Its an Elebration!

Hi everyone!

Hope you all like the new blog layout. I am NEVER re-vamping it ever again! It's so annoying! I do prefer the look of the blog now, but my goodness it was hard work!

Anyway enough about that. You've not come to here me whinge, you've come to see some crafting and so crafting is what you shall see! I've got a card to share with you all that I made with a new stamp I bought from Stampin Up! It's called Elebration and you can find it in the 2011-2012 Stampin Up catalogue. I just love this little elephant. He (I've decided it's a boy) is so cute!

I used a piece of pale blue cardstock for the background, with blue and grey pieces of cardstock to layer. One thing I love about Stampin Up is that the papers, cards, inks and pens are all in the same colours so it's easy to make things match. The spotty patterned paper is the same shade of blue as the card the elephant is layered onto.

The elephant was coloured in using Promarkers, which are my all time favourite pens. They're alcohol based so they don't leave those horrible lines when you're colouring and they blend really well. You just have to make sure you use a good ink to stamp your image as the promarkers can cause the ink to bleed and it ruins your picture. I always use Staz On ink when using Promarkers. I used some Ruby Red Stickles glitter glue on the spots of the balloon so that it matched the background paper. Stickles is, in my opinion, the best glitter glue on the market because unlike some its not all glue and no glitter. It's really packed with glitter so it gives a really good sparkly finish.

Here is a list of all the products used in this card -

Stampin Up Elebration stamp

Stampin Up cardstock in Bashful Blue, Baja Breeze, Basic Grey & Whisper White

Stampin Up paper (part of a pack called Candy Cane Christmas which was a US exclusive)

Staz On Black ink

Promarkers in Basic Grey 2, Basic Grey 3, Basic Grey 4, Cool Aqua, Ruby, Buttercup, Pastel Blue & Honeycomb

Stickles glitter glue in Ruby Red.

Red satin ribbon (from local craft shop)

Hope you all like the card.

Bye for now!

P.S. I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has taken the time to comment. It really does mean a lot to me so thank you very much! :)