Elephant of Surprise!

Happy Friday, friends! It’s Cassie here, and I hope you all had a good week, and are able to get your craft on this weekend. I know I will be! This week has just flown, but I’m hoping the weekend lingers. I’m back here today with another card to share with you all. Today’s card was made because…as usual…I missed a birthday. My cousin’s birthday was last week and I completely missed sending him a card. Hopefully this cutie makes up for it.

I’ve seen this cute trifold design on Instagram by @craftawaywithme and I knew I had to give it a go. I started with an 4 1/4 by 11 piece of card stock and scored it at 3.5 inches. Then I folded it and scored it again at 3.5 inches. It didn’t line up 100% so I trimmed the edge that was left. Then I die cut the elephant from Elephant of Surprise from the center of the top two panel making sure to line them up the best I could. I used one of those die cuts to stamp the elephant and color him in with my Copics.

Each panel has a slightly different scene, each with the elephant in the center. I stamped images from Happy Snappy Croc, Beary Big Heart, Elephant of Surprise, and Ad-roar-able Lions for all of the scenes and colored them in with my Copics. That way I could add little things to brighten up each panel. All of the panels were inked with Distress Oxide inks. I masked the two parts of the panel off and did two tones to give the impression of a floor and wall.

The sentiments came from Elephant of Surprise. For the first two panels I stamped them with VersaMark and heat embossed white embossing powder over top. For the last I stamped in black. In hind sight I with I had done white embossing powder for this panel as well, but overall I do like how it turned out. On the front panel I added a word bubble from Whatcha Sayin’ stamps and dies and added the sentiment, “Oh no…I forgot.”

This card was so fun to make! I would definitely try this design again. Alright…admit it. How often do you forget to send birthday cards?? Please say I’m not the only one! Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you liked the card! I’ll see you again soon with another one!