Spotlight on border stamps: Elephant Baby Card

Hello!

Sorry for not posting last week.  I had a bad week and just couldn't bring myself to post or even make any cards.  This week things have been much better and I have even decided to do a spotlight on border stamps.  I've had border stamps for a while and I've always had trouble thinking of ways to use them, so I decided to challenge myself and create five cards using five different border stamps!  Here is the first:

Elephant Baby Card - Confessions of a Cardmaker

Gosh that elephant stamp is cute!

Materials:

• White card (Trophee, 240gsm, white linen)
• Black ink (Stazon) and three shades of blue ink (Rosie's Studio)
• Banner border stamp (Creative), elephant stamp and 'baby' sentiment (Fiskars)
• Blue gel pens
• Grey pencil (Faber-Castell)
• Blue glitter glue
• Round edge corner punch (Fiskars)

Directions:

1. Create a top folding card base from the white card.  Cut a medium sized rectangle also from the white card.
2. On the card base, stamp the banner across the width of the card using various shades of blue ink to create the background.  
3. For the rectangular piece, stamp the elephant in black and the baby sentiment in blue.  Colour the elephant with your pencil and punch the corners to round them.  Create a dash line border around the piece with the blue gel pen.  
4. Adhere the pannel to your card base with dimensional foam.  Round all four corners with the punch and apply a small amount of glitter glue to some of the banners for sparkle.

That's it for today!  Come back next week for another card featuring border stamps!

Stacey

P.S. I have added this creation to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge over at:

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/