Swedish House Crafts Guest Design Team Post ft. Paper Nest Dolls 'Elephants'

 Hello crafters!  Thank you so much for joining me here today on my blog!  I'm very excited to be a Guest Designer over at Swedish House Crafts today; welcome if you have joined me from there!

My card today features a stamp set from Paper Nest Dolls called Elephants.  There are lots of cute elephant stamps in the set and I have used one on my card today....I also snuck in another elephant on a matching tag (see other photo).

 I used lots of different dies from my stash to create this dimentional card.  The scallop base is the Lawn Fawn Inside Stitched Scallop Rectangle Die and the quilted panel is also a Lawn Fawn die-Quilted Backdrop.

To create a focal area for my elephant I used some square scalloped frames from MFT.  I originally just used the larger frame but it just didn't look right (my elephant looked a little bit lost) so I left the card on my desk (for about a week!) until I could work out how I wanted to proceed.  I finally had a eureka moment and cut another smaller frame to better place my elephant inside and I was really happy with how this looked.

Behind the frame, on the scalloped panel/base I used some distress inks to lightly blend on a scene.  I made sure to mask the area with post it tape to keep the colour with in the frame area.  I used some distress inks to create a sky and some grass.  

I used copic markers to colour my elephant - all of the colours I used are listed in the visual below:

I fussy cut the image using my cutterbee scissors.

I added some dimention to the card by popping foam adhesive squares behind the quilted panel, the large & small frame and the elephant.  All elements were adhered to the base layer and then adhered to a side folding A2 (american) sized card base.

I created a simply sentiment layering the white card on to a base of pink inked card.  I die cut some hearts from the same pink card and adhered them to the sentiment finishing with some glaze pen to make the shine.

The corners of the card were embellished with some cute dies from CC Designs.

Finally, to complete the card I liberally covered the elephants dress, bow and both frames with Nuvo aqua shimmer pen.

I hope you enjoyed my guest design team project!  All of the supplies are listed below.  Thank you to Swedish House Crafts for having me today!

https://www.swedishhousecrafts.co.uk

Supplies

• Paper Nest Dolls ELEPHANTS
——— https://bit.ly/2YQQqlP [ SHC ]

• Lawn Fawn OUTSIDE IN STITCHED SCALLOP RECTANGLE STACKABLES
——— http://tiny.cc/43sh7y [ SSS ]
——— http://tiny.cc/e3sh7y [ CST ]

• Lawn Fawn QUILTED BACKGROUND die
——— http://tiny.cc/u4sh7y [ SSS ]
——— http://tiny.cc/55sh7y [ DST]

• My Favorite Things STITCHED SQUARE SCALLOP FRAMES DIE-NAMICS
——— http://tiny.cc/q6sh7y [ SSS ]
——— http://tiny.cc/z7sh7y [ DST ]
——— http://tiny.cc/rath7y [ SVN ]

• Clearly Besotted SWEET LITTLE SENTIMENTS STAMPS
—— http://tiny.cc/vbth7y [ SSS ]
— http://tiny.cc/bdth7y [ CLB ]

• CC Designs QUAD COLLAGE DIE
——— http://tiny.cc/kfth7y [ DST ]
——— http://tiny.cc/9ith7y [ CCD ]

• Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad TUMBLED GLASS
——— http://tiny.cc/jkth7y [ SSS ]
——— http://tiny.cc/jmth7y [ CST ]

• Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad EVERGREEN BOUGH
——— http://tiny.cc/roth7y [ SSS ]
——— http://tiny.cc/brth7y [ CST ]

• Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad SALTY OCEAN
——— http://tiny.cc/ksth7y [ SSS ]
——— http://tiny.cc/ksth7y [ CST ]

• Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad PICKED RASPBERRY
——— http://tiny.cc/nxth7y [ SSS ]
——— http://tiny.cc/fzth7y [ CST ]

• Scrapbook Adhesives 3D FOAM SQUARES
——— http://tiny.cc/u2th7y [ SSS ]
——— https://amzn.to/2Xb8kiN [ AMZ ]

• Tsukineko VersaFine ONYX BLACK Ink Pad VF
——— http://tiny.cc/k4th7y [ SSS ]
——— http://tiny.cc/k4th7y [ CST ]

• Tim Holtz Tonic GLASS MEDIA MAT
——— http://tiny.cc/96th7y [ SSS ]
——— http://tiny.cc/z9th7y [ CST ]

• Sizzix Big Shot Machine Only White & Grey UK
——— http://tiny.cc/lbuh7y [ CST ]

• Gel Pen BLK GLAZE sakura
——— http://tiny.cc/3cuh7y [ SSS ]
——— http://tiny.cc/3cuh7y [ CTP ]

• Gel Pen CLR GLAZE sakura
——— https://shorturl.at/kyRZ0 [ SSS ]
——— https://shorturl.at/hrPX1 [ CTP ]

• Gel Pen WHITE uniball
——— https://shorturl.at/fjkwG [ SSS ]

• Nuvo by Tonic AQUA SHIMMER PEN
——— https://shorturl.at/hqQY6 [ SSS ]
——— https://shorturl.at/vyMNR [CST ]

• COPIC MARKERS:
Elephant: W4, W3, W1, W00, RV93, RV91
Dress/Bow: V09, V06, V01, V000

• Spellbinder TOOL N’ ONE
——— https://shorturl.at/eESY1 [ SSS ]
——— https://shorturl.at/rBCKL [CST ]

• Tonic 12” GUILLOTINE
——— https://shorturl.at/iBHJO [ SSS ]
——— https://shorturl.at/aDIQ3 [CST ]

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