Lion Dance with Amy

Hi crafty friends! Amy here, and today I have a fun floating floor pop-up card to share with you featuring the Lion Dance stamp set. The card depicts a colorful and festive Lunar New Year celebration, with the Lion Dance.

Inside of the card

To begin, I colored the images from Lion Dance with Copic markers and cut them out with the coordinating Creative Cuts.

I made my card base by trimming Bristol paper to 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" and scored it at 4 1/4". To create the sky, I inked the front and the inside of the card base with Salty Ocean Distress Oxide.

Front of the card

I die-cut Bristol paper with the hill borders from Landscape Trio Creative Cuts to be used for the front and the inside of the card. I used Mowed Lawn Distress Ink and Peeled Paint Distress Oxide to ink blend the hill panels. I added splatters of water to the ink blended sky and the hill panels to add texture.

I die-cut gray and black cardstock with the Cityscape Creative Cuts. I adhered the Cityscape panel (for the gray one I have the back facing front) and one of the hill panels to the inside of the card. Then, I adhered the other hill panel to the card front.

To make the floating floor, I trimmed light gray cardstock to 5 1/2" x 4 1/2" and scored lines at 1/2",  3 1/2" and 4".  I trimmed 1 1/2" long and 1/4" wide strips and folded them to an L shape. I laid out the images as shown on the floating floor, and used a craft knife to make the slits a little wider than 1/4" wide right underneath the images.

I folded at the scored lines and adhered the floating floor as shown and inserted the L shaped strips into the slits (the bottom of the L gets taped to the card base). This allows the images to pop up when you open the card. Then, I adhered the images to the strip, trimming it if it was too long. At this point, I adhered the other images to the card front.

The sentiment was stamped with Versamark ink on black cardstock and embossed with white embossing powder. I adhered it to the front of the floating floor. That's all for today!

Mama Elephant supplies used:

Lion Dance and coordinating Creative Cuts

Landscape Trio Creative Cuts

Cityscape Creative Cuts

Thank you for stopping by, and happy card making!

Scripty Notes with Laura

Hi there! Laura here and today I have a couple of projects to share featuring the Scripty Notes stamp set.

 

For my first card I combined the Scripty Notes set with The Cat's Meow.

  

I stamped the cats with Memento ink and colored them with Copics. Then I die cut a circle window to frame the sentiment from the Scripty Notes set.

 

For my next card I used some sweet images from the Whimsical Winter stamp set. 

 

I also used the Framed Tags-Hug it Out creative cuts for the red frame & brown tag. I added a bit of soft blue ink blending on the background and colored the images with Copics.

 

That's all for today! Thanks so much for stopping by!

STAMP HIGHLIGHTS : LION DANCE

Hi Hi! Welcome back for day 4 of Stamp Highlights with Lion Dance! The Design Team's cards are so FUN, FESTIVE and FABULOUS!

We love Amy's festive scene!

Anna's interactive slider card is very cute and festive! We love how kids have fun with the lion!

We love Laura's rainbow dragons to celebrate the new year.

Nichol created frames for the Lion Dance images with the stitched squares from Framed Tags Hug It Out.

We love how Vera chose pastel colors on her Lunar Year card!

We love how Deasy created a shaker card and combined it with Framed Tags- Hug It Out dies!

Join us again next week for more inspiration with our Designer Series!

STAMP HIGHLIGHTS : SCRIPTY NOTES

Good Morning! Today we are showcasing Scripty Notes for today's Stamp Highlight! Kryssi's handwriting is just so pretty!

Cute card by Vera by combining the clouds and a rainbow from Rainbow High Creative Cuts

Nichol adorned the Carried Away balloon with a Scripty Notes sentiment for the front of a shaker card.

Amy made a cute Valentine's Day card by combining Scripty Notes, Pandamonium, and Labeled Messages.

We love how Anna combined the three different stamp sets to create this festive sweet card.

Deasy created a cute love card by combining Scripty Notes with Framed Tags- Hug It Out dies and Lovely Piggies stamp set

STAMP HIGHLIGHTS : LOVELY PIGGIES

Hi All! Welcome back for another Stamp Highlight! Today we are showcasing the Lovely Piggies! Aren't they super sweet?!

A Lovely Piggies cupid is shooting arrows in this love-themed On The Hills scene card.

Amy made a fun hidden slider card where the cupid pig moves back and forth. 

Anna created the funny card that illustrates the story of three pigs.

Deasy created a cute love scene by combining it with Scripty Notes

We love how Laura used the Framed Tags-Hugs It Out Creative Cuts with the Lovely Piggies.

A cute slider card made by Vera. Such a perfect combination with the Cross My Heart set.

STAMP HIGHLIGHT: BOTANIC THANKS

Welcome to day one of Stamp Highlights! Each day the Design Team will be showcasing a stamp set from the new release and today we are looking at the oh so gorgeous Botanic Thanks!

Deasy created a beautiful watercolor card with gold embossin.

We love Anna's subtle card with the white embossing on the vellum! The colored letters make the great accent.

We are loving the rainbow stripes on kraft cardstock.

 

Nichol created a spotlight stamped area by popping up the Botanic Thanks with the Framed Tags Lafayette frame die.

  
 A very pretty water colored card by Amy.

We love how Vera embossed the word "THANKS" to make it stand out.

Mama Elephant November Release and Stampede

Welcome to the Mama Elephant Design Team blog hop!

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

www.mamaelephant.com

Here's a quick November 2017 Release Roundup Video

[Click HERE to watch video on YouTube]

ME supplies used: Lovely Piggies (stamps and dies), Scripty Notes (stamps), Framed Tags - Madison Avenue (dies), All Prettied Up (dies), Inside Pop - Celebrations (dies)

ME supplies used: Lovely Piggies (stamp and dies), Celebration Balloons (stamps and dies), Framed Tags - Hug It Out (dies), Landscape Trio (dies)

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!

Anna Kossakovskaya
Amy Yang  
Vera Rhuhay
Melania Deasy
Nichol Spohr
Laura Bassen

Annnnnd this little sale is happening right now!

NOVEMBER RELEASE REVIEW & SALE ANNOUNCEMENT

Hi Hi! Hope everyone is having a fabulous evening! 

Tonight we are popping in early to let you know how much we appreciate YOU! It's been a whirlwind here at Mama Elephant and we have learned so much these past 5 years. So we send you our biggest THANKS and we hope to continue to create more products that you love!

With that said, we will be having a Customer Appreciation Sale and it will start TONIGHT at midnight, EST! It will run through November 25th, 2017 11:59PM EST. That way, you don't have to wait until Black Friday to order the new goodies that we will be releasing tonight!

Take $5 off your purchase of $60 or more with code FIVEOFF.

Take $10 off your purchase of $100 or more with code TENOFF.

Take $25 off your purchase of $200 or more with code TWENTYFIVEOFF.

PLUS EXTRA MARKDOWNS on select products. Up to 40% off. Prices are as marked.

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On with our new release review! 

This month, we have 4 new Stamp Sets and 4 new Creative Cuts.

Happy Shopping and don't forget to join us tomorrow for November's Stampede!

INTRODUCING: Lion Dance + Framed Tags - Hug It Out

ME supplies used: Lion Dance (stamps and dies available 11/15/2017), Lucky Envelope (dies), All Prettied Up (dies)

Watch the video of how this set came together here:

[Click HERE to watch the video on YouTube]

Here's a quickie card and tags I made using featuring the new Framed Tags - Hug It Out dies. Love them!

ME supplies used: Script Notes (stamps available 11/15/2017), Framed Tags - Hug It Out (dies available 11/15/2017), Stitched Gift Tag (dies available 11/15/2017)

Me supplies used: Lovely Piggies (stamps and dies available 11/15/2017), Framed Tags - Hug It Out (dies available 11/15/2017)