Floral Print Silhouette Elephant Cards

Happy Memorial Day!  Thank you to all who have served our country and are serving out country. Being an army wife myself, I also want to say thank you to all the military families too.  I know the sacrifices you have made and the hard times you have endured as well. My heart is with you all today.

The other reason for my post today is to share with you Part 4 of the May Stamp Set of the month video. I have really enjoyed creating with the Floral Print Silhouette stamp and die set by Concord & 9th this month. For today's cards I focused on the elephant die. I saved him for last because he is one of my favorite.

Let's check out the cards I made.  And keep reading to find out how you can WIN the You Amaze Me card!!!

My goal for these cards was to have a very warm color palette, I did not want to use green.

The ink colors I chose for these cards are from Lawn Fawn; Pretty Lavender, Sugar Plum, Carrot and Sunflower.

Since I could not decide between the light and dark purples for this card I decided I would incorporate both. I inked the most solid image of the three circles first with Pretty Lavender and then inked only the edges with the Sugar Plum. I LOVE this look, I draws the eyes into the center of the card and the gold elephant.  I repeated this look by doing the same thing to the sentiment, giving it a ombré effect.

If you are not familiar yet with the Floral Print Silhouette stamp set, you stamp three images, layered on top of each other, to create one multicolored image.This graphic from Concord & 9th explains it nicely.

Just a note, I have stamped the image in all different orders and it works great no matter what order you choose.

The other thing I really wanted to do on this card was to emboss one of the three layers in the circle. So, I embossed the leaves with gold embossing powder. It's  fun way to make this three stamped image look amazing! 

I used the same colors of ink for this card, with out the dark purple around the edge. But I added in Sunflower ink for the leaves, not wanting to use green again. And to add a hint of gold to this floral circle I painted the centers of each flower with Gold Silk, which I also used to splatter the background on card 1. I then die cut the elephant from the center of the stamped floral circle. I wanted to do a inlaid card, which means die cutting a shape and putting it back in the space you die cut it from.

I did three things to my inlaid elephant to help him stand out and be the focal piece on this card.

1. I sponged the edges with Sugar Plum ink.
2. I die cut 4 other elephants from Whip Cream card stock and adhered them all to the back of the floral elephant. This raised him up slightly from the circle and added dimension.
3. Before inlaying this piece, I pressed the entire front of the elephant onto a clear pigment pad. I sprinkled clear embossing powder over the elephant and embossed it. This intensified the color and gave is some what of an epoxied look.

Now the elephant is ready to be adhered back in place, in the center of the circle.

The pierced circle and added florals around the edge also help direct the eye to the center of the circle.

For a last touch of gold I embossed the sentiment, also from the Floral Print Silhouette stamp set.

You can customized both card to the recipient by adding a stamped sentiment on the inside of the card. I stamped "You're 1 in a Million" on the inside of card 1.

If you would like a chance to WIN this, You Amaze Me card please click over to my YouTube channel and watch the making of these cards. Just click the thumbs up and leave me a comment on the video to be entered to win. Then tune back in to next Monday's video to see who wins this card.

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Comments

[Linda]

Love your series on this set...elephant and the bear are extra special....glad you enjoyed this stamp and glimmering it up