Babar Hello

This week's SCS Inspiration Challengecomes from the fabulous Etsy store of SushiPot.  I fell in love with her SushiPot blocks made with fabulous vintage images, particularly this collection of the four snow themed images.

I love the way she frames portions of images in her blocks.  I went through my collection of vintage book pages and found several pages from a Babar the Elephant children's book (thanks to Lauren who shared some of her vintage goodies with me), one of my favorites from childhood. 

I decided on a 2" block for my design.  When want to use a fixed size shape on a card, I will cut or punch a matching opening out of cardstock and then place of the opening over the image, moving it around until it frames the portion I want.  Then I use an erasable pencil to mark the corners where I want to cut.

For this design, I kept it simple letting the images speak for themselves.  The sentiment is from Stampin' Up's All Year Cheer.  I used Cor'dinations cardstock for the base, so I could sand the edges to resemble the block design.

I hope you find inspiration.