  Lawn Fawn – stitched hillside borders
  Avery Elle – build a banner
• colour:
  Avery Elle – pigment ink – fog
• Copic markers:
  Elephant – T0, T1, T2, T3, T4, T5
  Ears – E00
  Toes – E31, E81
  Flowers – Y08, Y19, YR09, YG23, YG25
  Gift – Y08, Y19, YR09, YR07, YR18
• paper and card:
  Neenah solar white