Doodlepantry and Chalkboard technique

Hello there, frozen bloggers!  We're going to climb out of our deep freeze here tomorrow and I cannot wait!  To keep me warm and busy, I cards for a few challenges.

 

I have fallen in love with Doodlepantry images since they offered a set for OWH and using my Silhouette to print and cut them makes it so easy to use them on cards.  I had this cute elephant printed out and went through my scraps to create this quick card:

 

I stretched my green paper by piecing it behind Mr. Elephant and the dots around the edges are done using a Pearl Pen. This is my first time entering the Doodlepantry monthly challenge and I'm going to do this regularly - check it out over at their blog here . You get a featured digi image just for playing along, which is wonderful!

 

This week's throwdown challenge over at OWH is a chalkboard technique.  I learned this last year, but this time, I used the Picket Fence Distress marker to make the shadow effect on my embossed images:

I went over some of the embossed swirls with Inktense pencils to add a little color.  It was fun to revisit this technique.  Great challenge idea!

 

Thanks for stopping by.