Sunday 9 September 2018

Project: Age is irr-elephant card


My dad loves a corny 'dad joke'. He cracks himself up, even when nobody else finds it funny. For his birthday this year I decided to use these silly animal pun sentiments to honour his sense of humour.

The layout at Freshly Made Sketches was perfect for this:


I started by stamping the elephant stamp directly onto a woodgrain patterned paper. I tried a few versions on plain paper and it was really lacking something. The woodgrain gives it depth and a bit more masculine I think.

The sentiment on its own was missing something so I added the black background. Smallest things make the biggest difference. I tried adding candies and other things but it was really best plain so I took off all the extras and stuck with it as it is. I had already been through a bit of detail drama as explained below...


Originally I stamped the elephant on this paper. The test I did was fine but when I finally committed it using my stamp platform it was way too busy. But because I was going for a one-layer look I couldn't get rid of the image and decided to cover it up. I used a Hero Arts sentiment and rainbow image stamped onto a circle die cut and then I found an orange paper to match the backing paper. 

So this oops got fixed pretty quickly - often these things kick around my desk for months waiting to be corrected and I decided to find something to fix it straight away. Glad I did, even if it is a bit ofw-center for my liking! 


2 comments:

  1. I LMAO at this. Yep, Mr N loves a pun. This one is purrfect (see what I did there) for him. The oops fix turned out really well. That rainbow stamp is a constant source of envy for me. It always comes out so well. You saw what I didn't when Jenn was destashing. Cx

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  2. PERFECT for a dad with a love of puns!! That detailed pair of the elephants on the woodgrain is a great look! Thank you for playing along with us at Freshly Made Sketches.

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