Elephant with Flowers (Gerda Steiner image)

Hello, everyone!  Gerda Steiner Designs is having a 72-hour weekend challenge with this adorable Elephant with Flowers.  He's carrying a little gift too!  Gerda herself is going to choose her favourite entry, and the winner will receive either a clear stamp set of their choice or a $15 coupon code.  The sweet elephant is provided for free for this challenge!  Well I would LOVE to win Gerda's new kitty stamp set so I had to play along!

I started my card with a watercolour background, which I mounted on yellow cardstock. I was inspired by the colours in Colette's Cosmic Colours Challenge # 13 (see below).  I coloured the elephant with Prismacolor pencils and fussy cut. Using Nellie's Multiframe Tags, I die-cut a tag out of vellum and tied a bow with blue hemp twine.  I heat-embossed two sentiments in white on black scraps and affixed them to the vellum tag, along with some grass die cuts (Impression Obsession), which were left over from a previous project. The birthday greeting is from Clearly Besotted A Little Sentimental clear stamps, and the special day sentiment is a wood-mounted rubber stamp from Stampendous, I popped up the cute elephant with foam tape and added a number of green sequins and a single yellow flower sequin.

Here are the inspiration colours:

I would also like to support these fun challenges:  613 Avenue Create Create Your Own Challenge (Col.1-image,bling, Col.2-sentiment, watercolour, die cuts, Col.3-solid colour paper, embossing, Col.4-flowers, Col.5-hemp) 1/3; Allsorts Happy Birthday 2/3; Aud Sentiments Cute Plus Sentiment 2/5; Come and Get It Tic Tac Toe (die cut, sentiment, flowers) 1/3; Cosmic Colours Challenge # 13 (TOP 3); Creative Corner AG 1/3; Creative Fingers AG 1/3; Creative Inspirations AG Option Sketch UE; DL.ART May AG UE 1/day; Die Cuttin Divas Must Include a Flower 1/3; Dragonfly Dreams Lauralcraft How does your Garden Grow UE; Fan-Tastic Tuesday AG No Patterned Paper 2/4; Inspiration Destination AG UE; Little Claire's Outdoors 1/3; Little Scrap Pieces Show it Off Saturday 1E; Love to Scrap AG 2/3; Not Just Cards AG UE; On a Stampage Mynn's Birthday Bash Giveaway UE; Open-Minded Crafting Fun Inspired by a Song (Happy Birthday) 2/3; Our Creative Corner April Showers Bring May Flowers 2/3; Penny's Paper-Crafty AG 2/3; {PIN}spirational Inspired by Colours 1/5; Pixie's Snippet Playground Snippets are left over grass die-cuts and black scraps 1/3; Scribble and Scrap AG 1/3; Scrappy Moms Stamps Animals UE; Scribbles Designs B is for... birthday, blue, black, bow 3/3;Send a Smile 4 Kids AG 4 Kids 3/3; Simon Says Stamp Work-it Wednesday Yellow 2/3;Sister Act (Cards Only) AG UE; Stamp and Create May Flowers 2/3; Stamping Sensations Flower Power 3/3;The Corrosive AG 1/3; Whimsy Stamps Anything but Square 1/3; Word Art Wednesday AG w Uplifting Sentiment 2/5

Thank you for looking at my card!  Wishing you a joyful day!

P.S. I have candy!  Check out my 2-year Blogiversary celebration post here.