Well, not really son of Zoo Babies but it does feel like a rather long running action movie! Maybe it should be The Return of Zoo Babies! Anyway, I was having so much fun making baby boy cards for Julia to select from when she returns from St Lucia that I had to make another. This one sort of reminds me of the Jungle Book and the elephants all walking in single file. Imagine that there are far more of them.

They didn’t fit on a standard card (the front elephant’s trunk was – dare I say it? – truncated) so I stamped the three elephants in marina mist on a larger piece of whisper white and cut it down after the stamping. A ruler really is your best friend here – I drew a pencil line across the card so that I could line up my elephants  – using the stamp-a-ma-jig here of course. The congratulations also comes from the Zoo Babies set. I mounted the whisper white on a piece of marina mist sized to give a 1/8 inch border all around.

This odd sized card meant that I could pull out the envelope punch board, a tool that I don’t use enough. It’s so much fun to make your own envelope and it really impresses people too. And it’s so easy. It’s almost like baking a cake – people are so impressed and think that you took hours and hours when in fact it’s the task of a few minutes.

See you tomorrow,

Liz