Guest Designer: Rubeena Naz

Hello, Mama Elephant friends! It’s Rubeena here and I’m so happy to be guest designing here on the Mama Elephant blog! Wasn’t the last release amazing?! I know many who have splurged on the release, and if you haven’t purchased yet, what are you waiting for? I used my favorite set, Oh Kitty Tree for today’s card. I have two cats who are just over a year old so I’m officially a crazy cat lady. I have to have all the cat stamps!

 

I started by stamping the large image from Oh Kitty Tree with black dye ink on smooth white cardstock. I love how this crowd of cats create a focal point for a card so you don’t have to do much else. I did very basic coloring with gray, yellow and red Copic markers. With a limited color palette, I don’t have to overwhelm myself. Seriously though, the Mama Elephant design team has done wonders with this stamp. I would highly recommend checking out their work featured on this blog and on social media!

 

I cut the image and set it aside. For my background, I did some ink blending with two yellow inks and left some white space.

   

I added splatters using white, gold, and iridescent ink sprays. While that was drying, I stamped the sentiment “a meow Christmas to all” from Oh Kitty Tree with embossing ink on black cardstock and heat-embossed with white embossing powder. I trimmed it down as a label.

 

I adhered the blended panel to my card base with double-sided adhesive. Then I mounted the kitty tree image and sentiment over it with foam tape. To finish the look, I added some gray shading below the cats so they don’t look like they’re floating.

 

 

I hope you are inspired to start making holiday cards. Thanks so much for stopping by and to Mama Elephant for having me!

Guest Designer: Franci Vignoli

Hello hello! Aside from out amazing Design team, we welcome many guest designers on the blog this month. The first one up is Franci Vignoli based out of Italy! Let's see what she made for us today!

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Hello there, it's Franci here with you! 

Today I'm excited to be a Mama Elephant guest and I'm happy to showcase the new Little Snoman Agenda set with another clean and simple design.

I had the best time with this set so far, these cuties are so festive and perfect for so many projects I can't stop creating with them! eheh!

So here's my card for today ..

I went for a clean and simple look but I stepped it up by creating a long card.

I created my card base (that's 6 1/2 by 4 inches) out of white cardstock, then I masked the bottom and sponged some Distress inks on the top half to achieve a nigth sky look.

I stamped all the little snowmen and lots of other scene builders from the Me and My Yeti set with a copic friendly ink, I colored them all with copics and die cut them with their coordinated dies.

I glued down all the elements with a combo of liquid glue and foam tape and I added some details with a white gel pen ( on to my background too! Just draw little dots here and there to create a snowy sky effect!).

Then I stamped my sentiment from the Jingle Greetings set and I added a little heart to finish my card.

Hope u like my card and thank you so much for stopping by today!

Have a lovely weekend

franci

Product Highlight : Galactic Cover & Inside Arch

Today we wrap up our Highlight Series with the Galactic Cover and Inside Arch Creative Cuts! We hope you were inspired by all the great project ideas! We hope you will come back next week for more with our Designer Series! We will be having fabulous Guest Designers joining us to showcase what they've made with their new goodies! So stay tuned!

Today we have Vera here, she used the Galactic Cover Die to make the background for this card. It cuts out the very itty bitty snowflake shapes to create that flurry effect. It will also work great for a starry night as well!

 When you open the card, you will get a surprise! It's a pop up of Santa and his adorable chubby reindeer flying through the sky! The background for this pop-up is just gorgeous!

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PRODUCT HIGHLIGHT : FLIP SLIDER, OH JOY HALO SCRIPT & MINI MILK BOX

Hello! In the next 2 days we will be highlighting some of the fun creative cuts in this new release!

Today we have the Flip Slider Creative cut which is so flipp'in fun! We also have the Oh Joy Halo Script which gives it a nice pop of joy and last but not least, the cute Mini Milk Box 3D Creative cuts which makes the cutest mini houses!

The Little Snowman Agenda accents the interactive Flip Slider while the Joy Halo Script is the perfect greeting for this wintry card.

 Laura used pretty pattern papers on her milk boxes.

Cutest Milk boxes ever! We love how Vera designed her milk boxes with our Favor Bag Accessories-Cat and Favor Bag Accessories -Bear Creative Cuts!

STAMP HIGHLIGHTS : JOY ORNAMENTS & SCRIPTY XMAS

Today the Design Team will bring us much JOY with their projects today as we look at the two new sets, Joy Ornaments and Scripty Xmas!

Thi paired Joy Ornaments with Little Elf Agenda for a sweet and playful design.

You bring me Joy! Super cute and sweet card by Vera. She used Wishful Taggins and Lots of Letter to create her own sentiment.

We love Laura's clean & simple design.

 

Amy created an adorable card using the Joy Ornaments, Little Elf Agenda, and O' Tiny Tree. She framed it using Peg Works - Creative Cuts

In this super cute scene, Amy combined the Scripty Xmas with Yappy Woofmas and On the Hills - Creative Cuts.

Fun mini tags by Vera using Scripty Xmas and the Little Agenda series. She used the tag dies from the Framed Tags - Madison Creative Cuts.

STAMP HIGHLIGHT : LITTLE AGENDA TRAINS

Chugga Chugga Choo Choo! We are going to creative places with these adorable loco motives from Little Agenda Trains! Mix and match these little train cars and the little agenda characters and watch your project come alive!

 

 The Tri Window makes framing up the Little Agenda Train images a snap!

 Keeway created a fun, snowy scene using the Little Agenda Trains and Little Elf Agenda sets. Her scene also uses the Snow Capped Mountains and Landscape Trio Creative Cuts, as well as little snowflakes from City Sidwalks. Her sentiment is from the Santa's Sleigh set.

Such a sweet and cheerful card by Vera, she combined The Little Agenda Train set with the Snow Capped Mountains Creative Cuts.

STAMP HIGHLIGHTS: LITTLE SNOWMAN & ELF AGENDA

Hi there! Today the little agendas are taking over the blog today! We are highlighting some itty bitty friends from Little Snowman Agenda and Little Elf Agenda! 

How awesome is Vera's idea of using the Little Snowman Agenda to make a Snowmen tree?

Amy made an adorable shaker card using the Little Snowman Agenda and Grid Window Creative Cuts!

We love how Laura used Color Me Letters to create her sentiment!

Little snowman agenda fits perfectly in our grid window creative cuts! Loving these sweet pastels.

Looks like Little elf and the gang are so busy to preparing the Holiday Season!
We love this card by Vera, she combined Little Elf Agenda with our gingerbread house from A Cookie Christmas set.

STAMP HIGHLIGHTS : COOL PENGUINS & SANTA'S SLEIGH

 Keeway created a sweet scene with our Cool Penguins getting ready for the holidays! She also framed her scene with the Fancy Door Frame Creative Cuts.

 

Thi made this penguin gift wrapping party by pairing our Cool Penguins with the banner from Swinging Borders.

 

 

 We adore this cute card by Amy and how she created the patterned background for the penguins.

Vera's card is paired with Cool Penguins and Tri Window Cover Creative Cuts

Love that our Cool Penguins are so ready for Christmas!

The Snow Capped Mountains and Galactic Cover create the perfect icy backdrop to these package wrapping penguins!

Keeway created a clean and modern design with this jolly Santa from Santa's Sleigh and a background created with our Color Me Letters.

 

 In this fun scene, Amy combined the Santa's Sleigh with the Galactic Cover - Creative Cuts.

Vera sent a letter to Santa by combining Santa's Sleigh with Pocket Envie - Creative Cuts.

STAMP HIGHLIGHT : YAPPY WOOFMAS

Hello Hello! Today we have some festive doggies from Yappy Woofmas joining us for the fun! They're all hiding behind doors and popping out of cards!

 

Woof Woof! Yappy Woofmas! Love this card by Vera, she combined the Yappy Woofmas set with the Fancy Door Frame - Creative Cuts.

Amy combined the Yappy Woofmas with the Fancy Door Frame - Creative Cuts to create this adorable card!

 Look who's hiding behind the door to give you "Warm Holiday Hugs". This sweet sentiment is from Scripty Xmas.

We love this card from Keeway! The contents of this card is just bursting with cuteness. She used the Yappy Woofmas and Confetti stamp sets on the cover.

Open it up and surprise! Keeway combined both dogs and cats from Trim the Tree and Yappy Woofmas in this inside scene created using our Inside Arch Creative Cuts.

STAMP HIGHLIGHT: OH KITTY TREE & TRIM THE TREE

Welcome back for another day of Stamp Highlights! Today we are looking at the fabulous Design Team projects using Oh Kitty Tree and Trim the Tree! These kitties stacks up to a lot of fun!

We love the look of Amy's card on Kraft paper! She combined the Oh Kitty Tree with the Galactic Cover Creative Cuts.

Keeway created beautiful holiday scene with the Oh Kitty Tree and Trim the Tree sets, paired with a sentiment from Scripty Xmas. Look at that gorgeous glow from the top of the tree!

Laura created an adorable shape card using the coordinating Oh Kitty Tree Creative Cuts.

We love how Thi combined a few birds from Trim The Tree with Oh Kitty Tree here. Can you find a sweet little Easter egg in her design?

Super cute card by Vera! She combined the Galactic Cover with the Oh Joy Halo Script creative cuts to make this look!

 

We love how Vera combed the Trim the Tree set with O' Tiny Tree set and framed the card with the Hexagon Frame from Hexstar Creative cuts.

 

We adore this sweet Christmas card by Amy!