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4.30.2018

Birthday Monkeys with Amy

Hello everyone! Amy here with a fun shaker card for the April Designer Series showcasing the adorable Birthday Monkeys stamp set and the coordinating Creative Cuts.


To begin, I stamped the images from Birthday Monkeys and the mice from the Tandem-Ride stamp sets. The two stamp sets work great together because they were both designed by Luli Bunny. I colored them with Copic markers and used the coordinating Creative Cuts to cut them out.


To make the front and the background panel, I trimmed two Bristol papers to an A2 size and lightly inked them with Picked Raspberry, Wilted Violet, and Salty Ocean Distress inks. After, I spritzed them with water to add texture.



I used the frame die from Madison Avenue Creative Cuts to die-cut one of the inked panels in order to make the shaker window frame. I also die-cut the negative with the cloud die from Landscape Trio Creative Cuts


On the background panel, I embossed the sentiment from Scripty Bday and glued on some jewels.


To assemble the card, I adhered a trimmed acetate behind the front window. Then, I adhered the die-cut cloud panel and the colored images on top as shown. After, I foam mounted the front panel to the background panel after adding jewels as the shaker element. 


That's it for today. I hope you enjoyed my project and I have inspired you to make some fun shaker cards using Mama Elephant products. Thank you so much for stopping by!

4.27.2018

Little Agenda Frames with Pamela

Hello! This is Pamela taking over the Mama Elephant blog with a card using the newly released Little Agenda Frames. For my background, I masked off half of the card base with some thin washi tapes for my blending. I'm going to be blending it with some light blue ink and yellow ink. 

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Since I'm using a blue/yellow theme, I decided to colour my frames in the same colour schemes as well. 

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I'm going to frame some kitties in them and I used Nom Nom Kitties since they were big enough to fill up the entire frame.

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I positioned the frames to leave some little space in the middle for my sentiment from the same Little Agenda Frames stamp set.

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And here's a close up of the kitties, the frames and the background stripes! 

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Thanks for stopping by!

4.26.2018

Tote Bag 3D with Nichol

Hello! Nichol here today with these three baby gift tote bags featuring the new Tote Bag 3D dies and Monkey Favor Bag Add On dies! These Favor Bags are the perfect size for adding small gifts and gift cards too and are super adorable dressed up with the Monkey Favor Bag Add Ons. I made these into new baby gift bags but by switching up the sentiment you can easily switch that out for birthdays or other occasions.

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The Tote Bags were die cut from plaid patterned paper. Each bag consists of two die cut panels. I like to keep the bag flat until I've added everything to the bag as it's easier to adhere elements before it's assembled. The tag dies included in the Tote Bag 3D collection were die cut from coordinating cardstock colors to match the bags.

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The Monkey Favor Bag Add On was die cut from vanilla and brown cardstock with a bit of dark brown for the noses and black for the eyes. Gathered Twigs Distress Ink was used to add depth and dimension to the brown parts of the monkey, Antique Linen to the face and some Spun Sugar Distress Ink for the monkey's cheeks. Bows from the Snow Deer Favor Bag Add On were die cut from coordinating cardstock color to match the bags. The girls get hair bows and the boy gets a bow tie!

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The monkeys were adhered to the front panel of eachTote Bag and embellished with Glossy Accents on the eyes and noses and white pen detail throughout. Each Tote Bag was assembled once the Glossy Accents was dry.

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The tags were stamped with sentiments from Just Hatched using Versamark Ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder. Foam heart accents finish each tag.

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Ribbon was tied to the top of each bag and each tag was attached with thin string to finish the design.

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To watch the creation of these baby gift tote bags from start to finish, click HERE or watch below:
  


Mama Elephant Supplies used for this project:

4.25.2018

Favor Bag Accessory - Monkey with Laura

Hi there! Laura here and today I have a couple of tote bags to share with you featuring the Favor Bag Accessory-Monkey Creative Cuts.

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To create the tote bag I used the Tote Bag 3D-XL Creative Cuts with some rainbow patter paper by Lawn Fawn. 

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I used the Favor Bag Accessory-Monkey for the monkey's face and added a sentiment from the Girlfriend stamp set

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On the back of the tote bag I used one of the pocket dies from the Tote Bag 3D-XL Creative Cuts that holds a gift card perfectly. 

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Here's a video to show you how I created this tote bag.



Can it get any better than a rainbow striped tote bag with a cutie patootie monkey face on it?I don't think so! Thanks so much for stopping by!

4.23.2018

2018 Mega Sponsor Spring Blog Hop Begins Today

Today is the big day! We are excited to be part of this exciting event. We have partnered with 17 other stamp and papercraft companies to do a special blog hop and will be giving away 18 prizes to 18 lucky winners!


Mama Elephant is giving away a prize pack worth $75!

In honor of this blog hop, we decided to look back at some of our favorite Spring projects from our Design Team!

Check out this recent one by Amy using Inside Pop - Bunny and Cat. Love the beautiful Spring colors!
ME supplies used: Inside Pop - Bunny and Cat, Rainbow High (dies), Grassy Trio (dies)
We absolutely adore this trio of sweet cards using Hippity Hop by Vera!
ME supplies used: Hippity Hop (stamps and dies), Celebration Balloons (stamps and dies), Basic Circles (dies), Sweetest Greetings (stamps)
Laura always brings the color like this card using Little Bunny Agenda!
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ME supplies used: Little Bunny Agenda (stamps and dies), Grid Window (dies), Occasional Labels (stamps)
This card by Vera using Tea With Friends is one of my favorites!
ME supplies used: Little Bunny Agenda (stamps and dies), Tea With Friends (stamps and dies), Inside Pop - Fence (dies), Occasional Labels (stamps), Cloud Nine (dies)
Check out this masterpiece by Nichol using Picnic With Friends!
ME supplies used: Picnic With Friends (stamps and dies), On The Hills (dies)

Isn't this card just the sweetest? Card by Anna using Little Bunny Agenda
ME supplies used: Little Bunny Agenda (stamps and dies), Spring Garden (stamps and dies)
Throwing these elephants in for good measure, love the pastel palette Vera chose
ME supplies used: Fly With Me (stamps and dies), Cloud Nine (dies)
Isn't this card by Laura so much fun?
ME supplies used: The Bunny's Hop (stamps and dies), The Cat's Meow (stamps and dies), The Dog's Woof (stamps and dies), Tri Window Cover, FT - Chelsea (dies)
Here is the full list of participants of this Mega Blog Hop:


Blog hop begins today, April 23 12 noon EST
Ends Friday, May 4 12 midnight EST
Winners announced: Friday May 11, 12 noon EST

Here's how you enter:
Follow this blog and each participating sponsor in the hop
Comment at each blog stop

Good luck and happy hopping!

4.20.2018

STAMP HIGHLIGHT: SWINGING BORDERS

Welcome to day 4 of our Stamp Highlights! Today we are swinging it with the new Swinging Borders stamp set! These borders make fun backgrounds and accents to any project!


These swinging borders are the perfect background! Don't feel like colouring them in? Then just add colours on top of them!


Amy created a fun patterned background using the Swinging Borders for this sweet celebration card!


Rainbow party lights? Yes, please! We love how Laura added a few swinging monkeys from Little Monkey Agenda to her party lights.
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Vera combined the Swinging Borders stamp set with the images from Little Monkeys Agenda and Birthday Monkeys to make this cute birthday card!
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4.19.2018

STAMP HIGHLIGHT : BIRTHDAY MONKEYS

Hi all! Today we are highlighting Luli Bunny's newest stamp set, Birthday Monkeys! They sure know how to party!


 For this adorable birthday card Amy used the Birthday Monkeys with the Swinging Borders, and Tags a Lot - Creative Cut.


 Laura combined the Birthday Monkeys with the bicycle from Tandem Ride and a sentiment from Labeled Messages.
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What a party of monkeys! We love that bright background!


Hooray! we're celebrating this little monkey's birthday!


Nichol customized a Swinging Border with Lots of Letters creating the perfect border for the Birthday Monkeys.

4.18.2018

STAMP HIGHLIGHT : LITTLE AGENDA FRAMES

Hello! Welcome back for Day 2 of Stamp Highlights! Today we are framing all our little special moments!


Such a sweet card by Vera! We love how she framed the boy and the girl little agenda with Little Agenda Frames.


Adorable card Amy combining the Little Agenda Frames with the Little Monkey Agenda!


Laura added monkeys from Little Monkey Agenda to her ink blended frames along with a sentiment from the Occasional Labels.


4.17.2018

STAMP HIGHLIGHT : LITTLE MONKEY AGENDA

Today is the first day of our April's Stamp Highlights and we are starting with the Little Monkey Agenda stamp set! Perhaps it is because these little monkeys can't seem to stay still! ;) The team had so much fun with them!


Amy used the birthday sentiment from Labeled Messages stamp set to makes this cute card!



We love the different scenes Pamela created with our little monkeys!

  

Here is a friendship card by Vera. She combined the Window Frame from Peek a Frame Creative Cuts with the Hello Friend Script Creative Cuts.
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Laura trimmed down the Grid Window-Creative Cuts to frame her cute monkeys including a sentiment from Little Agenda Frames.

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Nichol created a jungle scene with Little Monkey Agenda friends, Swinging Borders, and framed it all up with the Tri Window Creative Cuts Die frame.