Tiny Ninjas with Pamela

Hello! This is Pamela on the Mama Elephant blog today with a little card featuring Tiny Ninjas. This little ninja was just calling out to be paired with a piece of string for rope, so I made it into a fun swinging ninja! I first masked off an area to blend my background in. I wanted the ninja to be swinging around against the sky so the ninja would pop out against the blue background. I masked off some clouds using the die cut from Sunday Stroll. 

 

I framed the card using the scallop die cut from All Prettied Up and adjusted the rope with the ninja to get it swinging the right direction.

  

I finished off the card with a simple "Thank You" sentiment from the same Tiny Ninjas stamp set. 

 

If you look closely, you'll see some water and white paint splatters against the background! 

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Crafty Lables with Anna

Hello! Anna is here today focusing on Crafty Labels stamp set. These labels are perfect for making tags for gift wrapping, and I made the project using only this set. And I want to write some tips on making such package.

  

At first - prepare the boxes for the gifts. I made flat square boxes, the template was printed on heavy weight card stock, fussy cut and glued. Here you can find the template, if you need it. (If to print on Letter size paper, the size of ready box is approximately 3.5 x 3.5 x 1.5 inches). 

 

 

Now the time to prepare the wrapping paper. I used the waxed paper - stamped the pattern with gray inks and fir branches and bells stamps from the set. After the paper is ready cut it on the pieces and wrap the boxes. For decorating prepare the twine, stamp tags and labels, bells, sentiments ("for you" sentiment has the coordinating die, so you can use it with the foam tape to add more dimensions). The branches are white embossed on the green cardstock and cut - two for each box. 

 

And now the final stage - to finish the decorating for the wrapping. Start with the tying the twine, next step add the labels (I adhered them with the foam tape, and the tag is tied to the twine). Add branches and the bells to the labels, and finish with the sentiment. Have a good day!

Hollow Letters with Laura

Hi there! Laura here and today I have a fun project to share featuring both Hollow Letters and Little Cat Agenda.

 

Cats are like potato chips. You can't have just one:) I love how Vera stamped all of the critters on one card and wanted to do something similar but with a fun sentiment. 

 

I saw this adorable T-shirt on etsy and recreated it using the Hollow Letters stamp set. I stamped a few lines in black and embossed a few lines in white. All of the cats were colored with Copcis.

  

Now we need a puppy set like this and then next a monkey set:) Thanks so much for stopping by!

Season of Thanks

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Crafty Labels with Nichol

Hi there! Nichol here today with an idea on creating kraft holiday gift tags stamped with pigment inks showcasing the new Crafty Labels Stamp Set and coordinating dies. I paired the labels images from the Crafty Labels Stamp Set with greetings from the Retro Holiday Labels Stamp Set for these kraft holiday gift tags. I stamped all the images with pigment inks because the pigment ink won't fade on the "colored" cardstock. I love how the ink colors retain their vibrancy and how the ink looks on kraft cardstock especially.

I stamped the label image from the Crafty Labels Stamp Set on kraft cardstock using Apple Pigment Ink. I used the MISTI stamp positioner tool so I could stamp the image one on top of another a couple times to make sure I got full coverage. I stamped greetings from the Retro Holiday Labels Stamp Set on the tag "fronts" with white pigment ink. I stamped an additional message and "to/from" from the Crafty Labels Stamp Set on the "backs" of the tags with white pigment ink.

I die cut all the labels with the coordinating Crafty Labels Die and then adhered the tags back to back.

I stamped the greenery and bells from the Crafty Labels Stamp Set on kraft cardstock using Mojito and Apple pigment inks. I die cut the images with the coordinating Crafty Labels Dies and adhered t hem to the tags as shown.

I punched holes in the top of the tags using a Crop-a-dile and threaded through red and white baker's twine to finish each tag!

To watch the creation of these holiday gift tags from start to finish, click HERE or watch below:

STAMP HIGHLIGHT : CRAFTY LABELS

Welcome back! Today's post with Crafty Labels is the fourth and last Stamp Highlight for this month's release. Here, the design team's projects show how we can use these labels for cards too!

Vera created sweet mini cards that can be used for tags too.

 

Laura used masking to create this fun, colorful border of tags.

 

We love clean white and black label against the fun and colourful plaid background!

We love how Deasy made a romantic card by combining Crafty Labels with Little Cat Agenda and Mini Messages

STAMP HIGHLIGHTS : HOLLOW LETTERS

Happy Monday! Welcome back to another Stamp Highlight! Today we are highlighting Hollow Letters. We are loving all these custom sentiments!

Such a fun way to say hello from Vera using Hollow Letters

We love how Anna used the new set for making these alphabet cards for kids.

Pamela spelled out a custom sentiment using the Hollow Letters. We love the way she coloured each letter!

We love how Deasy made an encouragement card by combining Hollow Letters with Tiny Ninjas and City Sidewalks

Nichol paired the Hollow Letters with a phrase from Girlfriends for a custom birthday greeting on the oversized balloon die.

STAMP HIGHLIGHT : TINY NINJAS

Welcome back to day 2 of Stamp Highlights! Today we are are looking at these smashing Tiny Ninja projects! They will literally jump out at you!

Laura added some fun rays behind these cute ninjas using the My Sunshine stamp set.

Anna built the fun scene with the ninja's pyramid.

We love how Pamela turned these ninjas into a fun ninja wedding congratulations card!

Love how Vera made a Graduation Card with the Tiny Ninja set!

We love how Deasy made a romantic card with the ninja and cherry blossoms from Lunar Extras

 

A rainbow of tiny ninjas all in a row are the perfect accent for an encouragement card!

STAMP HIGHLIGHT : LITTLE CAT AGENDA

Hello all! Welcome to Day 1 of Stamp Highlights! For the next few days we are going to showcase our fabulous Design Team's projects for each stamp set! Today we are looking at Little Cat Agenda. Looks like everyone had oodles of fun with these tiny kitties!

This marching squad of tiny kitties by Anna is absolutely sweet!

We love how the little cat is taking a photo of the starry sky! The starry acetate adds such a nice touch to the dreamy background!

We love Laura's parade of cats! She used the Hooray creative cut along with a coordinating sentiment from Girlfriends.

Nichol created little cat polaroids for this darling clean and simple birthday card.

Love how Vera framed the cats using a window frame from Peek a Frame creative cuts.

 

We love how Deasy made a cute friendship scene with the little cats on the blocks. She used the die cuts from Classic Stripe Cover dies to make the blocks and the Friend Script dies for the sentiment.

NOVEMBER STAMPEDE

Welcome to the Mama Elephant Design Team blog hop!

Our newest release is now live and available for purchase in the store!

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For today's stampede project, I made these cute 2"x2" mini note cards cards using the Little Cat Agenda stamp set, along with Sunday Sentiments and Small Talk. These tiny cards are perfect to slip into coat pockets and lunch boxes, for a little pick me up surprise!

To celebrate the new release, Mama Elephant is picking 3 winners to win their choice of stamp set! Winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs in the Stampede. You have up to 4 chances to qualify to win!

» 1. Leave a comment on this blog post «

» 2. Like/share us on Facebook: facebook.com/mamaelephant «

» 3. Follow/tweet us on Twitter: twitter.com/heymamaelephant «
» 4. Follow/tweet us on Instagram: instagram.com/mamaelephant «

Each action qualifies for one entry, max 4 entries per stampeder please!

Now let's get on with the Stampede with our amazing designers!

Laura Bassen
Vera Rhuhay
Nichol Magouirk
Pamela Ho
Anna Kossakovskaya
Melania Deasy

November Product Review

Hello, Hello! Tonight we are releasing 4 new stamps sets and 3 new creative cuts at midnight, EST!

 

INTRODUCING: Tiny Ninjas

These Tiny Ninjas are finally here! They first debuted in the Simon Says Stamp Masterpiece box in July, and we are so humbled that they've already received so much love!

I've always wanted a ninja set to add to our hero collection so we can all make some kick-butt projects! They were designed in the same sketchy style as Pandamonium, Arctic Penguins and Whale wishes for minimal coloring.

Here, I made a spinner card, using the circle burst from the Columbus Circle Creative Cuts and the Cityscape Creative cuts for the dimensional skyline.

See it spin here on instagram.

Thanks for joining us these few past days with introductions. They will all be released for sale on November 15th at midnight EST.

INTRODUCING: Hollow Letters

Hi all! Today we are introducing the newest set to our alphabet collection, Hollow Letters!
This set is playful and oodles of fun to color!

 

This set will allow you to color each letter to further incorporate your project's color scheme! Here I put together my own sentiment and matched it with the pudgy kitties from Little Cat Agenda.

A fun time is what I had when I made this card! Remember to come back tomorrow for another introduction!