The Paper Players Clean & Simple Challenge

 Today's card was created to enter the Clean and Simple Challenge at The Paper Players (#PP600).

This weeks' challenge is to have minimal layers and embellishments, have plenty of open space or "white" space and a simple and uncluttered card.

Phew!  That's a challenge for me!  I love filling up my cards with die cuts, ribbon and embellishments. So leaving all this "open" space was a bit of a struggle.

I guess I needed this challenge.

This is what I came up with.

The card base is Basic White cardstock with a single layer of the Wonderful World DSP.

These elephant stamps from Stampin' Up! are the cutest!  I had to use this stamp on the envelope as well.

The sentiment was stamped with Memento ink in the lower corner of the card.

Stampin' Blends were used to color the elephant, balloon and leaves.  Using my Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss machine, die cut the images and the circle was die cut using the Layering Circles Dies. The leaves were added first, then the elephant and balloon with dimensionals.

Finally, I added the Elegant Faceted Gems on the card.

And of course, I had to stamp another image inside the card as well.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my card.

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