GreenPaper November Challenge

I'm not so sure about this one. The challenge was to use the image of the baby, the elephant and a small faintly lined sheet of paper with a spray of flowers - all in one collage. Baby and flowers - yes. The elephant? Not so much. but I needed to cover the front of the little book I'm using to do various challenges in and what could be more appropriate than a real challenge?

While leafing thru a book for inspiration, I passed by the copyright and publishing info at the front. Hmmm... publishing... pachyderm. At least they both started with a P. Anyway, I ended up doing this:

I reduced the size of the elephant image in Photoshop, then cut him from his background and did some layering with a strip of old book and a piece of my seemingly endless Starbucks scone bag from a couple weeks ago. (I've gotten more use from that scone bag) I'm not real sure what he's supposed to be doing down there but I was pretty stuck for ideas.

I see all sorts of things wrong with this now - too many different shapes, only the one element has any color - but live and learn. I guess I like the overall impression, but now that I'm done, all sorts of ideas have popped into my head. I may do another one or two using these 3 images, just to prove that I can! LOL

Anyway, this early in my collaging career, challenges are a great way to learn. Seeing what other people do with the same images is very inspirational. And a bit depressing cause they all seem much more creative than me. But I'm having fun, which is my goal for now, and hopefully I'll improve.