Ellephantastic GDT

I am tremendously honoured to be a Guest Design Team member today for the November challenge over at Ellephantastic Challenges.

Helen is moving shortly so this will be the last challenge for a while and it is a weather theme this month. I was able to choose a fab image from the store to work with and have used Emily Autumn which is only £1.25 from the Ellephantastic Store

I coloured the image with Promarkers and Flexmarkers and uses loads of Glossy Accents to make big fat raindrops, quite apt as the weather has been especially wet in the UK for the last few days and tonight is Bonfire Night so it is bound to pour down. Emily is quite cool and chilled out about it all. I think sometimes it is rather nice to just stand out in the rain especially if you are not going anywhere and don’t have to be worried about getting wet.

I used a sketch from  Paper Pretties for the layout and the papers are from  the Woodland Fold pad by Papermania. The bottom scrap was recycled from a product booklet from Liz Earle, if you look closely it has circles of squirrels on it and leaves and I thought it would be perfect to add to this card. I just trimmed it to size and used my Fiskars punch on the bottom edge. I made a shape from the image by drawing round it with a Nestabilities label die and reducing the width so it fit the image better and then used a scrap of brown card to mat this with. To finish it off I added the extra leaves made with digis from Kikkin Kreations in assorted Autumn colours.

Please pop on over to the Ellephantastic Challenges blog to see the lovely cards made by fellow GDT members and the regular challenge team using Helen’s fabulous images.

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A5

Images – Emily Autumn by Ellephantastic &  Leaves by Kikkin Kreations

Papers – Woodland Folk by Papermania

Tools – Scissors, 3d foam, Fiskars punch, Nestabilities die, Pro/Flexmarkers,

Techniques – Punching

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• Allsorts #128 – Anything But Square
• Catch the Bug – Anything Goes
• CES #60 – Song Theme (singing in the rain)
• Come and Get It Challenge – Anything Goes
• Crafty Catz #107 – Anything Goes
• Creative Inspirations Paint – Autumn
• Cupcake Craft Challenge #166 – Leaves
• Cutie Sunday #152 – Autumn Colours
• Dare to be Sassy #97 – Falling leaves
• House of Gilli #19 – Recycle and lots of texture
• Inky Impressions IIC #31 – Picture Inspiration
• Little Darlings #10 – Something that isn’t square
• Lollipop Crafts #55 – Anything Goes
• Make It Monday #61 – Link Up Party
• My Time To Craft #164 – Rainy Days
• One Stop Craft Challenge #156 – 3’s (papers & leaves)
• Paper Playtime #59 – Anything Goes
• Paper Pretties Wednesday #178 – Sketch For Layout
• Papertake Weekly #72 – Anything Goes
• Pattie’s Creations #32 – Autumn Colours
• Partytime Tuesday #40 –Photo Inspiration (colour)
• Pile It On #44 – Keep Warm
• Pollycraft #117 – Anything Goes
• Scrapbook Sisters #58 – Anything Goes
• Speedy The Cat’s Friends #80 – Autumn or winter
• Stampavie & More #155 – Anything Goes