#TWO ELEPHANTS OUTLINE PLUS#
#TWO ELEPHANTS OUTLINE FREE#

The next day, I lifted the books free and was rewarded with three sheets of happy, colorful elephants. Thankfully, at the time I already had all of my books down and in piles while waiting to hang my studio shelves. Once all of the elephants were in place and drying on their respective sheets of cardstock, I layed them beneath stacks of books to make sure they didn’t curl up from the wet glue. I was able to save paper by gluing two elephants to one sheet of cardstock, so I positioned them at the top and bottom of the paper. Then I pressed the elephant onto the card stock.

#TWO ELEPHANTS OUTLINE PLUS#

To attach the cardstock, I mixed up a batch of craft glue + water (about two parts glue to one part water) to give it a thinner consistency – I can’t stand gloopy glue, plus the thin watered down glue applied much quicker and avoided any air drying before sticking the elephants to the cardstock.Īfter that, my process was pretty simple and methodical – I gingerly held each of the elephants in turn in my hand and applied the watered down glue to the back with a paint brush. In the end, the cardstock seemed to do the trick. I would have LOVED to cut these out of wood and hand-paint them, but I was running out of time with her birthday fast approaching. My hope was that the added thickness would make the shapes not curl since paper tends to do that. While scrapbook paper tends to be thicker than regular copy paper, I still decided to give the elephants a little more stability and thickness with the addition of cardstock beneath. I thought it would be fun to give the finished collection an asymmetrical look by making the middle elephants face the opposite way then the others. Oh, and you may notice that some of the elephants are facing a different direction. Reduce, reuse, recycle, right? I simply flipped my sheets of paper over and traced the elephant template on the back – By tracing on the back of the paper, I made sure that none of the ugly pen marks would show on the finished product. I always seem to have a bunch on hand and, since the elephants I made would only be about 5×7 inches, I was able to use some scrapbook paper scraps too. To get the colorful, patterned look of the elephants in the Pinterest image, I traced my elephants onto pretty scrapbook paper. After that, I cut it out to serve as a tracing template for the final elephant shapes. Keeping the pinned inspiration image open on my desktop computer, I recreated the shape of the elephants on a piece of computer printer paper. Our group of girlfriends is made up of 7 people, so (excluding the birthday girl) we thought it would be fun to craft up 6 little elephants so that we could decorate the backs with personal messages to Alyssa, one from each of us. Well I continued the DIY Alyssa love by scouring her Pinterest boards and decided to recreate this adorable elephant wall art collection that she had pinned. You might remember her from this post of yore when I gifted her a different DIY project for Christmas. Today, I’m sharing my latest Pinterest-inspired project, which just so happens to be a birthday gift for my friend Alyssa. Hope the weather suits your happiness this morning too! I L-O-V-E rain though, so it was a happy unexpected surprise. Good morning and happy Monday to you! Just as I was about to head out the front door for work, I was met with a major downpour.

Two elephants outline