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3.29.2019

The Birthday Bash with Laura


Hi there! Laura here and today I have a fun interactive card to share with you featuring The Birthday Bash stamp set.


Mama Elephant-The Birthday Bash, Wiper Surprise

To begin I stamped the image from The Birthday Bash as well as Little Chickie Agenda onto bristol paper with Versafine Onyx Black ink. I colored the images using Zig Clean Color Markers.


Mama Elephant-The Birthday Bash, Wiper Surprise

Using the Wiper Surprise-Creative Cuts I created this interactive card. For the background I stamped some smaller confetti images from Party Animals using Mama Elephant pigment inks.


Mama Elephant-The Birthday Bash, Wiper Surprise

For the sentiment I used the Birthday Messages stamp set along with one of the Sentiment Strips-Creative Cuts.


Mama Elephant-The Birthday Bash, Wiper Surprise

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


Hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Thanks so much for joining me, and have a wonderful day!

3.27.2019

Wish Upon A Star with Thi

Hello, there! Thi here today with a wiper surprise card featuring Wish Upon a Star. When I saw that little bunny with the wings, I knew I had to venture into making my first Wiper surprise card with it! If you are like me and a little intimidated by making one of these, the Wiper Surprise - Creative Cuts and the video tutorial that Rina made is all you need to ebb those fears! This card was way easier that I thought it would be - and the results are so satisfying!
Let's begin! First, I colored all my images with Arteza real brush pens. I used very little colors and used a water brush to fade out the gradients in the coloring. After I finished coloring, I die cut all the cuties with the coordinating dies and set aside for later.
Now it is time to work on the wiper components. I ink blended two panels - one for my background and one for the cloud in front. I die cut both with the Wiper - Creative Cuts then I die cut the front panel with the cloud from Landscape Trio - Creative Cuts.
Before assembling my card, I heat embossed the sentiment from Wish Upon a Star with rose gold embossing powder. I made sure I finished everything while the card was still flat before assembling the wiper card. To assemble, I followed the directions on the Mama Elephant video tutorial. After the wiper elements are completed, I adhered all my colored images and my card is complete!
I hope you like my card today and that I inspired you to try making a wiper surprise card. This card fits in an A2 envelope when flat and is a fun surprise for your recipient!
Thank you so much for stopping by!

3.25.2019

Wish Upon A Star with Mette Witus

Hello! Mette here with my designer series project featuring the adorable Wish Upon A Star stamps and die sets. 
 
Today I used it as a part of a different christening invitation or gift tag.

Mama Elephant - Wish Upon a Star & Sweet Feline 
I started my project off with coloring the adorable bunnies from the set. I chose to do no line coloring as it gives a softer look, which I love for baby projects, and then simply die cut it using the matching dies.

Mama Elephant - Wish Upon a Star & Sweet Feline 
As the base for my invitation I used one of the bigger tags from Tags a Lot, which I cut from three different colors of cardstock – two blues/pink, one grey. I also cut the matching tag topper from the set in the same colors.

I cut the little pocket from the new Sweet Feline die set from vellum, which will make it easier to see what is inside without having to take it all out.


Mama Elephant - Wish Upon a Star & Sweet Feline


I began with folding my pocket and added it to the grey tag, which will be perfect for a cash gift or something a bit smaller than a gift card.

For my pink version, I added the Embellished Tag, which fits the pocket PERFECTLY! – So I thought this could be a fun place to write my R.S.V.P. information – or a great place for a wish list maybe?
For each of the tag toppers I added little white lines and dots with a white gel pen before I punched holes and glued them to the tags.

Mama Elephant - Wish Upon a Star and Sweet Feline

I used the darker colored tag for my message, which, as you can see in my pink version, is perfect for the invitation text (pardon my handwriting) – If you like, you can also print the text and then die cut it. 
 
If you’re not confident doing brush lettering by hand, you could use the Calli Letters and Calli Upper Letters sets, which make it sooo easy. Makes me wish I had thought of using them before!
On the light colored tag I added a photo using the small frame from Polaroid Fun – To make sure it was okay to share it, I used a photo of myself just 3 days old – wasn’t I just cute? 
 

On top of my frame I added my little bunny, making sure not to cover up too much of the photo. 
I used the Inline Letters dies to cut out the name once from gold and three times from the darker colored cardstock. I glued these together to add a bit of dimension and then added them to my tag.

Mama Elephant - Wish Upon a Star & Sweet Feline 
Finally, I added a few iridescent star sequins and tied the tags together using a bit of cotton thread.


Thank you so much for stopping by – Hope you have a wonderful day!


Mama Elephant Supplies used for this project:

3.21.2019

STAMP HIGHLIGHTS : CUPCAKE WISHES

Welcome back to our last day of Stamp Highlights with Cupcake Wishes! These little critters popping out behind giant cupcakes are just the cutest!


Amy combined the Cupcake Wishes with the Big Happy Birthday Creative Cuts to make this adorable card!


Mette created this soft look by using the no-line coloring technique!


Nichol created a bright rainbow grid pattern stenciled background on the Sweet Feline creative cut background to emphasize the trio of Cupcake Wishes images. A Birthday Messages sentiment die cut with a Sweet Feline strip is the perfect finishing touch.

 Vera combined the Big Happy Birthday-Creative Cuts and the panel from Sweet Feline-Creative Cuts. She's also adding the little images from the Little Bunny Agenda to create her sweet card.


Laura created a clean & simple card adding a sweet bow from the Stitched Gift Tag-Creative Cuts.

 Thi created a magnificent ombre birthday card by pairing the Big Happy Birthday Creative Cuts with these sweet friends from Cupcake Wishes.
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3.20.2019

STAMP HIGHLIGHTS : WISH UPON A STAR

Welcome back to day 3 of Stamp Highlights with the new Wish Upon the Star by Aida Zamora!
These bunnies are as sweet as can be!


 Vera used the Cloud Nine - Creative Cuts to create this sweet card.


Keeway created a beautiful watercolor night sky for the sweet bunny from Wish Upon a Star.
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Laura used the Starburst Cover Creative Cuts along with a sentiment from Everyday Greetings for this sweet scene.

Mette added some cute trimmings by using the fine trimmings creative cuts!


Thi made use of all the tiny stars in Wish Upon a Star to create a dreamy background for these sweet bunnies. The scallop edge of the large die from Sweet Feline Creative Cuts creates the perfect backdrop for this sweet scene.


Nichol used the Cloudy Day Cover Creative Cuts to create a background for the super sweet Wish Upon a Star bunnies.


We love how Amy combined the Wish Upon A Star with the scallop frame from the All Prettied Up - Creative Cuts to make her trio of sweet cards.


3.19.2019

STAMP HIGHLIGHTS : BIRTHDAY MESSAGES

Welcome back for day two of Stamp Highlights! Today we are highlighting these sweet Birthday Sentiments in the new Birthday Messages stamp set! There are so many to choose from!


Mette created an awesome background using the sentiments from Birthday Messages and some blue stars!


Keeway created a sweet card with Cupcake Wishes and a matching unicorn from Stackable Cuties. She used Birthday Messages to complete this colorful birthday card!


We love Laura's sweet card using the Sweet Feline-Creative Cuts as well as a tag from the Bookmark It-Creative Cuts.

Vera made this sweet birthday card by pairing the Birthday Messages with the Incoming Mail stamp set.


 Amy created a cute money holder birthday card combining the New Birthday Messages with the new Sweet Feline - Creative Cuts!


Nichol created a rainbow of Birthday Messages stamped in color, die cut with Sweet Feline strips and Sentiment Strips and popped up with foam adhesive over an inked Cloudy Day Cover. She chose Little Agenda critters from multiple sets that were holding balloons for the perfect accent for this birthday card!

3.18.2019

STAMP HIGHLIGHTS : THE BIRTHDAY BASH

Happy Monday all! Today we are are piling some cute critters with stacks of gifts to bring you today's Stamp Highlight! The Birthday Bash stamp set is so much fun to color and it is just so festive!


Keeway combined the Birthday Bash set with the Big Happy Birthday Creative Cuts to create a fun birthday card!


Amy created this fun scene using the new Birthday Bash set along with the matching images from our Yappy Woofmas and Trim The Tree.


Laura combined the Celebration Balloons set along with a sentiment from Birthday Messages to create this fun scene.



We are thrilled to have Mette Witus  Guest Design with us this month! She used the Birthday Script Creative Cuts along side with the Birthday Bash set!
 

We simply adore this purplicious card Thi made by combining The Birthday Bash with Big Happy Birthday - Creative Cuts.


Nichol created a simple stenciled background of sun rays to highlight the rainbow no-line coloring of The Birthday Bash images.


We love how Vera cut The Birthday Bash image into two pieces to create this cute birthday card.

3.15.2019

MARCH DESIGN TEAM 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

Check out the project Rina created for today!






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 a full house of designers!

 Keeway Tsao | Laura Bassen | Vera Rhuhay

Nichol Spohr | Thi Lam | Amy Yang | Mette Witus


3.14.2019

MARCH RELEASE REVIEW

Here we have it! 4 New Stamp Sets and 7 New Creative Cuts! They will be live in the shop at 12 Midnight EST! Happy Shopping!