mama elephant | design blog: March 2021

3.31.2021

Comic Sayings with Vera

Hi, there! It's Vera here today and I'll be sharing my project with you featuring the Mama Elephant Comic Sayings stamp set. I paired it with the Little Superhero Agenda and Little Ninja Agenda stamp set.

First, I stamped the images from Little Superhero Agenda and Little Ninja Agenda stamp set on Copic-friendly paper and cut it out with Little Superhero Agenda - Creative Cuts and Little Ninja Agenda - Creative Cuts. Next, I die cut the bubble words from Slim Comic Strips - Creative Cuts on white and gray card stock. For the card project, I die-cut Comic Cover Basic - Creative Cuts on white card stock. I also die-cut Basic Rectangle on watercolor paper, and ink blended with distress inks.

Here is the finished card

Next, I created fun mini labels. You can use it for journaling or other projects.

Thank you for joining me, I hope you enjoy today's inspiration, and see you next time!

• the supplies •
Comic Sayings stamp
Little Superhero Agenda stamp and Creative Cuts
Little Ninja Agenda stamp and Creative Cuts
Slim Comic Strips - Creative Cuts
Comic Cover Basic - Creative Cuts

3.29.2021

Ninja Sayings with Megan

Hello! This is Megan and I am back on the Mama Elephant Blog today to share a project featuring the new Ninja Sayings stamp set. This set has sentiments geared towards ninja lovers everywhere. It's perfect to pair with Little Ninja Agenda and Tiny Ninja, but it has sentiments that can be used for other occasions as well. I wanted to show how versatile this set is so I paired it with some older products that have a friendship theme.

To begin, I stamped images from Girlfriends, Sunday Stroll, Little Agenda Spaceship, and Scene Builder stamp sets onto white cardstock using a brown hybrid ink. I then colored the images using Copic Makers and die cut them using the coordinating creative cuts.

Next, I die cut a piece of white cardstock using the largest rectangle from the Peek A Frame CC. I masked off the edges using Post It Tape and ink blended the panel using the following Distress Inks: Milled Lavender, Kitsch Flamingo, and Seedless Preserves. I then flicked on Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide Ink with a small paintbrush.

For the hills, I die cut a second rectangle from Bristol Smooth Cardstock and used the Landscape Trio CC to create the slopes. I ink blended the pieces with Evergreen Bough, Peacock Feathers, and Pine Needles Distress Oxide Inks. I used Pine Needles for the splatter on these panels.

As a fun surprise, I used a double loop slider mechanism to make the card interactive. I used the Slider Glider CC for the pull tab. When you pull the tab at the bottom, one of the friends pop up from behind the group. I think that this effect is the perfect match for the sentiment that says "even though you may not see me, know that I am always there for you".

This card would cheer up anyone! I love the gleeful expression on their faces and hope that you do too! For your convenience, I have listed and the linked the Mama Elephant products that I used below. Have a great day!

Mama Elephant Products Used:

Ninja Sayings Stamp Set

Comic Sayings Stamp Set

Girlfriends Stamp Set

Girlfriends - Creative Cuts

Sunday Stroll Stamp Set

Sunday Stroll - Creative Cuts

Scene Builder Stamp Set

Scene Builder - Creative Cuts

Little Agenda Spaceship Stamp Set

Little Agenda Spaceship - Creative Cuts

Peek A Frame - Creative Cuts

Landscape Trio - Creative Cuts

Slider Glider - Creative Cuts

3.26.2021

Little Ninja Agenda with Nichol

Hello friends! Nichol here today with a Comic Cover Little Ninja card featuring new stamps and dies from the March 2021 Release. The backgrounds of each of the comic strip openings were inked with bright, primary ink colors and each openings was embellished with ninjas, greetings, and speech bubbles to tell a story!

Watch the video tutorial below or click HERE to watch in HD:

Mama Elephant Supplies used for this project:

Comic Cover Basic Creative Cuts Die

Little Ninja Agenda Stamp Set

Little Ninja Agenda Creative Cuts Dies

Ninja Sayings Stamp Set

Slim Comic Strip Creative Cuts Dies

Me and My Robot Stamp Set

Me and My Robot Creative Cuts Dies

3.24.2021

Little Superhero Agenda with Mette

Hello! Mette Witus here today with an adorable hero card featuring the new Little Superhero Agenda stamps and Slim Comic Cover Creative Cuts.

I started by stamping the Little Superhero Agenda bunny on some white cardstock and some masking paper. I masked off the bunny and then stamped the spaceship from Little Agenda Spaceship as if he is holding it up or pushing it. Of course I added the little bunny inside the spaceship too.

Then I colored in the spaceship and superhero, then cut them out using a pair of scissors. If you don’t like cutting them out, you could stamp them separately and use the matching dies.

To create a city for the spaceship to be lifted above, I used one of the wonky pieces from inside the Slim Comic Cover. On that I ink blended a whole bunch of clouds to create a sky.

Then I colored some cardstock with my Copics, making it darker grey at the bottom and lighter at the top. I used the Cityscape die to cut out a city border to fit on the wonky piece.

I really wanted to make a fun but simple background for my little hero, so I cut out a whole bunch of the speech bubbles from Slim Comic Cover in white cardstock. I glued all of these to my card base, including the tiny pieces inside the letters such as O, A and B. If you want to make a colorful background you could even cut the speech bubbles from colorful cardstock and inlay the letters.

For my sentiment I stamped and colored one of the sentiments from Tiny Heroes, then cut it out using the small rectangle from Mega Flipper.

Finally, I glued the wonky sky and city piece to the card base, then popped up the sentiment and the superhero using some foam squares.

Mama Elephant Supplies:

Little Superhero Agenda Stamps & Dies

Little Agenda Spaceship Stamps & Dies

Tiny Heroes Stamps & Dies

Slim Comic Strip Creative Cuts

Cityscape Creative Cuts

Mega Flipper Creative Cuts

3.22.2021

Little Superhero Agenda with Thi

Hello, friends! Thi here and today I am sharing a fun slimline card I made with Mama Elephant Little Superhero Agenda stamp set and the new Slim Comic Strip - Creative Cut that cuts out the perfect frame for this slimline card. I decided to make a card for a friend I haven't seen for awhile due to the pandemic and these sentiments from the Comic Sayings stamp set couldn't be anymore perfect.

To start, I colored the images from Little Superhero Agenda with Copic markers in fun, bright primary colors and die cut them with their coordinating dies.

Next, I die cut Slim Comic Strip - CC onto a piece of Bristol smooth card stock. I kept the inside pieces and ink blended skies for each of them with Distress Oxide in Tumbled Glass.

I wanted a fun sentiment that would stand out among the sky and sweet little images, so I pulled out the "hello" word die from the On The Hill - CC (an oldie but goodie).

For assembly, I glued the frame and inside sky pieces directly onto a slimline card base that I made to match the dimension of the frame. I glued the "hello" die cut on next.

I popped each of the little critters onto the card base with foam tape then finished the card by stamping sentiments from Comic Saying directly onto the card - and that's it! My card is finished!

3.19.2021

STAMP HIGHLIGHT: Little Ninja Agenda

Today we are highlighting the cute little ninjas in the new Little Ninja Agenda stamp set! We love how you can place them where there is a need of some excitement!

How adorable are these little ninjas?! Megan combined Little Ninja Agenda with Ninja Sayings and Scene Builder for this design. She also used the Comic Cover Basic - Creative Cuts to frame out the scenes.

Mette made a Ninja Turtles inspired cluster of cuteness on this birthday gift tag using the Artist Mat tag.

Maria created this pop colorful card with a comic book look using the Little Ninja Agenda Stamp Set.

She combined the set with the Comic Cover Basic, the bubble dies from the Slim Comic Strip Creative Cuts and a sentiment from the Ninja Sayings Stamp Set. So fun!

Thi made the cutest rainbow of ninjas with Little Ninja Agenda -- we love the matching sentiment inside from Ninja Sayings with our sweet dabbing ninja!

Vera created this adorable card by combined the Little Ninja Agenda with Tiny Ninja, and Cityscape from Slim Film City - Creative Cuts.

STAMPHIGHLIGHT: Ninja Sayings

Welcome back to the last day of our Stamp Highlights for this release! Today we are featuring the new Ninja Sayings Stamp Set! Sometimes you need a good sentiment with a spicy kick!

Ninja Sayings pairs perfectly with the previously released Tiny Ninja Stamp Set! We love how Megan built this nighttime scene by using the Kingdom Trio - Creative Cuts!

Keeway created a cute card with the Little Ninja Agenda and Ninja Sayings with the Four Window Cover Creative Cuts.

Mette combined the Ninja Sayings with the Little Ninja Agenda and the previously released Sticky Notes stamp set to leave sneaky little notes for awesome people.

Vera created this adorable Ninja card by combined the Ninja Sayings with Little Ninja Agenda, Tiny Ninjas, and framed it using Sakura Lanterns - Creative Cuts.

Maria created her own background with the speech bubble dies from the Slim Comic Strip Creative Cuts. Each opening features a sentiment from the Ninja Sayings Stamp Set or a character from the

Little Ninja Agenda Stamp Set.

We love Thi's birthday card where she pairs Ninja Sayings with Little Ninja Agenda, Cityscape and Big Happy Birthday - Creative Cuts . Such a sweet and festive card!

3.17.2021

STAMP HIGHLIGHT: COMIC SAYINGS

Welcome back to day two of Stamp Highlights! Today we are featuring the new Comic Sayings stamp set! With this sentiment set, the littles sure have a lot to say!

POW! WOW! Thi made this fun comic strip card by combining Comic Sayings with Little Superhero Agenda and Comic Cover Basic - Creative Cuts -- All goodies from the new release!

Keeway combined the Comic Sayings with Little Superhero Agenda and Slim Comic Strip Creative Cuts to create a fun slimline card with her superhero team high up in the sky!

Mette combined the Comic Sayings with the Little Superhero Agenda, Let's Chat Creative Cuts and the Slim Film City strip for this fun themed bookmark. Can you guess which hero she's trying to show? (Hint: He's reading the Daily Planet)

Megan used Slim Comic Strip - Creative Cuts to add interest to her underwater scene featuring Little Mermaiden Agenda and Mermaid Kisses. We really like how she paired Comic Sayings with Let's Chat - Creative Cuts to give a voice to the little mermaids. So sweet!

Vera created this cute card by paired the Comic Sayings with Little Superhero Agenda and Let's Chat - Creative Cuts.

Adorable card from Maria! She has combined many Little Agenda characters Like the Little Bunny Agenda with the Comic Sayings Stamp Set, the Let's Chat Creative Cuts and the Slim Card Basics Creative Cuts to create this sweet friendship card.

3.16.2021

STAMP HIGHLIGHT: Little Superhero Agenda

Welcome to day one of Stamp Highlights! Today we are featuring these little caped crusaders in the new Little Superhero Agenda stamp set! Totally digging the stories that are being told!

BAM! We love this card from Maria, who designed, inspired by Vintage Comic Books, her own comic book cover using the Little Superhero Agenda in combination with the Me and My Yeti Stamp Set. She made her own stencils using the Whimsy Alphas Creative Cuts, the skyline from the Slim Film City Creative Cuts and the speech bubbles from Let's Chat Creative Cuts. The smaller lettering was done with the Kissie Letters and the Little Signage Agenda Stamp Sets. She finished the card with a speech bubble from the Slim Comic Strip Creative Cuts.

Vera created this cute superhero card by combining the Little Superhero Agenda with the Comic Cover Basic - and Let's Chat - Creative Cuts.

Megan created this awesome card by combining Little Superhero Agenda and Comic Sayings with Slim Comic Strip - Creative Cuts and Let's Chat - Creative Cuts. She added in the cityscape from Slim Film City - Creative Cuts to ground the design and ink blended the background to look just like a comic book scene. She also used the Headliner Alphas - Creative Cuts to make a custom die cut sentiment from patterned paper. So cool!

We love Keeway's adorable superhero card with the Little Superhero Agenda and speech bubbles from Slim Comic Strip Creative Cuts.

Mette created a simple heroic mini slim card to fit inside the Money Envelope - perfect for thanking the heroes everywhere! She used the Headliner Alphas for the large letters and matched that with part of a sentiment from Tiny Heroes.